BILL ANALYSIS Ó AB 2148 Page 1 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 AB 2148 Page 2 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 AB 2148 Page 3 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