STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1009-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: S.B. No. 2469
                                     S.D. 2
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Education and Labor and Public Employment,
to which was referred S.B. No. 2469, S.D. 2, entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to refine the current School-to-
Work law by:

     (1)  Replacing the member of the School-to-Work Executive
          Council (Executive Council) from the Department of
          Human Services with a member from the Department of
          Human Resources Development;

     (2)  Adding members from the Board of Education (BOE) and
          the University of Hawaii Board of Regents;

     (3)  Giving the power to appoint staff for the Executive
          Council to the Department of Education; and

     (4)  Requiring the Executive Council to seek federal, state,
          and private resources.

     This bill also appropriates funds to the Executive Council.


 
 
 
 
 
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     The Executive Council supported this bill with a proposed
amendment.  The Hawaii State Teachers Association supported the
intent of this bill.  The chair of the BOE and an individual
commented on this bill.

     Your Committees find that this bill will create positive
changes for the Executive Council, as school-to-work initiatives
are facing a transitional period in which new sources of funding
need to be pursued.  Federal seed money will soon cease, and the
amendments to the Executive Council proposed in this bill will
make the Executive Council more dynamic and entrepreneurial.
Developing school-to-work infrastructure is a long process that
requires systemic changes that cannot be fully realized during
the five-year period of federal support.  This bill establishes
the Executive Council as a long-term advocate of Hawaii school-
to-work efforts.  

     Additionally, your Committees find that if the Executive
Council is to become a permanent body, the State Auditor should
perform regular performance audits of the Executive Council.

     Upon further consideration, your Committees have amended
this bill by reversing the provision that replaced the member of
the Executive Council from the Department of Human Services with
one from the Department of Human Resources Development.  Your
Committees concur with the testimony of the Executive Council
that it would be in the best interests of State school-to-work
efforts to retain the member from the Department of Human
Services.

     Other technical, nonsubstantive amendments have also been
made for clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your
Committees on Education and Labor and Public Employment that are
attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2469, S.D. 2, as amended herein,
and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached
hereto as S.B. No. 2469, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the
Committee on Finance.

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



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TERRY NUI YOSHINAGA, Chair         KEN ITO, Chair