STAND. COM. REP. NO. 358

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1475
                                        




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

Sir:

     Your Committees on Labor and Environment and Education and
Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 1475 entitled: 

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

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to transfer the
administration and supervision of the School-to-Work
Opportunities Pilot Project (STW) from the Hawaii STW Executive
Council (Council) to the Department of Education (DOE).

     This measure also transfers the Council to an advisory
council within the DOE.

     Testimony supporting the intent of this measure was received
from the DOE, the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations,
the University of Hawaii, the Council, the Hawaii State Teachers
Association, and an individual.  The Chamber of Commerce of
Hawaii commented on the measure.

     Your Committees find that there is a need to ensure the
successful continuation of STW beyond the life of the federal act
which created the project.  This measure provides an opportunity
to assess the scope of STW and the roles and responsibilities of
the Council.  Since the STW concept relates education reform to
economic and workforce development, this assessment must take
place in this larger context.  This measure provides a vehicle to
facilitate this discussion.

 
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     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Labor and Environment and Education and Technology
that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord
with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1475 and recommend that
it pass Second Reading 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 Education and
                                   Technology,



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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair                BOB NAKATA, Chair

 
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