STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1153-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   S.B. No. 3081

      S.D. 1

      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 S.B. No. 3081, S.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to support workers affected by the closure of the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company on Maui by appropriating funds to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish, administer, and support on-the-job training for dislocated workers.

The Mayor of the County of Maui; Maui Department of Management; Chamber of Commerce Hawaii; Maui Chamber of Commerce; Hawaii Construction Alliance; Alexander & Baldwin, Inc.; ILWU Local 142; Maui Hotel & Lodging Association; Hawaii Farm Bureau; Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO; Hawaii State AFL-CIO; and Land Use Research Foundation of Hawaii testified in support of this measure.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and Department of Agriculture provided comments.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2091, to encourage further discussion.

     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 S.B. No. 3081, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3081, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair