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HB 2726 Local workforce development boards; career pathways for opportunity youth, report.

Introduced by: Matthew James - Resigned 5/19 | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Local workforce development boards; career pathways for opportunity youth; report. Requires each local workforce development board to develop focused strategies for engaging opportunity youth and placing them on pathways to education, training, and careers. The bill also provides for local workforce development boards to develop performance measures for evaluating the results of the implementation of such strategies and submit the measures annually to the Governor's Chief Workforce Development Advisor by November 30. "Opportunity youth" is defined in the bill as individuals between the ages of 16 and 24 who are (i) homeless, in foster care, or involved in the justice system or (ii) neither gainfully employed nor enrolled in an educational institution.


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