STAND. COM. REP. NO.  352-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2362

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 2362 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to conform the State Workforce Development Council Law to the federal requirements in the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014, which supersedes the Workforce Investment Act of 1998.

The Workforce Development Council and the University of Hawaii Community Colleges testified in support of this measure.

     Your Committee notes that it has concerns about the Hawaii Workforce Development Council's size and its ability to constitute a quorum.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 2091, to facilitate further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for 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. 2362, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2362, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Judiciary.

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

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair