Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 48, H.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the federal government to allow national guard members and military reservists with twenty or more years of service to retire with full retirement benefits at age fifty-five.

Your Committee finds that guard members and reservists with twenty years of service are not entitled to receive any retirement benefits until they attain age sixty. In contrast, members of the active military with the same length of service are entitled to their benefits immediately upon retirement. Your Committee believes that greater parity should be accorded to guard members and reservists.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 48, H.D. 1, and recommends its adoption.