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HB 851 Workforce Training Council, statewide; created.

Introduced by: Alan A. Diamonstein | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY:

Statewide Workforce Training Council. Establishes the 25-member Statewide Workforce Training Council to assist the Commonwealth in meeting workforce training needs. Its membership includes various state officials involved in education, technology, and business, and 18 citizens representing business, industry, and proprietary schools.

The Council is to (i) identify current and emerging workforce needs of the business community, (ii) assess potential markets for increasing the number of workers available to business and industry, (iii) forecast and identify training requirements for the new workforce, (iv) create strategies that will match trained workers with available jobs, and (v) certify courses and programs of training as appropriate and responding to the needs of business and industry in the Commonwealth.

This measure is a recommendation of the HJR 622 Joint Subcommittee to Study Noncredit Education for Workforce Training in the Commonwealth.


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