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General Assembly Substitute Bill No. 1089
January Session, 2023
AN ACT CONCERNING A WORKFORCE TRAINING AND
EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING PROGRAM.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2023) (a) The Office of 1
Workforce Strategy shall develop a workforce training and experiential 2
learning program to ensure access to training for careers in 3
mechatronics, cybersecurity, three-dimensional printing, the Internet 4
of things and chartered global management accounting. 5
(b) The Office of Workforce Strategy shall: 6
(1) Consult with related businesses on an ongoing basis to assess the 7
hiring needs of such businesses; 8
(2) Develop an application for prospective enrollees in the 9
workforce training and experiential learning program developed 10
pursuant to this section; 11
(3) Partner with regional workforce development boards and 12
institutions of higher education to offer workforce training and 13
experiential learning programs; 14
(4) Develop a series of career pathways to ensure that workers have 15
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(5) Partner with associated training providers to track and report 17
performance outcomes of participants in the workforce training and 18
experiential learning program. 19
(c) Upon completion of the workforce training and experiential 20
learning training program, enrollees may opt to have their information 21
provided to businesses as prospective employees. 22
(d) Not later than July 1, 2024, and annually thereafter, the Office of 23
Workforce Strategy shall submit a report, in accordance with the 24
provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes, on the workforce 25
training and experiential learning program developed pursuant to 26
subsections (a) to (c), inclusive, of this section to the joint standing 27
committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters 28
relating to commerce, education, higher education and employment 29
advancement and labor and public employees. Such report may 30
include information on the (1) workforce training and experiential 31
learning program completion and job placement rate of individuals 32
who participated in such program, and (2) starting wages and wage 33
growth of individuals employed after participating in the workforce 34
training and experiential learning program. 35
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2023 New section
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