STAND. COM. REP. NO. 817-12
Honolulu, Hawaii
, 2012
RE: H.B. No. 2655
H.D. 2
Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twenty-Sixth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2012
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2655, H.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR,"
begs leave to report as follows:
The purpose of this measure is to assist Hawaii's unemployed and dislocated workers by:
(1) Requiring the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish and operate a state-funded training program to expand the workforce investment activities administered by the Department under the federal Workforce Investment Act; and
(2) Appropriating $7,000,000 to the Department for the establishment of the training program.
Your Committee has amended this measure by:
(1) Inserting language allowing the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to use monies in the Employment and Training Fund for one year to pay for costs to administer, manage, report, and oversee Title I programs funded under the Workforce Investment Act for which insufficient federal funds were allocated;
(2) Changing the appropriation for establishment of a state- funded training program from $7,000,000 to an unspecified amount;
(3) Changing its effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage further discussion; and
(4) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.
As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2655, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2655, H.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,
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____________________________ MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair |
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