BILL NUMBER: AB 2574	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Rodriguez

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to add Section 9600.6 to the Unemployment Insurance Code,
relating to employment development.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2574, as introduced, Rodriguez. Employment Development
Department: workforce needs: biennial report.
   Existing law requires the Employment Development Department to
administer various job training and placement programs and services
for eligible persons, as provided, and requires that the department,
among other things, develop a statewide plan and area plans to
coordinate all programs it administers, as specified. Existing law
requires the director of the department to prepare an annual report
for the Governor, the Legislature, and the California Workforce
Investment Board regarding the training expenditures made by local
workforce investment boards in the prior fiscal year, as specified.
   This bill would require the department to develop a biennial
report regarding state workforce need projections and credential
production, as specified. The bill would also require the department,
by January 1, 2015, and every 2 years thereafter, to provide a copy
of the report to the appropriate policy committees in both the
Assembly and Senate, to the Governor, to the Board of Regents of the
University of California, the Board of Trustees of the California
State University, and to the Chancellor of the California Community
Colleges, and to collaborate with the State Department of Education
in providing the report to the public school districts. The bill
would authorize the department to provide the report electronically.

   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 9600.6 is added to the Unemployment Insurance
Code, to read:
   9600.6.  (a) The department shall, in consultation with the
University of California, the California State University, the
California Community Colleges, the California Workforce Investment
Board, and any other entity deemed appropriate by department, develop
a biennial report regarding state workforce-need projections and
credential production. The report is to be produced to the extent
practicable within available existing resources and subject to data
currently collected by and accessible to state agencies. The report
shall do all of the following:
   (1) Indicate the state's anticipated workforce needs and the
number of degrees, certificates, and other credentials that public
and private institutions of higher education expect to issue.
   (2) Indicate the state's anticipated number of degrees,
certificates, and other credentials that high school career and
technical programs, apprenticeship programs, and other public or
private workforce training programs expect to issue.
   (3) Identify any workforce needs, including areas of
specialization within a particular vocation, that may not be met by
the education, training, and apprenticeship programs as reported
pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2).
   (4) Identify institutions, whether public or private, that may
meet projected workforce needs.
   (b) (1) Notwithstanding Section 10231.5 of the Government Code,
the department shall, by January 1, 2015, and every two years
thereafter, provide a copy of the report to the appropriate policy
committees in both the Assembly and Senate, to the Governor, to the
Board of Regents of the University of California, the Board of
Trustees of the California State University, and to the Chancellor of
the California Community Colleges.
    (c) The department shall collaborate with the State Department of
Education in providing the report to the public school districts in
this state.
   (d) The report required by this section may be provided
electronically.