STAND. COM. REP. 2362

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 2919

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations, to which was referred S.B. No. 2919 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to add a joint headquarters component to the headquarters staff of the national guard.

This measure also provides that the assistant adjutant general in charge of each component of the national guard have a grade no higher than major general, instead of brigadier general under the current law.

Testimony in support of this measure was received from the state Department of Defense.

Current components of the national guard are the army national guard and air national guard. Since the tragic attacks upon the United States on September 11, 2001, the nation has been taking actions to prepare for and protect against additional terrorist attacks upon the United States. The State department of defense has evolved into a joint headquarters, and this amendment will codify that change.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2919, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2919, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation, Military Affairs, and Government Operations,

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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair