Bill Text: CA AB114 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Proposition 39: implementation: workforce development.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2013-09-12 - Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Lara. [AB114 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB114-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 114	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Salas

                        JANUARY 14, 2013

   An act to add Division 16.4 (commencing with Section 26225) to the
Public Resources Code, relating to energy.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 114, as introduced, Salas. Proposition 39: implementation.
   The California Clean Energy Jobs Act, an initiative approved by
the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide general election as
Proposition 39, made changes to corporate income taxes and, except as
specified, provides for the transfer of $550,000,000 annually from
the General Fund to the Clean Energy Job Creation Fund for 5 fiscal
years beginning with the 2013-14 fiscal year. Moneys in the Clean
Energy Job Creation Fund are available, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, for purposes of funding eligible projects that create
jobs in California, improving energy efficiency and expanding clean
energy generation. Existing law, among other things, provides for
allocation of available funds to job training and workforce
development.
   This bill would require the Employment Development Department,
using funds made available from the Clean Energy Job Creation Fund
for job training and workforce development purposes, to administer
grants, no-interest loans, or other financial assistance for
allocation to existing workforce development programs for the
purposes of creating green energy jobs in California. The bill would
require the California Conservation Corps, certified community
conservation corps, YouthBuild, and other existing workforce
development programs to give higher priority to disadvantaged youth
and veterans who reside in an economically disadvantaged community or
in a community with a higher unemployment rate than the statewide
unemployment rate. The bill would make legislative findings and
declarations.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) With the passage of Proposition 39 at the November 6, 2012,
statewide general election, the people of California declared their
intent to provide up to five hundred fifty million dollars
($550,000,000) annually, between the 2013-14 and 2017-18 fiscal
years, for purposes of funding energy efficiency projects in public
schools, universities, and other public facilities, and for job
training and workforce development.
   (b) Proposition 39 establishes funding for the California
Conservation Corps, certified community conservation corps,
YouthBuild, and other existing workforce development programs to
train and employ disadvantaged youth, veterans, and others relative
to energy efficiency and clean energy projects.
   (c) California's unemployment rate is 10 percent, and the
California economy has not recovered since the economic recession
began in 2007.
   (d) Workforce development programs should receive funds to train
unemployed Californians for green energy jobs.
   (e) It is the intent of the Legislature to establish guidelines
for job training and workforce development to ensure that revenue in
the Clean Energy Job Creation Fund is appropriately distributed for
the purposes intended by voters.
  SEC. 2.  Division 16.4 (commencing with Section 26225) is added to
the Public Resources Code, to read:

      DIVISION 16.4.  PROPOSITION 39 IMPLEMENTATION


   26225.  From funds made available from the Clean Energy Job
Creation Fund for job training and workforce development purposes,
the Employment Development Department shall administer grants,
no-interest loans, or other financial assistance for allocation to
existing workforce development programs for the purposes of creating
green energy jobs in California.
   26230.  In utilizing funds made available for job training and
workforce development from the Clean Energy Job Creation Fund, the
California Conservation Corps, certified community conservation
corps, YouthBuild, and other existing workforce development programs
shall give higher priority to disadvantaged youth and veterans who
reside in an economically disadvantaged community or in a community
with a higher unemployment rate than the statewide unemployment rate.