Bill Text: CA SB1273 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 1273

Introduced

Bill Title: Workforce development: training-related job placement: reporting.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-02-29 - Referred to Com. on RLS. [SB1273 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB1273-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1273

Introduced by Senator Roth

February 15, 2024

An act to amend Section 14017.1 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to workforce development.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1273, as introduced, Roth. Workforce development: training-related job placement: reporting.

Existing law requires the California Workforce Development Board and Employment Development Department to work collaboratively to measure and report on training-related job placement outcomes for individuals receiving job training services, as defined, provided through the workforce system, as provided.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 14017.1 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is amended to read:

14017.1.

(a) To ensure that job training services investments are linked to regional labor market demand and provide opportunities for upward mobility, the board and the Employment Development Department shall work collaboratively to measure and report on training-related job placement outcomes for individuals receiving job training services provided through the workforce system, including all job training services funded by Title I of the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act ~~(Pub. L.~~ (Public Law 113-128) and through grants administered by the board, regardless of the source of the moneys.

(b) For purposes of measuring training-related job placement outcomes, gathering data to report, and otherwise fulfilling subdivision (a), the board and the Employment Development Department shall work collaboratively to create a plan to use the existing unemployment insurance tax data collection infrastructure used to secure quarterly wage data from employers, to match relevant employee occupational data, employee place of employment data, and employee hours worked data, to persons who enroll in job training services. The plan shall include timelines, budget, funding constraints, and an outline of any additional recommended or necessary statutory changes to collect relevant data. The plan shall also outline the means for all of the following:

(1) Requiring local workforce development boards and grantees of board-administered grants to collect and report industry and occupation-specific data for all persons who enroll in job training services, including through the use of case management and performance reporting systems deployed for state and federal data collection and reporting.

(2) Developing and implementing a method to measure the second- and fourth-quarter prior earnings of a person, who is enrolled in a job training service, for purposes of measuring the person’s increase in earnings following their participation in and exit from a program.

(3) Developing and implementing a means to measure wage and employment outcomes for a person following that person’s participation in a job training service during the second, fourth, eighth, and twelfth quarters following participation in and exit from a program for purposes of measuring the person’s increase in earnings over time.

(4) Calculating, by region, industry, occupation, and job training service provider, the wages, wage gains, employment rates, and training-related job placement rates at the second, fourth, eighth, and twelfth quarters following a person’s participation in and exit from a program.

(5) Calculating, by region, industry, occupation, and job training service provider, the rate of persons who participated in a job training service and who became employed at a wage at or above a living wage for the region. This calculation shall take into account the cost of living in the regional labor market where the person works or lives. The employment rate calculation shall be calculated at the second, fourth, eighth, and twelfth quarters following a person’s participation in and exit from a program.

(6) Calculating program completion, credential attainment, and measurable skills gains rates by job training service provider, industry, occupation, and region.

(7) Determining, by region, industry, occupation, and job training service provider, whether participation in a job training service, completion of a job training service, credential attainment, and measurable skills gains have an empirically verifiable impact on assisting persons in achieving employment, training-related job placement, wages, and wage gain that places those persons at or above a living wage for the region. This determination shall take into account the cost of living in the regional labor market where the person works or lives.

(8) Developing and implementing a means of working with the local workforce development boards to notify, prior to their enrollment in a job training service, a person seeking to enroll in those services of the board’s and Employment Development Department’s findings on the efficacy of those services, particularly with respect to the likelihood of training related job placement, the likelihood of job placement at or above a regional living wage, and the likelihood of wage gains at the second, fourth, eighth, and twelfth quarters following a person’s participation in and exit from a program. Those findings shall be disaggregated by region, job training services provider, industry, and occupation.

(9) The board and the Employment Development Department shall, in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code, submit the plan to the Legislature no later than January 1, 2024.

(c) (1) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the Employment Development Department and the board shall implement the plan developed pursuant to subdivision (b) to meet the reporting requirements of this chapter. Two years after the appropriation, the Employment Development Department and the board shall summarize and provide to the Legislature an initial report on the status of the implementation plan and the initial findings using the available data in alignment with subdivision (b).

(2) The report and findings required by paragraph (1) shall be provided to the Senate Committee on Business, Professions and Economic Development, Assembly Committee on Business and Professions, Senate Committee on Education, Assembly Committee on Education, Senate Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement, and Assembly Committee on Labor and Employment. The report shall not include any personally identifiable information.

(3) Following the initial report in paragraph (1), the board and Employment Development Department shall annually update and include their findings in the report required to be submitted to the Legislature by subdivision (c) of Section 14211.

(4) If any portion of the reporting requirements of this section cannot be implemented absent further statutory change, the remaining requirements shall continue to be in effect.

(d) For purposes of this section, both of the following definitions shall apply:

(1) “Job training services” has the same meaning as “training services,” as that term is defined in Section 3174(c)(3)(D) of Title 29 of the United States Code and the corresponding sections of the Code of Federal Regulations, and as that term is expanded on in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 14211.

(2) “Local workforce development board” means a local workforce development board formed pursuant to Article 1 (commencing with Section 14200) of Chapter 4.

(3) “Participation in a job training service” shall mean participation in, but not necessarily completion of, the service.

(4) “Program” means a program under Title I of the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act or a grant program administered by the California Workforce Development Board.

(5) “Training-related job placement” means employment in an occupation or occupations directly related to the occupation or occupations for which the job training curricula is designed.