STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1050-16

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

 

RE:   S.B. No. 2543

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committees on Labor & Public Employment and Higher Education, to which was referred S.B. No. 2543 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

 

beg leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to clarify the purposes of the University of Hawaii Community Colleges by specifying that they include providing short-term and rapid response occupational and certification programs designed to qualify individuals to fill new and hard-to-fill positions in the State that require technical training.

 

     The Department of Human Resources Development; University of Hawaii; Chamber of Commerce Hawaii, and UPW Local 646, AFL-CIO supported this measure.  

 

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Labor & 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. 2543 and recommend that it pass Second Reading and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

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

 

 

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ISAAC W. CHOY, Chair

 

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MARK M. NAKASHIMA, Chair