STAND. COM. REP. NO.  10-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

RE:   H.B. No. 1638

      H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Health & Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 1638 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO APPRENTICESHIPS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to address the shortage of health care professionals in the workforce by appropriating funds to continue and expand health care apprenticeship programs at the University of Hawaii community colleges.

The Department of Health, University of Hawaii, Hawaii Primary Care Association, and Project Vision Hawaii supported this measure.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and Kapiolani Community College provided comments.  

     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

     (1)  Changing its effective date to July 1, 3000, to encourage further discussion; and

     (2)  Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for clarity, consistency, and style, as recommended by the University of Hawaii in its written testimony.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Health & Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1638, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1638, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Higher Education.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Health & Human Services,

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JOHN M. MIZUNO, Chair