STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2003

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 773

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Thirtieth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2019

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 773, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND TOURISM,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to establish an Office of Creative, Film, and Media Industries Hawaii within the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism.

 

     Additionally, the measure appropriates funds to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism for equipment and staffing needs for creative media co-working sites on multiple islands statewide.

 

     Your Committee held a public hearing on a Proposed Senate Draft 2 (Proposed S.D. 2) of this measure.

 

     The purpose of the Proposed S.D. 2 is to:

 

(1)  Require the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to develop annual regional economic plans to provide jobs in urban and rural areas in each county based on the development or community boundaries of each respective county;

 

(2)  Require the Workforce Development Council to use the regional economic plans to develop and provide K-16 pathways and programs in each public school and provide bonus incentives to participating public schools; and

 

(3)  Appropriate funds to the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism to develop the regional economic plans and the school incentive bonuses.

 

     Your Committee received testimony in support of the Proposed S.D. 2 from two individuals.

 

     Your Committee received comments on the Proposed S.D. 2 from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Department of Education; and Workforce Development Council.

 

     Your Committee finds that this measure will support a vision of workforce development in Hawaii that would ensure that all employers have competent and skilled employees and that all residents enjoy sustainable employment and self-sufficiency.

 

     Your Committee has amended this measure by adopting the Proposed S.D. 2 and further amending the Proposed S.D. 2 by deleting the requirement that regional economic plans be based on the development or community boundaries of each respective county.

 

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 773, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 773, H.D. 2, S.D. 2.

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

 

 

 

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DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair