STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1301

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2007

 

RE:   S.B. No. 608

      S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Fourth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2007

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Higher Education and Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 608, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this bill is to provide access to information on available workforce training by requiring and appropriating funds for the University of Hawaii to design, research, and develop a statewide web-based interactive searchable database.

 

     The Workforce Development Council, Department of Education, and Hawaii P-20 Initiative testified in support of this bill.

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Higher Education and Labor & Public Employment that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 608, S.D. 2, and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

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ALEX M. SONSON, Chair

 

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JERRY L. CHANG, Chair