Bill Text: CA SB1402 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Economic development: California Community Colleges

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Passed) 2012-09-17 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 361, Statutes of 2012. [SB1402 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1402	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 20, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 6, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 26, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lieu
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Bonilla)

                        FEBRUARY 24, 2012

   An act to add and repeal Part 52.5 (commencing with Section 88600)
of Division 7 of Title 3 of the Education Code, relating to economic
development.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1402, as amended, Lieu. Economic development: California
Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program.
   Existing law, until January 1, 2013, establishes the California
Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program.
Existing law provides for the awarding of grants for this program,
and provides that this program shall only be implemented during
fiscal years for which funds are appropriated for these purposes.
Existing law requires the Board of Governors of the California
Community Colleges, as part of the program, to assist economic and
workforce regional development centers and consortia to improve
linkages and career-technical education pathways between high schools
and community colleges, in a manner that, among other things,
improves the quality of career exploration and career outreach
materials. Existing law also requires the Chancellor of the
California Community Colleges to develop an implementation strategy
for achieving this goal, as specified.
   The program also includes a job development incentive training
component and provisions requiring the implementation of
accountability measures and an independent evaluation relating to the
program.
   This bill would generally recast and revise the provisions
governing the California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce
Development Program that would be repealed by existing law on January
1, 2013, excluding the provisions relating to the economic and
workforce regional development centers and consortia, and would
establish a revised program that would operate until January 1, 2018.

   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) It is the intent of the Legislature to reauthorize the
California Community Colleges Economic Workforce Development Program.
 
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature in reauthorizing the
California Community Colleges Economic Workforce Development Program
that the program work in coordination with California's other
workforce and economic development programs and activities. In the
event that there can only be one applicant for federal economic
development funds in each state, the Legislature encourages the
California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development
Program to consult and coordinate with the Governor.  
   (c) It is the intent of the Legislature in reauthorizing the
California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development
Program to encourage continued coordination between schools that
maintain kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and higher
education systems to advance career technical education. 
   SECTION 1.  SEC. 2.   Part 52.5
(commencing with Section 88600) is added to Division 7 of Title 3 of
the Education Code, to read:

      PART 52.5.  CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES ECONOMIC AND
WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM


      CHAPTER 1.  MISSION STATEMENT


   88600.  (a) The economic and workforce development program shall
operate according to all of the following principles:
   (1) The program shall be responsive to the needs of employers,
workers, and students.
   (2) The program shall collaborate with other public institutions,
aligning resources to foster cooperation across workforce education
and service delivery systems, and building well-articulated career
pathways.
   (3) Program decisions shall be data driven and evidence based,
investing resources and adopting practices on the basis of what
works.
   (4) The program shall develop strong partnerships with the private
sector, ensuring industry involvement in needs assessment, planning,
and program evaluation.
   (5) The program shall be outcome oriented and accountable,
measuring results for program participants, including students,
employers, and workers.
   (6) The program shall be accessible to employers, workers, and
students who may benefit from its operation.
    (b) The mission of the economic and workforce development program
is to do all of the following:
   (1) To advance California's economic growth and global
competitiveness through education, training, and services that
contribute to continuous workforce improvement.
   (2) To advance California's economic and jobs recovery and sustain
economic growth through labor market-aligned education workforce
training services, and sector strategies focusing on continuous
workforce improvement, technology deployment, and business
development, to meet the needs of California's competitive and
emerging industry sectors and industry clusters.
   (3) To use labor market information to advise the chancellor's
office and regional community college bodies on the workforce needs
of California's competitive and emerging industry sectors and
industry clusters, in accordance with both of the following:
   (A) To the extent possible, the economic and workforce development
program shall work with, share information with, and consider the
labor market analyses produced by, the Employment Development
Department's Labor Market Information Division and the California
Workforce Investment Board.
   (B) The economic and workforce development program may also use
its own resources to bolster and refine these labor market and
industry sector and industry cluster analyses to fulfill its mission.

