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

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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	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Mullin

                        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 introduced, Mullin. Workforce development: annual
report card.
   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 further provides that the board must
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 provide that the board is also responsible for
assisting the Governor in the development of an annual report card
that measures the state's human capital investments in workforce
development and that provides, among other things, a status report on
credential and degree attainment and wage gain outcomes of 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.
   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  15   49e-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) Developing an annual report card 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 report card shall do all of the following:  
   (i) Provide a status report on credential and degree attainment
and wage gain outcomes of workforce education and training programs.
 
   (ii) 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) Measure, at a minimum, the performance of the following
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.  
   (B) 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.