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2013 SESSION
13100613DBe it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That §§ 2.2-2670 and 2.2-2674.1 of the Code of Virginia are amended and reenacted as follows:
§ 2.2-2670. Powers and duties of the Council; Virginia Workforce Network created.
A. The Council shall undertake the following actions to implement and foster workforce training, exclusive of the career and technical education programs provided through and administered by the public school system:
1. Provide policy advice to the Governor on workforce and workforce development issues;
2. Provide policy direction to local workforce investment boards;
3. Identify current and emerging statewide workforce needs of the business community;
4. Forecast and identify training requirements for the new workforce;
5. Create strategies that will match trained workers with available jobs;
6. Provide an annual report to the Governor concerning its actions and determinations under subdivisions 1 through 5;
7. Create procedures, guidelines, and directives applicable to local workforce investment boards and the operation of one-stops, as necessary and appropriate to carry out the purposes of this article; and
8. Perform any act or function in accordance with the purposes of this article.
B. The Council shall establish at least two committees as follows: one committee to accomplish the aims of the WIA and one committee to focus on high-technology workforce training needs.
C. The Council and the Governor's cabinet secretaries shall assist the Governor in complying with the provisions of the WIA and ensuring the coordination and effectiveness of programs and providers comprising elements of the Virginia Workforce Network.
D. The Council shall assist the Governor in the following areas with respect to workforce development: development of the WIA State Plan; development and continuous improvement of a statewide workforce development system; development of linkages to ensure coordination and nonduplication among programs and activities; review of local plans; designation of local areas; development of local discretionary allocation formulas; development and continuous improvement of comprehensive state performance measures including, without limitation, performance measures reflecting the degree to which one-stop centers provide comprehensive services with all mandatory partners and the degree to which local workforce investment boards have obtained funding from sources other than the WIA; preparation of the annual report to the U.S. Secretary of Labor; development of a statewide employment statistics system; development of incentive grant applications; and development of a statewide system of one-stop centers that provide comprehensive workforce services to employers, employees, and job seekers.
The Council shall share information regarding its meetings and activities with the public.
E. The Council shall assist the Governor in creating and annually updating an informational brochure to advise each eleventh grade student in public high school and his parents of vocational and technical job opportunities and trends. The annual brochure shall include conspicuous links to the Virginia Workforce Network website and the Virginia Workforce Connection website and detailed instructions for electronically accessing the Virginia Workforce Network's Employment Resource Guide, labor market data, and vocational and technical career information and job postings.
The Council shall coordinate with local school divisions to distribute a brochure to each eleventh grade student, intended for review by student and parents, near the start of each academic year and to deliver brochures for display in and distribution by the guidance counselor office of each public high school in the Commonwealth. The Council shall also coordinate with each local workforce investment board to send brochures for display in and distribution by each one-stop center in the Commonwealth.
E. F. Each
local workforce investment board shall develop and submit to the Governor and
the Virginia Workforce Council an annual workforce demand plan for its
workforce investment board area based on a survey of local and regional
businesses that reflects the local employers' needs and requirements and the
availability of trained workers to meet those needs and requirements; designate
or certify one-stop operators; identify eligible providers of youth activities;
identify eligible providers of intensive services if unavailable at one-stop;
develop a budget; conduct local oversight of one-stop operators and training
providers in partnership with its local chief elected official; negotiate local
performance measures, including incentives for good performance and penalties
for inadequate performance; assist in developing statewide employment statistics;
coordinate workforce investment activities with economic development strategies
and the annual demand plan, and develop linkages among them; develop and enter
into memoranda of understanding with one-stop partners and implement the terms
of such memoranda; promote participation by the private sector; actively seek
sources of financing in addition to WIA funds; report performance statistics to
the Virginia Workforce Council; and certify local training providers in
accordance with criteria provided by the Virginia Workforce Council.
Each local workforce investment board shall share information regarding its meetings and activities with the public.
F. G. Each
chief local elected official shall consult with the Governor regarding
designation of local workforce investment areas; appoint members to the local
board in accordance with state criteria; serve as the local grant recipient
unless another entity is designated in the local plan; negotiate local
performance measures with the Governor; ensure that all mandated partners are
active participants in the local workforce investment board and one-stop center
and collaborate with the local workforce investment board on local plans and
program oversight.
G. H. Each local
workforce investment board shall develop and enter into a memorandum of
understanding concerning the operation of the one-stop delivery system in the
local area with each entity that carries out any of the following programs or
activities:
1. Programs authorized under Title I of the WIA;
2. Programs authorized under the Wagner-Peyser Act (29 U.S.C. § 49 et seq.);
3. Adult education and literacy activities authorized under Title II of the WIA;
4. Programs authorized under Title I of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. § 720 et seq.);
5. Welfare-to-work programs authorized under § 403 (a) (5) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. § 603 (a) (5));
6. Activities authorized under title V of the Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. § 3056 et seq.);
7. Postsecondary vocational education activities authorized under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act (20 U.S.C. § 2301 et seq.);
8. Activities authorized under chapter 2 of Title II of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. § 2271 et seq.);
9. Activities pertaining to employment and training programs for veterans authorized under chapter 41 of title 38, United States Code;
10. Employment and training activities carried out under the Community Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. § 9901 et seq.);
11. Employment and training activities carried out by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development;
12. Programs authorized under Title 60.2, in accordance with applicable federal law;
13. Workforce development activities or work requirements of the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program known in Virginia as the Virginia Initiative for Employment, not Welfare (VIEW) program established pursuant to § 63.2-608; and
14. The workforce development activities or work programs authorized under the Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. § 2011 et seq.).
H. I. The
Governor shall be responsible for the coordination of the Virginia Workforce
Network and the implementation of the WIA.
§ 2.2-2674.1. Definitions.
As used in this article:
"Local workforce investment board" means a local workforce investment board established under § 117 of the WIA.
"One stop" means a conceptual approach to service delivery intended to provide a single point of access for receiving a wide range of workforce development and employment services, either on-site or electronically, through a single system.
"One-stop center" means a physical site where core services are provided, either on-site or electronically, and access to intensive services, training services, and other partner program services are available for employers, employees, and job seekers.
"One-stop operator" means a single entity or consortium of entities that operate a one-stop center or centers. Operators may be public or private entities competitively selected or designated through an agreement with a local workforce board.
"Virginia Workforce Network" includes the programs
and activities enumerated in subsection G H of § 2.2-2670.
"WIA" means the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (P.L. 105-220).