STAND. COM. REP. 918

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2003

RE: S.B. No. 1425

S.D. 2

H.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Economic Development and Business Concerns, to which was referred S.B. No. 1425, S.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BUSINESS MENTORING OF YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to:

(1) Establish a demonstration program of business mentoring to encourage employers to provide business mentoring to youth and young adults in career development and workplace and occupational skills; and

(2) Appropriate moneys for the Hawaii Workforce Development Council to administer the demonstration program.

The Department of Human Resources of the City and County of Honolulu, Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, and Enterprise Honolulu supported this bill.

The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and Department of Education supported the intent of this bill.

 

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Deleting the appropriation; and

(2) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments for purposes of clarity and style.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development and Business Concerns that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1425, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 1425, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Labor and Public Employment.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development and Business Concerns,

 

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BRIAN SCHATZ, Chair