STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2966

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  H.B. No. 2559
                                        H.D. 1
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Labor and Environment and Transportation
and Intergovernmental Affairs, to which was referred
H.B. No. 2559, H.D. 1, entitled: 

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

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to increase the number of
members of the Hawaii Workforce Development Council from
"twenty-nine" to "thirty to thirty-one", designate the
legislative and mayoral members as ex officio voting members, and
permit the governor, mayors, and department heads to name
designees.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, Department of Human
Services, and the Workforce Development Council.

     Your Committees are in agreement that these amendments are
necessary for the Workforce Development Council to meet quorum
requirements and carry out its duties.

     Your Committees amended this measure by changing the number
of council members from "thirty to thirty-one" to "twenty-nine or
thirty-one" members to maintain the private sector majority and
to provide the Governor with flexibility.  Your Committees also
made the corresponding adjustments to the number of private

 
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sector representatives from "fifteen to sixteen" to "fifteen or
sixteen" to achieve said majority.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Labor and Environment and Transportation and
Intergovernmental Affairs that are attached to this report, your
Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of
H.B. No. 2559, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it
pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2559,
H.D. 1, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and
Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Labor and
                                   Environment and Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair                BOB NAKATA, Chair

 
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