STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3167

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 1638

H.D. 2

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Higher Education and Labor, to which was referred H.B. No. 1638, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO APPRENTICESHIPS,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to appropriate funds for health care apprenticeship programs at the University of Hawai‘i community colleges.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the University of Hawai‘i System, Department of Health, Hawai‘i Pacific Health, O‘ahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawai‘i, and three individuals.

Your Committees find that apprenticeship programs approved by University of Hawai‘i community colleges are composed of two major components: work process and related instruction. The work process component consists of on-the-job training, while the related instruction component is the structured class and laboratory or shop curricula. Therefore, apprenticeship programs develop job skills through theoretical and practical experiences.

Your Committees further find that the United States Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration, awarded the State Department of Labor and Industrial Relations a substantial grant to expand apprenticeship opportunities in information technology and health care. This grant helped to alleviate the shortage of physicians, pharmacy technicians, nursing assistants, paraoptometric technicians, medical laboratory workers, and community health workers. This measure further supports the development, education, and training for individuals looking to enter the health care field.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Inserting an appropriation amount of $1,167,000 for health care apprenticeship programs at the University of Hawai‘i community colleges; and

(2) Making a technical, nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education and Labor that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1638, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1638, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Higher Education and Labor,

________________________________ JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair

________________________________ KAIALI'I KAHELE, Chair