BILL NUMBER: SB 956	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Romero
   (Coauthors: Senators Alquist and Oropeza)

                        FEBRUARY 5, 2010

   An act to add Section 14025 to the Unemployment Insurance Code,
relating to workforce development.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 956, as introduced, Romero. Workforce development: California
School Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program.
   The federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 makes funding
available to states that offer training and workforce development
services through the state and local workforce investment boards. The
California Workforce Investment Board, which is the entity
responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight,
and continuous improvement of California's workforce investment
system, is required to recommend strategies to the Governor for
strategic training investments of certain discretionary funding made
available under the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998.
    Existing law also establishes the California School
Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program for the purpose of
recruiting school paraprofessionals to encourage them to enroll in
teacher training programs and to provide instructional service as
teachers in the public schools.
   This bill would require the California Workforce Investment Board
to allocate $5,000,000 of the federal Workforce Investment Act's 15%
discretionary funds to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to
increase spending for the California School Paraprofessional Teacher
Training Program.
   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 14025 is added to the Unemployment Insurance
Code, to read:
   14025.  In accordance with the policies and purposes of the
federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. Sec. 2801 et
seq.), and its implementing regulations, and to the extent that
federal funding is made available to the state under the act, the
board shall allocate five million dollars ($5,000,000) of the federal
Workforce Investment Act's 15-percent discretionary funds to the
Commission on Teacher Credentialing to increase spending for the
California School Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program (Article
12 (commencing with Section 44390) of Chapter 2 of Part 25 of
Division 3 of Title 2 of the Education Code).