Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1561, H.D. 2, entitled:

beg leave to report as follows:

The purposes of this measure are to appropriate funds for the school-to-work system and to require the State school-to-work executive council strategic plan to target specific best practices relating to career development.

Your Committees received testimony in favor of this measure from the Department of Education, the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, and the Apprenticeship and Training Coordinators Association of Hawaii, Inc.

Your Committees find that the school-to-work system addresses students' academic achievement, career awareness, and readiness for post secondary education, training, and employment. Federal funding for the system will end on October 1, 2001. To advance the goals of the system as well as the abilities of the students, the Hawaii State School-to-Work Executive Council has targeted a range of effective practices and initiatives that support and promote career development for youth.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1561, H.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.