   (4) To provide technical assistance and logistical, technical, and
communications infrastructure support that engenders alignment
between the career technical education programs of the community
college system and the needs of California's competitive and emerging
industry sectors and industry clusters.
   (5) To collaborate and coordinate investment with other state,
regional, or local agencies involved in education and workforce
training in California, including, but not necessarily limited to,
the California Workforce Investment Board, local workforce investment
boards, the Employment Training Panel, the State Department of
Education, and the Employment Development Department.
   (6) To identify, acquire, and leverage community college and other
financial and in-kind public and private resources to support
economic and workforce development and the career technical education
programs of the state's community colleges.
   (7) To work with representatives of business, labor, and
professional trade associations to explore and develop alternatives
for assisting incumbent workers in the state's competitive and
emerging industry sectors. A key objective is to enable incumbent
workers to become more competitive in their region's labor market,
increase competency, and identify career pathways to economic
self-sufficiency, economic security, and lifelong access to
good-paying jobs.
      CHAPTER 2.  GENERAL PROVISIONS


   88610.  (a) The board of governors may award grants and project
funds to districts for leadership in accomplishing the mission and
goals of the program, provided that funds are appropriated for this
purpose in the annual Budget Act. Grants under this section shall be
awarded on a competitive basis, as determined by the board of
governors and authorized in the annual Budget Act.
   (b) (1) The board of governors shall establish an advisory
committee for the program and determine the membership pursuant to
paragraph (2). The advisory committee shall advise on overall program
development, recommend resource deployment, including whether
projects should be funded at existing levels, increased, decreased,
or terminated, and recommend strategies for regional coordination.
   (2) The membership of the advisory committee shall include all of
the following: representatives from labor, business, and appropriate
state agencies; a faculty representative; a classified employee
representative; and one community college chief executive officer
representative from each of the regions of the program.
   (c)  At a minimum, the decision criteria for allocating funds to
colleges shall be based on each of the following:
   (1) An evaluation of the relevance of the grant to the labor
market needs of the state and relevant region's competitive and
emerging industry sectors and industry clusters, or to the state's
need to fill skills gaps and skills shortages in the economy,
including skills gaps and shortages at the state and regional level.
   (2) An assessment of the past performance of the grantee if the
grantee has been awarded other economic and workforce development
grants or other state grants, including an assessment of whether the
grantee's previous awards produced project deliverables specified in
prior grant applications.
   (3) For grants providing direct services to an employer, a group
of employers, or an industry sector or industry cluster, an
assessment of the purported beneficial impacts of the grant on the
relevant businesses, which may include a review of the grant's
purported impacts on any of the following: increased profitability,
increased labor productivity, reductions in worker injuries, employer
cost savings resulting from improved business processes, improved
customer satisfaction, increased employee retention, estimates of new
revenue to be generated, sales increases, or new market penetration,
as well as information on new products or services developed.
   (4) For grants involving direct education and training services
provided to workers and students, an assessment of the educational
and training goals of the grant, the projected numbers of students
and workers served and the projected rates of course and program
completion or transfer-readiness, the projected rate of skills
attainment for certificates and degrees, and the projected wages and
rate of employment placement for those entering the labor market.
   (5) For technical assistance and logistical support projects, a
concrete enumeration of the ways the project will collaborate with
the chancellor's office to advance sector strategies, regional
development, accountability based on performance data, and the
adoption of effective workforce and economic development practices.
   (d) The chancellor's office shall provide systemwide oversight and
evaluation of the economic and workforce development program, and
shall evaluate grant projects and programs to assess whether grantees
achieved their stated objectives. The chancellor's office has the
authority to terminate programs for nonperformance.
   (e) The chancellor may establish program requirements and
performance standards in the administration of the economic and
workforce development program, and distribute funds as appropriate to
implement the program.
   (f) The chancellor may provide technical assistance to community
colleges for the purpose of improving the competitiveness of their
proposals.
   (g)  Grant funds shall be awarded for the program on a competitive
basis.
   (h) The chancellor, in awarding short-term competitive funds,
shall take into account colleges in economically distressed urban and
rural areas, and colleges that have not previously been successful
in the competitive bid process.
   88615.  This part shall be implemented only during those fiscal
years for which funds are appropriated for purposes of this part in
the annual Budget Act.
      CHAPTER 3.  DEFINITIONS


   88620.  The following definitions govern the construction of this
part:
   (a) "Board of governors" means the Board of Governors of the
California Community Colleges.
   (b) "Business Resource Assistance and Innovation Network" means
the network of projects and programs that comprise the California
Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program.
   (c) "California Community Colleges Economic and Workforce
Development Program" and "economic and workforce development program"
mean the program.
   (d) "Career pathways," and "career ladders," or "career lattices"
mean an identified series of positions, work experiences, or
educational benchmarks or credentials that offer occupational and
financial advancement within a specified career field or related
fields over time.
   (e) (1) "Center" means a comprehensive program of services offered
by one or more community colleges to an economic region of the state
in accordance with criteria established by the chancellor's office
for designation as an economic and workforce development program
center. Center services shall be designed to respond to the statewide
strategic priorities pursuant to the mission of the community
colleges' economic and workforce development program, and to be
consistent with programmatic priorities, competitive and emerging
industry sectors and industry clusters, identified economic
development, career technical education, business development, and
continuous workforce training needs of a region. Centers shall
provide a foundation for the long-term, sustained relationship with
businesses, labor, colleges, and other workforce education and
training delivery systems, such as local workforce investment boards,
in the region.
   (2) A center shall support, develop, and deliver direct services
to students, businesses, colleges, labor organizations, employees,
and employers. For purposes of this subdivision, direct services
include, but are not necessarily limited to, data analysis both of
labor market information and college performance; intraregion and
multiregion sector coordination and logistics; inventory of community
college and other assets relevant to meeting a labor market need;
curriculum development, curriculum model development, or job task
analysis development; articulation of curriculum in a career pathway
or career lattice or in a system of stackable credentials; faculty
training; calibration to a career readiness or other assessment;
assessment administration; career guidance module development or
counseling; convenings, such as seminars, workshops, conferences, and
training; facilitating collaboration between faculty working in
related disciplines and sectors; upgrading, leveraging, and
developing technology; and other educational services. The
establishment and maintenance of the centers is under the sole
authority of the chancellor's office in order to preserve the
flexibility of the system to adapt to labor market needs and to
integrate resources.
   (f) "Chancellor" means the Chancellor of the California Community
Colleges.
   (g) "High-priority occupation" means an occupation that has a
significant presence in a targeted industry sector or industry
cluster, is in demand by employers, and pays or leads to payment of
high wages.
   (h) "Industry cluster" means a geographic concentration or
emerging concentration of interdependent industries with direct
service, supplier, and research relationships, or independent
industries that share common resources in a given regional economy or
labor market. An industry cluster is a group of employers closely
linked by a common product or services, workforce needs, similar
technologies, and supply chains in a given regional economy or labor
market.
   (i) "Industry-driven regional collaborative" means a regional
public, private, or other community organizational structure that
jointly defines priorities, delivers services across programs,
sectors, and in response to, or driven by, industry needs. The
industry-driven regional collaborative projects meet the needs and
fill gaps in services that respond to regional business, employee,
and labor needs. These service-delivery structures offer flexibility
to local communities and partners to meet the identified needs in an
economic development region. Industry-driven regional collaboratives
are broadly defined to allow maximum local autonomy in developing
projects responding to the needs of business, industry, and labor.
   (j) "Industry sector" means those firms that produce similar
products or provide similar services using somewhat similar business
processes.
   (k) "Initiative" is an identified strategic priority area that is
organized statewide, but is a regionally based effort to develop and
implement innovative solutions designed to facilitate the
development, implementation, and coordination of community college
economic development and related programs and services. Each
initiative shall be workforce and business development driven by a
statewide committee made up of community college faculty and
administrators and practitioners and managers from business, labor,
and industry. Centers, industry-driven regional collaboratives, and
other economic and workforce development programs performing services
as a part of the implementation of an initiative shall coordinate
services statewide and within regions of the state, as appropriate.
   (l) "Job development incentive training" means programs that
provide incentives to employers to create entry-level positions in
their businesses, or through their suppliers or prime customers, for
welfare recipients and the working poor.
   (m) "Economic security" means, with respect to a worker, earning a
wage sufficient to adequately support a family and to, over time,
save money for emergency expenses and adequate retirement income, the
sufficiency of which is determined considering a variety of factors
including household size, the cost of living in the worker's
community, and other factors that may vary by region.
   (n) "Matching resources" means any combination of public or
private resources, either cash or in-kind, derived from sources other
than the economic and workforce development program funds
appropriated by the annual Budget Act, that are determined to be
necessary for the success of the project to which they are applied.
The criteria for in-kind resources shall be developed by the board of
governors, with advice from the chancellor and the California
Community Colleges Economic and Workforce Development Program
Advisory Committee, and shall be consistent with generally accepted
accounting practices for state and federal matching requirements. The
ratio of matching resources to economic and workforce development
program funding shall be determined by the board of governors.
   (o) "Performance improvement training" means training delivered by
a community college that includes all of the following:
   (1) An initial needs assessment process that identifies both
training and nontraining issues that need to be addressed to improve
individual and organizational performance.
   (2) Consultation with employers to develop action plans that
address business or nonprofit performance improvements.
   (3) Training programs that link individual performance
requirements with quantifiable business measures, resulting in
demonstrable productivity gains, and, as appropriate, job retention,
job creation, improvement in wages, or attainment of wages that
provide economic security.
   (p) "Program" means the California Community Colleges Economic and
Workforce Development Program established under this part.
   (q) "Region" means a geographic area of the state defined by
economic and labor market factors containing at least one industry
cluster and the cities, counties, or community college districts, or
all of them, in the industry cluster's geographic area. For the
purposes of this chapter, "California Community College economic
development regions" shall be designated by the board of governors
based on factors, including, but not necessarily limited to, all of
the following:
   (1) Regional economic development and training needs of business
and industry.
   (2) Regional collaboration, as appropriate, among community
colleges and districts, and existing economic development, continuous
workforce improvement, technology deployment, and business
development.
   (3) Other state economic development definitions of regions.
   (r) "Sector strategies" means prioritizing investments in
competitive and emerging industry sectors and industry clusters on
the basis of labor market and other economic data that indicate
strategic growth potential, especially with regard to jobs and
income. Sector strategies focus workforce investment in education and
workforce training programs that are likely to lead to high-wage
jobs or to entry-level jobs with well-articulated career pathways
into high-wage jobs. Sector strategies effectively boost labor
productivity or reduce business barriers to growth and expansion
stemming from workforce supply problems, including skills gaps, and
occupational shortages by directing resources and making investments
to plug skills gaps and provide education and training programs for
high-priority occupations. Sector strategies may be implemented using
articulated career pathways or career lattices and a system of
stackable credentials. Sector strategies often target underserved
communities, disconnected youth, incumbent workers, and recently
separated military veterans. Cluster-based sector strategies focus
workforce and economic development on those sectors that have
demonstrated a capacity for economic growth and job creation in a
particular geographic area. Industry clusters are similar to industry
sectors, but the focus is on a geographic concentration of
interdependent industries.
   (s) "Skills panel" means a collaboration which brings together
multiple employers from an industry sector or industry cluster with
career technical educators, including, but not limited to, community
college career technical education faculty, and other stakeholders
which may include workers and organized labor to address common
workforce needs. Skills panels assess workforce training and
education needs through the identification of assets relevant to
industry need, produce curricula models, perform job task analysis,
define how curricula articulate into career pathways or career
lattices or a system of stackable credentials, calibrate career
readiness, develop other assessment tools, and produce career
guidance tools.
   (t) "Stackable credentials" means a progression of training
modules, credentials, or certificates that build on one another and
are linked to educational and career advancement.
      CHAPTER 4.  CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES BUSINESS RESOURCE
ASSISTANCE AND INNOVATION NETWORK TRUST FUND


