BILL NUMBER: SB 956	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 17, 2010

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 amended, 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
 , upon appropriation by the Legislature,  to allocate
$5,000,000 of the  federal Workforce Investment Act's 15%
discretionary funds  Workforce Investment Act state
reserve, as provided for by federal law,  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.   (a)    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  , upon appropriation by the Legislature,
 shall allocate five million dollars ($5,000,000) of the
 federal Workforce Investment Act's 15-percent discretionary
funds to the   Workforce Investment Act state reserve
provided pursuant to Section 2853 of Title 29 of the United States
Code 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). 
   (b) Notwithstanding any other law, any Workforce Investment Act
funds allocated or expended by the Commission on Teacher
Credentialing pursuant to this section shall be expended for the
purposes of statewide employment and training activities, and shall
not be allocated or expended in any manner inconsistent with the
Workforce Investment Act.