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2019 SESSION
SB 1589 Virginia Works Portal; created.
Introduced by: Siobhan S. Dunnavant | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Education and workforce development; Virginia Works Portal created; report. Creates the Virginia Works Portal, administered by the Virginia Economic Development Partnership Authority, to provide one-stop access to information regarding education pathways, career opportunities, and workforce development information available from agencies, institutions, and entities around the Commonwealth. The bill provides that the Portal shall provide an interactive, user-friendly environment and must be available to the public by July 1, 2020. The bill creates the five-person Virginia Works Board chaired by the Governor's Chief Workforce Development Advisor to oversee the Portal and the Virginia Works Advisory Committee of public and private sector stakeholders to advise the Board. The Virginia Works Board is directed to report annually to the Joint Subcommittee on the Future Competitiveness of Virginia Higher Education and to the Governor and Chairmen of the House Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on Finance. The provisions of the bill are contingent on funding in a general appropriation act.
FULL TEXT
- 01/09/19 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101378D pdf
- 01/28/19 Senate: Committee substitute printed 19105865D-S1 pdf | impact statement
- 01/31/19 Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106294D-S2 pdf | impact statement
HISTORY
- 01/09/19 Senate: Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/09/19 19101378D
- 01/09/19 Senate: Referred to Committee on General Laws and Technology
- 01/28/19 Senate: Reported from General Laws and Technology with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/28/19 Senate: Committee substitute printed 19105865D-S1
- 01/28/19 Senate: Rereferred to Finance
- 01/31/19 Senate: Reported from Finance with substitute (15-Y 0-N)
- 01/31/19 Senate: Committee substitute printed 19106294D-S2
- 02/04/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/19 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/05/19 Senate: Committee substitute rejected
- 02/05/19 Senate: Read second time
- 02/05/19 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/05/19 Senate: Committee substitute rejected 19105865D-S1
- 02/05/19 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/05/19 Senate: Committee substitute agreed to 19106294D-S2
- 02/05/19 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - committee substitute SB1589S2
- 02/05/19 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/05/19 Senate: Passed Senate (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/08/19 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/08/19 House: Read first time
- 02/08/19 House: Referred to Committee on Appropriations
- 02/08/19 House: Assigned App. sub: Commerce, Agriculture, Natural Resources & Technology
- 02/13/19 House: Subcommittee recommends passing by indefinitely (7-Y 1-N)
- 02/19/19 House: Left in Appropriations