Section 14211 Of Article 1. Local Workforce Development Board From California Unemployment Insurance Code >> Division 7. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 1.
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. (a) (1) Beginning program year 2012, an amount equal to at
least 25 percent of funds available under Title I of the federal
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-128)
provided to local workforce investment boards for adults and
dislocated workers shall be spent on workforce training programs.
This minimum may be met either by spending 25 percent of those base
formula funds on training or by combining a portion of those base
formula funds with leveraged funds as specified in subdivision (b).
(2) Beginning program year 2016, an amount equal to at least 30
percent of funds available under Title I of the federal Workforce
Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-128) provided
to local workforce development boards for adults and dislocated
workers shall be spent on workforce training programs. This minimum
may be met either by spending 30 percent of those base formula funds
on training or by combining a portion of those base formula funds
with leveraged funds as specified in subdivision (b).
(3) Expenditures that shall count toward the minimum percentage of
funds shall include only training services as defined in Section
3174(c)(3)(D) of Title 29 of the United States Code and the
corresponding sections of the Code of Federal Regulations, including
all of the following:
(A) Occupational skills training, including training for
nontraditional employment.
(B) On-the-job training.
(C) Programs that combine workplace training with related
instruction, which may include cooperative education programs.
(D) Training programs operated by the private sector.
(E) Skill upgrading and retraining.
(F) Entrepreneurial training.
(G) Incumbent worker training in accordance with Section 3174(d)
(4) of Title 29 of the United States Code.
(H) Transitional jobs in accordance with Section 3174(d)(5) of
Title 29 of the United States Code.
(I) Job readiness training provided in combination with any of the
services described in subparagraphs (A) to (H), inclusive.
(J) Adult education and literacy activities provided in
combination with services described in any of subparagraphs (A) to
(G), inclusive.
(K) Customized training conducted with a commitment by an employer
or group of employers to employ an individual upon successful
completion of the training.
(b) (1) Local workforce development boards may receive a credit of
up to 10 percent of their adult and dislocated worker formula fund
base allocations for public education and training funds and private
resources from industry and from joint labor-management trusts that
are leveraged by a local workforce development board for training
services described in paragraph (3) of subdivision (a). This credit
may be applied toward the minimum training requirements in paragraphs
(1) and (2) of subdivision (a).
(A) Leveraged funds that may be applied toward the credit allowed
by this subdivision shall only include the following:
(i) Federal Pell Grants established under Title IV of the federal
Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. Sec. 1070 et seq.).
(ii) Programs authorized by the federal Workforce Innovation and
Opportunity Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-128).
(iii) Trade adjustment assistance.
(iv) Department of Labor National Emergency Grants.
(v) Match funds from employers, industry, and industry
associations.
(vi) Match funds from joint labor-management trusts.
(vii) Employment training panel grants.
(B) Credit for leveraged funds shall only be given if the local
workforce development board keeps records of all training
expenditures it chooses to apply to the credit. Training expenditures
may only be applied to the credit if the relevant training costs can
be independently verified by the Employment Development Department
and training participants must be coenrolled in the federal Workforce
Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 performance monitoring
system.
(2) The use of leveraged funds to partially meet the training
requirements specified in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (a)
is the prerogative of a local workforce development board. Costs
arising from the recordkeeping required to demonstrate compliance
with the leveraging requirements of this subdivision are the
responsibility of the local board.
(c) Beginning program year 2012, the Employment Development
Department shall calculate for each local workforce development
board, within six months after the end of the second program year of
the two-year period of availability for expenditure of federal
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act of 2014 funds, whether the
local workforce development board met the requirements of subdivision
(a). The Employment Development Department shall provide to each
local workforce development board its individual calculations with
respect to the expenditure requirements of subdivision (a).
(d) A local workforce development area that does not meet the
requirements of subdivision (a) shall submit a corrective action plan
to the Employment Development Department that provides reasons for
not meeting the requirements and describes actions taken to address
the identified expenditure deficiencies. A local workforce
development area shall provide a corrective action plan to the
Employment Development Department pursuant to this section within 90
days of receiving the calculations described in subdivision (c).
(e) For the purpose of this section, "program year" has the same
meaning as provided in Section 667.100 of Title 20 of the Code of
Federal Regulations.