Bill Text: CA AB2288 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Apprenticeship programs: building and construction trades.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-27 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 692, Statutes of 2016. [AB2288 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2288-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2288	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Burke

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2016

   An act to amend Section 14230 of the Unemployment Insurance Code,
relating to workforce development.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2288, as introduced, Burke. Apprenticeship programs: building
and construction trades.
   Existing law provides that the California Workforce Development
Board is responsible for assisting the Governor in the development,
oversight, and continuous improvement of California's workforce
investment system. Existing law requires that the California
Workforce Development Board and each local workforce development
board ensure that programs and services funded by the federal
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 and directed to
apprenticeable occupations are conducted in coordination with
apprenticeship programs approved by the Division of Apprenticeship
Standards, as specified. Existing law also requires the California
Workforce Development Board and each local workforce development
board to develop a policy of fostering collaboration between
community colleges and approved apprenticeship programs in the
geographic area.
   This bill would require the California Workforce Development Board
and each local board to ensure that preapprenticeship training in
the building and construction trades follows the Multi-Craft Core
Curriculum developed by the California Department of Education and
that programs and services funded by the federal Workforce Innovation
and Opportunity Act of 2014 and directed to apprenticeable
occupations in the building and construction trades include plans to
increase the percentage of women in those trades. By imposing new
requirements on the local workforce development boards, this bill
would impose a state-mandated local program.
   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 these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 14230 of the Unemployment Insurance Code is
amended to read:
   14230.  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that:
   (1) California deliver comprehensive workforce services to
jobseekers, students, and employers through a system of one-stop
career centers.
   (2) Services and resources target high-wage industry sectors with
career advancement opportunities.
   (3) Universal access to career services shall be available to
adult residents regardless of income, education, employment barriers,
or other eligibility requirements. Career services shall include,
but not be limited to:
   (A) Outreach, intake, and orientation to services available
through the one-stop delivery system.
   (B) Initial assessment of skill levels, aptitudes, abilities, and
supportive service needs.
   (C) Job search and placement assistance.
   (D) Career counseling, where appropriate.
   (E) Provision of labor market information.
   (F) Provision of program performance and cost information on
eligible providers of training services and local area performance
measures.
   (G) Provision of information on supportive services in the local
area.
   (H) Provision of information on the filing of claims for
unemployment compensation benefits and unemployment compensation
disability benefits.
   (I) Assistance in establishing eligibility for welfare-to-work
activities pursuant to Section 11325.8 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code, and financial aid assistance.
   (J) Comprehensive and specialized assessments of skill levels and
service needs, including learning disability screening.
   (K) Development of individual employment plans.
   (L) Counseling.
   (M) Career planning.
   (N) Short-term prevocational services to prepare an individual for
training or employment.
   (4) State and federally funded workforce education, training, and
employment programs shall be integrated in the one-stop delivery
system to achieve universal access to the career services described
in paragraph (3).
   (5) Training services shall be made available to individuals who
have met the requirements for career services, have been unable to
obtain or retain employment through career services, are in need of
training services to obtain or retain employment that leads to
economic self-sufficiency or wages comparable to, or higher than,
wages from previous employment, have the skills and qualifications to
successfully participate in the training, and have selected a
program of services directly linked to occupations in demand in the
local or regional area. Training services may include:
   (A) Occupational skill training including training for
nontraditional employment.
   (B) On-the-job training.
   (C) Programs that combine workplace training with related
instruction.
   (D) Training programs operated by the private sector.
   (E) Skill upgrading and retraining.
   (F) Entrepreneurial training.
   (G) Incumbent worker training, in accordance with Section 134(d)
(4) of the  federal  Workforce Innovation and Opportunity
Act.
   (H) Transitional jobs, in accordance with Section 134(d)(5) of the
 federal  Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
   (I) Job readiness training, provided in combination with any
service under subparagraphs (A) to (H), inclusive.
   (J) Adult education and literacy activities, including vocational
English as a second language, provided in combination with
subparagraphs (A) through (G), inclusive.
   (K) Customized training conducted by an employer or a group of
employers or a labor-management training partnership with a
commitment to employ an individual upon completion of the training.
   (6) As prescribed in the  federal  Workforce Innovation
and Opportunity Act, adult recipients of public assistance, other
low-income adults, and individuals who are basic skills deficient
shall be given priority for training services and career services
described in Section 134(d)(2)(A)(xii) of the  federal 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
   (b) Each local workforce development board shall establish at
least one full service one-stop career center in the local workforce
development area. Each full service one-stop career center shall have
all entities required to be partners in Section 3151 of Title 29 of
the United States Code as partners and shall provide jobseekers with
integrated employment, education, training, and job search services.
Additionally, employers will be provided with access to comprehensive
career and labor market information, job placement, economic
development information, performance and program information on
service providers, and other such services as the businesses in the
community may require.
   (c) Local boards may also establish affiliated and specialized
centers, as defined in the  federal  Workforce Innovation
and Opportunity Act of 2014, which shall act as portals into the
larger local one-stop system, but are not required to have all of the
partners specified for full service one-stop centers.
   (d) Each local board shall develop a policy for identifying
individuals who, because of their skills or experience, should be
referred immediately to training services. To the extent permitted
under the  federal  Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act
of 2014, this policy, along with the methods for referral of
individuals between the one-stop operators and the one-stop partners
for appropriate services and activities, shall be contained in the
memorandum of understanding between the local board and the one-stop
partners.
   (e) The California Workforce Development Board and each local
board shall ensure that programs and services funded by the 
federal  Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 and
directed to apprenticeable occupations, including preapprenticeship
training, are conducted, to the maximum extent feasible, in
coordination with one or more apprenticeship programs approved by the
Division of Apprenticeship Standards for the occupation and
geographic area. The California Workforce Development Board and each
local board shall also develop a policy of fostering collaboration
between community colleges and approved apprenticeship programs in
the geographic area to provide preapprenticeship training,
apprenticeship training, and continuing education in apprenticeable
occupations through the approved apprenticeship programs.  The
California Workforce Development Board and each local board also
shall ensure, to the maximum extent feasible, that such
preapprenticeship training in the building and construction trades
follows the Multi-Craft Core Curriculum developed by the California
Department of Education for its pilot project with California
Partnership Academies. The California Workforce Development Board and
each local board also shall ensure, to the maximum extent feasible,
that programs and services funded by the federal Workforce Innovation
and Opportunity Act of 2014 and directed to apprenticeable
occupations in the building and construction trades, including
preapprenticeship training, include plans for outreach and retention
to increase the   percentage of women in the building and
construction trades. 
   (f) In light of California's diverse population, each one-stop
career center should have the capacity to provide the appropriate
services to the full range of languages and cultures represented in
the community served by the one-stop career center.
  SEC. 2.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.