Bill Text: CA AB2915 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 2915 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Workforce development boards: mutual disaster aid assistance: memorandum of understanding.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 8-2)

Status: (Passed) 2018-09-23 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 722, Statutes of 2018. [AB2915 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB2915-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2915

Introduced by Assembly Member Caballero
(Coauthor: Senator Dodd)

February 16, 2018

An act to add Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 14580) to Division 7 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to workforce development.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2915, as introduced, Caballero. Workforce development boards: mutual disaster aid assistance: memorandum of understanding.

Existing law, the California Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, establishes the California Workforce Development Board as the body responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California’s workforce investment system and the alignment of the education and workforce investment systems to the needs of the 21st century economy and workforce. That act requires the establishment of a local workforce development board in each local workforce development area of the state to, among other things, develop effective linkages with employers in the region to support employer utilization of the local workforce development system and to support local workforce investment activities.

This bill would authorize the board to enter into a memorandum of understanding with the local workforce development boards in the state to coordinate mutual aid assistance between all local workforce development boards in the event that any local workforce development board needs additional assistance in disaster relief efforts or activities in that local workforce development area. This bill would require the memorandum of understanding to include best practices and baseline qualifications for employees of a local workforce development board who may be responding to a request for assistance in the event of a disaster.

This bill, upon appropriation by the Legislature, would allocate an unspecified amount from the General Fund to the board for costs involved in the creation of the memorandum of understanding, establishment of the best practices and baseline qualifications specified in the memorandum of understanding, and the training of employees of a local workforce development board to meet those best practices or baseline qualifications established in the memorandum of understanding.

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

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

SECTION 1.

Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 14580) is added to Division 7 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, to read:

CHAPTER 6. Mutual Disaster Aid Assistance

14580.

(a) The board may enter into a memorandum of understanding with the local workforce development boards in the state to coordinate mutual aid assistance between all local workforce development boards in the event that any local workforce development board needs additional assistance in disaster relief efforts or activities in that local workforce development area.

(b) Any memorandum of understanding entered into pursuant to this section shall be established consistent with the purpose of ensuring that services or aid to affected businesses and jobseekers in a disaster are provided in a manner that is consistent throughout the state.

(c) Mutual aid assistance may include, but is not limited to, sending business services representatives or case managers into affected areas or making contact with business owners and jobseekers and making those owners and jobseekers aware of available services at local career centers.

14581.

(a) The memorandum of understanding shall include, but is not limited to, the following information:

(1) A baseline understanding of services or aid to be provided in the event of a disaster in a local workforce development area and additional assistance that may be required by any local workforce board in that affected area.

(2) Best practices and baseline qualifications for employees of a local workforce development board who may be responding to a request for assistance in the event of a disaster.

(b) In establishing and setting forth the best practices and baseline qualifications for employees of a local workforce development board, the board and representatives from local workforce development boards may consider existing practices and qualifications currently utilized by local workforce development boards during disasters.

14582.

Upon appropriation by the Legislature, ____ dollars ($____) shall be allocated from the General Fund to the board for costs involved in the creation of the memorandum of understanding authorized by the chapter, establishment of the best practices and baseline qualifications specified in the memorandum of understanding, and the training of employees of a local workforce development board to meet those best practices or baseline qualifications established in the memorandum of understanding.