Bill Text: CA AB2148 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Workforce development: annual workforce metrics dashboard.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-17 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 385, Statutes of 2014. [AB2148 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2148	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 19, 2014
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 10, 2014

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mullin
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members  Olsen,  Rodriguez, Ting,
and Wieckowski)

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2014

   An act to amend Section 14013 of the Unemployment Insurance Code,
relating to unemployment insurance.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2148, as amended, Mullin. Workforce development: annual
workforce metrics dashboard.
   Existing law provides that the California Workforce Investment
Board is responsible for assisting the Governor in the development,
oversight, and continuous improvement of California's workforce
investment system. Existing law requires the board to assist the
Governor in targeting resources to specified industry sectors and
providing guidance to ensure that services reflect the needs of those
sectors.
   This bill would additionally require the board to assist the
Governor in the development of an annual workforce metrics dashboard
that measures the state's human capital investments in workforce
development and that provides, among other things, a status report on
credential attainment, training completion, degree attainment, and
 wage gain outcomes of   participant earnings
from  workforce education and training programs. The bill would
also authorize the State Department of Education to collect the
social security numbers of adults participating in adult education
programs for these purposes, as specified. This bill would also
require the  Labor Market Information Division of the
 Employment Development Department to aggregate data, which
the bill would require to be provided by participating workforce
program partners, and to report this data to the board to assist the
board in producing the annual workforce metrics dashboard, as
specified.
   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.  Section 14013 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is
amended to read:
   14013.  The board shall assist the Governor in the following:
   (a) Promoting the development of a well-educated and highly
skilled 21st century workforce.
   (b) Developing the State Workforce Investment Plan.
   (c) Developing guidelines for the continuous improvement and
operation of the workforce investment system, including:
   (1) Developing policies to guide the one-stop system.
   (2) Providing technical assistance for the continuous improvement
of the one-stop system.
   (3) Recommending state investments in the one-stop system.
   (4) Targeting resources to competitive and emerging industry
sectors and industry clusters that provide economic security and are
either high-growth sectors or critical to California's economy, or
both. These industry sectors and clusters shall have significant
economic impacts on the state and its regional and workforce
development needs and have documented career opportunities.
   (5) To the extent permissible under state and federal laws,
recommending youth policies and strategies that support linkages
between kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and community
college educational systems and youth training opportunities in order
to help youth secure educational and career advancement. These
policies and strategies may be implemented using a sector strategies
framework and should ultimately lead to placement in a job providing
economic security or job placement in an entry-level job that has a
well-articulated career pathway or career ladder to a job providing
economic security.
   (6) To the extent permissible under state and federal law,
recommending adult and dislocated worker training policies and
investments that offer a variety of career opportunities while
upgrading the skills of California's workforce. These may include
training policies and investments pertaining to any of the following:

