STAND. COM. REP. NO.  504-18

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2018

 

RE:   H.B. No. 1638

      H.D. 2

 

 

 

 

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2018

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Higher Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 1638, H.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO APPRENTICESHIPS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds to the University of Hawaii to continue and expand health care apprenticeship programs at University of Hawaii community colleges.

 

     The University of Hawaii, Oahu County Committee on Legislative Priorities of the Democratic Party of Hawaii, and two individuals supported this measure.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations supported this measure and provided amendments.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by amending the purpose section to clarify that upon completion of an approved apprenticeship program, work process and related instruction hours may be applied toward an associate degree.

 

     Your Committee respectfully requests your Committee on Finance, should it hear this measure, to consider an appropriation of approximately $1,167,000 to provide funding to continue and expand the health care apprenticeship programs at the University of Hawaii community colleges.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Higher Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 1638, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to your Committee on Finance in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 1638, H.D. 2.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Higher Education,

 

 

 

 

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ANGUS L.K. McKELVEY, Chair