AB 2148, as introduced, Mullin. Workforce development: annual report card.
Existing law provides that the California Workforce Investment Board is responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California’s workforce investment system. Existing law further provides that the board must assist the Governor in targeting resources to specified industry sectors and providing guidance to ensure that services reflect the needs of those sectors.
This bill would provide that the board is also responsible for assisting the Governor in the development of an annual report card that measures the state’s human capital investments in workforce development and that provides, among other things, a status report on credential and degree attainment and wage gain outcomes of workforce education and training programs. The bill would also authorize the State Department of Education to collect the social security numbers of adults participating in adult education programs for these purposes, as specified.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 14013 of the Unemployment Insurance
2Code is amended to read:
The board shall assist the Governor in the following:
4(a) Promoting the development of a well-educated and highly
5skilled 21st century workforce.
6(b) Developing the State Workforce Investment Plan.
7(c) Developing guidelines for the continuous improvement and
8operation of the workforce investment system, including:
9(1) Developing policies to guide the one-stop system.
10(2) Providing technical assistance for the continuous
11improvement of the one-stop system.
12(3) Recommending state investments in the one-stop system.
13(4) Targeting resources to competitive and emerging industry
14sectors and industry clusters that provide economic security and
15are either high-growth sectors or critical to California’s economy,
16or both. These industry sectors and clusters shall have significant
17economic impacts on the state and its regional and workforce
18development needs and have documented career opportunities.
19(5) To the extent permissible under state and federal laws,
20recommending youth policies and strategies that support linkages
21between kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, and community
22college educational systems and youth training opportunities in
23order to help youth secure educational and career advancement.
24These policies and strategies may be implemented using a sector
25strategies framework and should ultimately lead to
placement in
26a job providing economic security or job placement in an
27entry-level job that has a well-articulated career pathway or career
28ladder to a job providing economic security.
29(6) To the extent permissible under state and federal law,
30recommending adult and dislocated worker training policies and
31investments that offer a variety of career opportunities while
32upgrading the skills of California’s workforce. These may include
33training policies and investments pertaining to any of the following:
34(A) Occupational skills training, including training for
35nontraditional employment.
36(B) On-the-job training.
37(C) Programs that combine workplace training with related
38instruction, which may include cooperative education programs.
P3 1(D) Training programs operated by the private sector.
2(E) Skill upgrading and retraining.
3(F) Entrepreneurial training.
4(G) Job readiness training.
5(H) Adult education and literacy activities provided in
6combination with any of the services described in this paragraph.
7(I) Customized training conducted with a commitment by an
8employer or group of employers to employ an individual upon
9successful completion of the training.
10(d) Developing and continuously improving the statewide
11workforce investment system as delivered via the one-stop delivery
12system and via other
programs and services supported by funding
13from the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998, including:
14(1) Developing linkages in order to ensure coordination and
15nonduplication among workforce programs and activities.
16(2) Reviewing local workforce investment plans.
17(3) Leveraging state and federal funds to ensure that resources
18are invested in activities that meet the needs of the state’s
19competitive and emerging industry sectors and advance the
20education and employment needs of students and workers so they
21can keep pace with the education and skill needs of the state, its
22regional economies, and leading industry sectors.
23(e) Commenting, at least once annually, on the measures taken
24pursuant to the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology
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Education Act Amendments of 1990 (Public Law 101-392; 20
26U.S.C. Sec. 2301 et seq.).
27(f) Designating local workforce investment areas within the
28state based on information derived from all of the following:
29(1) Consultations with the Governor.
30(2) Consultations with the chief local elected officials.
31(3) Consideration of comments received through the public
32comment process, as described in Section 112(b)(9) of the federal
33Workforce Investment Act of 1998.
34(g) Developing and modifying allocation formulas, as necessary,
35for the distribution of funds for adult employment and training
36activities, for youth activities to local workforce investment areas,
37and dislocated worker employment and
training activities, as
38permitted by federal law.
39(h) Coordinating the development and continuous improvement
40of comprehensive state performance measures, including state
P4 1adjusted levels of performance, to assess the effectiveness of the
2workforce investment activities in the state.
3(i) Preparing the annual report to the United States Secretary of
4Labor.
5(j) Recommending policy for the development of the statewide
6employment statistics system, including workforce and economic
7data, as described in Sectionbegin delete 15end deletebegin insert 49e-2end insert of Title 29 of the United
8States Code, and using, to the fullest extent possible, the
9Employment Development
Department’s existing labor market
10information systems.
11(k) Recommending strategies to the Governor for strategic
12training investments of the Governor’s 15-percent discretionary
13funds.
14(l) Developing and recommending waivers, in conjunction with
15local workforce investment boards, to the Governor as provided
16for in the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998.
17(m) Recommending policy to the Governor for the use of the
1825-percent rapid response funds, as authorized under the federal
19Workforce Investment Act of 1998.
20(n) Developing an application to the United States Department
21of Labor for an incentive grant under Section 9273 of Title 20 of
22the United States Code.
23(o) (A) Developing an annual report card that measures the
24state’s human capital investments in workforce development to
25better understand the collective impact of these investments on the
26labor market. The report card shall do all of the following:
27(i) Provide a status report on credential and degree attainment
28and wage gain outcomes of workforce education and training
29programs.
30(ii) Provide demographic breakdowns, including, to the extent
31possible, race, ethnicity, age, gender, veteran status, wage and
32credential or degree outcomes, and information on workforce
33outcomes in different
industry sectors.
34(iii) Measure, at a minimum, the performance of the following
35programs: community college career technical education, the
36Employment Training Panel, Title I and Title II of the federal
37Workforce Investment Act of 1998, Trade Adjustment Assistance,
38and state apprenticeship programs.
39(B) The State Department of Education is hereby authorized to
40collect the social security numbers of adults participating in adult
P5 1education programs so that accurate participation in those
2programs can be represented in the report card. However, an
3individual shall not be denied program participation if he or she
4refuses to provide a social security number.
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