§202-1  Council; appointment; tenure. The advisory commission on employment and human resources is hereby constitutedas the workforce development council.  The council shall also fulfill thefunctions of the state workforce investment board for purposes of the federalWorkforce Investment Act of 1998, Public Law No. 105-220.

Except for the ex officio members or theirdesignees, the council members shall be appointed for four-year staggered termsas provided for in section 26-34.  The governor shall appoint the chairpersonof the council and the two mayors to the council.  The council shall becomposed of thirty-one members.  The members shall be selected on the basis oftheir interest in and knowledge of workforce development programs in the Stateand how they can support economic development.  The council shall be composedof the following representatives of whom the majority shall be from the privatesector:

(1)  The directors of labor and industrial relations,human services, and business, economic development, and tourism; thesuperintendent of education; and the president of the University of Hawaii ortheir designees, as ex officio voting members;

(2)  The private business sector chairpersonsof the four county workforce investment boards, or their designees from theprivate business sector membership of their respective boards, as ex officiovoting members;

(3)  Twelve additional private sector representativesfrom business;

(4)  One representative from a community-based nativeHawaiian organization that operates workforce development programs;

(5)  Two representatives from labor;

(6)  Four members of the legislature, two from eachhouse for two-year terms beginning in January of odd-numbered years, appointedby the appropriate presiding officer of each house, as ex officio votingmembers;

(7)  Two mayors or their designees, as ex officiovoting members; and

(8)  The governor or the governor's designee.

The members shall serve without compensationbut shall be entitled to travel expenses when actually engaged in businessrelating to the work of the council. [L 1965, c 270, §2; Supp, §98W-2; HRS§202-1; am L 1970, c 170, §1; am L 1977, c 19, §1; am L 1985, c 252, §2; am L1997, c 346, §2; am L 1999, c 72, §3; am L 2000, c 104, §1; am L 2005, c 179,§4]