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IA SSB1068
SB
AI Summary
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Removes several Department of Workforce Development duties including administering statewide employment skills assessments, selecting service providers, and maintaining education-related job posting systems
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Repeals programs including the Iowa Conservation Corps, workforce investment program, statewide mentoring program, new employment opportunity program, and nursing workforce data clearinghouse
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Modifies unemployment insurance "taxable wages" definition to include only wages paid in Iowa, eliminating reciprocity provisions that previously counted wages from other states extending like comity
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Eliminates one component of the Iowa student internship program (linking students to small/medium-sized firms) while retaining the STEM-focused internship component, and appropriates $1,039,425 to the Iowa student internship fund for FY 2025-2026
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Transfers adult education and literacy program duties from being jointly administered by the department and community colleges to the department alone, with community colleges now serving only in a consultative role
Legislative Description
A bill for an act relating to workforce training, unemployment insurance, adult education, and other functions and programs of the department of workforce development, the workforce development board, and local workforce development boards, and making appropriations.(See SF 222, SF 603.)
Last Action
Committee report approving bill, renumbered as SF 222.
2/5/2025