STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2419

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: S.B. No. 3370

S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Labor and Technology, to which was referred S.B. No. 3370 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to make appropriations to:

(1) Establish three permanent full-time equivalent (3.0 FTE) Human Resources Specialist V positions within the Department of Human Resources Development; and

(2) Fund operating, equipment, supplies, promotional materials, marketing, advertising, training, and travel costs for up to fifty intern positions to implement and manage the Intern Glide Path Program.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Resources Development.

Your Committee finds that the State is currently going through a labor shortage. Your Committee also finds that the Department of Human Resources Development is committed to filling state civil service vacancies with our local workforce, including recent graduates of Hawaii high schools, community colleges, and universities. This measure will allow the Department to establish and manage an Intern Glide Path Program that could identify and map certificate and degree requirements of state jobs to high school and community college Career and Technical Education programs, bridging the gap of high school or community college graduates, with a career path into an internship, and then into civil service positions within the State's Executive Branch.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation amount for the establishment of Human Resources Specialist V positions from $213,048 to an unspecified amount;

(2) Changing the number of Human Resources Specialist V positions to be established from three permanent full-time equivalent (3.0 FTE) positions to an unspecified number;

(3) Changing the appropriation amount for the implementation and management of the Intern Glide Path Program from $2,000,000 to an unspecified amount;

(4) Changing the number of intern positions intended for the Intern Glide Path Program from fifty to an unspecified number;

(5) Inserting an effective date of July 1, 2050, to encourage further discussion; and

(6) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for the purposes of clarity and consistency.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Labor and Technology that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 3370, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 3370, S.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor and Technology,

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HENRY J.C. AQUINO, Chair