SB1130: Get Skilled, Get a Job, Get Ahead Program; SCHEV to convene workgroup to develop plan for expanding.

Legislative Summary

Institutions of higher education; Get Skilled, Get a Job, Get Ahead Program. Directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to convene a work group, consisting of the Director of the Council or his designee, the Director of the Virginia Office of Education Economics, the Director of Transfer of the Virginia Community College System, the Chancellor of the System, the Deputy Secretary of Higher Education, the Deputy Secretary of Labor, the Chair of the Virginia Board of Workforce Development, three presidents of community colleges in the Commonwealth or their designees, three presidents of baccalaureate public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth or their designees, and the Chairs of the House Committee on Education, the Senate Committee on Education and Health, the Senate Subcommittee on Higher Education, and the House Subcommittee on Higher Education, for the purpose of making recommendations on and developing a plan for expanding the Get Skills, Get a Job, Get Ahead (G3) Program. The bill requires the work group to submit a report on its recommendations and plan for the expansion of the G3 Program to the Chairs of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by October 1, 2024. Institutions of higher education; Get Skilled, Get a Job, Get Ahead Program. Directs the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia to convene a work group, consisting of the Director of the Council or his designee, the Director of the Virginia Office of Education Economics, the Director of Transfer of the Virginia Community College System, the Chancellor of the System, the Deputy Secretary of Higher Education, the Deputy Secretary of Labor, the Chair of the Virginia Board of Workforce Development, three presidents of community colleges in the Commonwealth or their designees, three presidents of baccalaureate public institutions of higher education in the Commonwealth or their designees, and the Chairs of the House Committee on Education, the Senate Committee on Education and Health, the Senate Subcommittee on Higher Education, and the House Subcommittee on Higher Education, for the purpose of making recommendations on and developing a plan for expanding the Get Skills, Get a Job, Get Ahead (G3) Program. The bill requires the work group to submit a report on its recommendations and plan for the expansion of the G3 Program to the Chairs of the House Committee on Education and the Senate Committee on Education and Health by October 1, 2024.