To extend indefinitely a 2008 law that authorized state job training subsidies for particular employers provided through community colleges. Also, to revise details of a condition of the subsidies requiring a beneficiary to pay certain minimum wage levels. Senate Bill 71 would repeal a $50 million annual debt cap on the program.   Official Text and Analysis.

With the recommendation that the bill pass.

To remove an effective date provision.

To require each employee who gets the job training to be paid at least 175 percent of the minimum wage if effect at the time of the training, rather than in effect when the agreement between the college and the employer was signed.

To prohibit companies that accept these job training subsidies from also claiming "refundable tax credit" subsidies (often cash transfers) that had been selectively granted to particular firms under the previous administration.

To extend indefinitely a 2008 law that authorized state job training subsidies for particular employers provided through community colleges. Also, to revise details of a condition of the subsidies requiring a beneficiary to pay certain minimum wage levels. Senate Bill 71 would repeal a $50 million annual debt cap on the program. The bill was amended to also prohibit a corporation from taking both these subsidies and "refundable tax credit" subsidies (often cash payments) granted particular firms by the previous administration.

The vote by which the bill was passed.

To extend indefinitely a 2008 law that authorized state job training subsidies for particular employers provided through community colleges. Also, to revise details of a condition of the subsidies requiring a beneficiary to pay certain minimum wage levels. Senate Bill 71 would repeal a $50 million annual debt cap on the program. The bill was amended to prohibit the beneficiary companies from also collecting certain other state subsidies and tax breaks.

With the recommendation that the substitute (H-1) be adopted and that the bill then pass.

To delete a provision prohibiting a company that is already collecting subsidies and tax breaks under an since-repealed "economic development" program from also getting the job training subsidies the bill would extend.

To extend until 2023 the sunset on a 2008 law that authorized state job training subsidies for particular employers provided through community colleges. Also, to revise details of a minimum wage condition on the subsidies. The House removed a Senate-passed provision prohibiting the beneficiary companies from also collecting certain other state subsidies and tax breaks. Senate Bill 71 would repeal a $50 million annual debt cap on the program.

To concur with the House-passed version of the bill.