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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 6956
January Session, 2025
LCO No. 4697
Referred to Committee on LABOR AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES
Introduced by:
(LAB)
AN ACT CONCERNING YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING
FUNDS.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 31-3mm of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective July 1, 2025): 2
(a) The Labor Department, within available appropriations, shall 3
establish a program to distribute youth employment and training funds 4
to regional workforce development boards. 5
(b) Funds provided for in this section shall be allocated [as follows: 6
(1) Thirty-two and five-tenths per cent to Capitol Workforce Partners; 7
(2) twenty-two and five-tenths per cent to The Workforce Alliance; (3) 8
twelve and five-tenths per cent to The Workplace, Inc.; (4) twenty-two 9
and five-tenths per cent to the Northwest Regional Workforce 10
Investment Board, Inc.; and (5) ten per cent to the Eastern Connecticut 11
Workforce Investment Board.] to the regional workforce development 12
boards by the Labor Commissioner based on the percentage of 13
disadvantaged youth, as defined in 29 USC 3162(b)(2), in each 14
workforce development region. The percentage of disadvantaged youth 15
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in each workforce development region shall be based on the census data 16
for persons defined as disadvantaged youth and adults, as published by 17
the United States Department of Labor, Employment and Training 18
Administration, or any successor data. 19
(c) For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2026, and any fiscal year 20
thereafter in which new census data is released, if any regional 21
workforce development board faces a reduction in such board's 22
allocation of funds pursuant to subsection (b) of this section that exceeds 23
fifteen per cent of the prior fiscal year's allocation, the funding for the 24
other regional workforce development boards shall be reduced 25
proportionately so that the reduction for such board's allocation may 26
not exceed fifteen per cent. 27
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 July 1, 2025 31-3mm
Statement of Purpose:
To update the allocation of the Connecticut Youth Employment
Program funds.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline, except
that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is not
underlined.]