NOTE: The governor signed this measure on 4/2/2012.
      
      
      HOUSE BILL 12-1061
      
      
      BY REPRESENTATIVE(S) Kagan, Casso, Court, Duran, Ferrandino,
      Fields, Hamner, Hullinghorst, Jones, Kefalas, Kerr A., Labuda, Lee, Levy,
      Miklosi, Pabon, Pace, Peniston, Ryden, Schafer S., Singer, Solano, Todd,
      Tyler, Vigil, Williams A., Wilson, Young;
      also SENATOR(S) Newell, Aguilar, Bacon, Boyd, Foster, Heath, Hodge,
      Hudak, Schwartz, Steadman, Tochtrop, Williams S., Shaffer B.
      
      
      Concerning requiring a report of the correlation between the
           educational credentials issued and the state's workforce
           needs.
       
      
      Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
      
           SECTION 1.  In Colorado Revised Statutes, add 23-1-130 as
      follows:
      
           23-1-130.  Department duty to report on workforce needs and
      credential production - repeal. (1)  This section shall be known as the
      "Skills for Jobs Act".
      
           (2)  To the extent practicable within available resources
      and subject to the availability of data currently collected by
      and accessible to state agencies, the department, in consultation
      with the department of labor, the department of regulatory
      agencies, and any other entity the department deems appropriate,
      shall produce an annual report regarding state workforce need
      projections and credential production. The report shall:
      
           (a)  Indicate the state's anticipated workforce needs and the
      number of degrees, certificates, and other credentials that public
      and private institutions of higher education, private occupational
      schools, local district colleges, and area vocational schools
      expect to issue;
      
           (b)  To the extent provided by sources external to the
      department, indicate the state's anticipated number of degrees,
      certificates, and other credentials that high school vocational
      programs, apprenticeship programs, and other public or private
      workforce training programs expect to issue;
      
           (c)  Identify any workforce needs, including areas of
      specialization within a particular vocation, that may not be met
      by the education, training, and apprenticeship programs; and
      
           (d)  Identify institutions, public or private, that may meet
      projected workforce needs. The department, by January 15 of each
      year, beginning in 2013, shall provide a copy of the report to the
      education committees of the house of representatives and the
      senate, or any successor committees, to the economic and business
      development committee of the house of representatives, or any
      successor committee, to the business, labor, and technology
      committee of the senate, or any successor committee, and to the
      governor.
      
           (3)  The department shall send the report to every public
      postsecondary governing board in the state and shall work with
      the department of education to provide the report to the state's
      public school districts, the Colorado charter school institute,
      and Colorado private elementary, middle, and high schools.
      
           (4)  This section is repealed, effective July 1, 2016.
      
           SECTION 2.  Act subject to petition - effective date. This act
      takes effect at 12:01 a.m. on the day following the expiration of the
      ninety-day period after final adjournment of the general assembly (August
      8, 2012, if adjournment sine die is on May 9, 2012); except that, if a
      referendum petition is filed pursuant to section 1 (3) of article V of the state
      constitution against this act or an item, section, or part of this act within
      such period, then the act, item, section, or part will not take effect unless
      approved by the people at the general election to be held in November 2012
      and, in such case, will take effect on the date of the official declaration of
      the vote thereon by the governor.
      
      
      
      
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      Frank McNulty                      Brandon C. Shaffer
      SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE                     PRESIDENT OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
      
      
      ____________________________  ____________________________
      Marilyn Eddins                      Cindi L. Markwell
      CHIEF CLERK OF THE HOUSE                 SECRETARY OF
      OF REPRESENTATIVES                         THE SENATE
      
      
      
      
                  APPROVED________________________________________
      
      
      
      
      
                                    _________________________________________
                                    John W. Hickenlooper
                                    GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF COLORADO