Senate Bill No. 489
(By Senators McCabe, Kessler, Sprouse and Unger)
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[Introduced February 7, 2007; referred to the Committee on
Economic Development.]
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A BILL 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 generally; and requiring copies of
memoranda of understanding with one-stop centers and data
regarding the success of linking PROMISE scholarship graduates
with West Virginia employers as part of the reports.
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 or before the
fifteenth first day of
January 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;
and (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) The West Virginia Development Office shall provide
administrative and other services to the council as the council
requires.
(b) The West Virginia Development Office 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.
(c) The development office shall make an annual report on or
before the first day of October to the legislative oversight
commission detailing the status of one-stop system operations in
the state. The development office shall include with the report
all memoranda of understanding entered into by the one-stop
partners and local workforce investment boards. Each local
workforce investment board shall report annually to the development
office on or before the first day of September on the status of
one-stop centers within the region they represent, attaching all
memoranda of understanding entered into with one-stop partners.
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NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to require that copies of
memoranda of understanding with one-stop centers and data regarding
the success of linking PROMISE scholarship graduates with West
Virginia employers as part of the reports from the Workforce
Investment Council to the Legislative Oversight Commission on
Workforce Investment for Economic Development.
Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from
the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would
be added.
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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE AMENDMENTS
On page three, section four, lines four and five by striking
out the words "legislative oversight commission" and inserting in
lieu thereof the following: "Legislative Oversight Commission on
Workforce Investment for Economic Development and the Legislative
Oversight Commission on Educational Accountability";
And,
By striking out the title and substituting therefor a new
title, to read as follows:
Eng. Senate Bill No. 489 --A BILL 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 Educational Accountability generally; and
requiring copies of memoranda of understanding with one-stop
centers and data regarding the success of linking PROMISE
scholarship graduates with West Virginia employers as part of the
reports.