Bill Text: HI HB987 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: State Comprehensive Employment Training Program

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 38-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [HB987 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-HB987-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1010

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 987

       H.D. 2

       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 Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 987, H.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO UNEMPLOYMENT,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to:

 

     (1)  Establish a State Comprehensive Employment and Training Program to provide unemployed persons who have exhausted all available unemployment insurance benefits with opportunities for employment in public service jobs, related training, and assistance in finding temporary full-time or part-time employment; and

 

     (2)  Provide subsidies to certain private employers for participating in employment programs to train and permanently hire unemployed persons.

 

     Testimony in support of this measure was submitted by one organization.  Testimony in opposition to this measure was submitted by one state agency.  Written testimony presented to the Committee may be reviewed on the Legislature's website.

 

     Your Committee finds that immediate action is necessary to alleviate the high unemployment situation in the State.  Your Committee further finds that establishing a statewide employment and training program and providing subsidies to private employers to provide training and hire unemployed workers would effectively equip workers with the skills and opportunities they need to gain permanent employment.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

     (1)  Changing the effective date to the latter of July 1, 2050 (rather than July 1, 2020), or the date upon which the Governor publishes a notice that the seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate has exceeded seven per cent; and

 

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive changes for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 987, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 987, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

 

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

 

		____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair