Bill Text: CA SB599 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Workforce development.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Passed) 2009-11-02 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 642, Statutes of 2009. [SB599 Detail]
Download: California-2009-SB599-Chaptered.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 599 CHAPTERED
BILL TEXT
CHAPTER 642
FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE NOVEMBER 2, 2009
APPROVED BY GOVERNOR NOVEMBER 2, 2009
PASSED THE SENATE OCTOBER 14, 2009
PASSED THE ASSEMBLY SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY SEPTEMBER 2, 2009
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY AUGUST 31, 2009
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JULY 9, 2009
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY JUNE 23, 2009
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 13, 2009
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 30, 2009
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 20, 2009
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 13, 2009
INTRODUCED BY Senator Negrete McLeod
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
An act to amend Section 1973 of, and to add Section 27.6 to, the
Business and Professions Code, and to add Sections 14206.1 and
14230.5 to the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to workforce
development, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect
immediately.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 599, Negrete McLeod. Workforce development.
(1) The former Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education
Reform Act of 1989, which became inoperative on July 1, 2007, and was
repealed on January 1, 2008, was administered by the Bureau for
Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education in the Department of
Consumer Affairs. The former act generally effectuated legislative
intent to ensure minimum standards of instructional quality and
institutional stability in private postsecondary educational
institutions and required the bureau, among other things, to review
and investigate all institutions, programs, and courses of
instruction approved under the act.
This bill would require the successor agency to the former Bureau
for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education in the Department
of Consumer Affairs to transmit any available data regarding school
performance, as prescribed, it receives from any schools under its
jurisdiction to the California Postsecondary Education Commission.
However, the bill would make this provision operative only if AB 48
of the 2009-10 Regular Session is enacted and becomes effective on or
before January 1, 2010, and creates a successor agency to the former
Bureau for Private Postsecondary and Vocational Education.
(2) The federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 provides for
workforce investment activities, including activities in which states
may participate. Existing law contains various programs for job
training and employment investment, including work incentive and
employment training outreach programs. The act also establishes local
workforce boards to develop, implement, and coordinate local
workforce investment plans, as prescribed. Existing law provides that
it is the duty of the local board, among other things, to coordinate
workforce investment activities in the local area, and take
specified actions to promote economic development and job training
programs in the local area.
This bill, for purposes of disbursing economic recovery funds
recently made available as part of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 to workforce development programs, would
authorize local workforce investment boards to work directly with
institutions of higher education and other training providers
approved by state or federal agencies, including private
postsecondary institutions that participate in certain federal
student financial aid programs, to quickly design education and
training to fit the needs of the job seekers and employers they are
serving. The bill would require, for purposes of the California
Workforce Investment Act and any laws governing workforce development
programs provided for under the federal American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009, that entrance into a registered
apprenticeship program is to be considered placement into a job.
(3) Existing law creates the California Dental Corps Loan
Repayment Program of 2002 in the Dental Board of California, and
transfers $3,000,000 from the State Dentistry Fund to the Dentally
Underserved Account of that fund for 3 specified fiscal years,
through the 2005-06 fiscal year for purposes of the program. The
program assists dentists who practice in an underserved area with
loan repayment pursuant to an agreement between the board and the
dentist, as specified.
This bill would require the board, on or after July 1, 2010, to
extend the program and distribute the money remaining in the account
until July 1, 2012.
(4) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately
as an urgency statute.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 27.6 is added to the Business and Professions
Code, to read:
27.6. The successor agency to the Bureau for Private
Postsecondary and Vocational Education shall transmit any available
data regarding school performance, including, but not limited to,
attendance and graduation rates, it receives from any schools under
its jurisdiction to the California Postsecondary Education
Commission.
SEC. 2. Section 1973 of the Business and Professions Code is
amended to read:
1973. (a) The Dentally Underserved Account is hereby created in
the State Dentistry Fund.
(b) The sum of three million dollars ($3,000,000) is hereby
authorized to be expended from the State Dentistry Fund on this
program. These moneys are appropriated as follows:
(1) One million dollars ($1,000,000) shall be transferred from the
State Dentistry Fund to the Dentally Underserved Account on July 1,
2003. Of this amount, sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) shall be
used by the Dental Board of California in the 2003-04 fiscal year for
operating expenses necessary to manage this program.
(2) One million dollars ($1,000,000) shall be transferred from the
State Dentistry Fund to the Dentally Underserved Account on July 1,
2004. Of this amount, sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) shall be
used by the Dental Board of California in the 2004-05 fiscal year for
operating expenses necessary to manage this program.
(3) One million dollars ($1,000,000) shall be transferred from the
State Dentistry Fund to the Dentally Underserved Account on July 1,
2005. Of this amount, sixty-five thousand dollars ($65,000) shall be
used by the Dental Board of California in the 2005-06 fiscal year for
operating expenses necessary to manage this program.
(c) Funds placed into the Dentally Underserved Account shall be
used by the board to repay the loans per agreements made with
dentists.
(1) Funds paid out for loan repayment may have a funding match
from foundation or other private sources.
(2) Loan repayments may not exceed one hundred five thousand
dollars ($105,000) per individual licensed dentist.
(3) Loan repayments may not exceed the amount of the educational
loans incurred by the dentist applicant.
(d) Notwithstanding Section 11005 of the Government Code, the
board may seek and receive matching funds from foundations and
private sources to be placed into the Dentally Underserved Account.
The board also may contract with an exempt foundation for the receipt
of matching funds to be transferred to the Dentally Underserved
Account for use by this program.
(e) Funds in the Dentally Underserved Account appropriated in
subdivision (b) or received pursuant to subdivision (d) are
continuously appropriated for the repayment of loans per agreements
made between the board and the dentists.
(f) On or after July 1, 2010, the board shall extend the
California Dental Corps Loan Repayment Program of 2002 and distribute
the money remaining in the account until July 1, 2012. Regulations
that were adopted by the board for the purposes of the program shall
apply.
SEC. 3. Section 14206.1 is added to the Unemployment Insurance
Code, to read:
14206.1. For purposes of disbursing economic recovery funds made
available as part of the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment
Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5) to workforce development programs,
local workforce investment boards may work directly with institutions
of higher education and other training providers approved by state
or federal government agencies, including private postsecondary
institutions that participate in the federal student financial aid
programs under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965 and
comply with applicable regulations pursuant to the federal act, to
quickly design education and training to fit the needs of the job
seekers and employers they are serving.
SEC. 4. Section 14230.5 is added to the Unemployment Insurance
Code, to read:
14230.5. For purposes of this division and any laws governing
workforce development programs provided for under the federal
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5),
entrance into a registered apprenticeship program shall be considered
placement into a job.
SEC. 5. Section 1 of this act shall only become operative if
Assembly Bill 48 of the 2009-10 Regular Session is also enacted and
becomes effective on or before January 1, 2010, and creates a
successor agency to the former Bureau for Private Postsecondary and
Vocational Education.
SEC. 6. This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
In order to disburse economic recovery funds recently made
available by Congress as part of the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act of 2009 to workforce development programs in the
state and to extend the operation of a dental assistance program as
quickly as possible, it is necessary that this act take effect
immediately.
