California Workforce Investment Board: responsibilities.

(1) Under existing law, the California Workforce Investment Board is responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California's workforce investment system. Existing law requires the board to assist the Governor in targeting resources to specified industry sectors and providing guidance to ensure that services reflect the needs of those sectors. This bill would additionally require the board to assist the Governor in helping individuals with barriers to employment achieve economic security and upward mobility by implementing policies that encourage the attainment of marketable skills relevant to current labor market trends. (2) Existing law requires the California Workforce Investment Board, in consultation with the Division of Apprenticeship Standards, to identify opportunities for "earn and learn" job training opportunities that meet an industry's workforce demands and that are in high-wage, high-demand jobs, identify and develop specific requirements and qualifications for entry into "earn and learn" job training models, and establish standards for "earn and learn" job training programs that are outcome oriented and accountable, as specified. This bill would define the term "earn and learn" for the purposes of these provisions. (3) This bill would incorporate additional changes to Sections 14000, 14005, and 14013 of the Unemployment Insurance Code made by this bill and AB 1270 to take effect if both bills are chaptered and this bill is chaptered last.