Bill Text: CA SB747 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Career technical education: pilot preapprentice

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-08-27 - Set, second hearing. Held in committee and under submission. [SB747 Detail]

Download: California-2009-SB747-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 747	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 28, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 23, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 13, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Romero
   (Coauthor: Senator Hancock)

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to add and repeal Section 8157 of the Education Code,
relating to career technical education.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 747, as amended, Romero. Career technical education: pilot
preapprentice aerospace machining program.
   Existing law establishes the Health Science and Medical Technology
Project, administered by the State Department of Education to
provide competitive grant funds to California public schools to
enhance existing or establish new health-related career pathway
programs.
   This bill would state findings and declarations of the Legislature
regarding California's aerospace workforce and trends in California'
s high schools.  This   The  bill would
create a pilot preapprentice aerospace machining program, 
administered by the California Labor and Workforce Development
Agency, and  implemented by the California Community Colleges
system, to provide career technical education to high school pupils
in the form of machining and related curriculum that can be applied
to various manufacturing industries in California, including, but not
limited to, aerospace manufacturing, as specified. The program would
be funded by a combination of  private nonprofit and 
public  and private  funds that would be deposited
into the Machinist Investment Fund, which would be created by this
bill.  The bill would provide that implementation of the program
would be contingent upon receipt of suffic   ient federal
funding.  Grants would be competitively awarded to community
colleges based upon specified criteria, including their ability to
address the existing local and regional industry manufacturing needs,
while providing meaningful career technical education opportunities
for at-risk youth.  This   The  bill would
require the California Community Colleges system to develop
preapprenticeship curriculum in aerospace technology, and machining
technology generally.  This   The  bill
would provide that its provisions would remain in effect until
January 1, 2015.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) Despite the departure of several companies since the military
base closures of the early 1990s, the aerospace industry remains a
vital component of California's economy, representing at least
370,000 jobs statewide and a minimum of thirty-two billion dollars
($32,000,000,000) annually in gross domestic product.
   (b) There will be a dearth of skilled machinists and technicians
to work in the aerospace industry as the baby boomers begin to retire
over the next decade.
   (c) The aerospace industry is currently addressing its labor needs
by luring skilled labor away from competing companies.
   (d) The highly skilled labor sought by the aerospace industry is
represented by a finite, aging pool of employees who, under current
conditions, will not be readily replaced by younger workers.
   (e) The continued growth of the aerospace industry is pivotal to
California's future prosperity.
   (f) Unless the Legislature acts to address labor workforce needs
in this sector, the aerospace industry will continue to leave
California or import a far greater proportion of foreign labor, in
either case, causing significant damage to the state's economy.
   (g) California's high schools are struggling with a dropout rate
of 21 percent.
   (h) A significant factor in California's dropout rate is the
existence of curriculum that does not engage pupils with some
immediate, real-world application.
   (i) Pupils who drop out of high school are often unable to find
suitable entry-level employment and have little chance of continuing
on to higher education, and there is a strong chance that they will
ultimately join California's prison population, given the statistic
that at least two-thirds of the current inmate population does not
possess a high school diploma.
   (j) The dropout rate is likely to hold, and possibly worsen,
unless the state acts to provide hands-on high school curriculum with
cross-over mathematics and science applications, that also provides
an avenue to both higher education in related disciplines, and to
skilled, high-wage employment.
  SEC. 2.  Section 8157 is added to the Education Code, to read:
   8157.  (a) There is hereby established a pilot preapprentice
aerospace machining program that shall provide career technical
education to high school pupils in the form of machining and related
curriculum that can be applied to various manufacturing industries in
California, including, but not limited to, aerospace manufacturing.
The curriculum shall include, but not be limited to, the following
green technologies in aerospace manufacturing:
   (1) Use of computers to assist in metalworking  ,
 to eliminate waste of aluminum, titanium, and other costly
strategic metals in the manufacturing process.
   (2) Training in the machining of lighter, strategic metals,
including titanium and composites, to reduce weight and increase
aircraft fuel efficiency.
   (3) Training in the fabrication of more energy-efficient aircraft
ventilation, heating, and cooling systems.
   (b) The program shall be funded by a combination of 
public and private   private nonprofit and public 
funds, specifically federal funds made available to the states as
part of the  2009 stimulus package, as well as private
nonprofit funds   American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
of 2009  . All funds appropriated for the purposes of this
program shall be deposited into the Machinist Investment Fund, which
is hereby created. 
   (c) The pilot program and the Machinists Investment Fund shall be
administered by the California Labor and Workforce Development
Agency.  
   (d) Implementation of the pilot program established by this
section shall be contingent upon receipt of sufficient federal
funding.  
   (e) Nothing in this section shall be construed to impose a mandate
on local workforce investment boards with regard to how they will
spend Workforce Investment Act funds, including funds made available
to them through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. 

