STAND. COM. REP. NO.  468

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 520

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred H.B. No. 520 entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure, as received by your Committee, is to make a technical amendment to the Workforce Development Council's organizational relationship.

     For the purposes of a public hearing on this bill, your Committee circulated a proposed H.B. No. 520 H.D. 1 (Proposed Draft), and notified the public that it would be accepting testimony on the Proposed Draft.  The Proposed Draft deletes the contents of this measure and instead allows the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish workforce advisory boards to improve the State's workforce development system, while providing leadership and flexibility in implementing the Federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.

The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii provided testimony in support of the Proposed Draft.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations provided comments.

     After carefully considering the merits of both H.B. No. 520, as received by your Committee, and the Proposed Draft, your Committee amended this measure to incorporate the contents of the Proposed Draft.

     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. 520, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 520, 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,

____________________________

MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair