STAND. COM. REP. NO.  838

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2015

RE:   H.B. No. 520

      H.D. 2

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 520, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to provide leadership and flexibility in implementing the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act by allowing the Director of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish workforce advisory boards to improve the State's workforce development system.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations supported this measure.  The Kauai Chamber of Commerce and a concerned individual opposed this measure.  The Workforce Investment Boards of Kauai, Maui, Hawaii Island, and Oahu commented on this measure.    

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing the effective date to July 1, 2030, to encourage 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 Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 520, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 520, H.D. 2.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair