STAND. COM. REP. NO.  819-16

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2016

RE:   H.B. No. 2605

      H.D. 1

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Finance, to which was referred H.B. No. 2605, H.D. 1, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO LABOR,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to support workers affected by the closure of the Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar Company on Maui by appropriating funds to the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to establish, administer, and support on-the-job training for dislocated workers.  

The County of Maui Department of Management; Hawaii State AFL-CIO; ILWU Local 142; Alexander & Baldwin, Inc.; Maui Hotel & Lodging Association; Chamber of Commerce Hawaii; and an individual supported this measure.  The Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and Hawaii Government Employees Association, AFSCME Local 152, AFL-CIO provided comments.

     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 H.B. No. 2605, H.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

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

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SYLVIA LUKE, Chair