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 S.B. No. 1151 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to transfer from the Hawaii State Occupational Information Coordination Committee (HSOICC) to the Workforce Development Council (WDC) of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR) the responsibility for the Occupational and Career Information System.

DLIR and the Department of Human Services testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee finds that HSOICC is in the last stages of being phased out and its functions are now being carried out by the WDC. The WDC is a 31 member partnership body that is a part of the DLIR.

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 S.B. No. 1151 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.