BILL NUMBER: AB 1559	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Committee on Labor and Employment (Monning (Chair),
Eng, Furutani, Ma, and Portantino)

                        MARCH 11, 2009

   An act to amend Section 14206 of the Unemployment Insurance Code,
relating to unemployment insurance.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1559, as introduced, Committee on Labor and Employment.
California Workforce Investment Act: local workforce investment
boards.
   Existing law, the California Workforce Investment Act, establishes
the California Workforce Investment Board, which is the body
responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight,
and continuous improvement of California's workforce investment
system, and prescribes the functions and duties of the board.
Existing law also requires the local chief elected officials in a
local workforce development to form, pursuant to specified guidelines
established by the Governor and the board, a local workforce
investment board, and prescribes the duties of the board with regard
to the development and implementation of local workforce investment
plans, as specified.
   This bill would additionally provide that it shall also be the
duty of the local board to facilitate the implementation of summer
youth training programs through partnerships and effective
collaboration. The bill, by imposing new duties on local government
with respect to the implementation of these programs, would impose a
state-mandated local program.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 14206 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is
amended to read:
   14206.  It shall be the duty of the local board to do all of the
following:
   (a) Coordinate workforce investment activities in the local area
with economic development strategies.
   (b) Promote participation of private sector employers in the local
workforce investment system.
   (c) Develop and submit a local workforce investment plan to the
Governor.
   (d) Select one-stop operators, with the agreement of the local
chief elected official, annually review their operations, and
terminate for cause the eligibility of such operators.
   (e) Award grants or contracts to eligible providers of youth
activities in the local area on a competitive basis, consistent with
the Workforce Investment Act of 1998, based upon the recommendations
of the youth council.
   (f) Identify, consistent with the Workforce Investment Act of
1998, eligible providers of training services.
   (g) Identify eligible providers of intensive services and, when
the one-stop operator does not provide intensive services to the
local area, award contracts to those providers.
   (h) Develop local policy on the amount and duration of individual
training accounts based upon the market rate for local training
programs.
   (i) Conduct program oversight over workforce investment activities
in the local area.
   (j) Negotiate with the local chief elected official in the local
area and the Governor on local performance measures for the local
area.
   (k) Assist in the development of a statewide employment statistics
system, which shall be developed in conjunction with and shall
utilize to the fullest extent possible, the Employment Development
Department's labor market information system. 
   (l) Facilitate the implementation of summer youth training
programs through partnerships and effective collaboration. 
  SEC. 2.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.