STAND. COM. REP. NO.  1328

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2017

 

RE:   S.B. No. 714

      S.D. 2

      H.D. 1

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Ninth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2017

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Labor & Public Employment, to which was referred S.B. No. 714, S.D. 2, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO JOB TRAINING,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to stabilize the workforce and ensure the transfer of essential skills and institutional knowledge as employees retire and transition out of the workforce by:

 

(1)  Establishing a Supervisory and Professional Job Shadowing Pilot Project (Pilot Project) under the Department of Human Resources Development (DHRD) for leadership and supervisory training; and

 

(2)  Appropriating funds for the Pilot Project.

 

     An individual testified in support of this measure.  DHRD and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO testified in support of the intent of this measure.

 


     Your Committee has amended this measure by:

 

(1)  Changing the commencement and termination dates of the Pilot Project to unspecified dates and, as such, making the date the report is to be submitted to the Legislature an unspecified date; 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 Labor & Public Employment that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 714, S.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 714, S.D. 2, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Labor & Public Employment,

 

 

 

 

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AARON LING JOHANSON, Chair