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Senate Bill No. 747

(By Senator Unger)

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[Introduced February 18, 2008; referred to the Committee on Education; and then to the Committee on Finance.]

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A BILL to amend the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, by adding thereto a new section, designated §18C-7-9, relating to the PROMISE Scholarship Summer Internship Program.

Be it enacted by the Legislature of West Virginia:
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §18C-7-9, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 7. WEST VIRGINIA PROVIDING REAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR
MAXIMIZING IN-STATE STUDENT EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIP
PROGRAM.

§18C-7-9. Promise Scholarship Summer Internship Program.
(a) Beginning the first day of July, two thousand eight, each Promise Scholar will be required to register at a Workforce West Virginia Center as a Promise Scholar.
(b) The Governor's office will recruit businesses, government agencies, nongovernment agencies, and nonprofit organizations state-wide to participate in the Promise Scholars Summer Internship Program, by providing meaningful paid summer internships for Promise Scholars.
(c) Local businesses, government agencies, nongovernment agencies, and nonprofit organizations shall register with the local Workforce West Virginia One Stop Center as a Promise Scholars Summer Internship Partner and will supply the One Stop Center with a job description for the internships they have available.
(d) The local One Stop will host job fairs for local businesses to meet and interview Promise Scholar Interns for summer employment.
(e) State colleges will use their Career Planning Placement Centers to prepare the Promise Scholars for interviews and also host campus interviews for companies to interview Promise Scholars.
(f) The Governor's Workforce Investment Division (GWID) will prepare a standard performance evaluation format to be used by all participating business partners to evaluate the Promise Scholar's work performance, and forward the evaluations to the local One Stop who will in turn forward copies to the respective College Career Planning and Placement Office in order to track the students' performance.
(g) Local One Stop Centers will evaluate the performance evaluations and provide a summary of their analysis to the State GWID Office who will in turn provide a state-wide summary report for the Governor on the work performance of the Promise Scholars as evaluated by the employers.
(h) GWID will also provide the following services for the Promise Scholar Summer Internship Program:
(1) Sponsor a fall and spring career fair for all Promise Scholars who are seniors;
(2) Provide a report to the respective colleges as to how their students are being prepared for the world of work per feedback from the business community;
(3) Keep records of job offers made to Promise Scholars, and forward that information to the State GWID to compile a report for the Governor.



NOTE: The purpose of this bill is to create the Promise Scholar Summer Internship Program.

This section is new; therefore, strike-throughs and underscoring have been omitted.
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