HF 2171 (LSB 5769YH (3) 83)

HOUSE FILE 2171

BY  D. OLSON

A BILL FOR

An Act providing for a plan to integrate services and relocate workforce centers and including effective date provisions.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  WORKFORCE CENTERS CONSOLIDATION.
   1.  Notwithstanding section 84B.2 or any other provision of law to the contrary, the department of workforce development and the department of education, in consultation with two representatives of Iowa community colleges, shall develop a plan to integrate services and relocate offices with the goal of creating workforce retraining and workforce service centers defined regionally by community college district to best serve the needs of Iowans. The plan shall be submitted to the general assembly by January 14, 2011.
   2.  The plan shall include all of the following:
   a.  Allow for workforce retraining and workforce service centers at each community college.
   b.  (1)  Provide options for maintaining or establishing satellite workforce retraining and workforce service centers in any city in the state that has a population of more than twenty thousand according to the most recent decennial federal census and that does not have a community college.
   (2)  Provide information about the need for services for any such city or cities as described in subparagraph (1).
   3.  The plan should provide special consideration to federally funded offices with integrated services already established.
    Sec. 2.  EFFECTIVE UPON ENACTMENT.  This Act, being deemed of immediate importance, takes effect upon enactment.
EXPLANATION
   This bill provides that the departments of workforce development and education, in consultation with two representatives of Iowa community colleges, shall develop a plan to integrate services and relocate offices in order to create workforce retraining and workforce service centers defined regionally by community college district. The plan must be submitted to the general assembly by January 14, 2011. The bill establishes the criteria for the plan’s integration and relocation requirements.