H. B. 2892


(By Delegates Paxton, Frederick, Stalnaker and Walters)

[Introduced February 7, 2007; referred to the

Committee on the Judiciary.]





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 of the workforce investment council.

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 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 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; (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; and (5) (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; (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 on the status of one-stop centers within the region they represent, attaching all memoranda of understanding entered into with one-stop partners.
§5B-2B-6. Administration of council.
(a) The West Virginia development office shall provide administrative and other services to the council as the council requires.
(b) The West Virginia development office 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.

NOTE:The purpose of this bill is to consolidate the required reports on workforce investment and to require additional reporting.

This bill was approved for introduction in the 2007 Legislative session by the Legislative Oversight Commission on Workforce Investment for Economic Development.

Strike-throughs indicate language that would be stricken from the present law, and underscoring indicates new language that would be added.