   88625.  The California Community Colleges Business Resource
Assistance and Innovation Network Trust Fund is hereby established in
the State Treasury as a special fund administered by the board of
governors. The board of governors may solicit direct contributions
for deposit in the fund from various nonstate public and private
sources for the purpose of funding the program. Special funds in the
trust shall be placed in a surplus money investment account to earn
interest. Interest generated by funds deposited in this trust fund
shall be reinvested in the fund, and may only be used to fund
eligible projects and activities of the program and related board of
governors initiatives. Upon appropriation by the Legislature, the
fund may be expended for purposes of administering grants and
contracts for providing services, through the program, to public and
private entities.
      CHAPTER 5.  CENTERS AND REGIONAL COLLABORATIVES


   88630.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that the programs
and services provided through the program shall be flexible and
responsive to the needs identified through the statewide and regional
planning process. Services shall be demand driven, and delivery
structures shall be agile, performance oriented, cost effective, and
contribute to regional economic growth and competitiveness. The use
of economic and workforce development program centers, local economic
development corporations, industry-driven regional collaboratives,
and business networks, employers, and service providers shall provide
a stable and flexible response mechanism for the identification of
training priorities and to focus resources on intensive projects for
competitive and emerging industry sectors. These networks shall have
the flexibility to meet the demand for new and emerging growth
sectors and be formed, modified, eliminated, and reformed for short-
or long-term responses customized to the duration of the need.
Programs and projects developed and implemented at centers and
industry-driven regional collaborative projects shall act as
catalysts for future career technical education programs in the
system.
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that centers shall be
established as the long-term structure of the network's service
delivery system. Centers shall provide regional sites to efficiently
respond to employer and worker needs, and shall deliver services for
the strategic initiative areas pursuant to the mission of the
community colleges economic and workforce development program.
   (c) It is the intent of the Legislature that industry-driven
regional collaboratives perform services as participants of regional
networks. Grants by industry-driven regional collaboratives shall
provide flexibility for local projects to assess and define their
individual project needs. New local programs and equipment shall be
key components of these grants. Funding shall not be limited per
project, but shall be based on the merit and reasonable cost for the
anticipated outcomes and performance of the project. Funding for
industry-driven regional collaboratives shall be limited to two
consecutive fiscal years.
   88631.  Economic and workforce development program centers and
California Community Colleges participation in industry-driven
regional collaboratives may provide any or all of the following
services and perform the following functions as participants of
networks, including, but not necessarily limited to, all of the
following:
   (a)  Convening skill panels to produce deliverables, such as
curriculum models, that contribute to workforce skill development
common to competitive and emerging industry sectors and industry
clusters within a region.
   (b) Development of instructional packages focusing on the
technical skill specific to emerging or changing occupations in
targeted industry sectors and industry clusters.
   (c) Support student or worker evaluation of, and fit for, career
paths by articulating how a curriculum model fits within a career
pathway or career lattice or system of stackable credentials,
relevant career readiness battery scores, and career guidance tools.
   (d) Faculty mentorships, faculty and staff development, in-service
training, and worksite experience supporting the new curriculum and
instructional modes responding to identified regional needs.
   (e) Institutional support, professional development, and
transformational activities focused on removing systemic barriers to
the development of new methods, transition to a flexible and more
responsive administration of programs, and the timely and
cost-effective delivery of services.
   (f) The deployment of new methodologies, modes, and technologies
that enhance performance and outcomes and improve cost-effectiveness
of service delivery or create new college programs.
   (g) One-on-one counseling, seminars, workshops, and conferences
that contribute to the achievement of the success of existing
businesses and foster the growth of new businesses and jobs in
emerging industry clusters.
   (h) The delivery of performance-improvement training, which shall
be provided on a matching basis to employers to benefit workforce
participants. This will promote continuous workforce improvement in
identified strategic priority areas, identified industry clusters, or
areas targeted in the regional business resource assistance and
innovation network plans.
   (i) Credit, not-for-credit, and noncredit programs and courses
that contribute to workforce skill development for competitive and
emerging industry sectors and industry clusters within a region or
that focus on addressing a workforce skills gap or occupational
shortage.
   (j) Subsidized student internships or work-based learning on a
cash or in-kind matching basis for program participants in
occupational categories identified in competitive and emerging
industry sectors and industry clusters.
   (k) Acquisition of equipment to support the eligible activities
and the limited renovation of facilities to accommodate the delivery
of eligible services.
   (l) Submission of performance data for aggregation by the
chancellor's office.
                                               CHAPTER 6.  JOB
DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE TRAINING PROGRAM


