Bill Text: NY A00969 | 2017-2018 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Establishes the retrain and employ unemployed persons program providing grants to community colleges to develop training programs or improve existing workforce development programs for the purposes of training unemployed individuals for jobs in the regions surrounding such community colleges.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-2)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2018-01-25 - print number 969a [A00969 Detail]

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                           969
                               2017-2018 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 10, 2017
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  SIMON, MOSLEY, SEAWRIGHT, GOTTFRIED, JAFFEE,
          COOK, CAHILL, SEPULVEDA, LAWRENCE, MURRAY, BLAKE, WALKER -- read  once
          and referred to the Committee on Higher Education
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the  education  law, in relation to establishing the
          retrain and employ unemployed persons program
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new section 6303-b
     2  to read as follows:
     3    §  6303-b.  Retrain  and employ unemployed persons program.  1.  Defi-
     4  nitions. As used in this section the  following  terms  shall  have  the
     5  following meanings.
     6    (a)  "Grant  program"  shall  mean  the  retrain and employ unemployed
     7  persons program or the RE-UP New York program.
     8    (b) "Training program or workforce development program" shall mean the
     9  community college programs created or improved  pursuant  to  the  grant
    10  program.
    11    (c)  "BOCES"  shall mean boards of cooperative educational services as
    12  defined in article forty of this chapter.
    13    2. By no later than  July  first,  two  thousand  eighteen  the  state
    14  university boards of trustees and the city university boards of trustees
    15  shall establish a grant program for community colleges to develop train-
    16  ing  programs or improve existing workforce development programs for the
    17  purposes of training unemployed individuals  for  jobs  in  the  regions
    18  surrounding such community colleges.
    19    3.  Grants  shall be awarded pursuant to appropriation in an amount up
    20  to five hundred thousand dollars to community colleges that  can  demon-
    21  strate  that  such  training  programs or workforce development programs
    22  will provide the requisite training required for job placement in  busi-
    23  nesses  and  industries  within the region that lack the necessary work-
    24  force or that are seeking employees with new skills in an area where job
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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     1  openings currently exist or where job growth is anticipated in the  near
     2  future.
     3    4.  To  be  eligible to receive a grant, a community college must also
     4  demonstrate that such community college: (a) has partnered with regional
     5  businesses or industries to determine areas where jobs are available  or
     6  are  anticipated  to become available and a skilled workforce is needed;
     7  and (b) consults with the department of labor to target unemployed indi-
     8  viduals who  shall  be  given  priority  placement  into  such  training
     9  programs or workforce development programs.
    10    5. Upon successful placement of training program or workforce develop-
    11  ment  program  participants,  local  businesses or industries partnering
    12  with community colleges pursuant to this grant program  shall  reimburse
    13  the community colleges for one-third of the cost of such employee train-
    14  ing.
    15    6. Community colleges may seek to provide on-site training or may seek
    16  to have participants trained on job sites.
    17    7.  The  community  college,  in  consultation  with local business or
    18  industry, shall determine the  length  of  such  training  or  workforce
    19  development program, provided that such program shall provide competency
    20  for  a  particular  business  or industry need. Successful completion of
    21  such programs shall be signified by the  receipt  of  a  certificate  of
    22  completion, however, training or workforce development programs need not
    23  lead to degrees or official certifications provided by the department or
    24  the department of state.
    25    8.  Beginning in the year two thousand twenty and thereafter, pursuant
    26  to appropriation and based  on  the  availability  of  funds,  community
    27  colleges  shall  be  eligible  to  receive  an additional fifty thousand
    28  dollars in any year that more than fifty percent of  all  grant  program
    29  participants trained become employed.
    30    9.  SUNY  and CUNY boards of trustees shall also consult with regional
    31  BOCES to develop or improve career training programs that  will  partner
    32  with  community  colleges and business industries to train middle school
    33  or high school students. In order to be eligible for a grant under  this
    34  subdivision,  such  career training programs shall result in high school
    35  graduation and enrollment in a community college or participation  in  a
    36  RE-UP  New  York training or workforce development program. A portion of
    37  the funding for the BOCES, community college  and  industry  partnership
    38  may be funded by the participating business or industry.
    39    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.