Bill Text: CA AB2349 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Workforce development: Youth at Work Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-08-12 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2349 Detail]
Download: California-2009-AB2349-Amended.html
BILL NUMBER: AB 2349 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 16, 2010
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Fong
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
An act to amend Section 14206 of, and to add Section 14021 to, the
Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to workforce development.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2349, as amended, Fong. Workforce development: Youth at Work
Program.
The federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 provides for
workforce investment activities, including activities in which states
may participate. Existing law establishes the California Workforce
Investment Board (CWIB), and specifies that the CWIB is responsible
for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and
continuous improvement of California's workforce investment system.
This bill would require the CWIB, in collaboration with the local
workforce investment boards, to establish the California Youth at
Work Program for the purpose of providing summer job training ,
work based learning, and work experience opportunities for
youth in the state, in accordance with prescribed requirements.
Existing law contains various programs for job training and
employment investment, including work incentive programs, as
specified, and a local workforce investment board to perform various
duties related to the implementation and coordination of local
workforce investment activities, including, among other things, the
award of grants and contracts to eligible providers of youth
activities on a competitive basis, consistent with the federal law.
This bill would specify that a local board is to award grants or
contracts to eligible providers of youth activities, in a manner
consistent with other funding sources and to identify eligible
providers in a manner consistent with federal law.
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 14021 is added to the Unemployment Insurance
Code, to read:
14021. (a) The California Workforce Investment Board, in
collaboration with local workforce investment boards, shall establish
the California Youth at Work Program, for the purpose of providing
summer job training , work based learning, and work
experience opportunities for youth in the state. The program shall be
established in accordance with the following requirements:
(1) The program shall include work experience , work based
learning, and academic enrichment components.
(2) Eligible youth who participate in the program shall be between
14 and 24 years of age.
(3)
(2) The program shall primarily focus on providing
summer job training , work based learning, and work
experience opportunities for youth. For purposes of this section, the
period of "summer" shall be from May 1 through September 30 of each
year. However, the program's start and end dates may vary within this
time period.
(4)
(3) The following youth shall be deemed automatically
eligible for the California Youth at Work Program when allowable
by the criteria established by the funding mechanism :
low-income youth and certain youth populations facing barriers to
employment, including, but not limited to, youth in foster care,
youth who have aged out of foster care, youth whose families are
enrolled in the CalWORKs program (Chapter 2 (commencing with Section
11200) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code),
youth who are enrolled in the CalWORKs program, homeless
youth youth who are homeless , youth with
disabilities, youth who are under the care of the court system, youth
who participate in the National School Lunch Program, youth with one
parent or guardian who is in a dislocated worker,
or a recipient of unemployment compensation benefits, and youth with
additional barriers. Military veterans and their spouses who are
under 24 years of age shall be given priority for services under the
program. Program participants may be between 14 and 24 years of
age.
(5)
(4) The program shall, to the extent feasible and
appropriate, incorporate academic enrichment components,
work-based learning strategies, work experience, career ladders
coordinated with existing employment training programs and
economic development programs, including, but not limited to,
programs funded under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C.
Sec. 2801 et seq.) or other state or federally funded workforce
investment program, the California Community Colleges, the regional
occupational programs and regional occupation centers, vocational
education programs, joint labor-management training programs, and
preapprenticeship or registered apprenticeship programs authorized by
the Department of Industrial Relations Division of Apprenticeship
standards, and other activities that involve exposing youth to
industrial job sector opportunities that are key to the economic
region. Local workforce investment boards may incorporate secondary
and postsecondary education as deemed appropriate.
(6)
(5) Wages or stipends, or both, may be provided to
youth in a classroom-based component of a summer employment
opportunity.
(7)
(6) Minors under 18 years of age who are enrolled in
the program shall be paid at least the minimum wage and applicable
overtime rates established by the state's Industrial Welfare
Commission (IWC).
(8)
(7) High school graduates or those persons holding an
equivalent degree shall be paid at the same levels as the local
workforce investment area's workforce experience policy for adults
and dislocated workers, when those individuals perform the same
quantity, quality, and classification of work.
(b) The board, in consultation with local workforce investment
boards, shall request, if required, any necessary waivers from the
United States Department of Labor, to ensure effective and efficient
implementation of the program set forth in this section.
(c) The program established by this section shall only be
implemented if the Director of Finance determines that there are
sufficient federal or state funds made available to the state for
expenditure for the program.
(9) The California Youth at Work Program shall incorporate career
pathways or career ladders as part of the summer youth program, and
should be coordinated with existing employment training programs and
economic development programs, including, but not limited to,
programs funded under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C.
Sec. 2801 et seq.), or other federally funded workforce investment
program, the California Community Colleges, the regional occupational
programs and regional occupation centers, vocational education
programs, joint labor-management training programs, and
preapprenticeship or registered apprenticeship programs authorized by
the Department of Industrial Relations Division of Apprenticeship
Standards.
SEC. 2. Section 14206 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is
amended to read:
14206. It shall be the duty of the local board to do all of the
following:
(a) Coordinate workforce investment activities in the local area
with economic development strategies.
(b) Promote participation of private sector employers in the local
workforce investment system.
(c) Develop and submit a local workforce investment plan to the
Governor.
(d) Select one-stop operators, with the agreement of the local
chief elected official, annually review their operations, and
terminate for cause the eligibility of such operators.
(e) Award grants or contracts to eligible providers of youth
activities in the local area on a competitive basis, consistent with
the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, or other funding sources, based
upon the recommendations of the youth council.
(f) Identify, consistent with the Workforce Investment Act of
1998, or other federal statutes, eligible providers of training
services.
(g) Identify eligible providers of intensive services and, when
the one-stop operator does not provide intensive services to the
local area, award contracts to those providers.
(h) Develop local policy on the amount and duration of individual
training accounts based upon the market rate for local training
programs.
(i) Conduct program oversight over workforce investment activities
in the local area.
(j) Negotiate with the local chief elected official in the local
area and the Governor on local performance measures for the local
area.
(k) Assist in the development of a statewide employment statistics
system, which shall be developed in conjunction with and shall
utilize to the fullest extent possible, the Employment Development
Department's labor market information system.
