STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1437

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: S.B. No. 1585

S.D. 1

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 Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 1585, S.D. 1, entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Establish and implement evidence-based performance metrics for the Hawaii P-20 Partnerships for Education to allow better evidence-based assessments for its workforce and pathway development programs; and

(2) Authorize the expenditure of Perkins V federal funds for the Hawaii P-20 Partnerships for Education Office to establish and implement evidence-based assessments of its workforce and pathway development programs.

Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Human Resources Development. Your Committees received comments on this measure from the Department of Education; Department of the Attorney General; Department of Budget and Finance; Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; University of Hawaiʻi Community Colleges; and Hawaiʻi P-20 Partnerships for Education.

Your Committees find that state departments are experiencing difficulty in filling positions with qualified candidates because of a workforce shortage. Your Committees further find that the Hawaii P-20 Partnerships for Education can help to meet the vocational needs of the departments. Your Committees believe that evidence-based performance metrics must be established to measure the development of Hawaii P-20 Partnerships for Education programs and ensure that state funds are appropriately expended for the development of students in equipping them with the technical skills and academic knowledge that is needed for employment.

Your Committees have amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000; and

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

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Education and Higher Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1585, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1585, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

____________________________ ANDREW TAKUYA GARRETT, Chair

____________________________ JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair