STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1411-18

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2018

RE: S.B. No. 2242

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 2242, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the Department of Education to establish a Workforce Development Microgrant Program that awards grants to students who are enrolled in public high schools and are applying for technical or workforce training applicable to certain occupations.

The Hawaii State Teachers Association, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, and an individual supported this measure. The Department of Education and University of Hawaii Career and Technical Education provided comments.

Your Committees have amended this measure by specifying that high school students applying for technical or workforce training related to cybersecurity and coding occupations are eligible to receive grants under the Workforce Development Microgrant Program.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2242, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2242, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Labor & Public Employment,

____________________________ AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair

____________________________ JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair