Report Title:

DOE Appropriation; Workforce Development Council

Description:

Appropriates funds to subsidize DOE information systems projects, provide for additional support personnel and training and additional data processing systems analysts, and to continue the implementation of Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004. Improves the composition of the workforce development council. (HB841 CD1)

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.B. NO.

841

TWENTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE, 2005

S.D. 2

STATE OF HAWAII

C.D. 1


 

A BILL FOR AN ACT

 

RELATING TO EDUCATION.

 

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:

PART I

SECTION 1. (a) The department of education is in the process of reinventing itself through Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004, also known as the Reinventing Education Act of 2004 (Act 51). The fundamental premise of Act 51 is defined by three distinct efforts:

(1) Empowerment of schools;

(2) Accountability for specific outcomes; and

(3) The streamlining of the department of education through more autonomy and independence from other agencies.

(b) The department of education's information systems and infrastructure require major upgrades to accommodate and enable the following outcomes over the next five years:

(1) Providing student longitudinal data analysis to assist in targeting specific student populations to raise student achievement;

(2) Increasing the number of students graduating from the entering freshmen class;

(3) Increasing the level of parental involvement through online access of student attendance, homework, and progress;

(4) Reducing the time it takes to handle teacher transfer and assignment;

(5) Reducing the number of seniors not graduating;

(6) Increasing the number of teachers having ready access to student information;

(7) Automating the academic and financial planning processes for all schools;

(8) Automating school accountability; and

(9) Supporting all personnel transferred from the departments of accounting and general services, human resources development, human services, and other agencies to the department of education.

The purpose of this part is to appropriate funds to assist in the continued implementation of Act 51.

SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $1,000,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2005-2006 and the sum of $1,000,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2006-2007 to:

(1) Subsidize information systems projects;

(2) Provide additional support personnel and training;

(3) Provide additional data processing systems analyst IV and additional data processing systems analyst V positions in fiscal year 2006-2007;

(4) Hire any other information technology personnel deemed necessary by the department of education to continue implementation of Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004; and

(5) Continue the implementation of Act 51, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004.

The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this part.

PART II

EDUCATION-WORKFORCE PIPELINE

SECTION 3. One of the most important priorities stressed by the workforce development council planning committee is that "[m]ore people must enter and continue in Hawaii's pipeline to post-secondary education, as the future jobs generally require education beyond high school." The need for commitments of this nature underscores the critical role that education plays in workforce development. Educational initiatives that help to move people into the education-workforce pipeline, whether they be academic or more vocational-technical in nature, must be supported to ensure a healthy future for Hawaii's economy.

The purpose of this part is to improve the composition of the workforce development council.

SECTION 4. Section 202-1, Hawaii Revised Statutes, is amended to read as follows:

"§202-1 Council; appointment; tenure. The advisory commission on employment and human resources is hereby constituted as the workforce development council. The council shall also fulfill the functions of the state workforce investment board for purposes of the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998, Public Law No. 105-220.

Except for the ex officio members or their designees, the council members shall be appointed for four-year staggered terms as provided for in section 26-34. The governor shall appoint the chairperson of the council and the two mayors to the council. The council shall be composed of thirty-one members. The members shall be selected on the basis of their interest in and knowledge of workforce development programs in the State and how they can support economic development. The council shall be composed of the following representatives of [which] whom the majority shall be from the private sector:

(1) The directors of labor and industrial relations, human services, and business, economic development, and tourism; the superintendent of education; and the president of the University of Hawaii or their designees, as ex officio voting members;

(2) The private business sector chairpersons of the four county workforce investment boards, or their designees from the private business sector membership of their respective boards, as ex officio voting members;

[(2) Sixteen] (3) Twelve additional private sector representatives from business[, including at least one member from each of the four county workforce development boards];

[(3)] (4) One representative from a community-based native Hawaiian organization that operates workforce development programs;

[(4)] (5) Two representatives from labor;

[(5)] (6) Four members of the legislature, two from each house[,] for two-year terms beginning in January of odd-numbered years, appointed by the appropriate presiding officer of each house, as ex officio voting members;

[(6)] (7) Two mayors or their designees, as ex officio voting members; and

[(7)] (8) The governor or the governor's designee.

The members shall serve without compensation but shall be entitled to travel expenses when actually engaged in business relating to the work of the council."

PART III

SECTION 5. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.

SECTION 6. This Act shall take effect upon its approval; provided that section 2 shall take effect on July 1, 2005.