2014 -- S 2998
Enacted 07/03/14
RELATING TO STATE AFFAIRS AND GOVERNMENT -- RHODE ISLAND HUMAN RESOURCES INVESTMENT COUNCIL
Introduced By: Senators P Fogarty, Doyle, Satchell, Walaska, and Pichardo
Date Introduced: May 08, 2014
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 42-102-10 of the General Laws in Chapter 42-102 entitled "Rhode Island Human Resource Investment Council" is hereby amended to read as follows:
42-102-10. State Career Pathways System. -- The
human resource investment council shall establish
support and oversee a State Career Pathways System for the purposes of increasing
the skill level of Rhode Island workers in alignment with industry needs
statewide efforts to develop and expand career
pathways that enable individuals to secure employment within a specific
industry or occupational sector, and to advance over time to successively
higher levels of education and employment in that sector. Towards
this purpose, the council shall establish a task force of fifteen (15) members. Nine (9)
members of the task force shall be appointed by the governor from
recommendations made by the human resource investment council, two (2) of whom
shall be representatives of the state Industry Partnerships; two (2) of whom
shall be representatives of the adult education profession (one of which shall
be a representative of the office of Adult Education Services at the Rhode
Island department of education); three (3) of whom shall be persons who,
because of vocation, employment or affiliation, can be classified as employers;
and two (2) of whom shall be persons who, because of vocation, employment or
affiliation, can be classified as employees. The commissioner of higher
education, the commissioner of elementary and secondary education, the director
of the department of labor and training, the executive director of the economic
development corporation and the director of the community college of Rhode
Island's center for workforce and community education shall serve on the task
force by virtue of their respective positions. The governor shall also appoint
a chair of the task force to be chosen from amongst the membership of the human
resource investment council. convene an
advisory committee comprised of representatives from business, labor, adult
education, secondary education, higher education, the department of
corrections, the executive office of health and human services, the office of
library and information services, community-based organizations, and the public
workforce system. The task force shall
work in coordination with the adult education committee of the human resource
investment council to develop and oversee the career pathways system.
SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage.
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