Employment Development Department: one-stop career centers: training: apprenticeship.

The federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 provides for workforce investment activities, including activities in which states may participate. Existing law contains various programs for job training and employment investment, including work incentive and employment training outreach programs. Existing law, the California Workforce Investment Act, declares the Legislature's intent to deliver comprehensive workforce services to jobseekers, students, and employers through a system of one-stop career centers that, among other things, make job outreach, intake, job search and placement assistance, and other related services available in one location. Existing law also requires each local workforce investment board to establish at least one full service one-stop career center in the local workforce investment area and to provide specified job placement services. This bill would specify that entrance into on-the-job training through an apprenticeship program approved by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards shall be considered placement into a job. The bill would further require the State Workforce Investment Board and local boards to ensure that programs and services funded by the Workforce Investment Act and directed to apprenticeable occupations, including preapprenticeship training, work in coordination with one or more apprenticeship programs approved by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards, as provided. By imposing new duties on local government with respect to the implementation of these local programs, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these statutory provisions.