STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3771

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2241

H.D. 1

S.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2241, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CIVIL AIR PATROL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to support the operations of the Civil Air Patrol.

Specifically, this measure:

(1) Appropriates moneys to the Department of Defense for civilian auxiliary aviation operations of the type performed by the Civil Air Patrol; and

(2) Authorizes the Civil Air Patrol to receive grant funding from the State, without requiring bylaws or policies that describe the manner in which the activities or services for which a grant awarded under Chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, will be conducted or provided.

Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Civil Air Patrol.

Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the Department of the Attorney General.

Your Committee finds that, for more than seventy-five years, the Civil Air Patrol has assisted emergency management agencies throughout the nation with disaster response and recovery efforts. In Hawaii, the Civil Air Patrol has provided valuable services following catastrophic wildfires, volcanic eruptions, inclement weather incidents, flooding events, and tsunami.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Removing language that would exempt certain entities that are wholly owned by the United States from the requirement to have bylaws or policies describing the manner in which a grant awarded under Chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, will be used;

(2) Removing language that would require annual appropriations to the Hawaii Wing, Civil Air Patrol, notwithstanding Chapter 42F, Hawaii Revised Statutes, or other laws to the contrary; and

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

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 H.B. No. 2241, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2241, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.

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

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair