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THE SENATE                              S.B. NO.           
TWENTIETH LEGISLATURE, 1999                                
STATE OF HAWAII                                            
                                                             
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                   A  BILL  FOR  AN  ACT

RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INCUMBENT WORKER JOB TRAINING
   PROGRAM FOR GROWTH INDUSTRIES



BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

 1      SECTION 1.  The legislature finds that a training program to
 
 2 improve the skills of existing workers for jobs in new and
 
 3 emerging industries would help stimulate the economy.  Industries
 
 4 such as biotechnology, healthcare, information technology,
 
 5 environmental science and technology, and telecommunications must
 
 6 often import its workers because the state's existing workforce
 
 7 lack necessary skills.  A state funded training program would
 
 8 lessen the need to import workers and increase the opportunities
 
 9 for Hawaii's residents to move upward in the job market by
 
10 improving their skills.  The program would involve partnerships
 
11 between the public and private sectors.  The public sector
 
12 partners shall include and not be limited to the department of
 
13 labor and industrial relations, university of hawaii, and
 
14 department of business, economic development, and tourism.
 
15      SECTION 2.  There is appropriated out of the general
 
16 revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $1,000,000 or so much
 
17 thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 1999-2000, and the
 
18 same sum, or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year
 
19 2000-2001, for the establishment of an incumbent worker training
 

 
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 1 program for growth industries.  The program shall be called the
 
 2 Hawaii Millennium Workforce Training Initiative.
 
 3      SECTION 3.  The sum appropriated shall be expended by the
 
 4 department of labor and industrial relations for the purposes of
 
 5 this Act.
 
 6      SECTION 4.  The director of the department of labor and
 
 7 industrial relations may employ, without regard to chapters 76
 
 8 and 77, and at pleasure dismiss such persons as the director
 
 9 finds necessary for the performance of this Act and fix their
 
10 compensation.
 
11      SECTION 5.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 1999.
 
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