Bill Text: CA SB1375 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Workforce development: records: poverty-reducing standards: funds, programs, reporting, and analyses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-28 - Referred to Com. on L. & E. [SB1375 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB1375-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Workforce development: records: poverty-reducing standards: funds, programs, reporting, and analyses.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Engrossed) 2024-05-28 - Referred to Com. on L. & E. [SB1375 Detail]
Download: California-2023-SB1375-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Senate Bill
No. 1375
| Introduced by Senator Durazo |
February 16, 2024 |
An act to add Chapter 5.2 (commencing with Section 14535) to Division 7 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to workforce development.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1375, as introduced, Durazo.
Workforce development: poverty-reducing standards: funds, programs, reporting, and analyses.
Existing law, the California Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, establishes the California Workforce Development Board as the body responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California’s workforce investment system and the alignment of the education and workforce investment systems to the needs of the 21st century economy and workforce. Existing law requires the board to assist the Governor in promoting the development of a well-educated and highly skilled 21st century workforce, and the development of a high road economy that offers an educated and skilled workforce with fair compensation and treatment in the workplace. Existing law also requires the board to assist in developing standards, procedures, and criteria for high road employers, high road jobs, high road workforce development, and high road training partners, as
specified. Existing law defines “high road” for these purposes to mean a set of economic and workforce development strategies to achieve economic growth, economic equity, shared prosperity, and a clean environment.
Existing federal law, the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, and the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (federal jobs acts), provides various grants to state and local entities for specified purposes.
This bill would create the Equity, Climate Resilience, and Quality Jobs Fund in the State Treasury and would require, to the extent permissible under federal law, 2% of all qualified moneys, as defined, received from the federal government pursuant to any federal jobs act to be transferred into the fund. The bill would make moneys in the fund available upon appropriation to the board for specified purposes.
This bill would require all
state and local agencies administering any moneys received pursuant to any federal jobs act and the board to develop, by January 1, 2026, a memorandum of understanding for the board to provide technical assistance, and to develop poverty-reducing labor standards, for all investments made by those agencies using those moneys. The bill would impose reporting requirements on these agencies and would require the board to develop rules and regulations on the content and manner of reporting for the report. The bill would also require the board to contract with a research institution to receive the reports and perform analyses on equity, climate resilience, and quality jobs outcomes resulting from the investments made by the reporting entities using moneys received pursuant to any federal jobs act. By imposing new duties on local agencies that receive federal moneys, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The bill would include findings that
changes proposed by this bill address a matter of statewide concern rather than a municipal affair and, therefore, apply to all cities, including charter cities.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 5.2 (commencing with Section 14535) is added to Division 7 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, to read:CHAPTER 5.2. Federal Jobs Act Funds
14535.
For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:(a) “Federal jobs act” means any of the following:
(1) The CHIPS and Science Act of 2022 (Public Law 117-167).
(2) The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (Public Law 117-169).
(3) The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (Public Law 117-58).
(b) “Fund” means the Equity, Climate Resilience, and Quality Jobs Fund, as created by this chapter.
(c) “High road construction careers” has the
same meaning as in Section 14005.
(d) “High road training partnerships” has the same meaning as in Section 14005.
(e) “Local agency” means a county, city, city and county, school district, special district, authority, agency, any other municipal public corporation or district, or other political subdivision of the state.
(f) “Qualified moneys” means both of the following:
(1) Moneys received prior to the effective date of this chapter that are in the General Fund as of the effective date of this chapter.
(2) Moneys received on or after the effective date of this chapter.
(g) “State agency” has the same meaning as in
subdivision (a) of Section 11000 of the Government Code.
14535.1.
(a) There is hereby created the Equity, Climate Resilience, and Quality Jobs Fund in the State Treasury.(b) Notwithstanding any law, but to the extent permissible under federal law, 2 percent of all qualified moneys received from the federal government pursuant to any federal jobs act shall be transferred into the fund.
(c) Moneys in the fund shall be available, upon appropriation, to the California Workforce Development Board for the following purposes:
(1) Developing poverty-reducing programs, including, but not limited to, high road training partnerships and high road construction careers, and other workforce
programs that drive poverty-reducing standards and reach communities with the highest barriers to employment and economic equity, poverty-reducing labor standards development and reporting, program evaluation, administrative capacity, and state operations.
(2) Supporting the development of poverty-reducing labor standards through investments made using moneys received pursuant to federal jobs acts, reporting required by this chapter, and analyses made by a research institution.
(3) Funding state-approved apprenticeship programs in the building and construction trades, if the person or entity requesting the funding demonstrates that there is a need for the program through the satisfaction of at least one of the conditions described in paragraphs (1) to (3), inclusive, of subdivision (b) of Section 3075 of the Labor Code.
14535.2.
(a) (1) All state and local agencies administering any moneys received pursuant to any federal jobs act shall develop, by January 1, 2026, with the board a memorandum of understanding for the board to provide technical assistance, and to develop poverty-reducing labor standards, for all investments made by those agencies using those moneys.(2) All state and local agencies subject to paragraph (1) shall report labor standards outcomes to the board.
(b) (1) The board shall develop rules and regulations on the content and manner of reporting for the report required by subdivision (a).
(2) The board shall contract with a research institution to receive the reports required by this section and to perform analyses on equity, climate resilience, and quality jobs outcomes resulting from the investments made by the reporting entities using moneys received pursuant to any federal jobs act.
