2012 Connecticut General Statutes
Title 31 - Labor
Chapter 556a - Workforce Development
Section 31-11s - Connecticut Employment and Training Commission recommendations re appropriation of Workforce Investment Act funds.

(a) On or before February 9, 2000, and annually thereafter, the Connecticut Employment and Training Commission shall make recommendations consistent with the provisions of the single Connecticut workforce development plan submitted to the Governor pursuant to section 31-11r to the Governor and the General Assembly concerning the appropriation of funds received for adult workforce development activities under the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998, P.L. 105-220, as from time to time amended, for (1) job-related vocational, literacy, language or numerical skills training; (2) underemployed and at-risk workers; (3) individuals with barriers to full-time, stable employment, including language, basic skills and occupational literacy barriers; (4) vocational training using apprentice and preapprentice programs and customized job training programs that are designed to serve at-risk workers and promote job retention and the obtainment of higher wage jobs; (5) special incentives for programs that successfully train (A) women for nontraditional employment, and (B) minorities for occupations or fields of work in which such minorities are underrepresented; and (6) special grants or contracts in each region for training programs that target workers who are difficult to serve, including, but not limited to, workers (A) with limited literacy or numerical skills, (B) without a high school diploma or its equivalent, or (C) for whom English is a second language. For purposes of this section, “nontraditional employment” refers to occupations or fields of work for which women comprise less than twenty-five per cent of the individuals employed in each such occupation or field of work.

(b) On or before February 9, 2000, and annually thereafter, the commission shall make recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly concerning the appropriation of funds received under the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998, P.L. 105-220, as from time to time amended, for young adult programs for teenage parents, those at risk of dropping out of school and young adults who attend technical high schools, adult education programs or other programs to assist such persons in attaining a high school diploma or its equivalent.

(c) On or before February 9, 2000, and annually thereafter, the commission shall make recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly concerning the appropriation of funds received under the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998, P.L. 105-220, as from time to time amended, for dislocated workers.

(d) Pursuant to Section 189(i)(4)(A) of the federal Workforce Investment Act of 1998, P.L. 105-220, as from time to time amended, the Governor is authorized by the General Assembly to apply for a waiver of federal eligibility requirements to allow incumbent workers with annual family incomes that do not exceed two hundred per cent of the poverty level guidelines issued by the federal Department of Health and Human Services to receive job training services.

(P.A. 99-195, S. 12, 15; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2, S. 101.)

History: P.A. 99-195 effective June 23, 1999; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 12-2 amended Subsec. (b) to substitute “technical high schools” for “regional vocational-technical high schools”.