Bill Text: HI SB879 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Enlisted Personnel; Uniform Maintenance Allowance

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-12-01 - Carried over to 2012 Regular Session. [SB879 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-SB879-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 679

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    S.B. No. 879

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2011

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 879, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO UNIFORM MAINTENANCE ALLOWANCE,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to repeal the uniform maintenance allowance for enlisted personnel.

 

     Your Committee finds that most modern military service uniforms are made of wash and wear fabric that no longer requires dry cleaning.  Considering the budget crisis faced by the State, the uniform maintenance allowance is not warranted at this time.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion on the measure.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 879, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 879, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

		____________________________ DAVID Y. IGE, Chair