BILL ANALYSIS Ó
SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
2015 - 2016 Regular Session
SB 66 (Leyva) - Career technical education
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|Version: January 14, 2016 |Policy Vote: ED. 6 - 0 |
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|Urgency: No |Mandate: No |
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|Hearing Date: January 19, 2016 |Consultant: Jillian Kissee |
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This bill does not meet the criteria for referral to the
Suspense File.
Bill
Summary: This bill requires the Department of Consumer Affairs
(DCA) to make licensure information available to the California
Community Colleges (CCC) Chancellor's Office to enable the
colleges to measure and improve student outcomes of career
technical education programs offered. It also aligns
performance accountability outcome measures for the Economic and
Workforce Development Program (EWD) to the federal Workforce
Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA).
Fiscal
Impact:
Data sharing: The DCA indicates that workload to provide the
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CCC Chancellor's Office licensure information is minor and
absorbable. However, the department will incur one-time
administrative costs of about $100,000 to make the data system
changes necessary to maintain confidentiality of the
information. (Special fund)
Outcome measures alignment: The CCC Chancellor's Office
indicates that costs to align the outcome measures are minor
and absorbable.
Background: The federal WIOA reauthorizes the nation's employment,
training, adult education, and vocational rehabilitation
programs created under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998.
Under the WIOA, federal investments in employment, education,
and training services for adults, youth, dislocated workers, and
individuals with disabilities are authorized. The WIOA, among
other things, requires greater alignment among its core programs
by requiring a unified state plan, a single set of
accountability measures, and places greater emphasis on regional
collaboration. (Title 29 United States Code, Chapter 32, §
3101, et seq.)
Workforce development program funds for community college career
technical education offerings also come from the federal Carl
Perkins Career and Technical Education Act, the EWD, and the
Career Technical Education Pathways Program. Each funding
stream requires distinct metrics to be reported, creating
duplicative administrative burdens for both the Chancellor's
Office and at the local level to collect required data. The
Chancellor's Office indicates that the EWD measures are the most
specific.
The EWD provides Proposition 98 funding to help community
colleges identify regional workforce education and training
needs in collaboration with employers, business, industry, and
economic development partners. Current law requires the
Chancellor to implement performance accountability outcome
measures to annually provide the Governor, Legislature, and
public with information that quantifies employer and student
outcomes for program participants. (Education Code § 88650)
This bill intends to implement two recommendations from the Task
Force on Workforce, Job Creation and a Strong Economy (Strong
Workforce Task Force). The task force included representatives
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from the CCCs (faculty, staff, administration, trustees, and
students), the business community, labor, public agencies
involved in workforce training, community-based organizations,
K-12 policy, and other groups. Its purpose was to address a
projected shortfall in middle-skill workers and to make
recommendations on how to increase the production of
industry-valued degrees and credentials. Middle skills jobs are
those that require more education and training than a high
school diploma but less than a four-year college degree.
Proposed Law:
This bill requires the DCA to make licensure information, as
specified, available to the CCC Chancellor's Office so that it
may measure and improve employment outcomes of students that
participate in career technical education programs offered. The
information may be made available as long as it complies with
state and federal privacy laws and satisfies other privacy
protection requirements governing the use, maintenance, and
destruction of confidential data. The bill authorizes the DCA
to limit the availability of such information with an agreement,
in order to ensure the protection of affected individuals'
privacy rights.
This bill also requires replacement of existing performance
accountability outcome measures for the EWD with those that
align with the federal WIOA. Finally, this bill streamlines the
information required to be reported to the Governor,
Legislature, and public on the EWD.
Staff
Comments: This bill's requirement to align program outcome
measures with those required by federal law will likely reduce
staff time spent on data collection and reporting at the local
level. It also likely streamlines the overall administration
and operation of respective programs at the state level.
The bill's requirement for the DCA to make licensure information
available to the CCC Chancellor's Office is intended to allow
the information to be used as an additional measure indicating
successful completion in career technical education programs.
This additional information could contribute to better
assessment of the state's workforce initiatives and inform
targeting of funding.
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Staff notes that the Governor's Budget for the 2016-17 fiscal
year includes proposals related to this bill. Specifically, it
proposes $200 million ongoing Proposition 98 to enable the CCC
to expand access to additional career technical education
courses and programs to meet each region's workforce needs and
to implement a regional accountability structure that is aligned
with the recommendations of the Strong Workforce Task Force. In
addition, the proposal includes $48 million Proposition 98 to
provide ongoing support for the Career Technical Education
Pathways Program, which is scheduled to sunset at the end of the
2015-16 fiscal year.
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