Amended in Senate August 27, 2013

Amended in Senate July 9, 2013

Amended in Assembly May 8, 2013

Amended in Assembly April 23, 2013

Amended in Assembly April 9, 2013

California Legislature—2013–14 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 114

Introduced by Assembly Members Salas and V. Manuel Pérez

(Coauthors: Assembly Members Alejo, Brown, Gomez, Holden, Perea, and Quirk-Silva)

January 14, 2013

An act to add Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 26250) to Division 16.3 of the Public Resources Code, relating to energy.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 114, as amended, Salas. Proposition 39: implementation: workforce development.

The California Clean Energy Jobs Act, an initiative approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide general election as Proposition 39, made changes to corporate income taxes and, except as specified, provides for the transfer of $550,000,000 annually from the General Fund to the Clean Energy Job Creation Fund for 5 fiscal years beginning with the 2013-14 fiscal year. Moneys in the Clean Energy Job Creation Fund are available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of funding eligible projects that create jobs in California, improving energy efficiency and expanding clean energy generation. Existing law, among other things, provides for allocation of available funds to job training and workforce development.

Existing law appropriates $3,000,000 from the fund to the California Workforce Investment Board to develop and implement a competitive grant program for eligible community-based and other training workforce organizations preparing disadvantaged youth or veterans for employment.

This bill would additionally require the California Workforce Investment Board to require a grant recipient to report to the board specified information. The bill would require the board, after the first year of implementation of the program, to review and assess the program in achieving the job training and workforce development goals, identify problems and barriers, and provide solutions to improve program performance.

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.  

Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 26250) is
added to Division 16.3 of the Public Resources Code, to read:

 

Chapter  6. Job Training and Workforce Development

 

26250.  

In addition to the requirements of Section 26230, the
California Workforce begin delete Development end delete begin insert Investment end insert Board shall do
both of the following:

(a) Require grant recipients to do both of the following:

(1) Report to the California Workforce begin delete Development end delete begin insert Investment end insert
Board the number of individuals trained, their demographic and
geographic profile, the number of training completions, the cost
of training per individual, the number and type of credentials and
certificates awarded, the number of trainees enrolled in
state-certified apprenticeship programs, and the number of job
placements and retention after six months for trainees and job
characteristics of the placements, including industry, occupation,
and wages and benefits.

(2) (A) Disclose if the grant recipient is receiving incentives
for energy efficiency or clean energy job training projects from
other local, state, and federal programs.

(B) A grant recipient’s receipt of incentives from other local,
state, and federal programs does not preclude the grant recipient
from receiving, or reduce the amount of, a grant awarded pursuant
to the competitive grant program developed pursuant to Section
26230.

(b) Review and assess, after the first year of implementation of
the competitive grant program developed pursuant to Section
26230, whether the program is achieving the job training and
workforce development goals, identify problems and barriers to
achieving those goals, and provide solutions to improve program
performance.