STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1011

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: H.B. No. 864

H.D. 2

Honorable Nadine K. Nakamura

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2025

State of Hawaii

Madame:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 864, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to allow newly graduated high school students to be eligible for the State's workers' compensation coverage during the summer following their high school graduation while participating in work-based learning programs sponsored by the Department of Education.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education; Maui Chamber of Commerce; and one individual.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Requiring the Department of Education to submit an annual report to the Legislature on the work-based learning programs sponsored by the Department of Education and the University of Hawaii; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 864, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 864, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair