E Modifying the state dislocated worker program under the job skills partnership; broadening the definition of dislocated worker; +modifying certain job skills partnership board grant and services funds allocation +requirements and the uses of the funds, providing for short and long term +training; transferring the responsibility for the establishment of performance +standards from the board to the commissioner of employment and economic +development (DEED), requiring contracts with local workforce investment boards +and with eligible organizations involved with substantial layoffs or plant +closings and annual performance reports to the legislature; defining certain terms+ for DEED merger purposes; repealing certain reporting requirements of grantees+ and the board (ra, ja)