STAND. COM. REP. NO. 492-00

                                 Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                   , 2000

                                 RE: H.B. No. 2559
                                     H.D. 1




Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say
Speaker, House of Representatives
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 2000
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Labor and Public Employment, to which was
referred H.B. No. 2559 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE HAWAII WORKFORCE
     DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this bill is to change and clarify the
composition of the Workforce Development Council (Council).

     The Director of the Department of Labor and Industrial
relations, the Executive Director of the Workforce Development
Council, and the Director of the Department of Human Services
testified in support of this measure.

     This measure would allow state department heads who are ex-
officio members of the Council to name their designees to the
Council.  The measure also adds the Governor or his designee as a
member, to comply with the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, and
designates the four legislative and two mayoral members of the
Council as ex-officio voting members.  This bill increases the
number of private sector members from fifteen to "fifteen or
sixteen," to ensure a majority presence in the Council.

     This measure will allow for greater participation in
meetings by increasing the private and public sectors'
representation, and will clarify the status of the legislators
and mayors currently holding office as ex-officio voting members
of the Council.

 
 
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     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the
composition of the Workforce Development Council from twenty-nine
members to thirty to thirty-one members.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Labor and Public Employment that is attached to this
report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose
of H.B. No. 2559, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass
Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2559, H.D.
1, and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Labor and Public
                                   Employment,



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                                   TERRY NUI YOSHINAGA, Chair