STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3020
Honolulu, Hawaii
RE: S.B. No. 2351
S.D. 2
Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi
President of the Senate
Thirty-Second State Legislature
Regular Session of 2024
State of Hawaii
Sir:
Your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 2351, S.D. 1, entitled:
"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT,"
beg leave to report as follows:
The purpose and intent of this measure is to:
(1) Require the Workforce Development Council and local workforce development boards to develop written conflict of interest policies consistent with federal law and regulations;
(2) Require the Governor to select the Chairperson of the Council from among the seventeen private sector members;
(3) Require the Workforce Development Council to assist the Governor in coordinating local workforce development boards to improve the workforce development system; and
(4) Repeal the requirement for the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to submit an annual report to the Legislature on the activities of the K-12 Agriculture Workforce Development Pipeline Initiative.
Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from IATSE Local 665.
Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations.
Your Committees find that Act 88, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021, eliminated the program identification number for the Hawaii Workforce Development Council and transferred its appropriation and positions to the Workforce Development Division of the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. Your Committees believe that the Hawaii Workforce Development Council performs essential functions in assisting the Governor by serving as a planning and policy advisor to the Governor on workforce issues and is a primary architect of overall state workforce strategy. Your Committees additionally find that in order to conform to the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and related Code of Federal Regulations, the Workforce Development Council should be renamed the Hawaii Workforce Development Board, therefore amendments to this measure are necessary.
Your
Committees have amended this measure by:
(1) Renaming
the "Hawaii Workforce Development Council" the "Hawaii Workforce
Development Board" and replacing the terms "workforce development council"
or "council" with "workforce development board" or "board"
as necessary;
(2) Requiring
the Governor to appoint the Chairperson of the Hawaii Workforce Development
Board from among all of the members, instead of from among only the seventeen
private sector members;
(3) Deleting
language that would have exempted the Executive Director of the Hawaii
Workforce Development Board from chapter 89, Hawaii Revised Statutes;
(4) Restoring
statutory language that allows the Hawaii Workforce Development Board to hold
hearings as the Board may deem advisable;
(5) Restoring
statutory language that allows the Hawaii Workforce Development Board to
administer funds allocated for its work and accept, disburse, and allocate
funds which may become available from other governmental and other private
sources;
(6) Inserting language restoring and transferring
to the Hawaii Workforce Development Board the program identification number and
positions that were transferred to the Workforce Development Division of the
Department of Labor and Industrial Relations from the Hawaii Workforce
Development Council by Act 88, Session Laws of Hawaii 2021;
(7) Inserting
a blank appropriation amount for an unspecified number of positions within the
Hawaii Workforce Development Board;
(8) Making
conforming amendments;
(9) Amending
section 1 to reflect its amended purpose; and
(10) Making technical, nonsubstantive amendments
for the purposes of clarity and consistency.
As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means that are attached to this report, your Committees are in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 2351, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommend that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 2351, S.D. 2.
Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Judiciary and Ways and Means,
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________________________________ DONOVAN M. DELA CRUZ, Chair |
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________________________________ KARL RHOADS, Chair |
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