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COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE

FOR

Senate Bill No. 747

(By Senator Unger)

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[Originating in the Committee on Education;

reported February 20, 2008.]

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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 creating the PROMISE Scholarship Summer Internship Program; requiring participation by certain agencies and individuals; directing Governor's Workforce Investment Division and Workforce West Virginia One Stop Center s to provide certain services; providing for evaluation of work performance; and requiring certain reports.

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; participation; evaluations; reports required.

(a) General -- For the purposes of this section, terms have the meaning ascribed to them in section two, article one, chapter eighteen-b of this code, unless the context in which the term is used clearly requires a different meaning or a specific definition is provided in this section.

(b) Definitions --

(1) "Center" means a Workforce West Virginia One Stop Center;
(2) "Institution" means a state college, university or community and technical college;
(3)
"Division" means the Governor's Workforce Investment Division of the West Virginia Development Office ;
(4) "Summer internship program" means the PROMISE Scholarship Summer Internship Program, including paid summer internships, apprenticeships and unpaid volunteer work experiences;
(5) "Business partner" whether used in the singular or plural, means a business, government agency, nongovernment agency, or nonprofit organization located in West Virginia which participates in the PROMISE Scholars Summer Internship Program; and
(6) "Intern" means a PROMISE scholar who is participating in the PROMISE Scholarship Summer Internship Program
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(c) Effective the first day of July, two thousand eight, each PROMISE scholar is required to register with a center to participate in a summer internship program. The student shall accept at least one paid summer internship during the time that he or she is receiving the PROMISE Scholarship if the center determines that a suitable placement is available. The student may choose to serve one or more additional paid or unpaid internships, apprenticeships or volunteer work experiences while receiving the PROMISE Scholarship.
(d) Business partners shall register with the local center in their area and shall supply the center with a job description for each internship they have available. The local center is responsible for hosting job fairs for business partners to meet and interview prospective interns seeking summer employment.
(e) The division shall support the summer internship program and shall provide the following services:
(1) Recruit business partners to make available meaningful paid summer employment, paid apprenticeships or unpaid volunteer work experiences for PROMISE scholars;
(2) Sponsor a fall and a spring career fair for all PROMISE scholars who are seniors; and
(3) Provide a report to the respective institutions explaining how students are being prepared for the world of work using feedback from the business community.

(f) The career planning and placement center of a participating institution is responsible for preparing PROMISE scholars for job interviews and for hosting campus interviews with prospective employers for PROMISE scholars.
(g) The division shall prepare a performance evaluation in a standardized format and make it available to all participating business partners to evaluate the work performance of each intern. At the end of the summer internship, each employer shall forward the completed evaluation to the local center. The center shall collect and analyze the data from all the evaluation forms it receives before forwarding the individual evaluation to the career planning and placement office of the appropriate institution.
(h) By the first day of November, two thousand eight, and annually thereafter, each local center shall collect and analyze the data from performance evaluations prepared by the business partners and provide a summary of the analysis to the division. The center also shall include in its report a record of
job offers made to PROMISE scholars as a consequence of internships, apprenticeships, volunteer work experiences or other activity provided for in this section.
(i) The division shall compile all information received from centers throughout the state relevant to the summer internship program and prepare a report for the Governor by the first day of January, two thousand nine, and annually thereafter, analyzing the effectiveness of the program and data on job offers PROMISE scholars have received, together with any recommendations for programmatic or procedural changes to the summer internship program for the upcoming year.
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