ENGROSSED
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 Legislative Oversight Commission on Workforce
Investment for Economic Development and the Legislative Oversight
Commission on Education Accountability 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 Workforce West
Virginia shall provide administrative and other services to the
council as the council requires.
(b)
The West Virginia Development Office 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.
(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.