STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2057

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2583

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 2583 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE NATIONAL GUARD,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require a person to possess certain prior military experience in Hawaii to be eligible for appointment as the Adjutant General.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Adjutant General and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that Hawaii's close association with the Pacific Command and the subordinate component headquarters, as well as relationships developed among state, local, and federal law enforcement officers and first responders, make prior experience with the Hawaii National Guard essential to the effectiveness of the Adjutant General.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by clarifying that the requisite experiential qualification, among the other experience requirements for appointment, is a commission of a grade 05 or above, rather than of a federally recognized field officer.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2583, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2583, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety, Government Operations, and Military Affairs,

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WILL ESPERO, Chair