STAND. COM. REP. NO.  984-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2362

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Judiciary, to which was referred H.B. No. 2362, H.D. 1, 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 membership and duties of the State Workforce Development Council to the requirements of the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014, which supersedes the Workforce Investment Act of 1998.

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

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Amending the membership of the Workforce Development Council to comply with the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 by adding three private sector members and one labor member and specifying the nominating authority for two labor members; 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 Judiciary that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2362, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2362, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Judiciary,

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KARL RHOADS, Chair