The Governor shall appoint a committee to study areas of career and technology training in South Carolina. The committee is composed of representatives of the business community, the General Assembly, and the various agencies involved in career and technology training. Based on the findings of the committee, the Governor shall make recommendations to the General Assembly related to a coordinated statewide program of career and technology training which addresses the following concerns:

(1) duplication of services and people served;

(2) need for a comprehensive assessment of future job opportunities in South Carolina and the relationships of those opportunities to the direction of future job training efforts;

(3) need for a unified plan to coordinate job training efforts;

(4) need for a standard management information system;

(5) insufficient emphasis on entrepreneur training and information and service occupations;

(6) narrow missions of special schools;

(7) training systems not prepared to handle federal cutbacks in funding;

(8) insufficient coordination with private employers to provide job training;

(9) insufficient coordination of training needs for special target groups;

(10) lack of coordination of illiteracy efforts with job training programs;

(11) other barriers which prevent a coordinated, accessible, and efficient job training effort in South Carolina.

HISTORY: 1985 Act No. 201, Part II, Section 9(H); 2005 Act No. 49, Section 16, eff May 3, 2005.

Effect of Amendment

The 2005 amendment, in the introductory paragraph, added "and technology" in three places following "career" and redesignated items (a) to (k) as items (1) to (11).