Legislative Session number- 81

Bill Name: SF3708

Creating the job training coordination center in the office of strategic and
long range planning, requiring the director of the office to appoint a manager
of the center with experience in the job training needs of the private sector.
requiring the cooperation of state agencies and local government units with the
center; requiring the center to annually review state job training programs and
make recommendations to the legislature relating to consolidation, modification,
elimination and addition of job training programs and to the allocation of funds
in the workforce development fund, requiring the center to establish
accountability measures for programs to use in evaluating the programs;
requiring the center to serve as staff to the governors workforce development
council and requiring the council to consult with the center before allocating
job training funds, providing for center policy direction; authorizing center
grants to nonprofit organizations for job training programs, specifying certain
evaluation requirements; appropriating money to the office from the workforce
development fund for the center (mk)