STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1560

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

 

RE:   S.B. No. 559

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 559, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

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

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to promote collaboration between the State and military agencies within the State by establishing the military affairs advisor and assistant military affairs advisor positions within the Department of Defense to report to the Governor.  

 

     The Chamber of Commerce Hawaii; Department of Hawaii, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States; Outrigger Hotels Hawaii; and an individual supported this measure.  The Department of Defense, State Office of Veterans Services; State Adjutant General; and the Hawaii Emergency Management Agency commented on this measure.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by placing the military affairs advisor and assistant military affairs advisor positions within the Office of the Governor, instead of the Department of Defense.

 

     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 S.B. No. 559, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 559, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

 

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

 

 

 

 

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair