STAND. COM. REP. NO.  162-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1807

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts, to which was referred H.B. No. 1807 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO MILITARY SERVICE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to support reserve and national guard members who are officers or employees of the State or counties by allowing them to include inactive-duty training days in their 15 working days of annual paid military leave.

 

     The Department of Defense and three concerned individuals supported this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure to apply to members of the national guard or reserve of the armed forces to conform to federal law regarding military leave pay.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1807, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1807, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Labor & Public Employment.


 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Veterans, Military, & International Affairs, & Culture and the Arts,

 

 

 

 

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KEN ITO, Chair