Second Regular Session
              Sixty-fourth General Assembly
                    STATE OF COLORADO
                                                INTRODUCED 
                                                           
 LLS NO. 04-0076.01 Michele Hanigsberg   HOUSE BILL 04-1029
                    HOUSE SPONSORSHIP
 Boyd,  Cloer, Coleman, Frangas, Johnson R., Stafford, and Tochtrop
 
                   SENATE SPONSORSHIP
 Hagedorn,  Hanna, Kester, and Sandoval
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 House Committees
 Senate Committees
 
 
 Health, Environment, Welfare, & Institutions
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                         A BILL FOR AN ACT
       Concerning authorization for counties to increase
            participation in vocational education by Colorado
            works participants.
       
       
                           Bill Summary
       
            (Note:  This summary applies to this bill as introduced and does
       not necessarily reflect any amendments that may be subsequently
       adopted.)
       
            Welfare Oversight Committee.  Requires the department of
       human services ("department") to notify each county, within 30 days after
       the beginning of the state fiscal year, of the department's projection
       regarding the county's adjusted work participation rate for that state fiscal
       year.
            Authorizes each county to use 75% of the county's adjusted work
       participation rate for the purpose of placing Colorado works participants
       in vocational education for longer than 12 months in order to meet critical
       skills shortages in the labor market.
       
       
       
       Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
            SECTION 1.  Part 7 of article 2 of title 26, Colorado Revised
       Statutes, is amended BY THE ADDITION OF A NEW SECTION to
       read:
            26-2-714.5.  Adjusted work participation rate - notification -
       county authorization - vocational education.  (1)  The state
       department shall notify each county, within thirty days after
       the beginning of the state fiscal year, of the state department's
       projection regarding the county's adjusted work participation
       rate for that state fiscal year.
            (2)  Each county is authorized to use seventy-five percent
       of the county's adjusted work participation rate for the purpose
       of placing participants in vocational education, as that term is
       defined in rule by the state board, for longer than twelve
       months in order to meet critical skills shortages in the labor
       market.
            SECTION 2.  Effective date.  This act shall take effect at 12:01
       a.m. on the day following the expiration of the ninety-day period after
       final adjournment of the general assembly that is allowed for submitting
       a referendum petition pursuant to article V, section 1 (3) of the state
       constitution (August 4, 2004, if adjournment sine die is on May 5, 2004);
       except that, if a referendum petition is filed against this act or an item,
       section, or part of this act within such period, then the act, item, section,
       or part, if approved by the people, shall take effect on the date of the
       official declaration of the vote thereon by proclamation of the governor.