S257 - Appropriations Act of 2017. (SL 2017-57)

Overview: Sec. 15.12 of S.L. 2017-57 makes the following changes to the Youth Workforce Investment Program:

• Requires local Workforce Development Boards to include a competitive process for awarding grants that requires youth workforce investment activity grant recipient applicants to provide specified information in their applications.
• Requires, on or before October 1 of each year, that local Workforce Development Boards submit a report to the Joint Legislative Oversight Committee on Agriculture and Natural and Economic Resources, the chairs of the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee on Agriculture and Natural and Economic Resources, the Joint Legislative Education Oversight Committee, and the Fiscal Research Division on prior State fiscal year program activities, expenditures, fund sources, grant recipients, and the amount of each grant.

This section became effective July 1, 2017.