STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2295

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 2876

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2008

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Judiciary and Labor, to which was referred S.B. No. 2876 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the various county workforce investment boards. 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Workforce Development Council, the County of Hawaii, the Hawaii County Workforce Investment Board, and the Hawai‘i Island Workforce and Economic Development Ohana.

     Your Committee finds that the appropriation of Reed Act funds is necessary so that the county workforce investment boards can continue to develop innovative ideas and initiatives in the area of workforce development.  As this measure moves on to the Committee on Ways and Means, your Committee would like to note that the amount requested by Hawaii county is $2,000,000.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Judiciary and Labor that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2876 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary and Labor,

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BRIAN T. TANIGUCHI, Chair