BILL NUMBER: AB 1394 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE JUNE 18, 2009
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Bass
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
An act to amend Sections 15002 and 15003 of the Unemployment
Insurance Code, relating to workforce investment.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1394, as amended, Bass. California Workforce Investment Board:
Green Collar Jobs Council.
Existing law establishes the California Workforce Investment Board
(CWIB), and requires the board to establish a committee known as the
Green Collar Jobs Council (GCJC), comprised of specified members,
and requires the GCJC to perform certain functions and duties,
including the development of a strategic initiative, relating to the
training and development of a skilled workforce to meet the needs of
California's emerging green economy.
This bill would authorize the GCJC CWIB
to accept any revenues, moneys, grants, goods, or services from
federal and state governmental entities,
local philanthropic organizations, and other sources, to
be used for purposes relating to the administration and
implementation of the strategic initiative. The bill would
require that all revenues received pursuant to those provisions be
deposited into a green collar jobs account required to be established
by the Employment Development Department in the state Treasury, and
would require that revenue received by the department only be
expended for the purpose of awarding workforce training grants
implementing the strategic initiative. The bill would require
the GCJC to confer consult with
appropriate state and local agencies to identify opportunities
to coordinate the award of specified federal
grant funds and green workforce training funds
received by the state, and to make a finding that a proposed
program or expenditure is consistent with the purposes of the
above-described initiative, prior to authorizing the expenditure of
funds made available to the state pursuant to The Federal
under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of
2009 or any other funding sources .
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 15002 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is
amended to read:
15002. (a) The California Workforce Investment Board (CWIB) shall
establish a special committee known as the Green Collar Jobs Council
(GCJC), comprised of the appropriate representatives from the CWIB
existing membership, including the K-12 representative, the
California Community Colleges representative, the Business,
Transportation and Housing Agency representative, the Employment
Development Department representative, the Department of
Industrial Relations representative, and other appropriate
members. The CWIB may call on other state agencies, other
higher education representatives, and industry representatives as
well as philanthropic, nongovernmental, and environmental groups as
appropriate and necessary to serve as consultants to the GCJC in the
development of this strategic initiative. The GCJC may
consult with other state agencies, other higher education
representatives, local workforce investment boards, and industry
representatives as well as philanthropic, nongovernmental, and
environmental groups, as appropriate, in the development of the
strategic initiative.
(b) As part of the strategic initiative the GCJC shall
identify and develop focus on developing the
framework, funding, strategies, programs, policies, and
partnerships, and opportunities necessary to address the growing need
for a highly skilled and well-trained workforce to meet the needs of
California's emerging green economy. The GCJC shall do all of the
following:
(1) Assist in identifying and linking green collar job
opportunities with workforce development training opportunities in
local workforce investment areas (LWIAs), encouraging regional
collaboration among LWIAs to meet regional economic demands.
(2) Align workforce development activities with regional economic
recovery and growth strategies.
(2)
(3) Develop public, private, philanthropic, and
nongovernmental partnerships to build and expand the state's
workforce development programs, network, and infrastructure.
(3)
(4) Provide policy guidance for job training
programs in the clean and green technology sectors to assist and
to job training programs for the clean and green
technology sectors to help them prepare specific populations,
such as at-risk youth, displaced workers, veterans, formerly
incarcerated individuals, and others facing barriers to employment.
(4)
(5) Develop, collect, interpret, and distribute
statewide and regional labor market data on California's new
and emerging green industries new and emerging green
industry workforce needs, trends, and job growth.
(5) Identify funding resources and make recommendations on how to
expand and leverage these funds.
(6) Foster regional collaboratives in the green economic sector.
(c) The GCJC may accept any revenues, moneys, grants, goods, or
services from federal and state public entities, local philanthropic
organizations, and other sources, to be used for purposes relating to
the administration and implementation of the strategic initiative,
as described in subdivision (b).
(6) Collaborate with community colleges and other educational
institutions, registered apprenticeship programs, business and labor
organizations, community-based and philanthropic organizations to
align workforce development services with strategies for regional
economic development.
(7) Identify funding resources and make recommendations on how to
expand and leverage existing resources.
(8) Foster regional collaboratives in the green economic sector.
(c) The CWIB may accept any revenues, moneys, grants, goods, or
services from federal and state entities, philanthropic
organizations, and other sources, to be used for purposes relating to
the administration and implementation of the strategic initiative,
as described in subdivision (b). The CWIB shall also ensure the
highest level of transparency and accountability and make information
available on the CWIB Internet Web site.
(d) All revenues received under subdivision (c) shall be deposited
into a green collar jobs account established in the State Treasury
by the department.
(e) Revenue received by the department pursuant to subdivision (d)
shall only be expended for the purpose of awarding workforce
training grants implementing the strategic initiative.
(f) The GCJC, in collaboration with the department shall be
responsible for soliciting and reviewing grant applications, and
making grant funding recommendations to the CWIB. Grants shall be
awarded within 120 days of receipt of any funding for that purpose.
SEC. 2. Section 15003 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is
amended to read:
15003. (a) On or before April 1, 2009, and annually each April 1
thereafter, the CWIB shall report to the Legislature on the status of
GCJC activities and its development of a green workforce strategic
initiative.
(b) The GCJC shall also confer with the appropriate state and
local agencies to coordinate the award of grant funds and green
workforce training funds received by the state under the federal
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (H.R.1).
(c) The GCJC shall make a finding that a proposed program or
expenditure to be funded pursuant to subdivision (b) is consistent
with the strategic initiative described in subdivision (a) and (b) of
Section 15002, prior to authorizing the expenditure of any funds
made available to the state pursuant to the federal American Recovery
and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (H.R.1).
15003. (a) On or before April 1, 2010, and
annually each April 1 thereafter, the CWIB shall report to the
Legislature on the status of GCJC activities, grants awarded, and its
development and implementation of the green collar jobs strategic
initiative.
(b) The GCJC shall also consult with the appropriate state and
local agencies to identify opportunities to coordinate the award of
grant and green workforce training funds received by the state under
the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public
Law 111-5) or any other funding sources.