BILL ANALYSIS                                                                                                                                                                                                    Ó



                                                                  AB 2148
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          Date of Hearing:   May 7, 2014

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                  Mike Gatto, Chair

                   AB 2148 (Mullin) - As Amended:  April 10, 2014 

          Policy Committee:                              LaborVote:7-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          This bill requires the California Workforce Investment Board  
          (CWIB) to, among other duties, to assist the Governor in the  
          development of an annual workforce metrics dashboard to measure  
          investment in workforce development. Specifically, this bill:  

          1)Requires the CWIB to develop an annual workforce metrics  
            dashboard that measures the state's human capital investments  
            in workforce development to illustrate the collective impact  
            of these investments on the labor market.  The dashboard shall  
            be produced using existing available data and resources  
            currently accessible to state agencies. 

          2)Provides that the CWIB shall convene workforce program  
            partners to develop the workforce metrics dashboard:

             a)   Provide a status report on credential attainment,  
               training completion, degree attainment and wage gain  
               outcomes of workforce education and training programs.  The  
               CWIB shall publish and distribute the final report.   
             b)   Provide demographic breakdowns to include race,  
               ethnicity, age, gender, veteran status, wage and credential  
               degree outcomes and information on workforce outcomes in  
               different industry sectors, to the extent possible.
             c)   Measure, at a minimum and to the extent feasible within  
               existing resources, the performance specified workforce  
               programs.

          3)Authorizes the State Department of Education (CDE) to  
            confidentially collect social security numbers of adults  
            participating in adult education programs so that accurate  
            participation in those programs can be represented in the  








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            metrics dashboard.

          4)Specifies the participating workforce programs shall provide  
            participant data in a standardized format to the Labor Market  
            Information Division (LMID) of the Employment Development  
            Department (EDD).

          5)Requires the EDD to aggregate the data provided by the  
            participating workforce programs and report the data to the  
            CWIB organized by demographics, earnings and industry of  
            employment to assist the CWIB in the production of the annual  
            workforce metrics dashboard.

           


          FISCAL EFFECT  

          Costs in the range of $100,000 to $120,000 for CWIB, EDD and CDE  
          to implement the requirements related to the creation of the  
          dashboard.   Workforce programs have indicated they will develop  
          a standard data set. To the extent this occurs, EDD and CWIB  
          have indicated costs to aggregate data would be reduced and  
          workload could be absorbed.  CDE estimates a cost of $70,000 to  
          encrypt social security numbers through a dedicated database  
          server. 

           COMMENTS  

           1)Purpose  . This bill seeks to compile, by demographic categories  
            existing data collected by workforce programs on credential  
            and degree attainment, wage gain outcomes of the workforce  
            education and training programs.  Business and labor groups  
            supporting the bill state that the creation of a cross-system  
            metric dashboard on workforce and career technical education  
            investments in California will provide an important missing  
            link to measure the effectiveness of programs.  The author  
            believes the annual snapshot would provide the Governor,  
            Legislature and other stakeholders with necessary data to  
            assist them in making informed investment decisions.

           2)Adult education.  California is currently implementing a new  
            adult education strategy with the goal of better alignment  
            between adult education programs offered by CDE and community  
            colleges. While community colleges currently collect social  








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            security numbers so they can measure the impact of their  
            programs on subsequent employment and wages, currently CDE  
            does not. The bill authorizes CDE to confidentially collect  
            social security numbers for adults participating in adult  
            education programs to measure program effectiveness. 

           3)Report  .  The bill requires CWIB to provide a status report on  
            credential attainment, training, completion, degree attainment  
            and wage gain outcomes of workforce education and training  
            programs.  The bill requires CWIB to publish and distribute a  
            final report but does not specify when the report is due.  The  
            committee may wish clarify this timeline.


           Analysis Prepared by  :    Misty Feusahrens / APPR. / (916)  
          319-2081