Bill Text: HI SB723 | 2017 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Relating To Education.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2017-04-20 - Conference committee meeting to reconvene on 04-26-17 10:00AM in conference room 329. [SB723 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2017-SB723-Amended.html
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TWENTY-NINTH LEGISLATURE, 2017 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO EDUCATION.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
SECTION 1. The legislature finds that the modern economy requires colleges to react quickly to meet the changing technical workforce demands of the public and private sectors, to fill emerging job opportunities and upgrade the skills of workers to meet the changing requirements of their positions as technology advances. Examples include entry level informational technology positions, security service positions, health and home care positions, and, particularly since the closure of the last sugar plantation, agricultural workers. To be responsive to workforce needs, the training must be developed and delivered rapidly, often in a format other than a formal degree program.
The purpose of this Act is to make explicit the responsibility of the University of Hawaii community colleges to provide short-term and rapid response occupational training and certification programs designed to qualify individuals to fill new and hard-to-fill positions of the State, counties, and private sector that require technical training.
SECTION 2. Section 304A-1101, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended by amending subsection (b) to read as follows:
"(b) The purposes of community colleges shall be to provide:
(1) Two-year college transfer and general education programs;
(2) Two- and four-year career and technical education programs;
(3) Semiprofessional, career and technical, and
continuing education programs[;], including occupational training and
certification programs designed to rapidly qualify persons to fill new and
hard-to-fill classes of positions, within the State, counties, and private
sector, that require technical skills; and
(4) [Such] Any other educational
programs and services as may be appropriate to [such] those
institutions."
SECTION 3. Not later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular session of 2018, the University of Hawaii shall submit a report of its findings and recommendations, including necessary proposed legislation, to the legislature on the results of the occupational training and certification programs designed to rapidly qualify persons to fill new and hard-to-find classes of positions within the State, county, and private sector that require technical skills. The report shall include:
(1) The organizational structure of the occupational training and certification programs;
(2) The efficacy of the method used to identify the new and hard-to-find classes of positons that are suitable for the programs;
(3) A cost-benefit analysis of the programs; and
(4) Whether the programs should be expanded, modified, or terminated.
SECTION 4. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2017-2018 and the same sum or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2018-2019 for occupational training and certification programs designed to rapidly qualify persons to fill new and hard-to-fill classes of non-professional positions in the State, counties, and private sector that require technical skills.
The sums appropriated shall be expended by the University of Hawaii for the purposes of this Act.
SECTION 5. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect on May 12, 2059.
Report Title:
Rapid Occupational Training and Certification Program; Community College System; Appropriation
Description:
Adds as a purpose of the University of Hawaii community college system the provision of occupational training and certification programs designed to rapidly qualify persons to fill new and hard-to-fill position classes in the State, counties, and private sector that require technical skills. Appropriates funds for the programs. (SB723 HD1)
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