STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1973

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2025

RE: S.B. No. 1585

S.D. 1

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 S.B. No. 1585, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, entitled:

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

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to:

(1) Require the Hawaii P-20 Partnerships for Education to establish and implement evidence-based performance metrics relating to the outcomes of 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 Committee received comments on this measure from the Department of Education; Department of the Attorney General; Department of Human Resources Development; 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 Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Deleting the provision that lapses unexpended Perkins V federal funds to the general fund at the end of the fiscal year; 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 S.B. No. 1585, S.D. 1, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1585, S.D. 1, H.D. 2.

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

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KYLE T. YAMASHITA, Chair