Report Title:

Employment Security; Reed Act.

Description:

Appropriates funds for fiscal year 2007-08 in Reed Act funds for work force investment boards and one-stop career centers on Oahu and the county of Hawaii.  (SB2876 HD1)

THE SENATE	S.B. NO.	2876
TWENTY-FOURTH LEGISLATURE, 2008		H.D. 1
STATE OF HAWAII

A BILL FOR AN ACT

RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY.

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

     SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the unemployment 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:

     (1)  The sum of:

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

         (B)  $    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 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 be required to submit a workforce development plan that shall be approved by the workforce development council prior to the release of funds for that county workforce investment board by the department of labor and industrial relations.

     SECTION 2.  This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2008.