STAND. COM. REP. NO. 751

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 714

H.D. 1

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committees on Education and Economic Development & Technology, to which was referred H.B. No. 714, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT,"

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to support educational programs that expand the State's health care workforce.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education; Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Office of Hawaiian Affairs; Hawaii Health Systems Corporation; State Council on Developmental Disabilities; Hawaiʻi State Center for Nursing; The Queen's Health Systems; Hawaiʻi Pacific Health; Hilo Benioff Medical Center; Healthcare Association of Hawaii; Hawaii Substance Abuse Coalition; Liberty Dialysis Hawaii; Hawaii Medical Association; Hawaiʻi Primary Care Association; AlohaCare; and one individual. Your Committees received testimony in support of the intent of this measure from the University of Hawaiʻi System.

Your Committees find that the needs of the rapidly aging population in the State are contributing to increased demand for workers throughout the health care field. Your Committees further find that public high school health care workforce certificate programs are designed to provide students with the training and skills necessary to enter health care positions immediately after graduation. This measure supports health care training, especially for the State's public high school students, to help meet Hawaii's long-term health care workforce needs.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Economic Development & Technology that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 714, H.D. 1, and recommend that it be referred to your Committee on Finance.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Education and Economic Development & Technology,

____________________________ GREGGOR ILAGAN, Chair

____________________________ JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair