Workforce Development Act

The Workforce Development Act consolidates a state's job-training and employment-services functions under a designated state agency, establishing a division to administer them and requiring coordination with federal workforce programs and with other state agencies. It creates a statewide workforce development board with defined duties, divides the state into local workforce development areas served by their own boards, and adds advisory bodies for youth programs and for skills needs, along with a unit devoted to workforce transition services. It also supplies the definitions used throughout, addresses the legislature's role, and provides for transferring personnel, appropriations, equipment, records, and contracts from predecessor programs into the new structure.

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