STAND. COM. REP. NO. 799

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.B. No. 713

       S.D. 2

Honorable Colleen Hanabusa

President of the Senate

Twenty-Fifth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2009

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 713, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN APPROPRIATION FOR THE EMERGENCY ENVIRONMENTAL WORKFORCE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to provide for the continuation of the Emergency Environmental Workforce program during the current period of national military crisis and economic recession.

This measure also appropriates unspecified amounts for fiscal years 2009-2010 and 2010-2011, to be administered by the Research Corporation of the University of Hawaii, to continue the services under the Emergency Environmental Workforce program.

Your Committee finds that the Emergency Environmental Workforce program established by Act 4, Third Special Session Laws of Hawaii 2001, following the September 11, 2001 attacks, was successful in providing short-term employment to recently laid-off workers.  Your Committee believes that appropriating funds to continue the Emergency Environmental Workforce program during the current local, national, and global economic downturn will provide needed employment to struggling families and serve as a safety net to mitigate the effects of the national recession.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by making technical nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 713, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 713, S.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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DONNA MERCADO KIM, Chair