Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 676 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to abolish the Hawaii State Occupational Information Coordinating Committee.

The Department of Human Services, Department of Labor and Industrial Relations, and Workforce Development Council submitted testimony in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that with the repeal of Public Law 94-482 and Public Law 97-300 there no longer exists a need for the Hawaii State Occupational Information Coordinating Committee. This bill is the last step in the planned transition to shift responsibility for the occupational and career information system to the Hawaii Workforce Development Council which is a 31-member public/private partnership body administratively attached to the department.

Your Committee has made technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 676, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 676, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.