Bill Text: CA SB956 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

California Senate Bill 956 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Workforce development: California School

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-06-24 - Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [SB956 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB956-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: SB 956	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 1, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 21, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 7, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 17, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Romero
   (Coauthors: Senators Alquist and Oropeza)

                        FEBRUARY 5, 2010

   An act to add Section 14025 to the Unemployment Insurance Code,
relating to workforce development.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 956, as amended, Romero. Workforce development: California
School Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program.
    Existing law requires the Employment Development Department
to implement and administer California'   s unemployment
insurance compensation   program, and to oversee various job
  , information and   training   program
  s   in the state.  The federal Workforce
Investment Act of 1998 makes funding available to states that offer
training and workforce development services through the state and
local workforce investment boards. The California Workforce
Investment Board, which is the entity responsible for assisting the
Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of
California's workforce investment system, is required to recommend
strategies to the Governor for strategic training investments of
certain discretionary funding made available under the federal
Workforce Investment Act of 1998.
   This bill would require the  California Workforce
Investment Board   department  , upon appropriation
by the Legislature, to allocate $5,000,000 of the Workforce
Investment Act state reserve, as provided for by federal law, to
 local workforce investment boards to allocate to 
school districts, county offices of education, or charter schools
 , on a competitive basis,  to provide intensive examination
preparation courses for the purpose of retraining laid off and
out-of-field teachers to meet subject matter competency requirements,
in accordance with specified procedures.
   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 14025 is added to the Unemployment Insurance
Code, to read:
   14025.  (a) In accordance with the policies and purposes of the
federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. Sec. 2801 et
seq.), and its implementing regulations, and to the extent that
federal funding is made available to the state under the act, the
 board   department  , upon appropriation
by the Legislature, shall allocate five million dollars ($5,000,000)
of the Workforce Investment Act state reserve provided pursuant to
Section 2853 of Title 29 of the United States Code to  local
workforce investment boards to allocate to school districts,
county offices of education, or charter schools  , on a
competitive basis,  to provide intensive examination preparation
courses pursuant to Section 44401 of the Education Code for the
purpose of retraining laid off and out-of-field teachers to meet
subject matter competency requirements for teaching science,
mathematics, or industrial and technology education.
   (b) (1) Preferences for examination preparation courses, as
prescribed in subdivision (a), shall be based on the following
priority system:
   (A) First priority shall be for retraining laid off teachers in
order to prepare them for obtaining subject matter credentials in
science or mathematics.
   (B) Second priority shall be for retraining teachers who have been
displaced and are currently working out of their field-of-expertise
or competency area.
   (2) School districts, county offices of education, and charter
schools that receive funding  from a local workforce
investment board  pursuant to this section shall reimburse
each teacher who successfully passes all relevant sections of a
subject matter examination and attains an authorization to teach
science, mathematics, or industrial and technology education for the
cost of that examination and any fees charged by the Commission on
Teacher Credentialing to add the authorization.
   (c) Notwithstanding any other law, any Workforce Investment Act
funds allocated or expended by local workforce investment boards
pursuant to this section shall be expended for the purposes of
statewide employment and training activities, and shall not be
allocated or expended in any manner inconsistent with the Workforce
Investment Act.