Requires the commissioner of education to produce an annual report regarding state workforce projections and education credential production; and provides for the repeal of such provisions.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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1099--A
2017-2018 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 6, 2017
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Introduced by Sens. RIVERA, SEPULVEDA -- read twice and ordered printed,
and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Education --
recommitted to the Committee on Education in accordance with Senate
Rule 6, sec. 8 -- committee discharged, bill amended, ordered
reprinted as amended and recommitted to said committee
AN ACT to require the commissioner of education, in consultation with
the department of labor and any other appropriate agency, to produce
an annual report regarding state workforce projections and education
credential production; and providing for the repeal of such provisions
upon expiration thereof
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The commissioner of education, in consultation with the
2 department of labor and any other appropriate agency, shall produce an
3 annual report regarding state workforce need projections and credential
4 production. The report shall:
5 a. indicate the state's anticipated workforce needs for the next four
6 years and the number of degrees, certificates, and other credentials
7 that institutions of higher education and vocational schools expect to
8 issue over the next four years;
9 b. indicate the state's anticipated number of degrees, certificates
10 and other credentials that high school vocational programs, apprentice-
11 ship programs and other workforce training programs expect to issue over
12 the next four years;
13 c. identify any workforce needs, including areas of specialization and
14 levels of experience within a particular vocation, that may not be met
15 by current education, training, and apprenticeship programs;
16 d. determine whether additional career and technical education
17 programs are needed to help fill identified workforce needs;
18 e. identify institutions that can meet the workforce needs through
19 expansion of existing programs or by developing new programs; and
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 f. determine whether the education department, in conjunction with the
2 department of labor, can make future information, studied and provided
3 for under this act, available on a real-time basis, including a determi-
4 nation of the funds needed to implement such a system, the ability of
5 current technology to accomplish real-time reporting, the need for any
6 new technology to aid in real-time reporting, and the benefit provided
7 to employers, employees, and educators in providing such information on
8 a real-time basis.
9 § 2. On or before January 1, 2019, and every year thereafter, the
10 commissioner of education shall submit a report to the governor, tempo-
11 rary president of the senate, the speaker of the assembly, and the
12 chairs of the education committees of the assembly and the senate of the
13 findings made pursuant to section one of this act, and include recommen-
14 dations to expand programs to meet workforce needs. Such report shall
15 also include legislative proposals as such commissioner deems necessary
16 to implement his or her recommendations.
17 § 3. This act shall take effect immediately and shall expire and be
18 deemed repealed four years after such date.
