STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2103

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 2000

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 2329
                                        




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 Education and
Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 2329 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR SCHOOL-TO-
     WORK COORDINATOR/COUNSELORS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to appropriate general revenues
in order to place a school-to-work coordinator/counselor in every
public high school.

     Testimony in favor of this measure was received from the
Department of Education, Hawaii State Teachers Association, Pahoa
Schools' Business-Education-Community Alliance, and Kalihi-Palama
Local Partnership Council.  Testimony in opposition to the
measure was received from one individual.

     Providing our youth with career guidance is essential for a
successful transition from high school to post-secondary
education, vocational training, or actual employment.  Your
Committees are in agreement that appropriating funds for
coordinators/counselors who are technologically literate, skilled
in vocational counseling, and knowledgeable about comprehensive
development career guidance, organizational management, labor
market/economy, and educational systems/reform models serves the
purpose of this bill.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Labor and Environment and Education and Technology

 
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that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord
with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2329 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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