Legislative Report
10/03/14
Bill
Topic/Description
AB 1543
Employment: Mass Layoffs, Relocations and Terminations
Amends an existing law which prohibits an employer from ordering a
mass layoff, relocation, or termination of an industrial or commercial
facility without first giving a specified number of days' written notice
to affected employees and the Employment Development
Department. Requires the Department, upon receipt of the notice, to
forward a copy of the notice to the Governor's Office of Business
and Economic Development. Requires the Department and the
Office to post the notice on their Internet Web sites.
Income Taxes: Credits: Apprenticeships
Relates to the Personal Income Tax and Corporation Tax laws.
Allows a credit against those taxes in a specified amount for each
registered apprentice trained by the taxpayer in the taxable year.
Requires the Division of Apprenticeship Standards in the
Department of Industrial Relations to establish a procedure for
taxpayers to apply and receive a certificate for purposes of the credit
and to prepare reports containing information related to the credit to
be submitted to specified legislative committees.
06/26/2014 - In SENATE.
From third reading. To
Inactive File.
State Workforce Investment Board
Requires the State Workforce Investment Board to identify
opportunities for earn and learn job training opportunities and
develop the means to identify, assess, and prepare a pool of
qualified candidates seeking to earn and learn job training models.
07/21/2014 - Signed by
GOVERNOR.;07/21/2014 Chaptered by Secretary of
State. Chapter No. 157
Holden (D)
Introduced: 1/23/2014
Amended:
4/21/2014
AB 1569
Rodriguez (D)
Introduced: 1/30/2014
Amended:
5/15/2014
AB 1797
Rodriguez (D)
Introduced: 2/18/2014
Status & Location
Priority /Position
Watch
Senate Inactive File
05/23/2014 - In ASSEMBLY.
Joint Rule 62(a)
suspended.;05/23/2014 - In
ASSEMBLY Committee on
APPROPRIATIONS: Held in
committee.
Watch
Assembly Appropriations
Committee
Watch
Amended:
6/4/2014
Requires the Board to prepare and submit to specified legislative
committees a report documenting certain findings and making
recommendations based on those findings.
AB 1910
San Joaquin Valley Regional Planning and Preparedness
Requires the establishment of the San Joaquin Valley Regional
Economic Planning and Preparedness Council to identify and
develop the framework of, and make recommendations to,
appropriate strategies, programs, policies, partnerships, and funding
opportunities that are necessary to address the growing need for a
highly skilled and well-trained workforce to meet the needs of the
Valley's emerging technology and energy economy. Requires a
Council report on an oil and natural gas workforce strategic initiative.
Board of State and Community Corrections
Amends the existing law that established the Board of State and
Community Corrections to pool grant funds in order to deliver
services to a broader target population and maximize the impact of
state funds at the local level. Requires those services include job
training and employment opportunities, and that the target
population includes at-risk youth.
Career Education: Career Education Incentive Program
Establishes the Career Education Incentive Program under the
State Department of Education. Authorizes school districts, county
offices of education, charter schools, and community colleges to
establish career education consortia. Requires the Superintendent
of Public Instruction to report to the governing boards of the member
local educational agencies, including member community college
districts. Specifies the criteria for receipt and expenditure of state
money.
Supervised Population Workforce Training Grant Program
Establishes the Supervised Population Workforce Training Grant
Program. Sets forth grant program eligibility criteria for counties.
Gray (D)
Introduced: 2/19/2014
Amended:
8/18/2014
AB 1920
Campos (D)
Introduced: 2/19/2014
Amended: 8/19/2014
AB 1950
Campos (D)
Introduced: 2/19/2014
Amended:
5/1/2014
AB 2060
Perez V (D)
Chaptered
09/17/2014 - Vetoed by
GOVERNOR.
Watch
Vetoed
09/26/2014 - Chaptered by
Secretary of State. Chapter
No. 601
Support
Chaptered
05/23/2014 - In ASSEMBLY
Committee on
APPROPRIATIONS: Held in
committee.
Watch
Assembly Appropriations
09/17/2014 - Signed by
GOVERNOR.;09/17/2014 -
High
Support
Introduced: 2/20/2014
Amended:
8/20/2014
Provides that eligible uses for grant funds include vocational
training, stipends for trainees, and apprenticeship opportunities for
individuals on probation, mandatory supervision, and postrelease
community supervision. Requires a specified report on the program.
Chaptered by Secretary of
State. Chapter No. 383
Chaptered
AB 2148
Mullin (D)
Introduced: 2/20/2014
Amended:
7/2/2014
AB 2235
Buchanan (D)
Introduced: 2/21/2014
Amended: 8/18/2014
AB 2261
Gorell (R)
Introduced: 2/21/2014
Amended:
Annual Workforce Metrics Dashboard
Requires the State Workforce Development Board to assist the
Governor in the development of an annual workforce metrics
dashboard that measures the state's human capital investments in
workforce development and that provides a status report on
credential and attainment training completion, degree attainment,
and wage gain outcomes of workforce education and training
programs. Requires the aggregation of data provided by
participating workforce program partners, and the reporting of this
data to the Board.
Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities B
Enacts the Kindergarten-University Public Education Facilities Bond
Act of 2014 to authorize an unspecified amount of state general
obligation bonds to provide aid to school districts, county
superintendents of schools, county boards of education, charter
schools, the California Community Colleges, the University of
California, the Hastings College of the Law, and the California State
University to construct and modernize education facilities and school
district facilities funding.
Veterans Services and Workforce Development Division
Establishes the State Veterans Services and Workforce
Development Division to administer veterans assistance programs
provided by the State, and to coordinate with other State entities
regarding informing veterans of benefits and assistance programs
and changes in existing or new programs. Requires the Division to
09/17/2014 - Signed by
GOVERNOR.;09/17/2014 Chaptered by Secretary of
State. Chapter No. 385
Support
Chaptered
08/26/2014 - In SENATE.
From Inactive File. Rereferred to Committee on
RULES.
Support
Senate Rules Committee
05/23/2014 - In ASSEMBLY
Committee on
APPROPRIATIONS: Held in
committee.
High
Watch
4/22/2014
work with the State EDD to transfer the administration of the
programs to the Division.
Assembly Appropriations
Committee
AB 2308
Prisoners: Identification Cards
Requires the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the
Department of Motor Vehicles to ensure that all eligible inmates
released from state prisons have valid identification cards. Defines
eligible inmate for this purpose.
09/26/2014 - Chaptered by
Secretary of State. Chapter
No. 607
Stone (D)
Introduced: 2/21/2014
Amended: 8/22/2014
AB 2615
Muratsuchi (D)
Introduced: 2/21/2014
Chaptered
Unemployment: Workforce Development
Transfers funds from the General Fund to the Work Based Learning
Fund for the purposes of funding work based learning programs for
out of school youth and young adults.
Amended:
AB 2670
Medina (D)
Introduced: 2/21/2014
Amended:
5/6/2014
SB 923
Pavley (D)
Introduced: 1/29/2014
Support
03/13/2014 - To ASSEMBLY
Committee on LABOR AND
EMPLOYMENT.
High
Support/Sponsor
Assembly Labor and
Employment Committee
Small Business Technical Assistance Act of 2014
Enacts the Small Business Technical Assistance Act of 2014, within
the State Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank under the
direction of GO-Biz to serve as the lead state entity for overseeing
the state's participation with specified small business-related
programs. Authorizes the GO-Biz or any other state entity to
contract with a federal small business technical assistance center.
Requires small business assistance related reports to the
Legislature on the GO-Biz Internet Web site.
Educational Apprenticeship Innovation Act: EdPrize
Enacts the Educational Apprenticeship Innovation Act. Distributes a
competitive grant, called Educational Apprenticeship Innovation
Prize, to applicant school districts, county offices of education,
charter schools, and community college campuses for purposes of
05/23/2014 - In ASSEMBLY
Committee on
APPROPRIATIONS: Held in
committee.
Watch
Assembly Appropriations
Committee
09/30/2014 - Vetoed by
GOVERNOR.
Support_If_Amend
ed
Amended:
8/18/2014
SB 935
Leno (D)
Introduced: 2/3/2014
Amended:
5/27/2014
promoting apprenticeships, preapprenticeships, and career
pathways among local educational agencies, institutions of higher
education, and businesses of importance to local economics.
Relates to application value. Relates to special consideration.
Minimum Wage: Annual Adjustment
Increases the minimum wage to various amounts over a period of
years. Increases the minimum wage annually thereafter, to maintain
employee purchasing power that is diminished by the rate of
inflation during the previous year. Provides the adjustment would be
calculated using the State Consumer Price Index. Prohibits the
Industrial Welfare Commission from reducing the minimum wage
and from adjusting the minimum wage if the average percentage of
inflation was negative for the previous year.
Vetoed
06/25/2014 - In ASSEMBLY
Committee on LABOR AND
EMPLOYMENT: Failed
passage.;06/25/2014 - In
ASSEMBLY Committee on
LABOR AND EMPLOYMENT:
Reconsideration granted.
Watch
Assembly Labor and
Employment Committee
SB 1028
Jackson (D)
Introduced: 2/14/2014
Amended:
8/22/2014
Student Financial Aid: Cal Grant C Awards
Requires giving consideration to specified criteria when considering
grant awards. Provides required consideration of an applicant's
financial status. Prioritizes occupational training programs and
industry clusters. Requires publicizing the program to the long-term
unemployed. Provides public notices of job search and placement
services. Relates to outreach participation by local workforce
investment boards. Authorizes wage information to verify
employment status for an grant applicant.
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09/27/2014 - Chaptered by
Secretary of State. Chapter
No. 692
Chaptered
Support_If_Amend
ed