MO HB1628

Transfers the Office of Workforce Development from the Department of Economic Development to the Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development, changing statutory references throughout Missouri law

Relocates provisions governing the Missouri Workforce Development Board from Chapter 620 (economic development) to Chapter 173 (higher education), renumbering sections 620.511-620.513 to sections 173.2570-173.2572

Moves Wagner-Peyser Act employment services provisions and federal job training coordination requirements to the new Department of Higher Education and Workforce Development

Repeals Section 173.236 establishing the Vietnam Veteran's Survivors Grant program, which had already expired on December 31, 2015

Repeals two versions of Section 167.910 that established the Career Readiness Course Task Force, which was required to present findings by December 1, 2019 and dissolve afterward