STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1249-04
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2004
RE: S.B. No. 214
S.D. 3
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2004
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 214, S.D. 3, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this bill is to:
(1) Require Leeward Community College to develop a program to provide services to persons who have immigrated from Micronesia, the Marshall Islands and Palau, including cultural education and integration, language, employment, training, and legal services; and
(2) Appropriate funds for this purpose.
The Volunteer Resource Center of Hawaii, Leeward Community College, and a concerned individual testified in support of this bill. The Department of Budget and Finance opposed this measure.
Your Committee has amended this bill by:
(1) Changing the source of funding from federal funds to general funds; and
(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
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 S.B. No. 214, S.D. 3, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 214, S.D. 3, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ DWIGHT Y. TAKAMINE, Chair |
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