STAND. COM. REP. NO. 360

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 106
                                        S.D. 1




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Education and Technology and Labor and
Environment, to which was referred S.B. No. 106 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO GOVERNMENT SERVICES,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is provide the School-to-Work
(STW) Executive Council with the necessary guidance, direction,
and operational framework to implement the School-to-Work
Opportunities system.

     This measure requires the STW Executive Council to
establish, among other things, a clear mission statement,
controls over expenditures, and methods of appraising outcomes,
and to implement current laws relating to school-to-work work-
based learning, workers' compensation coverage for children and
students, and student safety at the premises of an employer.

     Testimony supporting the intent of this measure was received
from the STW Executive Council and the Department of Education.
However, these testifiers determined that the central issue is
the need to clarify the roles of the STW Executive Council and
the Department of Education within the School-to-Work
Opportunities system.

     Your Committees find that the School-to-Work Opportunities
system is an effective tool to provide Hawaii's students the
opportunities needed to acquire real life work experience.
However, the system has not been fully utilized and implemented

 
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because it lacks a clear mission, goals, assessment measures, and
a general operational framework for implementation.  Your
Committees find that this measure will provide the STW Executive
Council with the guidance, direction, and focus needed for full
implementation and utilization of the School-to-Work
Opportunities system.

     Your Committees have amended this measure by making
technical, nonsubstantive amendments to reflect current statutory
language and to correct statutory references.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Education and Technology and Labor and Environment
that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord
with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 106, as amended herein,
and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 106, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committees on Education and
                                   Technology and Labor and
                                   Environment,



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BOB NAKATA, Chair                  DAVID Y. IGE, Chair

 
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