Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 304 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to amend the law relating to workforce development.

Your Committee has amended this measure by replacing its contents with language that appropriates funds to the University of Hawaii for fiscal year 2006-2007 for the creation of faculty and support positions within the nursing programs to develop a qualified nursing workforce to meet Hawaii's health care needs.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 304, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 304, S.D. 1, and be recommitted to the Committee on Labor, for further consideration.