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Passed to be engrossed - see Roll Call #208 [YEAS 38 to NAYS 0]

S2192  ·  Senate roll call No. 208  ·  2017-10-26  ·  190th General Court (2017 to 2018)
38 yeas, 0 nays, 0 absent  ·  the Clerk's sheet (PDF)

Amendment 1, moved by Senate Committee on Ways and Means  ·  Adopted, as Amended

An Act to diversify the use of the Workforce Training Fund to support the Workforce Competitiveness Trust Fund.

SECTION 1. Subsection (b) of section 2RR of chapter 29 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2016 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:- (3) To provide grants for pipeline training for unemployed persons by an employer with a job vacancy; provided, however, that the director shall not allocate more than 5 per cent of the annual capitalization of the fund to provide for such grants. In determining grant recipients, the director shall contract with the Commonwealth Corporation to distribute the grants in a need based, competitive process in accordance with the rules and parameters outlined in section 2WWW. The grants shall be performance based and 50 per…

yea · 38

An asterisk marks a vote the sheet records as entered after the roll closed. A member shown as "not linked" is a name on the sheet that did not resolve to exactly one member of the session's roster; it is left as printed rather than guessed.