Bill Text: HI HB2655 | 2012 | Regular Session | Amended

Hawaii House Bill 2655 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Workforce Investment Act; DLIR; State-Funded Training Program; Appropriation

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 11-0)

Status: (Enrolled - Dead) 2012-04-27 - (H) Conference Committee Meeting will reconvene on Friday, 04-27-12 at 5:35PM in Conference Room 325. [HB2655 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HB2655-Amended.html

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3273

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: H.B. No. 2655

H.D. 2

S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2655, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose and intent of this measure is to provide workforce training opportunities for the citizens of Hawaii through the efficient use of federal moneys.

Specifically, the measure:

(1) Requires the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish and operate a training program to augment and expand the reach of the workforce investment activities administered by the Department pursuant to the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998;

(2) Appropriates an unspecified amount for the establishment of the training program; and

(3) Authorizes the Department to use moneys in the employment and training fund from July 1, 2012, to June 30, 2013, to cover costs associated with administering, managing, reporting, and overseeing the programs funded under the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998.

Written comments in support of this measure were submitted by the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations

Your Committee finds that establishing a workforce training program will enable persons such as the unemployed, persons with disabilities, persons with limited English proficiency, and the homeless to acquire the necessary skills to obtain employment.

Your Committee has amended this measure by making a technical nonsubstantive amendment for the purposes of clarity and style.

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. 2655, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2655, H.D. 2, S.D. 1.

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

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DAVID Y. IGE, Chair