Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2880 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to create a special fund to reimburse the life insurance premiums of members of the national guard deployed to war zones.

Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by the State of Hawaii Department of Defense, the Hawaii National Guard Association, the Hawaii National Guard Enlisted Association, the Armed Services Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, and one individual.

Your Committee finds that there is a decreasing number of soldiers who would be eligible to receive benefits from this fund, and that the cost of this measure is estimated at about $30 per soldier.

Your Committee has amended this bill to make technical, nonsubstantive changes.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2880, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2880, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.