Workforce development: training-related job placement: reporting.

Under existing law, the information obtained in the administration of the Unemployment Insurance Code is for the exclusive use and information of the Director of Employment Development in the discharge of the director's duties and is not open to the public. However, existing law permits the use of the information for specified purposes, including to enable the California Workforce Development Board (board) and other entities to access any relevant quarterly wage data necessary for the evaluation and reporting of specified workforce program performance outcomes as required and permitted by various local, state, and federal laws, as specified. Existing law establishes the board as the body responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California's workforce investment system and the alignment of the education and workforce investment systems to the needs of the 21st century economy and workforce. Existing law requires local chief elected officials in a local workforce development area to form a local workforce development board to plan and oversee the workforce investment system, as provided. Existing law requires the Employment Development Department to provide an annual report to the Governor, the Legislature, and the board, on or before November 30, regarding the training and supportive services expenditures made by local workforce development boards pursuant to certain expenditure requirements relating to workforce training programs. This bill would require the board and department to work collaboratively to measure and report on training-related job placement outcomes for individuals receiving job training services, as defined, provided through the workforce system, as provided. The bill would require, among other things, the board and department to create a plan to use existing data to match relevant employee occupational data, employee place of employment data, and employee hours worked data, to persons who enroll in job training services, and to outline various objectives. The bill would require the board and department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to implement the plan, and within 2 years of the appropriation, to summarize and provide an initial report of their findings to specified committees of the Legislature. The bill would require this initial report to be annually updated and included in the annual report the department provides to the Legislature, as described above. The bill would also require the board and department to work with local workforce development boards to develop and implement a means of notifying, prior to their enrollment in a job training service, a person seeking to enroll in those services of the board's and department's findings on the efficacy of those services. The bill would make related findings and declarations. By imposing additional duties on local officials, 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 the statutory provisions noted above.