STAND. COM. REP. NO. 116-24

Honolulu, Hawaii

, 2024

RE: H.B. No. 2242

H.D. 1

Honorable Scott K. Saiki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Thirty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2024

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Education, to which was referred H.B. No. 2242 entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO EDUCATION,"

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to appropriate funds for four full-time equivalent career foundations certificate program teachers for the McKinley Community School for Adults.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Education; McKinley Community School for Adults; Hawaiʻi State Teachers Association; You Are Going Places, LLC; and numerous individuals.

Your Committee finds that Act 261, Session Laws of Hawaii 2022 (Act 261), established the Adult Workforce Readiness Program to provide opportunities for high school students and adult education students to earn associate degrees, workforce development diplomas, and other certificates to ensure they develop skills and credentials needed to make them highly employable. Your Committee further finds that, since Act 261 was enacted, the McKinley Community School for Adults has been making great strides in successfully implementing the Workforce Readiness Program for adults and high school students. However, adult education teachers for workforce preparation programs are part‑time temporary hires, which are often difficult to fill and maintain. This measure will provide funding for full-time equivalent teachers for McKinley Community School for Adults to further the success of workforce preparation programs.

Your Committee has amended this measure by:

(1) Changing the appropriation to an unspecified amount; and

(2) Changing the effective date to July 1, 3000.

Your Committee respectfully requests your Committee on Finance, should it deliberate on this measure, to consider an appropriation amount of $380,000.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Education that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2242, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2242, H.D. 1, and be referred to your Committee on Finance.

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

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JUSTIN H. WOODSON, Chair