STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2709

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 2777

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2777 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 clarify that the Department of Defense may allow the public to use or temporarily rent its facilities for certain specified purposes, provided that the use or rental does not interfere with any military use or result in a financial loss to the Department's operating budget.

More specifically, the measure provides that all net proceeds, as opposed to all moneys, received from the use or rental shall be deposited into the general fund of the State.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Defense.

Your Committee finds that allowing the Department of Defense to recoup operating costs associated with facility use and temporary facility rental by the public will enable the Department to provide greater access to its facilities for the benefit of the public.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Restructuring the measure's provisions to, among other things, clarify that the Department of Defense may allow the use or temporary rental of its facilities for the billeting of military personnel in conjunction with sanctioned events, including agency-sponsored conferences or classes, agency-sponsored athletic or recreation programs, government-sponsored public hearings or meetings, or unit-sponsored youth organizations and activities, as well as for public school-sponsored events and qualifying film production enterprise activities;

(2) Replacing the reference to "eleemosynary (charitable) organizations" with "charitable organization", as defined in section 467B-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes;

(3) Changing the text of section 121-19, Hawaii Revised Statutes, to correspond to the printed version of the Hawaii Revised Statutes, and amending the Ramseyered text accordingly; and

(4) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2777, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2777, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair