STAND. COM. REP. NO. 815

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 522
                                     H.D. 3




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No.
522, H.D. 2, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE SCHOOL-TO-WORK
     OPPORTUNITIES PILOT PROJECT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to improve the efficiency of the
School-to-Work Opportunities Pilot Project by:

     (1)  Transferring it from the Hawaii School-to-Work
          Opportunities Executive Council (Executive Council) to
          the Department of Education (DOE); and

     (2)  Converting the Executive Council to an advisory council
          of the Board of Education and the DOE.

     The DOE, the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations,
the University of Hawaii, the Executive Council, and The Chamber
of Commerce of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.  The
Hawaii State Teachers Association testified in support of the
intent of this measure.

     Your Committee has made technical, nonsubstantive amendments
to the bill to conform to correct drafting style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your
Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No.

 
 
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522, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third
Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 522, H.D. 3.

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



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                                   DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair