STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1126

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: H.B. No. 171

H.D. 3

S.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 171, H.D. 3, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO SALARY COMPENSATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to require the State to compensate state employees and officers on active duty in a hostile fire zone with the difference between their higher state pay and their military income.

Testimony in support of the measure was submitted by the State Department of Defense, the Hawaii Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve, Department of Human Resources Development, Hawaii National Guard Enlisted Association, Hawaii National Guard Association, The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, and an individual.

Your Committees find that it is a priority to support the units from the Hawaii Army National Guard and Army Reserves as they are ordered to active combat duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. This measure demonstrates our support to those who are called to duty and to their families and ease some of the many hardships from this situation. Passing this measure will enable the State to pay their employees the difference between non-military and military pay if their military pay is lower.

Your Committees are sensitive to the current state budget situation and have amended the measure by placing a $1,000 a month cap on the differential amount.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 171, H.D. 3, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 171, H.D. 3, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Military Affairs and Labor,

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BRIAN KANNO, Chair

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NORMAN SAKAMOTO, Chair