   (A) Occupational skills training, including training for
nontraditional employment.
   (B) On-the-job training.
   (C) Programs that combine workplace training with related
instruction, which may include cooperative education programs.
   (D) Training programs operated by the private sector.
   (E) Skill upgrading and retraining.
   (F) Entrepreneurial training.
   (G) Job readiness training.
   (H) Adult education and literacy activities provided in
combination with any of the services described in this paragraph.
   (I) Customized training conducted with a commitment by an employer
or group of employers to employ an individual upon successful
completion of the training.
   (d) Developing and continuously improving the statewide workforce
investment system as delivered via the one-stop delivery system and
via other programs and services supported by funding from the federal
Workforce Investment Act of 1998, including:
   (1) Developing linkages in order to ensure coordination and
nonduplication among workforce programs and activities.
   (2) Reviewing local workforce investment plans.
   (3) Leveraging state and federal funds to ensure that resources
are invested in activities that meet the needs of the state's
competitive and emerging industry sectors and advance the education
and employment needs of students and workers so they can keep pace
with the education and skill needs of the state, its regional
economies, and leading industry sectors.
   (e) Commenting, at least once annually, on the measures taken
pursuant to the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology
Education Act Amendments of 1990 (Public Law 101-392; 20 U.S.C. Sec.
2301 et seq.).
   (f) Designating local workforce investment areas within the state
based on information derived from all of the following:
   (1) Consultations with the Governor.
   (2) Consultations with the chief local elected officials.
   (3) Consideration of comments received through the public comment
process, as described in Section 112(b)(9) of the federal Workforce
Investment Act of 1998.
   (g) Developing and modifying allocation formulas, as necessary,
for the distribution of funds for adult employment and training
activities, for youth activities to local workforce investment areas,
and dislocated worker employment and training activities, as
permitted by federal law.
   (h) Coordinating the development and continuous improvement of
comprehensive state performance measures, including state adjusted
levels of performance, to assess the effectiveness of the workforce
investment activities in the state.
   (i) Preparing the annual report to the United States Secretary of
Labor.
   (j) Recommending policy for the development of the statewide
employment statistics system, including workforce and economic data,
as described in Section  49e-2   49l-2  of
Title 29 of the United States Code, and using, to the fullest extent
possible, the Employment Development Department's existing labor
market information systems.
   (k) Recommending strategies to the Governor for strategic training
investments of the Governor's 15-percent discretionary funds.
   (l) Developing and recommending waivers, in conjunction with local
workforce investment boards, to the Governor as provided for in the
federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998.
   (m) Recommending policy to the Governor for the use of the
25-percent rapid response funds, as authorized under the federal
Workforce Investment Act of 1998.
   (n) Developing an application to the United States Department of
Labor for an incentive grant under Section 9273 of Title 20 of the
United States Code.
   (o)  (A)   (1)  Developing a workforce
metrics dashboard, to be updated annually, that measures the state's
human capital investments in workforce development to better
understand the collective impact of these investments on the labor
market. The workforce metrics dashboard shall be produced using
existing available data and resources that are currently collected
and accessible to state agencies. The board shall convene workforce
program partners to develop a standardized set of inputs and outputs
for the workforce metrics dashboard. The workforce metrics dashboard
shall do all of the following: 
   (i) 
    (A)  Provide a status report on credential attainment,
training completion, degree attainment, and  wage gain
outcomes of   participant earnings   from 
workforce education and training programs. The board shall publish
and distribute the final report. 
   (ii) 
    (B)  Provide demographic breakdowns, including, to the
extent possible, race, ethnicity, age, gender, veteran status, wage
and credential or degree outcomes, and information on workforce
outcomes in different industry sectors. 
   (iii) 
    (C)  Measure, at a minimum and to the extent feasible
with existing resources, the performance of the following workforce
programs: community college career technical education, the
Employment Training Panel, Title I and Title II of the federal
Workforce Investment Act of 1998, Trade Adjustment Assistance, and
state apprenticeship programs. 
   (D) Measure participant earnings, using unemployment insurance
wage records in California, and to the extent feasible, in other
states. The Employment Development Department shall assist the board
measure participant earnings, by, including, but not limited to,
providing the board information from its unemployment insurance
records and calculating participant earnings data at the direction of
the board, without violating any applicable confidentiality
requirements.  
   (B)
    (2)  The State Department of Education is hereby
authorized to collect the social security numbers of adults
participating in adult education programs so that accurate
participation in those programs can be represented in the report
card. However, an individual shall not be denied program
participation if he or she refuses to provide a social security
number. The State Department of Education shall keep this information
confidential and shall only use this information for tracking
purposes  , in compliance with all applicable state and federal
law  . 
   (C) (i) 
    (3)     (A)    Participating
workforce programs, as specified in clause  (iii) 
 subparagraph (C)  of  subparagraph (A), 
 paragraph (1),  shall provide participant data in a
standardized format to the Labor Market Information Division
of  the Employment Development Department. 
   (ii) 
    (B)  The  Labor Market Information Division of
the Employment Development Department shall aggregate data
provided by participating workforce programs and shall report the
data, organized by demographics, earnings, and industry of
employment, to the board to assist the board in producing the annual
workforce metrics dashboard.