STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1620

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2005

RE: S.B. No. 813

S.D. 2

H.D. 2

 

 

 

Honorable Calvin K.Y. Say

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2005

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred S.B. No. 813, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EMPLOYMENT SECURITY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this bill is to assist unemployed individuals and to support efforts to develop a skilled workforce by:

(1) Authorizing the use of Reed Act funds to provide unemployment insurance (UI) benefits and for the administration of the State's UI system, including its public employment offices; and

(2) Allocating $20,000,000 of the $31,000,000 in Reed Act funds to improve the services of the UI Division and Workforce Development Division of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations (DLIR); provided that:

(A) $6,000,000 be allocated to the four county workforce investment boards for, among other things, employer outreach services, labor force pool expansion, and capacity building; and

 

(B) $1,000,000 be allocated to Leeward Community College (LCC) for education and job training for immigrants from the Freely Associated States pursuant to the Workforce Development Program established under Act 225, Session Laws of Hawaii 2004.

DLIR, the Department of Community Services of the City and County of Honolulu, Hawaii State Teachers Association, ILWU Local 142, Samoan Service Providers Association, and University of Hawaii testified in support of this bill.

Your Committee has amended this bill by:

(1) Changing the effective date to July 1, 2010, to promote further discussion; and

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

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Finance that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 813, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 813, S.D. 2, H.D. 2.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Finance,

 

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DWIGHT TAKAMINE, Chair