Bill Text: HI SB621 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Hawaii Reserve Component Military Family Relief Special Fund

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB621 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB621-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 218

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 621

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 621 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO A HAWAII RESERVE COMPONENT MILITARY FAMILY RELIEF SPECIAL FUND,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Establish the Hawaii reserve component military family relief special fund to be used for providing emergency economic relief to families of members in the Hawaii National Guard or federal military reserve that are deployed out of Hawaii; and

 

     (2)  Create an income tax check-off to fund the Hawaii reserve component military family relief special fund.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by two state agencies and one private organization.  Comments on this measure were provided by one private organization.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature’s website.

 

     Your Committee finds that families in Hawaii who have a member of their family deployed out of Hawaii for service in the Hawaii National Guard or federal military reserve are sometimes in need of financial assistance.  Your Committee further finds that creating a special fund designated to provide emergency economic relief to those families will help to alleviate the economic hardships they face while their family member is deployed out of Hawaii.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by deleting the establishment of the income tax check-off to fund the Hawaii reserve component military family relief special fund.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 621, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 621, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Public Safety and Military Affairs,

 

		____________________________ WILL ESPERO, Chair