BILL NUMBER: SB 698	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lieu

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 14200 of the Unemployment Insurance Code,
relating to workforce development.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 698, as introduced, Lieu. Workforce development:
high-performance boards.
   The federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 provides for
workforce investment activities, including activities in which states
may participate. Existing law contains various programs for job
training and employment investment, including work incentive
programs, as specified. Existing law requires the local chief elected
officials in a local workforce development area, to form, pursuant
to specified guidelines, a local workforce investment board to plan
and oversee the workforce investment system, and further requires the
Governor to certify one local board for each local area in the state
once every 2 years.
   This bill would require the Governor to establish, through the
California Workforce Investment Board, a process by which to
delineate high-performance boards and only these boards would be
eligible to receive state discretionary funds and grants, as
specified. The bill would require high-performance boards, among
other things, to meet specified federal performance criteria, meet
state statutory requirements, and develop and implement local
planning processes and workforce initiatives.
   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 14200 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is
amended to read:
   14200.  (a) The local chief elected officials in a local workforce
development area shall form, pursuant to guidelines established by
the Governor and the board, a local workforce investment board to
plan and oversee the workforce investment system.
   (b) The Governor shall certify one local board for each local area
in the state once every two years, following the requirements of the
Workforce Investment Act of 1998. 
   (c) The Governor shall establish, through the California Workforce
Investment Board, a process by which to delineate high performance
boards. Each high performance boards shall do all of the following:
 
   (1) Meet the federal performance criteria for the local workforce
investment Area.  
   (2) Meet the statutory requirements of the California Workforce
Investment Act.  
   (3) Develop and implement a local plan consistent with the state
strategic plan, demonstrating that it has aligned resource use in the
local workforce investment area with the goals and objectives of the
state plan.  
   (4) Demonstrate that its local planning process involves key
stakeholders, including the major employers and industry groups in
the relevant regional economy and organized labor.  
   (5)  Demonstrate that the local planning process takes into
account the entire workforce training pipeline for the relevant
regional economy, including partners in K-12 education, career
technical education, the community college system, other
postsecondary institutions, and other local workforce investment
areas operating in relevant regional economy.  
   (6) Demonstrate that the local planning process and plan are data
driven, and that policy decisions at the local level are evidence
based. High performance boards shall use labor market data to develop
and implement the local plan, taking care to steer resources into
programs and services that are relevant to the needs of each
workforce investment area's relevant regional labor market and
high-wage industry sectors. Local workforce investment areas shall
demonstrate an evidence-based approach to policymaking by
establishing performance benchmarks and targets to measure progress
toward local goals and objectives.  
   (7) Demonstrate investment in workforce initiatives, and,
specifically, training programs that promote skills development and
career ladders relevant to the needs of each workforce investment
area's regional labor market and high-wage industry sectors. 

   (8) Establish a youth strategy aligned with the needs of each
workforce investment area's regional labor market and high-wage
industry sectors.  
   (d) Only a board that is delineated as a high-performance board by
the California Workforce Investment Board shall be eligible to
receive federal funds, pursuant to the federal Workforce Investment
Act, as state discretionary funds and grants distributed by the
state.