STAND. COM. REP. NO.  14-14

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2014

RE:   H.B. No. 1957

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2014

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 1957 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

     (1)  Establish the Office of Talent Management ("Office") within the Department of Human Resources Development to design and facilitate state initiatives in the areas of talent administration, professional development, performance management, and leadership enterprise;

     (2)  Authorize the talent management administrator to receive from any state agency, the assistance, services, facilities, and data that the administrator deems necessary to carry out the duties of the Office; and

     (3)  Appropriate funds to establish the Office.

The Department of Human Resources Development provided testimony in support of this measure.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Inserting $350,000 as the appropriation amount for the establishment of the Office; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1957, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1957, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair