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HB 526 Workforce Development, Department of; created.

Introduced by: Clarke N. Hogan | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Department of Workforce Development. Creates the Department of Workforce Development, which reports to the Secretary of Commerce and Trade. The Department will serve as the administrator and fiscal agent for the Workforce Development Program, which program includes nearly every federal and state workforce training program and resource available to the Commonwealth and now being administered within several different state agencies. The Department's responsibilities include serving as liaison for workforce training within state government; working with the Virginia Workforce Council to develop uniform policies and procedures for the one-stop centers and evaluate the performance of local workforce investment boards; and monitoring federal legislation and policy in order to maximize the effective use of program funds. The state agencies now administering the various workforce development programs that will be consolidated under the Department are to transfer staff and funding from their respective administrations. The Governor is authorized to transfer appropriations and support other organizational changes as required by the bill. The provisions creating the department and transferring to it both responsibility for administering the Workforce Investment Act programs and for assisting the Virginia Workforce Council become effective December 1, 2004. The balance of the bill's provisions become effective July 1, 2005.


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