(a) Not later than March 1, 2023, the Office of Workforce Strategy, in consultation with the Labor Department, Office of Higher Education and Technical Education and Career System, shall establish, within available appropriations, a heating, ventilation and air conditioning system pipeline training pilot program. The pilot program shall develop preapprenticeship workforce pipeline training programs that are (1) designed to identify and support the training of individuals from underserved and underrepresented populations and historically marginalized communities in the installation and maintenance of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, and any associated trades related to the installation and maintenance of heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems, (2) offered to such individuals, and (3) include comprehensive career navigational and wraparound training services including, but not limited to, recruitment, job coaching, supportive services inclusive of transportation services and job placement support. The office shall utilize the selection criteria developed pursuant to subsection (b) of this section to select organizations to provide services as part of the pilot program.
(b) The Office of Workforce Strategy, in consultation with the Labor Department, shall develop selection criteria prioritizing (1) low-income and underrepresented individuals who reside in a municipality with a population of more than one hundred thousand, and (2) nonprofit and community-based organizations currently serving low-income and underrepresented individuals.
(c) The Office of Workforce Strategy, in consultation with the Labor Department, the Office of Higher Education and the Technical Education and Career System, may identify recent heating, ventilation and air conditioning system program participants in the state and support such participants in transitioning into a career to immediately fill existing heating, ventilation and air conditioning system talent demands.
(d) Not later than December 1, 2023, the Office of Workforce Strategy shall submit a report to the Governor and the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to education, higher education and employment advancement and labor and public employees, in accordance with the provisions section 11-4a. Such report shall include, but not be limited to, the number of individuals who have enrolled in a training program offered as part of the pilot program, the number of individuals who have completed such training programs, and the number of individuals who have completed such training program and obtained a permanent job in the heating, ventilation and air conditioning system sector.
(P.A. 22-118, S. 368.)
History: P.A. 22-118 effective July 1, 2022.
Structure Connecticut General Statutes
Title 10 - Education and Culture
Chapter 172 - Support of Public Schools. Transportation
Section 10-250. - Report showing number of children.
Section 10-251. - Penalty for refusing to give age of child.
Section 10-252. - Children in state receiving homes. Employment of teachers.
Section 10-255. - Waiver of forfeiture.
Section 10-256. - Misapplication of school money.
Section 10-257. - Income of town deposit fund.
Section 10-257h. - Data to be transmitted.
Section 10-257i. - Educational roundtable committee.
Section 10-258. - Trust funds.
Section 10-259. - Fiscal and school year defined.
Section 10-260. - State aid to towns.
Section 10-260a. - Auditing of state grants for public education. Review of procedures manual.
Section 10-261. - Definitions.
Section 10-261a. - Equalized net grand lists for purposes of educational equalization grants.
Section 10-261b. - Data re transfers of real property for preparation of equalized net grand lists.
Section 10-262f. - Definitions.
Section 10-262h. - Equalization aid grants.
Section 10-262j. - Minimum budget requirement.
Section 10-262k. - Grants for compensatory education programs.
Section 10-262l. - Grants for improvement in student achievement.
Section 10-262m. - Grants for high level of foster care placements in a school district.
Section 10-262n. - Grants to improve the use of technology in schools.
Section 10-262o. - Grant program for teacher technology training programs.
Section 10-262q. - Centralized web-based site for educators.
Section 10-262r. - Computer-assisted writing, instruction and testing. Pilot program.
Section 10-262t. - Grants to support plans that implement cost-saving strategies.
Section 10-262u. - Alliance districts.
Section 10-263. - Withholding of payments; adjustments for underpayments and overpayments of grants.
Section 10-263c. - Transitional school district grant program.
Section 10-263e. - Safe learning grant program.
Section 10-264. - Temporary additional payment.
Section 10-264e. - Grant applications.
Section 10-264f. - Grants for single districts or one or more schools within a district.
Section 10-264g. - Grants for two or more districts.
Section 10-264h. - Grants for capital expenditures for interdistrict magnet school facilities.
Section 10-264i. - Transportation grants for interdistrict magnet school programs.
Section 10-264p. - Sliding tuition scale for preschool programs offered at certain magnet schools.
Section 10-264r. - Reduced-isolation setting standards.
Section 10-265a. - Definitions.
Section 10-265aa. - The Partnership for Connecticut, Inc. Purposes, powers and reports.
Section 10-265b. - State grants for vocational education equipment.
Section 10-265bb. - Duties of the corporation.
Section 10-265c. - Distribution of funds. Grant application; limitations.
Section 10-265cc. - Board of directors.
Section 10-265d. - Bond authorization.
Section 10-265dd. - Funding to further the purposes of the collaboration.
Section 10-265e. - Definitions.
Section 10-265ee. - Financial assistance provided by the corporation. State assistance.
Section 10-265f. - Early reading success grant program.
Section 10-265ff. - Philanthropic Match account.
Section 10-265i. - Grants for priority school districts for the purchase of library books.
Section 10-265j. - Model early childhood learning programs.
Section 10-265n. - Even start family literacy program.
Section 10-265o. - Municipal aid for new educators grant program.
Section 10-265p. - Wraparound services grant program.
Section 10-265q. - Educational reform district science grant program.
Section 10-265r. - Heating, ventilation and air conditioning system grant program.
Section 10-265s. - Heating, ventilation and air conditioning system pipeline training pilot program.
Section 10-265t. - Bond issue for school air quality improvement grants.
Section 10-266aa. - State-wide interdistrict public school attendance program.
Section 10-266cc. - Lighthouse schools.
Section 10-266dd. - Sheff Lighthouse Schools.
Section 10-266ee. - Dr. Joseph S. Renzulli Gifted and Talented Academy. Grant.
Section 10-266j. - Intercommunity programs for disadvantaged children.
Section 10-266m. - Transportation grants.
Section 10-266p. - Priority school district grant program.
Section 10-266q. - Proposals and plans for expenditure of grant.
Section 10-266r. - Evaluation of program. Financial statement of expenditures.
Section 10-266s. - Interdistrict leadership grant program.
Section 10-266w. - School breakfast grant program.
Section 10-266x. - Development of innovative programs for educational improvement.
Section 10-266y. - Competitive grant program for certain high school projects.
Section 10-273a. - Reimbursement for transportation to and from elementary and secondary schools.
Section 10-276b. - Diverse learning environment for state-funded interdistrict programs.
Section 10-280a. - Transportation for pupils in nonprofit private schools outside school district.
Section 10-280c. - Nonpublic school transportation services pilot program.
Section 10-281. - Transportation for pupils in nonprofit private schools within school district.