Bill Text: NY S07794 | 2013-2014 | 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: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2014-06-12 - referred to higher education [S07794 Detail]

Download: New_York-2013-S07794-Introduced.html

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                           S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
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                                         7794
                                   I N  S E N A T E
                                     June 9, 2014
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       Introduced  by  Sen. LAVALLE -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
         printed to be committed 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    S 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 FIFTEEN THE STATE UNIVER-
   14  SITY BOARDS OF TRUSTEES AND THE CITY UNIVERSITY BOARDS OF TRUSTEES SHALL
   15  ESTABLISH  A  GRANT  PROGRAM  FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGES TO DEVELOP TRAINING
   16  PROGRAMS OR IMPROVE EXISTING  WORKFORCE  DEVELOPMENT  PROGRAMS  FOR  THE
   17  PURPOSES  OF  TRAINING  UNEMPLOYED  INDIVIDUALS  FOR JOBS IN THE REGIONS
   18  SURROUNDING EACH 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
   25  OPENINGS  CURRENTLY EXIST OR WHERE JOB GROWTH IS ANTICIPATED IN THE NEAR
   26  FUTURE.
   27    4. TO BE ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE A GRANT, A COMMUNITY  COLLEGE  MUST  ALSO
   28  DEMONSTRATE THAT SUCH COMMUNITY COLLEGE: (A) HAS PARTNERED WITH REGIONAL
        EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                             [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                  LBD15537-01-4
       S. 7794                             2
    1  BUSINESSES  OR INDUSTRIES TO DETERMINE AREAS WHERE JOBS ARE AVAILABLE OR
    2  ARE ANTICIPATED TO BECOME AVAILABLE AND A SKILLED WORKFORCE  IS  NEEDED;
    3  AND (B) CONSULTS WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF LABOR TO TARGET UNEMPLOYED INDI-
    4  VIDUALS  WHO  SHALL  BE  GIVEN  PRIORITY  PLACEMENT  INTO  SUCH TRAINING
    5  PROGRAMS OR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS.
    6    5. UPON SUCCESSFUL PLACEMENT OF TRAINING PROGRAM OR WORKFORCE DEVELOP-
    7  MENT PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS, LOCAL  BUSINESSES  OR  INDUSTRIES  PARTNERING
    8  WITH  COMMUNITY  COLLEGES PURSUANT TO THIS GRANT PROGRAM SHALL REIMBURSE
    9  THE COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOR ONE-THIRD OF THE COST OF SUCH EMPLOYEE TRAIN-
   10  ING.
   11    6. COMMUNITY COLLEGES MAY SEEK TO PROVIDE ON-SITE TRAINING OR MAY SEEK
   12  TO HAVE PARTICIPANTS TRAINED ON JOB SITES.
   13    7. THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE,  IN  CONSULTATION  WITH  LOCAL  BUSINESS  OR
   14  INDUSTRY,  SHALL  DETERMINE  THE  LENGTH  OF  SUCH TRAINING OR WORKFORCE
   15  DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, PROVIDED THAT SUCH PROGRAM SHALL PROVIDE COMPETENCY
   16  FOR A PARTICULAR BUSINESS OR INDUSTRY  NEED.  SUCCESSFUL  COMPLETION  OF
   17  SUCH  PROGRAMS  SHALL  BE  SIGNIFIED  BY THE RECEIPT OF A CERTIFICATE OF
   18  COMPLETION, HOWEVER, TRAINING OR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS NEED NOT
   19  LEAD TO DEGREES OR OFFICIAL CERTIFICATIONS PROVIDED BY THE DEPARTMENT OR
   20  THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
   21    8. BEGINNING IN THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN AND THEREAFTER, PURSUANT
   22  TO APPROPRIATION AND BASED  ON  THE  AVAILABILITY  OF  FUNDS,  COMMUNITY
   23  COLLEGES  SHALL  BE  ELIGIBLE  TO  RECEIVE  AN ADDITIONAL FIFTY THOUSAND
   24  DOLLARS IN ANY YEAR THAT MORE THAN FIFTY PERCENT OF  ALL  GRANT  PROGRAM
   25  PARTICIPANTS TRAINED BECOME EMPLOYED.
   26    9.  SUNY  AND CUNY BOARDS OF TRUSTEES SHALL ALSO CONSULT WITH REGIONAL
   27  BOCES TO DEVELOP OR IMPROVE CAREER TRAINING PROGRAMS THAT  WILL  PARTNER
   28  WITH  COMMUNITY  COLLEGES AND BUSINESS INDUSTRIES TO TRAIN MIDDLE SCHOOL
   29  OR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. IN ORDER TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR A GRANT UNDER  THIS
   30  SUBDIVISION,  SUCH  CAREER TRAINING PROGRAMS SHALL RESULT IN HIGH SCHOOL
   31  GRADUATION AND ENROLLMENT IN A COMMUNITY COLLEGE OR PARTICIPATION  IN  A
   32  RE-UP  NEW  YORK TRAINING OR WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. A PORTION OF
   33  THE FUNDING FOR THE BOCES, COMMUNITY COLLEGE  AND  INDUSTRY  PARTNERSHIP
   34  MAY BE FUNDED BY THE PARTICIPATING BUSINESS OR INDUSTRY.
   35    S 2. This act shall take effect immediately.