STAND. COM. REP. NO.  340-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2475

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Transportation, to which was referred H.B. No. 2475 entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

     (1)  Establish a maritime industry grant program within the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to award grants to qualified shipyards; and

     (2)  Appropriate funds for awarding grants under the program.

The Chamber of Commerce Hawaii and several individuals testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations provided comments.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

     (1)  Exempting grants awarded by the maritime industry grant program from Hawaii laws regulating public procurement and public contracts for the purchase of health and human services;

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

     (3)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Transportation that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2475, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2475, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Transportation,

____________________________ HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair

____________________________ MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair