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Budget Amendments - HB30 (Committee Approved)

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Workforce Investment Act (language only)

Item 130 #7h

Item 130 #7h

Commerce And Trade
Virginia Employment Commission

Language
Page 85, after line 26, insert:
"D.1.  Unexpended funds appropriated by the General Assembly for the use of local Workforce Investment Boards and returned to the Commonwealth shall be reappropriated to the Virginia Community College System.  The reappropriated funds shall be allocated to the community colleges located in the Workforce Investment Areas where the funds were not spent.  The funds shall be used for high-priority education programs, including allied health professions, plumbing, tractor-trailer driver training, industrial maintenance, heavy-equipment operator training, automotive technician training, industrial machinist training, and high-skills manufacturing.  The Commissioner of the Virginia Employment Commission and Chancellor of the Virginia Community College System shall report to the Chairmen of the House Appropriations and Senate Finance Committees by November 1 of each year on the amounts returned from the local Workforce Investment Boards and uses of the funds transferred to the Virginia Community College System.  
2. As part of its current review of workforce training services in Virginia, the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission shall examine the feasibility of transferring the administration of the Workforce Investment Act from the Virginia Employment Commission to the Virginia Community College System to improve the program's effectiveness."


Explanation
(This amendment reappropriates any unused Workforce Investment Act funds that are returned to the Virginia Employment Commission to the Virginia Community College System for use in several high priority training programs and directs the Joint Legislative Audit and Review Commission, as part of its current state workforce training review, to examine the feasibility of transferring the Workforce Investment Act provision to the Virginia Community College System to improve program effectiveness.)