Bill Text: HI SB747 | 2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Workforce Development; Appropriation
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-05-11 - Carried over to 2010 Regular Session. [SB747 Detail]
Download: Hawaii-2010-SB747-Amended.html
Report Title:
Workforce Development; Appropriation
Description:
Establishing and appropriating funds for a comprehensive database for tracking students from kindergarten to grade twelve and beyond, as they move into the workforce. Requires the Educational Workforce Working Group to review and recommend enhancements to the career and technical education center website for the dissemination of information regarding workforce development resources, initiatives, and programs within the state. Extending the Working Group for two additional years, and respectively appropriates funds and requires annual reports. Adds two additional members to the Working Group. (SB747 HD1)
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TWENTY-FIFTH LEGISLATURE, 2009 |
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STATE OF HAWAII |
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A BILL FOR AN ACT
RELATING TO WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF HAWAII:
PART I
SECTION 1. Through Act 283, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, the legislature established the educational workforce working group to examine and address various issues relating to workforce needs and methods for increasing the workforce supply in the state. The working group prepared and submitted a report to the legislature, which included seven sets of recommendations with twenty-five action steps. The legislature further finds that there are, among other things, issues regarding the implementation of the recommendations that the working group must continue to address to ensure that its work is completed.
The purpose of this Act is to implement several of the educational workforce working group's recommendations for addressing workforce development issues in the state.
PART II
SECTION 2. The legislature finds that an essential element of educational reform is a system to assess how effective those reforms really are and why. With information gained from the system, changes can be made to improve the results. An effective assessment system should not only measure the impact on academic achievement attributable to the reforms, but also the long-term impact on achievement in terms of careers and earnings. Without the ability to track the ultimate results of new programs and additional resources devoted to educational reform, resources could be wasted or misdirected in marginally effective efforts.
The legislature further finds that, currently, no one agency maintains or collects the data needed for a tracking system that monitors enrollment in education systems, educational outcomes, participation in programs, and workforce participation. Cooperation among the agencies is essential to gathering and using relevant information.
Currently, there are a number of efforts underway to improve the assessment of student performance. The Hawaii P-20 initiative is piloting a reporting system that tracks students longitudinally from the department of education to the University of Hawaii. The State has also received a grant from the National Governors Association to develop an outcomes accounting system to assess the effectiveness of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics initiatives passed in the regular session of 2007. These efforts provide a starting point for the development of a comprehensive performance measuring system.
The purpose of this part is to establish and appropriate funds for a comprehensive database for tracking students from kindergarten to grade twelve and beyond, as they move into the workforce.
SECTION 3. (a) The department of education shall convene the appropriate agencies, including the University of Hawaii, department of labor and industrial relations, and department of business, economic development, and tourism, to examine current and emerging programs seeking to track student progress and develop a comprehensive tracking system for students beginning from kindergarten to grade twelve and beyond, as they move into the workforce; provided that:
(1) The system shall include a data-sharing agreement to amass the complete range of data within the system;
(2) The University of Hawaii, department of labor and industrial relations, department of business, economic development, and tourism, and any other appropriate agency shall work with the department of education to develop a data-sharing agreement to amass the complete range of data within the system; and
(3) The system shall assess the performance of the spectrum of educational reform efforts and resource allocations.
(b) The department of education shall report to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the regular sessions of 2010 and 2011 on available data, the capacity of the longitudinal data system tools, and resources needed to maintain a comprehensive tracking system.
SECTION 4. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2009-2010 to establish a comprehensive tracking system for students beginning from kindergarten to grade twelve and beyond, as they move into the workforce.
The sum appropriated shall be expended by the department of education for the purposes of this part.
PART III
SECTION 5. Act 283, Session Laws of Hawaii 2007, is amended as follows:
1. By adding a new section to read:
"SECTION 1A. The educational workforce working group shall review and recommend enhancements to the career and technical education center website for the dissemination of information regarding workforce development resources, initiatives, and programs within the state."
2. By amending sections 1 and 2 to read:
"SECTION 1. (a) There is established an educational workforce working group within the department of labor and industrial relations for administrative purposes only. The chairperson of the workforce development council or the chairperson's designee shall convene the first meeting of the educational workforce working group no later than August 1, 2007, at which time the members shall select a chair, to examine and address the following issues:
(1) How well the workforce needs of Hawaii are currently being met;
(2) How prepared the State is to meet the workforce needs of the future;
(3) What recommendations can be made to improve Hawaii's educational system to fulfill the workforce needs of the future;
(4) What is the current relationship between the public schools and emerging industries;
(5) What percentage of high school students participate in any form of vocational or professional training outside of the school setting;
(6) What aspects of high school curriculum,
standards, and assessment strategies have a direct relationship to the [State's]
state's future workforce needs;
(7) What are the challenges or impediments to
creating a more direct relationship between schools and economy-driving
industries of the [State;] state;
(8) How might autonomous schools-within-schools,
magnet schools, specialized schools, and charter schools be better used to
create more direct links between high schools and economy-driving industries of
the [State;] state; and
(9) How might the size of public schools, the distribution of discretionary funding, the decentralized authority of school community councils or charter school local school boards, and other organizational reforms be better used to satisfy the workforce development needs of the information and technology age.
(b) The educational workforce working group shall
submit a report on its findings and recommendations regarding the issues set
forth in subsection (a), including any recommendations and proposed
legislation, to the legislature no later than twenty days prior to the
convening of the regular [session] sessions of 2008[.],
2010, and 2011; provided that the 2010 and 2011 reports shall also include
information on the progress of the working group and any initiatives or
programs implemented as a result of this Act.
(c) The membership of the educational workforce working group shall be as follows:
(1) Two representatives appointed by the president of the senate;
(2) Two representatives appointed by the speaker of the house of representatives;
(3) The director of business, economic development, and tourism or the director's designee;
(4) The superintendent of education or the superintendent's designee;
(5) Two representatives from the University of Hawaii system; provided that at least one shall be the chancellor of a community college;
(6) Two high school principals appointed by the superintendent of education from the high school principals leadership group;
(7) One representative of the department of education's career and technical education program;
(8) The director of the career and technical education center or the director's designee;
[(7)] (9) The executive director of the
Hawaii P-20 council or the executive director's designee;
[(8)] (10) The chairperson of the
workforce development council or the chairperson's designee;
[(9)] (11) The president and chief
executive officer of Enterprise Honolulu or the president and chief executive
officer's designee;
[(10)] (12) The president of the Hawaii
Science and Technology Council or the president's designee;
[(11)] (13) The president and chief
executive officer of the Hawaii Community Foundation or the president and chief
executive officer's designee; and
[(12)] (14) The executive director of the
Honolulu Community Action Program or the executive director's designee.
SECTION 2. There is appropriated out of the general revenues of the State of Hawaii the sum of $25,000 or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2007-2008, the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2009-2010, and the sum of $ or so much thereof as may be necessary for fiscal year 2010-2011, for the educational workforce working group.
The sums appropriated shall be expended by the department of labor and industrial relations for the purposes of this part."
PART IV
SECTION 6. Statutory material to be repealed is bracketed and stricken. New statutory material is underscored.
SECTION 7. This Act shall take effect on July 1, 2090.