   (f) It is the intent of the Legislature that the pilot program
established by this section shall have as its goal the development of
an industry-based sector strategy to address labor needs in the
manufacturing industry generally and in the aerospace industry in
particular, specifically the need for trained machinists, and that
the Labor and Workforce Development Agency shall focus on efforts to
assist in this strategy.  
   (g) The California Workforce Investment Board is encouraged, in
collaboration with local workforce investment boards, industry, and
community colleges, to seek and apply for funds for related
industry-based sector strategies.  
   (c) 
    (h)  Community colleges, in partnership with local,
workforce investment boards, employers, and high schools, shall apply
for grants that shall be competitively awarded based upon a number
of criteria, including, but not limited to:
   (1) Likelihood of meeting the objectives of the program,
specifically, ability to address the existing local and regional
industry manufacturing needs, while providing meaningful career
technical education opportunities for at-risk youth that are likely
to lead to employment after participation and to position pupils for
admission to additional higher education in a related field.
   (2) Whether the adopted preapprenticeship curriculum in aerospace
technology, and machining technology generally, conforms to the
curriculum developed by the California Community Colleges system
pursuant to subdivision (c).
   (3) Inclusion of an aggressive outreach plan demonstrating the
degree to which the pupils targeted to receive instruction may be
considered at risk, based upon factors such as prior academic
achievement, socioeconomic background, and school disciplinary
record. Special weight shall be given to the specific media employed
to reach the target pupil population.
   (4) Evidence that the application will advance an industry sector
strategy for addressing current and future labor needs, as well as
provide career paths for potential employees in the manufacturing
industry consistent with Division 8 (commencing with Section 15000)
of the Unemployment Insurance Code.
   (5) Evidence that the industry sector will benefit from the
regional economy in which it is located. 
   (d) 
    (i)  The program shall be implemented by the California
Community Colleges system which shall develop preapprenticeship
curriculum in aerospace technology, and machining technology
generally. It shall also identify the appropriate community college
campuses for implementation of the program based upon criteria which
shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:
   (1) The proximity to aerospace and other manufacturers with
machining labor needs.
   (2) The ability of the community college campus or of a regional
occupational  centers   center  to provide
sufficient in-house expertise and laboratory facilities to teach the
required curriculum.
   (3) The willingness and availability of a local machinists union
to actively participate in program-related activities, including, but
not limited to, technical assistance for curriculum development,
mentoring, and recruiting pupils as future journeymen upon completion
of the preapprentice curriculum.
   (4) Whether there are opportunities to build on existing
partnerships with local high schools in the region. 
   (e) 
    (j)  Community college campuses selected for receipt of
a competitive grant  ,  in consultation with area high
schools, shall identify the location at which instruction shall
occur, whether on the high school campus, at a regional occupation
center, or at a community college. Factors such as availability of
curriculum, instructors, lab facilities, and transportation may be
considered. 
   (f) 
    (k)  This section shall remain in effect only until
January 1, 2015, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later
enacted statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2015, deletes or
extends that date.