   88640.  (a) (1) Programs and activities of the Job Development
Incentive Training Program shall include a strong partnership with
state and local economic development entities, workforce development
agencies, community-based organizations, and the private sector. It
is the intent of the Legislature that this program provide training
on a no-cost or low-cost basis to participating employers who create
employment opportunities at an acceptable wage level for the
attainment of self-sufficiency by both of the following groups:
   (A) Recipients of aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section
11200) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
   (B) Clients determined to be eligible because they are employed at
a wage too low to attain self-sufficiency.
   (2) Guidelines for the determination of eligibility under this
subdivision shall be developed by the chancellor's office in
consultation with the appropriate agencies responsible for collecting
appropriate data. A structured career ladder methodology may be
implemented in this program area.
   (3) Funds received from other eligible programs, including, but
not necessarily limited to, programs under the federal Workforce
Investment Act of 1998 (Public Law 105-220) and other applicable
programs selected by the chancellor, or a combination of programs,
may be used to provide funds to match job development incentive
training funds.
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the expenditure of
funds under this section should lead measurably to the upgrading of
highly skilled and technical workers, upgrade opportunities for those
who are employed at a wage too low to attain self-sufficiency, and
the creation of jobs for new entrants into the workforce.
   88641.  Annual appropriations for the Job Development Incentive
Training Program may be allocated for the purposes of supporting
eligible activities if, as a result of the workforce improvement
services provided to employers, entry-level positions are created
within the industry cluster. Participating employers may receive
eligible services such as performance-based training, and other
eligible services that stimulate productivity and growth in targeted
industrial clusters on a matching basis. Any annual savings from this
section shall be available for expenditure for purposes of the
Industry-Driven Regional Collaborative Program.
   88642.  Matching fund requirements shall be waived for employers
who receive training services through the Job Development Incentive
Training Program and who accomplish either of the following:
   (a) Create employment opportunities for recipients of aid under
Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of Part 3 of Division 9 of
the Welfare and Institutions Code at an acceptable wage level to
attain self-sufficiency.
   (b) Create opportunities for individuals working at a low wage to
upgrade to a wage adequate to attain self-sufficiency.
   88643.  Each community college that participates in the Job
Development Incentive Training Program shall inventory its local or
regional business community, including nonprofit organizations, and
identify industry-driven needs and employment opportunities with a
goal of attaining self-sufficiency through workforce reentry,
continuous employee training, and skills upgrades.
      CHAPTER 7.  REPORTING


   88650.  (a) The chancellor shall implement performance
accountability outcome measures for the economic and workplace
development program that provide the Governor, Legislature, and
general public with information that quantifies employer and student
outcomes for those participating in the program. At a minimum, these
performance measures shall include all of the following:
   (1) Measures of skills or competency attainment by students and
workers receiving educational or workforce training services under
the program.
   (2) Measures relevant to program completion, including measures of
course, certificate, degree, and program of study rates of
completion for students or workers receiving education or workforce
training services under the program.
   (3) Measures of employment placement or measures of educational
progression, such as transfer readiness, for students or workers
receiving education or workforce training services under the program,
depending on whether the client is entering the labor market or
continuing in education.
   (4) For those who have entered the labor market following
completion of the education or workforce training services offered
under the program, measures of income, including wage measures.
   (5) A quantitative assessment of impacts on businesses receiving
services under the program. These may include data pertaining to
profitability, labor productivity, workplace injuries, employer cost
savings resulting from improved business processes, levels of
customer satisfaction, employee retention rates, estimates of new
revenue generated, sales, and market penetration, as well as
information pertaining to new products or services developed.
   (b) The chancellor shall submit a report to the Governor and
Legislature on or about March 1 of each year. This report shall
include, but not necessarily be limited to, all of the following:
    (1) Sufficient information to ensure the understanding of the
magnitude of expenditures, by type of expenditure, including those
specified in Section 88625, disaggregated by industry sector or
cluster, region, and type of grant.
   (2) Information pertaining to the type of services provided to
colleges and employers, and the number of businesses, students, and
employees served, including information to identify the benchmarks
and indicators used to demonstrate the results achieved.
   (3) Data summarizing outcome accountability performance measures
enumerated and required by this section.
   88650.5.  Prior to January 1, 2015, the chancellor shall contract
for an independent evaluation of the effectiveness of the program in
achieving the specific program goals and objectives set forth in this
part. This performance evaluation shall include, but not necessarily
be limited to, specific conclusions about the strengths and
weaknesses of the program, as well as specific recommendations for
strategies to improve the effectiveness of the program. The
evaluation shall include an analysis of available outcome
accountability performance measures and data for program
participants. To the extent feasible, the analysis shall use
experimental, quasi-experimental, or controlled case comparison
methodology to compare outcome measures for program participants with
a suitable control group to assess and isolate the impact of the
program on program participants. The chancellor shall provide the
findings of the study to the Legislature no later than March 1, 2016.
This report shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of
the Government Code.
      CHAPTER 8.  REPEAL


   88651.  This part shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2018, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2018, deletes or extends
that date.