STAND. COM. REP. NO.602

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2001

RE: H.B. No. 676

H.D. 1

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-First State Legislature

Regular Session of 2001

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 676, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO OCCUPATIONAL AND CAREER INFORMATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to strengthen Hawaii's career resource network program by:

(1) Transferring the responsibility for coordinating the occupational and career information system to the Hawaii Workforce Development Council (WDC); and

(2) Abolishing the Hawaii State Occupational Information Coordinating Committee.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and WDC testified in support of this measure.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 676, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair