BILL ANALYSIS Ó
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Date of Hearing: May 4, 2016
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Lorena Gonzalez, Chair
AB
2288 (Burke) - As Introduced February 18, 2016
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Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program: YesReimbursable:
Yes
SUMMARY:
This bill enacts provisions related to pre-apprenticeship
programs in the building and construction trades. Specifically,
this bill:
1)Requires the California Workforce Development Board (CWDB),
and each local workforce investment board (local WIB), to
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ensure, to the maximum extent feasible, that programs and
services funded by the federal Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act of 2014 (WIOA) and directed to apprenticeable
occupations in the building and construction trades, including
pre-apprenticeship training, include plans for outreach and
retention to increase the percentage of women in the building
and construction trades.
2)Requires the CWDB, and each local WIB, to ensure, to the
maximum extent feasible, that preapprenticeship training in
the building and construction trades follows the Multi-Craft
Core Curriculum developed by the California Department of
Education (CDE).
FISCAL EFFECT:
1)Costs to CWDB could range from $117,000 to minor, depending
upon the extent to which CWDB would be required to review
plans for compliance. It is likely the CWDB and local WIBs
would simply condition funding and stipulate the requirements
that would need to be met when applicants seek resources
directed to apprenticeable occupations.
2)By imposing a new duty on local WIBs, the bill contains a
reimburseable local mandate, the magnitude of which is
unknown, but likely minor.
COMMENTS:
1)Purpose. This bill is sponsored by the State Building and
Construction Trades Council, AFL-CIO who note that recruiting
women into a "non-traditional" construction career has been a
priority for the State Building and Construction Trades
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Council (SBCTC) and its unions. This bill builds on those
efforts by requiring pre-apprenticeship programs that are
applying for funding from WIOA to include a plan for outreach,
recruitment, and retention of women.
Additionally, this bill requires pre-apprenticeship programs
training workers for the building and construction trades
crafts to utilize the NABTU Multi-Craft Core Curriculum (MC3).
Developed in 2007, MC3 identifies common elements from all of
the trades' apprenticeship programs and puts them together in
one curriculum encompassing 120 hours of training. The
curriculum includes: building trades math, labor history,
OSHA, first aid and CPR training, blueprint reading, and green
construction techniques and standards. It also exposes
students to the tools of the various trades, the safe handling
of those tools, the structure of the construction industry,
the construction process, and an orientation to apprenticeship
itself. This curriculum ensures a well-rounded introduction to
what it means to be a construction worker and do construction
work before a young person tries to sign up to be an
apprentice.
2)Background. The federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity
Act (WIOA) of 2014 reauthorized the nation's employment,
training, adult education, and vocational rehabilitation
programs created under WIA. California enacted conforming
legislation in 2015.
The EDD administers the federal WIOA and the California
Workforce Development Board (CWDB) is the policy making body
that assists the Governor with duties and responsibilities of
WIOA. The Governor's budget includes $397.7 million in WIOA
expenditures, with $360.5 million for local assistance, rapid
response, and special grants, and $37.2 million for
discretionary purposes.
WIOA funds are provided to California's 49 local workforce
investment boards (local WIBs). These boards are comprised of
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representatives from private sector businesses, organized
labor, community-based organizations, local government
agencies, and local education agencies. These boards provide
policy guidance, designate operators for their area's One-Stop
Career Centers, and oversee the job training activities within
their local areas.
3)Opposition. The Associated Builders and Contractors of
California are opposed to this bill. They state the bill would
require all apprenticeship programs to use outdated union
created curriculum. They state there are other
pre-apprenticeship training programs and other nationally
recognized standards that should be given equal treatment.
4)Prior legislation. AB 554 (Atkins), Chapter 449, Statutes of
2011, requires state and local WIBs to ensure that programs
and services funded by WIA were conducted in coordination with
apprenticeship programs, and encourages collaboration between
community colleges and apprenticeship programs.
Analysis Prepared by:Misty Feusahrens / APPR. / (916)
319-2081