Bill Text: HI SB747 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Workforce Development; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB747 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2010-SB747-Amended.html

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STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1190

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

 

RE:   S.B. No. 747

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 747, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to improve workforce development in the state through various initiatives, programs, and appropriations.

 

     The Department of Education (DOE) supported this bill.  The Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, and University of Hawaii offered comments.

 

     Your Committees have amended this bill by:

 

     (1)  Deleting provisions that establish and appropriate funds for a community-business education exchange coordinator position in DOE;

 

     (2)  Removing the appropriation for expansion of the DOE volunteer website;

 

     (3)  Removing the appropriation for working adult scholarships; and

 

     (4)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 747, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 747, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair		____________________________ ROY TAKUMI, Chair