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IN HB1084
Bill
Status
1/6/2015
Primary Sponsor
Dan Forestal
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AI Summary
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Establishes the green jobs training program administered by the department of workforce development to provide job training opportunities for eligible workers in green industry sectors and occupations.
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Defines eligible workers as individuals who are unemployed, displaced workers, or former military members who served on active duty in any branch of the U.S. armed forces or National Guard.
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Defines green jobs as positions involving technology that promotes clean energy, reduces greenhouse gases or carbon emissions, or eliminates hazardous substances through chemical product innovation.
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Creates the green jobs training fund consisting of general assembly appropriations, investment earnings, and other deposited funds to award grants to employers and other persons for worker training that enables eligible workers to develop green job skills.
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Requires the department to adopt policies and procedures for grant applications, selection criteria, recipient requirements, and reporting, and to submit annual reports to the legislative council before September 1 each year.
Legislative Description
Grants for green industry jobs. Establishes the green jobs training program to support opportunities for eligible workers to receive job training in green industry sectors and occupations. Requires the department of workforce development (department) to administer the program. Establishes the green jobs training fund. Provides that the department shall: (1) identify and develop the framework, potential funding, strategies, policies, partnerships, and opportunities necessary to address the need for a highly skilled and well-trained workforce to meet the needs of the green economy; and (2) subject to the availability of appropriated funds, award grants from the green jobs training fund to
Last Action
First Reading: referred to Committee on Commerce, Small Business and Economic Development
1/6/2015