California Senate Bill SB956 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: SB 956AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 17, 2010 INTRODUCED BY Senator Romero (Coauthors: Senators Alquist and Oropeza) FEBRUARY 5, 2010 An act to add Section 14025 to the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to workforce development. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST SB 956, as amended, Romero. Workforce development: California School Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program. The federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 makes funding available to states that offer training and workforce development services through the state and local workforce investment boards. The California Workforce Investment Board, which is the entity responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California's workforce investment system, is required to recommend strategies to the Governor for strategic training investments of certain discretionary funding made available under the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998. Existing law also establishes the California School Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program for the purpose of recruiting school paraprofessionals to encourage them to enroll in teacher training programs and to provide instructional service as teachers in the public schools. This bill would require the California Workforce Investment Board  , upon appropriation by the Legislature,  to allocate $5,000,000 of the  federal Workforce Investment Act's 15% discretionary funds  Workforce Investment Act state reserve, as provided for by federal law,  to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to increase spending for the California School Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 14025 is added to the Unemployment Insurance Code, to read: 14025.  (a)    In accordance with the policies and purposes of the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. Sec. 2801 et seq.), and its implementing regulations, and to the extent that federal funding is made available to the state under the act, the board  , upon appropriation by the Legislature,  shall allocate five million dollars ($5,000,000) of the  federal Workforce Investment Act's 15-percent discretionary funds to the   Workforce Investment Act state reserve provided pursuant to Section 2853 of Title 29 of the United States Code to the  Commission on Teacher Credentialing to increase spending for the California School Paraprofessional Teacher Training Program (Article 12 (commencing with Section 44390) of Chapter 2 of Part 25 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Education Code).  (b) Notwithstanding any other law, any Workforce Investment Act funds allocated or expended by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing pursuant to this section shall be expended for the purposes of statewide employment and training activities, and shall not be allocated or expended in any manner inconsistent with the Workforce Investment Act.