BILL ANALYSIS �
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Date of Hearing: May 7, 2014
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Mike Gatto, Chair
AB 2148 (Mullin) - As Amended: April 10, 2014
Policy Committee: LaborVote:7-0
Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program:
No Reimbursable: No
SUMMARY
This bill requires the California Workforce Investment Board
(CWIB) to, among other duties, to assist the Governor in the
development of an annual workforce metrics dashboard to measure
investment in workforce development. Specifically, this bill:
1)Requires the CWIB to develop an annual workforce metrics
dashboard that measures the state's human capital investments
in workforce development to illustrate the collective impact
of these investments on the labor market. The dashboard shall
be produced using existing available data and resources
currently accessible to state agencies.
2)Provides that the CWIB shall convene workforce program
partners to develop the workforce metrics dashboard:
a) Provide a status report on credential attainment,
training completion, degree attainment and wage gain
outcomes of workforce education and training programs. The
CWIB shall publish and distribute the final report.
b) Provide demographic breakdowns to include race,
ethnicity, age, gender, veteran status, wage and credential
degree outcomes and information on workforce outcomes in
different industry sectors, to the extent possible.
c) Measure, at a minimum and to the extent feasible within
existing resources, the performance specified workforce
programs.
3)Authorizes the State Department of Education (CDE) to
confidentially collect social security numbers of adults
participating in adult education programs so that accurate
participation in those programs can be represented in the
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metrics dashboard.
4)Specifies the participating workforce programs shall provide
participant data in a standardized format to the Labor Market
Information Division (LMID) of the Employment Development
Department (EDD).
5)Requires the EDD to aggregate the data provided by the
participating workforce programs and report the data to the
CWIB organized by demographics, earnings and industry of
employment to assist the CWIB in the production of the annual
workforce metrics dashboard.
FISCAL EFFECT
Costs in the range of $100,000 to $120,000 for CWIB, EDD and CDE
to implement the requirements related to the creation of the
dashboard. Workforce programs have indicated they will develop
a standard data set. To the extent this occurs, EDD and CWIB
have indicated costs to aggregate data would be reduced and
workload could be absorbed. CDE estimates a cost of $70,000 to
encrypt social security numbers through a dedicated database
server.
COMMENTS
1)Purpose . This bill seeks to compile, by demographic categories
existing data collected by workforce programs on credential
and degree attainment, wage gain outcomes of the workforce
education and training programs. Business and labor groups
supporting the bill state that the creation of a cross-system
metric dashboard on workforce and career technical education
investments in California will provide an important missing
link to measure the effectiveness of programs. The author
believes the annual snapshot would provide the Governor,
Legislature and other stakeholders with necessary data to
assist them in making informed investment decisions.
2)Adult education. California is currently implementing a new
adult education strategy with the goal of better alignment
between adult education programs offered by CDE and community
colleges. While community colleges currently collect social
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security numbers so they can measure the impact of their
programs on subsequent employment and wages, currently CDE
does not. The bill authorizes CDE to confidentially collect
social security numbers for adults participating in adult
education programs to measure program effectiveness.
3)Report . The bill requires CWIB to provide a status report on
credential attainment, training, completion, degree attainment
and wage gain outcomes of workforce education and training
programs. The bill requires CWIB to publish and distribute a
final report but does not specify when the report is due. The
committee may wish clarify this timeline.
Analysis Prepared by : Misty Feusahrens / APPR. / (916)
319-2081