Report Title:

Hawaii County Package; Appropriation; Workforce Investment Boards

Description:

Appropriates federal Reed Act money to the department of labor and industrial relations to assist the State's four local workforce investment boards.

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2182
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARDS.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

     SECTION 1.  The purpose of this Act is to appropriate federal Reed Act moneys to the department of labor and industrial relations to assist the State's four local workforce investment boards.  The funds will be used by the local boards:

     (1)  To improve employer outreach and services;

     (2)  For labor force pool expansion;

     (3)  Capacity building; and

     (4)  To fund some shared costs for the operations of the one-stop career centers.

     Further, this Act is also intended to conform to the provisions of P.L. 107-147, Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002, signed by the President of the United States of America on March 9, 2002.

     SECTION 2.  There is appropriated from the unemployment insurance trust fund from moneys deposited pursuant to section 383-123(b), Hawaii Revised Statutes, the sum of $           or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2008-2009 for the purposes specified in this Act as follows:

     The sum of:

     (1)  $           shall be allocated to the Oahu workforce investment board, which shall work in collaboration with the city and county of Honolulu;

     (2)  $           shall be allocated to the Maui workforce investment board, which shall work in collaboration with the county of Maui;

     (3)  $           shall be allocated to the Kauai workforce investment board, which shall work in collaboration with the county of Kauai; and

     (4)  $2,000,000 shall be allocated to the Hawaii workforce investment board, which shall work in collaboration with the county of Hawaii;

to improve employer outreach and services, labor force pool expansion, capacity building, and to fund some of the shared costs for the operations of the one-stop career centers within each county.

     The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of labor and industrial relations for the purposes of this Act; provided that each county workforce investment board shall submit a workforce development plan that shall be approved by the workforce development council prior to the release of funds by the department of labor and industrial relations.

     SECTION 3.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2008.

INTRODUCED BY:

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