Division of Occupational Safety and Health: regulations.

(1) Existing law grants the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, which is within the Department of Industrial Relations, jurisdiction over all employment and places of employment, with the power necessary to enforce and administer all occupational health and safety laws and standards, including standards for the operation of passenger tramways. Under existing law, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board, an independent entity within the department, has the exclusive authority to adopt occupational safety and health standards within the state. This bill would require the division to formulate and propose rules and regulations for adoption by the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board for the safe design, manufacture, installation, repair, maintenance, use, operation, and inspection of all passenger tramways as necessary to protect the public. The bill would require the division to adopt all other rules and regulations necessary for the administration and enforcement of these provisions on passenger tramways. (2) Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, that generally requires employers to secure the payment of workers' compensation for injuries incurred by their employees that arise out of, or in the course of, employment. Existing law defines "employee" for those purposes. This bill would correct an obsolete cross-reference within the provision that defines "employee." (3) Existing federal law, the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014, repeals and supersedes the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 and provides for the establishment of a state workforce development board to develop strategies to support the use of career pathways for the purpose of providing individuals with workforce investment activities, education, and support services necessary for them to enter the workforce or retain employment. Existing law contains various programs for job training and employment investment. Conforming to the federal act, existing state law, the California Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, renames the California Workforce Investment Board the California Workforce Development Board and renames local workforce investment boards as local workforce development boards. Existing law establishes the Employment Training Panel within the Employment Development Department and prescribes the functions and duties of the panel with respect to certain employment training programs. Existing law relating to the panel references the superseded federal act and refers to the state and local boards by their former names. Existing law declares the intent of the Legislature that programs developed pursuant to these provisions not replace, parallel, supplant, compete with, or duplicate in any way already existing approved apprenticeship programs. This bill would delete the above-described intent provision. The bill would update statutory references in provisions relating to the panel to refer to the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014, the California Workforce Development Board, and local workforce development boards.