BILL ANALYSIS �
Senate Appropriations Committee Fiscal Summary
Senator Kevin de Le�n, Chair
AB 2148 (Mullin) - Workforce Development: Annual Workforce
Metrics Dashboard
Amended: July 19, 2014 Policy Vote: L&IR 5-0
Urgency: No Mandate: No
Hearing Date: August 4, 2014
Consultant: Robert Ingenito
This bill meets the criteria for referral to the Suspense File.
Bill Summary: AB 2148 would require the California Workforce
Investment Board (CWIB) to assist the Governor in the
development of an annual workforce metrics dashboard to measure
investment in workforce development.
Fiscal Impact: The California Workforce Investment Board (CWIB)
and the Employment Development Department (EDD) indicate that
costs associated with this bill would be minor and absorbable.
The State Department of Education would incur one-time costs,
potentially in the tens of thousands of dollars (General Fund),
related to the collection of social security numbers.
Background: The federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998
provides funding for activities and programs for job training
and employment investment in which states may participate,
including work incentive and employment training outreach
programs. CWIB has the responsibility of developing a unified,
strategic planning process to coordinate various education,
training and employment programs into an integrated workforce
development system that supports economic development. There are
49 Local Workforce Investment Boards that plan and oversee the
workforce investment system at the local level. Each local
workforce also has one or more One-Stop Centers, which provide
access to career information, counseling, funding for education,
training and supportive services.
Proposed Law: This Bill would require that the California
Workforce Investment Board assist the Governor in the
development of an annual workforce metrics dashboard that
measures the state's investments in workforce development to
better understand their impact on the labor market.
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Specifically, this bill would do the following:
Require the CWIB to produce this metrics dashboard using
existing available data and resources that are currently
collected and accessible to state agencies.
Require the CWIB to convene workforce program partners
to develop a standardized set of inputs and outputs for the
workforce metrics dashboard and outlines that the dashboard
shall do all of the following:
o Provide a status report on credential and
degree attainment, training completion, and
participant earnings from workforce education and
training programs. The CWIB shall publish and
distribute the final report.
o Provide demographic breakdowns, to the extent
possible, that include race, ethnicity, age, gender,
veteran status, wage and credential degree outcomes
and information on workforce outcomes in different
industry sectors.
o Measure, at a minimum and to the extent
feasible within existing resources, the performance of
specified workforce programs currently operating.
o Measure participant earnings using
unemployment insurance wage records in California, and
to the extent feasible, in other states.
Require that the Employment Development Department
assist the CWIB measure participant earnings by providing
the board with specified earnings data.
Authorize the State Department of Education (CDE) to
collect, and keep confidential, the social security numbers
of adults participating in adult education programs to
track and accurately reflect their participation on the
metrics dashboard. However, no individual shall be denied
participation for refusing to provide a social security
number.
Specify that the participating workforce programs shall
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provide participant data in a standardized format to the
Employment Development Department (EDD).
Require the EDD to aggregate the data provided by the
participating workforce programs and report it organized by
demographics, earnings and industry of employment to assist
the CWIB in the production of the workforce metrics
dashboard.
Related Legislation: SB 118 (Chapter 562, Statutes of 2013).
This bill required CWIB to incorporate specific principles into
the state's strategic plan that align the education and
workforce investment systems to the needs of the 21st century
economy. Additionally, the bill encouraged state and local WIBs
to collaborate with other public and private institutions in
adopting local and regional training and education strategies
across all delivery systems and making investments outcome
oriented and accountable, measuring results through program
completion, employment, and earnings.
Staff Comments: 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.
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 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.
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