STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1248

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2009

RE:   S.B. No. 1665

      S.D. 2

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Higher Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 1665, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HIGHER EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to enhance the training capacity of the State's community colleges so that they can meet the rapidly evolving needs of employers and employees, by establishing and appropriating federal Reed Act funds for the establishment and start up of a skilled worker and business development center within the University of Hawaii (UH) community college system.

     The Department of Education supported this bill.  The UH Community Colleges supported the intent of this measure.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1665, S.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Higher Education and Labor & Public Employment,

____________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair

____________________________ JERRY L. CHANG, Chair