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Work Force Skills Development Fund |
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(Parenthesis
( ) Indicate Expenditure Decreases)
Duplicates SB 368
Relates to
HB 567/SB 455:
Faculty Development Fund
HB 391/SB 366:
LFC Technology Enhancement Fund
HB 392/SB 370:
LFC Higher Education Program Development Enhancement Fund
HB 393/SB369:
LFC Higher Education Performance Fund
HJM 27/SJM 25:
LFC Higher Education Performance Fund
HB 160/SB 221:
Work Force Skills Development Fund
SB 14:
Community College High Skills Training
LFC Files
Commission on Higher Education (CHE)
Department of Labor (DOL)
Economic Development Department
SUMMARY
Synopsis
of Bill
House Bill 394 creates a new, non-reverting fund, the Work Force Skills Development Fund. Money in the money is appropriated to the CHE to provide matching funds from the Work Force Skills Development Fund to the state’s community colleges for the development, expansion and support of broad-based entry-level high-skills training programs.
The CHE would
administer the fund and develop rules by which applications for funding would
be considered. Applications would be
subject to competitive selection by a panel of education, business and labor
experts appointed by CHE. The community
college would provide an equal or greater funding match from non-state sources.
Significant
Issues
DOL notes the program could duplicate existing
programs such as those available through Workforce Investment Act and the
In-Plant training program.
This is a Legislative Finance
Committee-sponsored bill.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
No fiscal impact. This bill does not include an appropriation.
OTHER SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES
CHE notes this bill
reflect the Blue Ribbon Task Force on Higher Education-recommended Base Plus
Incentives funding approach.
According to CHE, this
funding would support an incentive program directly linking education, training
and economic development for rural and urban areas along with regional and
statewide needs. In addition, this
program would complement the state’s in-plant training program as well as the
federal Workforce Investment Act’s voucher system.
Under the provisions
of the Accountability in Government Act, two-year institutions report performance
associated with an outcome measure addressing percent of graduates who were
placed in jobs in New Mexico based on unemployment insurance wage data. In addition to performance measures required
by AGA, two-year institutions provide data relevant to five major areas of a
community college mission, including responding to the ongoing training needs
of the state’s workforce.
AW/njw