Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2071 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

Your Committee made available for public review a proposed Senate Draft for this measure, in which the original contents were removed and replaced with a provision repealing the Hawaii School-to-Work Executive Council.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the proposed Senate Draft from the Department of Education.

Your Committee finds that the Hawaii School-to-Work Executive Council has reported that the last expenditure of federal funds allocated to Hawaii by the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994, Public Law 103-239 was on September 20, 2003. Federal funding for Hawaii School-to-Work ended in 2000. The final closeout report on the accomplishments of Hawaii School-to-Work has been sent to the federal government. The program's key initiatives are now established with other public and private entities, including the Department of Education, Workforce Development Council, and the Hawaii P-20 Initiative.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2071, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2071, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.