STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2944

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 1807

       H.D. 2

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1807, H.D. 2, entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to authorize state and county officers and employees who are members of the National Guard or Reserve of the United States Armed Forces to receive paid military leave while on inactive-duty training.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the State Department of Defense and two individuals.

     Your Committees find that members of the National Guard and Reserve of the United States Armed Forces who are employed by the State or county are authorized to annually receive fifteen days of paid military leave while on active duty or during periods of instruction or maneuvers.  Of those fifteen days of leave, members use only ten to twelve days and are left with three to five days of unused military leave each year.  Allowing members employed by the State or county to use those days during monthly inactive-duty training will benefit those members and ensure that the presently unused days of paid military leave will not be wasted.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1807, H.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs and Judiciary and Labor,

________________________________ GILBERT S.C. KEITH-AGARAN, Chair

________________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair