PRINTER'S NO. 745
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
394
Session of
2019
INTRODUCED BY MULLERY, MURT, HILL-EVANS, RABB, BERNSTINE,
HICKERNELL, FREEMAN, SCHLOSSBERG, NEILSON, CALTAGIRONE,
ROEBUCK, IRVIN, MILLARD, McCLINTON, THOMAS, RAPP, BROWN,
HARKINS AND STRUZZI, MARCH 6, 2019
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION, MARCH 6, 2019
AN ACT
Amending the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), entitled "An
act relating to the public school system, including certain
provisions applicable as well to private and parochial
schools; amending, revising, consolidating and changing the
laws relating thereto," in vocational education, providing
for a workforce development program clearinghouse.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known
as the Public School Code of 1949, is amended by adding a
section to read:
Section 1842.1. Workforce Development Program
Clearinghouse.--(a) No later than January 1, 2020, the
Department of Education shall, in consultation with the
Department of Labor and Industry, conduct an inventory to
determine the number and types of workforce development programs
offered at secondary and postsecondary institutions. The
Department of Education may, in consultation with the Department
of Labor and Industry, compile a clearinghouse of model programs
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discovered during the inventory. The Department of Education
and the Department of Labor and Industry shall encourage the use
of the model programs, which may include prioritizing available
grant funding for applicants seeking funds to establish
workforce development programs that are modeled after the
programs included in the inventory, by secondary career and
technical education programs, postsecondary programs and
business and industry to:
(1) expand existing programs into areas of this Commonwealth
where there is a need; and
(2) foster business-education partnerships.
(b) The Department of Education shall report its findings
and actions under subsection (a) to the chairman and minority
chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate, the
chairman and minority chairman of the Appropriations Committee
of the House of Representatives, the chairman and minority
chairman of the Education Committee of the Senate and the
chairman and minority chairman of the Education Committee of the
House of Representatives, no later than June 30, 2020.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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