Bill Text: CA SB61 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Workforce training programs: supportive services.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: (Failed) 2022-02-01 - Died on file pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB61 Detail]
Download: California-2021-SB61-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Senate
May 20, 2021 |
Amended
IN
Senate
March 01, 2021 |
Introduced by Senator Hurtado (Coauthor: Senator Caballero) (Coauthor: Assembly Member Salas) |
December 07, 2020 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
The bill would also require the board, as part of the supportive services program described above, to develop High Road Training Partnerships or other similar programs to address the displacement of workers, including farmworkers in
the southern central valley and youth who are in or out of school who are individuals with a barrier to employment, as specified. The bill would also authorize a High Road Training Partnership or other similar workforce training program to focus on the healthcare industry, which could include the evaluation of a region’s provider network adequacy to meet the needs of the community. The bill would require a consortium that receives a grant to report annually to the board how it used supportive service funds in sufficient detail to determine what services qualified as support services and how much funding went to each category of service.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Article 4.5 (commencing with Section 14050) is added to Chapter 3 of Division 7 of the Unemployment Insurance Code, to read:Article 4.5. Supportive Services For Workforce Program Participants
14050.
As used in this article:(a)“Consortium” means an entity that may be composed of any combination of a local workforce development board, community college, California Adult Education Program consortium, or adult education program, or other local stakeholders, working in partnership to enroll and support individuals in poverty in workforce training programs aligned with regional labor market needs, except that every consortium shall include the local workforce development
board that corresponds to its geographical area.
(b)
(c)
(d)“Workforce training program” means California Workforce Development Board workforce programs and other workforce programs administered by local workforce development boards that are industry-based, worker-focused training partnerships that deliver equity, sustainability, and job quality aligned with the needs of the regional labor market.
14055.
(a)(2)The availability and likelihood of full-time employment in the regional labor market based on the successful completion of the High Road Training Partnerships Program or another similar workforce training program, including the alignment of the training partnerships program with regional labor market demand.
(3)The process through which a consortium of local partners will assess the needs of participants and determine the most cost-effective manner possible for the provision of supportive services, including through the
referral to, and utilization of, all other public and private programs and supportive services that may be available.
(4)The list of designated qualified opportunity zones (QOZ) that meet the criteria for a low-income community, as defined in Sections 1400Z-1 and 1400Z-2 of the federal Internal Revenue Code.
(e)A consortium shall
apply for a grant by submitting a plan to the board in accordance with subdivision (f).
(f)A plan submitted pursuant to subdivision (e) shall include all of the following:
(1)The number of people to be served.
(2)The coordination with local governments, public and private employers in the area, community colleges, and other stakeholders.
(3)The availability and likelihood of full-time employment in the local area based on the successful completion of the High Road Training Partnerships Program or another similar workforce training program.
(4)The process through which the needs of participants will
be assessed, and those needs met, in the most cost-effective manner possible including through the referral to and utilization of all other public and private programs and services that may be available.
(g)A consortium that receives a grant shall report annually to the California Workforce Development Board on how it used supportive service funds in sufficient detail to determine what services qualified as support services and how much funding went to each category of service.
(a)The board, as part of its supportive services program pursuant to Section 14055, shall also develop High Road Training Partnerships or other similar workforce training programs to address the displacement of workers, including, but not limited to, farmworkers in the southern central valley of the state, and youth who are in or out of school and who are individuals with a barrier to employment, as defined in Title 1 of the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-128).
(b)“High Road Training Partnerships” means the programs administered or overseen by the board, to model strategies for the state to develop
industry-based, worker-focused training partnerships that deliver equity, sustainability, and job quality and address questions of income inequality, economic competitiveness, and climate change through regional skills development designed to support communities across the state. To be similar to the High Road Training Partnership, another workforce training program shall have similar objectives and employ similar strategies to achieve those objectives.
(c)A High Road Training Partnership or other similar workforce training program, as defined by subdivision (d) of Section 14050, may also include a focus on the health care industry, which may include the evaluation of a region’s provider network adequacy to meet the needs of the community.