AB 1910, as amended, Gray. California Workforce Investment Board: San Joaquin Valley Regional Planning and Preparedness Act of 2014.
Existing law declares that a well-educated and highly skilled workforce is necessary for the state to remain competitive in the global economy and that workforce investment programs and services need to work collaboratively with state and local entities to accomplish this policy goal.
Existing law provides that the California Workforce Investment Board (CWIB) is responsible for assisting the Governor in, among other things, the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California’s workforce investment system. Existing law requires the board, in collaboration with specified state and local partners, and the local workforce investment boards to develop a specified strategic workforce plan, updated at least every 5 years, to address the state’s economic, demographic, and workplace needs, and to meet the single state plan requirement of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998. In that regard, the board aligns and leverages state and local Workforce Investment Act funding streams, identifies specified industry sectors and clusters, provides skills-gap analysis, and establishes specified eligibility criteria for the Workforce Investment Act eligible training provider list.
This bill would require the CWIB to establish the San Joaquin Valley Regional Economic Planning and Preparedness Council as a special committee, composed of specified members, to, among other things, identify and develop the frameworkbegin delete, funding,end deletebegin insert of, and make recommendations as to, appropriateend insert strategies, programs, policies, partnerships, andbegin insert fundingend insert
opportunitiesbegin insert that areend insert necessary to address the growing need for a highly skilled and well-trained workforce to meet the needs of the San Joaquin Valley’s emerging technology and energy economy. The bill would require the council to report to the Legislature, by April 1 each year, on the status of its activities and its development of an oil and natural gas workforce strategic initiative.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Division 11 (commencing with Section 19000)
2is added to the Unemployment Insurance Code, to read:
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This division shall be known, and may be cited, as the
8San Joaquin Valley Regional Economic Planning and Preparedness
9Act of 2014.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
11(a) The San Joaquin Valley composed of the Counties of Fresno,
12Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tulare
13is home to an estimated 4 million Californians.
14(b) For the last two decades, the San Joaquin Valley Region has
15maintained average annual unemployment rates ranging from 62
16percent to 150 percent above the state average.
17(c) The San Joaquin Valley’s per capita income is $31,533 and
1850 percent of the San Joaquin Valley’s population is in poverty
19including thousands of unemployed and underemployed people.
P3 1(d) The San Joaquin Valley continues to face significant
2economic challenges including, poverty, unemployment, and an
3inadequately trained workforce.
4(e) The San Joaquin Valley is also home to hard-working
5immigrants, new entrepreneurs, business and labor leaders, learning
6institutions including the new University of California, Merced,
7cities and towns renewing themselves, and community and
8nonprofit agencies uniting to develop civic leadership.
9(f) Developing the San Joaquin Valley’s workforce skills and
10aligning public and private workforce development resources with
11industry growth opportunities in the region to meet current and
12future business workforce requirements and close the
13business-workforce skills gap will cultivate higher paying jobs
14and will allow its economy to flourish.
(a) begin insert(1)end insertbegin insert end insertThe California Workforce Investment Board
16(CWIB) shall establish a special committee known as the San
17Joaquin Valley Regional Economic Planning and Preparedness
18Councilbegin delete (SJVREPPC), withend deletebegin insert (SJVREPPC) to develop an oil and
19natural gas workforce strategic initiative to address the growing
20need for a highly skilled and well-trained workforce to meet the
21needs of the expanding energy economy of the San Joaquin Valley.end insert
22begin insert(2)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertMembership of the SJVREPPC shall includeend insert appropriate
23representatives from the CWIB existing membership, including a
24K-12 education representative, a California Community Colleges
25representative, an Employment Development Department
26representative, a Department of Food and Agriculture
27representative, a Governor’s Office of Business and Economic
28Development representative, a California Transportation
29Commission representative, and other appropriate members.begin delete Theend delete
30begin insert(3)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertTheend insert CWIB may call on other state agencies, other higher
31education representatives, and industry representatives as well as
32philanthropic and nongovernmental groups as appropriate and
33necessary to serve as consultants to the SJVREPPC in the
34development of this strategic initiative.
35(b) begin deleteAs part of end deletebegin insertIn developing end insertthe strategic initiativebegin insert,end insert the
36SJVREPPC shallbegin delete identifyend deletebegin insert
do all of the following:end insert
37begin insert(1)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertIdentifyend insert and develop the frameworkbegin delete, funding,end deletebegin insert of, and make
38recommendations as to, appropriateend insert strategies, programs, policies,
39partnerships, andbegin insert fundingend insert opportunitiesbegin insert that areend insert
necessary to
40address the growing need for a highly skilled and well-trained
P4 1workforce to meet the needs of the San Joaquin Valley’s emerging
2technology and energy economy. The SJVREPPC shallbegin delete do all of begin insert, when examining the energy industry in the San
3the following:end delete
4Joaquin Valley, consider the business and workforce needs of the
5entire energy industry cluster.end insert
6(1) Assist in identifying and linking emerging technology and
7energy job opportunities with workforce development training
8opportunities in local workforce investment areas (LWIAs), and
9encouraging regional collaboration among LWIAs to meet regional
10economic demands.
11(2) Identify resources and facilitate linkages between federal
12and state agencies and the Central Valley Higher Education
13Consortium, the Central California Workforce Collaborative, local
14workforce investment boards, and individual career technology
15programs, high schools, and higher education institutions on issues
16related to education, training, and workforce development in
17support of the region’s expanding energy industry sector.
18(2) Develop
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19begin insert(3)end insertbegin insert end insertbegin insertFacilitate the development ofend insert public, private, philanthropic,
20and nongovernmental partnerships to build and expand the state’s
21workforce development programs, network, and infrastructure
22begin insert related to the energy sectorend insert.
23(3)
end delete
24begin insert(4)end insert Provide policy guidance for job training programs in the
25begin delete emerging technology andend deletebegin insert expandingend insert
energy sector to assist and
26prepare specific populationsbegin insert
in the San Joaquin Valleyend insert, such as
27at-risk youth, displaced workers, veterans, formerly incarcerated
28individuals, and others facing barriers to employment.
29(4)
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30begin insert(5)end insert Develop, collect, interpret, and distribute statewide and
31regional labor market data on California’sbegin delete new and emerging begin insert current and expandingend insert workforce needs,
32technology and energyend delete
33trends, and job growthbegin insert
within the oil and gas industryend insert.
34(5)
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35begin insert(6)end insert Identify funding resources and make recommendations on
36how to expand and leverage these funds.
37(6)
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38begin insert(7)end insert Fosterbegin insert additionalend insert
regional collaborationbegin delete inend deletebegin insert end insertbegin insertwithin the San
39Joaquin Valley related toend insert the emergingbegin insert
petroleumend insert technology and
40energy economic sector.
On or before April 1, 2015, and each April 1 thereafter,
2the CWIB shall report to the Legislature on the status of
3SJVREPPC activities and its development of an oil and natural
4gas workforce strategic initiative. The report shall be submitted in
5compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
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