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ENROLLED
Senate Bill No. 489
(By Senators McCabe, Kessler, Sprouse and Unger)
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[Passed March 6, 2007; in effect ninety days from passage.]
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AN ACT to amend and reenact §5B-2B-4 and §5B-2B-6 of the Code of
West Virginia, 1931, as amended, all relating to reports to
the Legislative Oversight Commission on Workforce Investment
for Economic Development and the Legislative Oversight
Commission on Education Accountability generally; requiring a
yearly report on the status and any memoranda of understanding
which have been entered into for West Virginia one-stop system
operations; and requiring a yearly report on the success of
efforts to link PROMISE scholarship graduates to West Virginia
employment opportunities.
Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That §5B-2B-4 and §5B-2B-6 of the Code of West Virginia, 1931,
as amended, be amended and reenacted, all to read as follows:
ARTICLE 2B. WEST VIRGINIA WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT.
§5B-2B-4. Duties of the Workforce Investment Council.
(a) The council shall assist the Governor in the:
(1) Development and revision of a strategic five-year state
workforce investment plan, including the establishment of an
overall workforce investment public agenda with goals and
benchmarks of success for the state, state agencies and for local
workforce investment boards;
(2) Development and continuous improvement of a statewide
system of workforce investment activities including:
(A) Development of linkages in order to assure coordination
and nonduplication of services and activities of workforce
investment programs conducted by various entities in the state; and
(B) The review of strategic plans created and submitted by
local workforce investment boards;
(3) Commenting at least annually on the measures taken by the
state pursuant to the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied
Technology Education Act, 20 U. S. C. §2323;
(4) Designation and revision of local workforce investment
areas;
(5) Development and revision of allocation formulas for the
distribution of funds for adult employment and training activities
and youth activities to local areas;
(6) Development and continuous improvement of comprehensive
state performance measures, including state-adjusted levels of
performance, to assess the effectiveness of the workforce
investment activities in the state;
(7) Preparation of the annual report to the Secretary of Labor
as required by the Workforce Investment Act, 29 U. S. C. §2871;
(8) Development and continued improvement of a statewide
employment statistics system; and
(9) Development and revision of an application for workforce
investment incentive grants.
(b) The council shall make a report to the Legislative
Oversight Commission on Workforce Investment for Economic
Development and the Legislative Oversight Commission on Education
Accountability on or before the first day of November of each year
detailing: (1) All the publicly funded workforce investment
programs operating in the state, including the amount of federal
and state funds expended by each program, how the funds are spent
and the resulting improvement to the workforce; (2) the council's
recommendations concerning future use of funds for workforce
investment programs; (3) the council's analysis of operations of
local workforce investment programs; (4) the council's
recommendations for the establishment of an overall workforce
investment public agenda with goals and benchmarks of success for
the state, state agencies and for local workforce investment
boards; (5) the status of one-stop system operations in the state,
including all memoranda of understanding entered into by the one-
stop partners and local workforce investment boards; (6) the status
and outcome data regarding the council and local workforce
investment boards' success in linking West Virginia PROMISE scholars to employment with a West Virginia employer; and (7) any
other information the commission may require.
(c) To aid in the report required in subsection (b) of this
section, each local workforce investment board shall report
annually to the council on or before the first day of September of
each year on the status of one-stop centers within the region each
board represents, attaching all memoranda of understanding entered
into with one-stop partners.
§5B-2B-6. Administration of council.
(a) Workforce West Virginia shall provide administrative and
other services to the council as the council requires.
(b) Workforce West Virginia shall facilitate the coordination
of council activities and local workforce investment activities,
including holding meetings with the executive directors of each
local workforce investment board at least monthly. Any executive
director of a local workforce investment board who participates in
a meeting held pursuant to this subsection shall report to his or
her board and the county commission of each county represented by
the board regarding the meeting.