STAND. COM. REP. NO. 783-04

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2004

RE: S.B. No. 214

S.D. 3

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2004

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committees on Labor and Public Employment and Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 214, S.D. 3, entitled:

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

beg leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to require Leeward Community College to develop a program to provide services to Freely Associated States students, including cultural education and integration, language, employment, training, and legal services.

The Volunteer Resource Center of Hawaii and the Chancellor of Leeward Community College testified in support of this bill. The Department of Budget and Finance opposed this measure.

After careful consideration, your Committees have amended this bill by:

(1) Clarifying that funding for the establishment of pilot programs in Waipahu and Kalihi to serve the Micronesian, Marshallese, and Palauan communities shall come from funds appropriated to the State by the Compact of Free Association Amendments of 2003, P.L. 108-188, 11 Stat. 2027 rather than any available federal funds;

(2) Changing its effective date to February 31, 3004, to facilitate continued discussions; and

(3) Making technical, nonsubstantive revisions for clarity, consistency, and style.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor and Public Employment and Higher Education that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 214, S.D. 3, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 214, S.D. 3, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

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

 

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K. MARK TAKAI, Chair

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MARCUS R. OSHIRO, Chair