Budget Amendment ID: FY2016-S3-386

ECO 386

Workforce Competitiveness Trust Fund

Messrs. Donnelly and Rodrigues, Ms. Donoghue, Messrs. Lewis, Lesser, McGee and Moore, Ms. Lovely, Mr. Eldridge, Ms. Gobi, Messrs. Wolf, Barrett, Humason, Kennedy and Pacheco moved that the proposed new text be amended in section 2, in item 7002-1075, by inserting after the words "For the Workforce Competitiveness Trust Fund established in section 2WWW of chapter 29 of the General Laws" the following words:-

"which may be used for workforce training strategies including but not limited to sector based training and pre-employment services, focused on underemployed and unemployed residents in the Commonwealth; provided that the funds may be used to support regional industry sector partnerships and may be used to support individual training vouchers administered to nonprofit job training providers with recognized success in providing skills training for residents, provided that job training providers shall report on trainees successful completion of the program as well as successful job placement the salary and benefits that participants receive after placement, and the cost per participant as the secretary of the executive office of labor and workforce determined";

and in said item, by striking out the figures "$2,000,000" and inserting in place thereof the figures "$5,000,000"