PRINTER'S NO. 3172
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
2231
Session of
2020
INTRODUCED BY KAUFER, GROVE, MURT, BERNSTINE, PICKETT, MILLARD,
MASSER AND NEILSON, JANUARY 17, 2020
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LABOR AND INDUSTRY, JANUARY 17, 2020
AN ACT
Amending the act of December 18, 2001 (P.L.949, No.114),
entitled "An act establishing a unified workforce investment
system; restructuring certain administrative functions,
procedures and entities; transferring workforce development
functions of Commonwealth agencies; establishing the
Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board; providing for
critical job training grants, for guarantees for program
quality and performance for workforce development programs,
for workforce leadership grants and for industry
partnerships; establishing the Keystone Works Program; and
authorizing local workforce investment boards," in
Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board, providing for
funding prohibition and performance metrics.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of December 18, 2001 (P.L.949, No.114),
known as the Workforce Development Act, is amended by adding a
section to read:
Section 306. Funding prohibition and performance metrics.
(a) General rule.--No funds, whether appropriated by the
Federal Government and designated by the Governor for workforce
investment or specifically appropriated by State government for
workforce investment, may be distributed by the Department of
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Labor and Industry to a workforce investment program in a local
area where the program has been established for at least one
year and has failed to demonstrate measurable progress toward
achieving the program's stated objectives through the
performance measures established by the board and local
workforce investment boards.
(b) Alternate distribution.--The funds under subsection (a)
may be distributed by the Department of Labor and Industry to an
existing workforce investment program that has demonstrated
progress within the local area, a new workforce investment
program developed within the local area or, if no such programs
exist, to new or successful programs in other areas of this
Commonwealth as permitted by applicable Federal and State law.
(c) Reporting.--The board shall include information about
funding denied from programs as a result of this section in the
board's required annual report to the General Assembly.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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