STAND. COM. REP. NO.  283

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2011

RE:   H.B. No. 1502

      H.D. 1

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 1502 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE JUNIOR RESERVE OFFICERS' TRAINING CORPS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate funds to establish and hire six instructor positions for Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) programs at public high schools in the State.

     The State Department of Defense and the Oahu Veterans Council testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Education supported the intent of this bill.

     Although your Committee is not in disagreement with the purpose of this measure, your Committee notes the State's depressed fiscal situation and accordingly suggests that funding for the establishment and hiring of six JROTC instructor positions may be made available through weighted student formula funds.

     Accordingly, your Committee has amended this bill by changing its effective date to July 1, 2020, to encourage further discussion.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1502, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1502, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety & Military Affairs,

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HENRY J. C. AQUINO, Chair