(a) Not later than November thirtieth each year, the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education, higher education and employment advancement and labor shall meet with the chairperson of the Technical Education and Career System board and the superintendent of the Technical Education and Career System, the Labor Commissioner, the Commissioner of Economic and Community Development and such other persons as they deem appropriate to consider the items submitted pursuant to subsection (b) of this section.

(b) On or before November fifteenth, annually:

(1) The Labor Commissioner shall submit the following to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education, higher education and employment advancement and labor: (A) Information identifying general economic trends in the state; (B) occupational information regarding the public and private sectors, such as continuous data on occupational movements; and (C) information identifying emerging regional, state and national workforce needs over the next thirty years.

(2) The superintendent of the Technical Education and Career System shall submit the following to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education, higher education and employment advancement and labor: (A) Information ensuring that the curriculum of the Technical Education and Career System is incorporating those workforce skills that will be needed for the next thirty years, as identified by the Labor Commissioner in subdivision (1) of this subsection, into the technical education and career schools; (B) information regarding the employment status of students who graduate from or complete an approved program of study at the Technical Education and Career System, including, but not limited to: (i) Demographics such as age and gender, (ii) course and program enrollment and completion, (iii) employment status, and (iv) wages prior to enrolling and after graduating; (C) an assessment of the adequacy of the resources available to the Technical Education and Career System as the system develops and refines programs to meet existing and emerging workforce needs; (D) recommendations to the Technical Education and Career System board to carry out the provisions of subparagraphs (A) to (C), inclusive, of this subdivision; (E) information regarding staffing at each technical education and career school for the current academic year academic year; and (F) information regarding the transition process of the Technical Education and Career System as an independent agency, including, but not limited to, the actions taken by the Technical Education and Career System board and the superintendent to create a budget process and maintain programmatic consistency for students enrolled in the technical education and career system. The superintendent Technical Education and Career System shall collaborate with the Labor Commissioner to obtain information as needed to carry out the provisions of this subsection.

(P.A. 88-330, S. 1, 5; P.A. 97-136, S. 1; P.A. 07-40, S. 1; P.A. 08-153, S. 5; P.A. 10-76, S. 3; P.A. 11-48, S. 89; Oct. Sp. Sess. P.A. 11-1, S. 34; P.A. 12-116, S. 71; P.A. 14-59, S. 1; P.A. 16-42, S. 2; P.A. 17-219, S. 12; 17-237, S. 11, 59.)

History: P.A. 97-136 added recommendations on role of school craft committees and alternative technical training models to the duties of the committee; P.A. 07-40 added semiannual meeting requirement, replaced recommendations to be made by committee in former Subdivs. (1) to (4) with duties of committee in new Subdivs. (1) to (5), increased membership of committee to 19 and replaced former appointment process with new process in Subparas. (A) to (M), effective July 1, 2007; P.A. 08-153 amended Subparas. (A) and (B) to reduce number of full-time employees at qualifying firms to 500 or more and, in Subpara. (B), to specify that one appointee be a teacher in the regional vocational-technical school system, amended Subparas. (C), (D) and (E) to reduce number of full-time employees at qualifying firms to more than 50 but fewer than 500 and amended Subparas. (F) and (G) to reduce number of full-time employees at qualifying firms to 50 or fewer, effective July 1, 2008; P.A. 10-76 replaced former provisions re state-wide advisory committee with Subsec. (a) re meeting of legislative committees with superintendent of regional vocational-technical school system, director of Office of Workforce Competitiveness and Labor Commissioner to consider information and issues re state workforce and regional vocational-technical school system and Subsec. (b) re submission of information, assessment and recommendations, effective July 1, 2010; P.A. 11-48 removed references to director of the Office of Workforce Competitiveness, effective July 1, 2011; Oct. Sp. Sess. P.A. 11-1 amended Subsec. (a) by adding Commissioner of Economic and Community Development to list of persons with whom legislative committees shall meet and amended Subsec. (b) by adding Subdiv. (3) re submission of information and recommendations by Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, effective October 27, 2011; P.A. 12-116 added “chairperson of the technical high school system board and the” in Subsec. (a) and replaced references to regional vocational-technical high school system with references to technical high school system throughout, effective July 1, 2012; P.A. 14-59 amended Subsec. (b)(2) to add provision re submission of employment status information re students who complete an approved program of study, to add provisions specifying employment status information to include demographics, course enrollment and completion, and wages prior to enrolling and after graduating, and to add provision requiring superintendent to collaborate with Labor Commissioner to obtain information, effective July 1, 2014; P.A. 16-42 amended Subsec. (b)(2) by replacing “State Board of Education” with “technical high school system board” in Subpara. (D), and adding Subpara. (E) re information re staffing at each technical high school for current academic year, effective July 1, 2016; P.A. 17-219 amended Subsec. (b) by deleting former Subdiv. (3) re required submissions by Commissioner of Economic and Community Development; P.A. 17-237 amended Subsec. (b)(2) by replacing references to technical high school system and technical high school with references to Technical Education and Career System and technical education and career school, adding Subpara. (F) re information regarding transition process of system as independent agency, making a technical change, and replaced references to technical high school system and technical high school with references to Technical Education and Career System and technical education and career school, respectively, effective July 1, 2017.