STAND. COM. REP. NO. 271

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 1999

                                 RE: H.B. No. 1159
                                     H.D. 1




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

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was
referred H.B. No. 1159 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII WORKFORCE
     DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of the bill is to bring Hawaii into compliance
with the Federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (Act).

     Your Committee received testimony in support of the measure
from the Department of Labor & Industrial Relations, the
Department of Human Services, the Workforce Development Council,
the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism,
and the Office of the State Director for Vocational Education.

     Your Committee finds that bringing Hawaii into compliance
with the Act is necessary for the State to receive approximately
$17,000,000 authorized by the Act.  These funds will be used by
the Department of Labor & Industrial Relations for workforce
policies; planning and evaluation; one-stop center services;
adult, youth, and dislocated worker employment and training
services, and the research and statistics program.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Correcting a reference to the Perkins Act;


 
 
 
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     (2)  Designating the Workforce Development Council as the
          state entity for Section 188 of the new Perkins Act;
          and

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the
          purpose of style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 1159, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1159, H.D.
1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Labor and Public
                                   Employment,



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                                   TERRY NUI YOSHINAGA, Chair