Nevada § 232.935 - Governor’s Workforce Development Board: Appointment of members; duties; regulations; consistency of certain actions with State Plan for Economic Development; regional industry or sector partnerships

§ 232.935. Governor’s Workforce Development Board: Appointment of members; duties; regulations; consistency of certain actions with State Plan for Economic Development; regional industry or sector partnerships

1. In appointing members of the Governor's Workforce Development Board, the Governor

shall ensure that the membership as a whole represents: (a) Members of the local workforce development boards and other business representatives

from industry sectors which are essential to this State and which are driven primarily

by demand; (b) Communities and areas of economic development which are essential to this State;

and (c) The diversity of the workforce of this State, including, without limitation, geographic

diversity and the diversity within regions of this State. 2. The Governor's Workforce Development Board shall: (a) Collaborate with the local workforce development boards and regional development

authorities to: (1) Identify: (I) Industry sectors which are essential to each region of this State; and (II) The region or regions of this State where the majority of the operations of each

of those industry sectors is conducted; and (2) Establish: (I) Regional goals for economic development for each of the industry sectors identified

pursuant to this paragraph; and (II) Regional industry or sector partnerships for each industry sector. (b) Consider and develop programs to promote: (1) Strategies to improve labor markets for industries and regions of this State,

including, without limitation, improving the availability of relevant information; (2) Coordination of the efforts of relevant public and private agencies and organizations; (3) Strategies for providing funding as needed by various industry sectors; (4) Increased production capacities for various industry sectors; (5) The development of useful measurements of performance and outcomes in various

industry sectors; (6) Participation by and assistance from state and local government agencies; (7) Expanded market penetration, including, without limitation, by providing assistance

to employers with small numbers of employees; (8) Partnerships between labor and management; (9) Business associations; (10) The development of improved instructional and educational resources for employers

and employees; and (11) The development of improved economies of scale, as applicable, in industry sectors. 3. Each regional industry or sector partnership established pursuant to subparagraph

(2) of paragraph (a) of subsection 2: (a) Must be composed of representatives from: (1) Employers within that industry; (2) Organized labor within that industry, if applicable; (3) Universities and community colleges; and (4) Any other relevant group of persons deemed to be appropriate by the local workforce

development board. (b) Shall, within the parameters set forth in the American Recovery and Reinvestment

Act of 2009 or the parameters of any other program for which the federal funding is

available, identify job training and education programs which the regional industry

or sector partnership determines to have the greatest likelihood of meeting the regional

goals for economic development established for that industry sector pursuant to subparagraph

(2) of paragraph (a) of subsection 2. (c) Shall report on an annual basis and as necessary to the Governor's Workforce Development

Board. 4. The Governor's Workforce Development Board shall: (a) Identify and apply for federal funding available for the job training and education

programs identified pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 3; (b) Consider and approve or disapprove applications for money; (c) Provide and administer grants of money to regional industry or sector partnerships

for the purpose of establishing job training and education programs in industry sectors

for which regional goals for economic development have been established pursuant to

subparagraph (2) of paragraph (a) of subsection 2; and (d) Adopt regulations establishing: (1) Guidelines for the submission and review of applications to receive grants of

money from the Department; and (2) Criteria and standards for the eligibility for and use of any grants made pursuant

to paragraph (c). Except as otherwise required as a condition for federal funding, the regulations required

by this subsection must give priority to job training and education programs that

are consistent with the State Plan for Economic Development developed by the Executive

Director of the Office of Economic Development pursuant to subsection 2 of NRS 231.053 . 5. The Governor's Workforce Development Board shall: (a) Receive reports from the Director pursuant to paragraph (e) of subsection 1 of NRS 232.920 ; (b) Require all applicable agencies which provide workforce development services to

coordinate efforts and resources to reduce the rate of unemployment for a demographic

group contained in the report provided pursuant to paragraph (e) of subsection 1 of NRS 232.920 if, for that demographic group, the rate of unemployment for the group: (1) Is 200 percent or more of the rate of unemployment for the applicable county as

a whole; (2) Is 4 or more percentage points higher than the rate of unemployment for the applicable

county as a whole; or (3) Has been higher than the rate of unemployment for the applicable county as a whole

for 3 or more consecutive years; and (c) Provide a written report each year to the Director of the Department and the Director

of the Legislative Counsel Bureau describing the efforts made by the Governor's Workforce

Development Board and all applicable agencies to comply with paragraph (b). 6. In carrying out its powers and duties pursuant to this section, the Governor's

Workforce Development Board shall consult with the Executive Director of the Office

of Economic Development and shall cooperate with the Executive Director in implementing

the State Plan for Economic Development developed by the Executive Director pursuant

to subsection 2 of NRS 231.053 . 7. As used in this section: (a) “ Industry sector ” means a group of employers closely linked by common products or services, workforce

needs, similar technologies, supply chains or other economic links. (b) “ Regional industry or sector partnership ” means a workforce collaborative, convened by or acting in partnership with the Governor's

Workforce Development Board or a local board of workforce development that organizes

key stakeholders in an industry cluster into a working group that focuses on the shared

goals and human resources needs of the industry cluster.