Legislative Session number- 83

Bill Name: SF2646

E Modifying the state dislocated worker program under the job skills
partnership; broadening the definition of dislocated worker; +modifying certain
job skills partnership board grant and services funds allocation +requirements
and the uses of the funds, providing for short and long term +training;
transferring the responsibility for the establishment of performance +standards
from the board to the commissioner of employment and economic +development
(DEED), requiring contracts with local workforce investment boards +and with
eligible organizations involved with substantial layoffs or plant +closings and
annual performance reports to the legislature; defining certain terms+ for DEED
merger purposes; repealing certain reporting requirements of grantees+ and the
board (ra, ja)