STAND. COM. REP. NO.  909-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 1807

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 1807, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide state and county officers and employees who are members of the National Guard or Reserve of the armed forces with paid military leave while on inactive-duty training.

The Department of Defense provided testimony in support of this measure.  An individual provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency and style. 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1807, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1807, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair