North Carolina § 96-32 - Common follow-up information management system created.

§ 96-32. Common follow-up information management system created.

The Department of Commerce, Labor and Economic Analysis Division (LEAD), shall develop, implement, and maintain a common follow-up information management system for tracking the performance measures related to current and former participants in State job training, education, and placement programs. The system shall provide for the automated collection, organization, dissemination, and analysis of data obtained from State-funded programs that provide job training and education and job placement services to program participants. In developing the system, LEAD shall ensure that data and information collected from State agencies is confidential, not open for general public inspection, and maintained and disseminated in a manner that protects the identity of individual persons from general public disclosure. LEAD shall adopt procedures and guidelines for the development and implementation of the CFS authorized under this section. Based on data collected under the CFS, the LEAD shall evaluate the effectiveness of job training, education, and placement programs to determine if specific program goals and objectives are attained, to determine placement and completion rates for each program, and to make recommendations regarding the continuation of State funding for programs evaluated. The LEAD shall do the following: Collaborate with the NCWorks Commission to develop common performance measures across workforce programs in the Department of Commerce, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Community Colleges System Office, the Department of Administration, and the Department of Public Instruction that can be tracked through the CFS in order to assess and report on workforce development program performance. Determine whether other workforce development programs not participating in CFS should be required to report information and data. Provide information from CFS to reporting agencies annually. Provide training for participating agencies to ensure data quality and consistency. Develop common data definitions that are shared across agencies contributing information to the system. The Department of Commerce shall ensure that funding and staff resources for the CFS are not diverted to other programs or systems managed by the Department of Commerce. History (1995, c. 507, s. 25.6(a); 2000-140, s. 93.1(e); 2001-424, ss. 12.2(b), 20.17(a); 2011-401, s. 2.30; 2012-131, s. 4(a); 2012-134, s. 5(c); 2013-391, s. 8; 2015-241, s. 15.11(d).) Editor's Note. - This section was amended by Session Laws 2012-131, s. 4(a), and Session Laws 2012-134, s. 5(c), in the coded bill drafting format provided by G.S. 120-20.1 . Neither amendment accounted for the changes made to this section by the other. The section has been set out in the form above at the direction of the Revisor of Statutes. Session Laws 2012-131, s. 4(b), provides: "Beginning March 15, 2013, the Department of Commerce shall report quarterly to the Joint Legislative Workforce Development System Reform Oversight Committee on its efforts to strengthen the common follow-up information management system, with a final report due by December 15, 2014." Session Laws 2013-360, s. 15.8(a), (b), provides: "(a) The Department of Commerce, Labor and Economic Analysis Division (LEAD), shall conduct a continuation review of the Common Follow-Up Information Management System (hereinafter 'Common Follow-Up') created pursuant to G.S. 96-32. LEAD shall report the preliminary findings of the continuation review to the Fiscal Research Division no later than December 1, 2013, and shall submit a final report to the Joint Legislative Commission on Governmental Operations, the Senate Appropriations Committee on Natural and Economic Resources, and the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Natural and Economic Resources no later than March 1, 2014. "(b) The continuation review report required by subsection (a) of this section shall include the following information: "(1) A description of Common Follow-Up and the goals of the program. "(2) The statutory objectives for Common Follow-Up and the problem or need addressed. "(3) The extent to which the objectives of Common Follow-Up have been achieved. "(4) Any functions or programs of Common Follow-Up performed without specific statutory authority. "(5) The performance measures for Common Follow-Up and the process by which the performance measures determine efficiency and effectiveness. "(6) Recommendations for statutory, budgetary, or administrative changes needed to improve efficiency and effectiveness of services delivered to the public. "(7) The consequences of discontinuing funding. "(8) Recommendations for improving services or reducing costs or duplication. "(9) The identification of policy issues that should be brought to the attention of the General Assembly." Session Laws 2013-360, s. 1.1, provides: "This act shall be known as the 'Current Operations and Capital Improvements Appropriations Act of 2013.'" Session Laws 2013-360, s. 38.2, provides: "Except for statutory changes or other provisions that clearly indicate an intention to have effects beyond the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium, the textual provisions of this act apply only to funds appropriated for, and activities occurring during, the 2013-2015 fiscal biennium." Session Laws 2013-360, s. 38.5, is a severability clause. Session Laws 2013-391, s. 9, provides in part: "Changes made by this act to unemployment benefits apply to claims for benefits filed on or after June 30, 2013. Changes made by this act to the determination and application of the contribution rate apply to contributions payable for calendar quarters beginning on or after January 1, 2014." Session Laws 2015-241, s. 1.1, provides: "This act shall be known as 'The Current Operations and Capital Improvements Appropriations Act of 2015.'" Session Laws 2015-241, s. 33.6, is a severability clause. Effect of Amendments. - Session Laws 2011-401, s. 2.30, effective November 1, 2011, substituted "DES" for "ESC" throughout the section; and substituted "DES" for "Employment Security Commission of North Carolina" in the first sentence of subsection (a). Session Laws 2012-131, s. 4(a), effective July 1, 2012, in the first sentence of subsection (a), substituted "Department of Commerce, Division of Labor and Economic Analysis (DLEA)" for "DES" and substituted "performance measures related to" for "employment status of"; in subsections (a), (b), and (c), replaced the remaining occurrences of "DES" with "DLEA"; and added subsections (d) and (e). Session Laws 2012-134, s. 5(c), effective June 29, 2012, in subsection (a), replaced the first instance of "DES" with "Labor and Economic Analysis Division" and replaced the second instance of "DES" with "Division"; and in subsections (b) and (c), replaced "DES" with "Labor and Economic Analysis Division." Session Laws 2013-391, s. 8, effective July 1, 2013, in subsection (a), substituted "Labor and Economic Analysis Division (LEAD)" for "Division of Labor and Economic Analysis (Labor and Economic Analysis Division) (DLEA)" and "LEAD" for "the Division, DLEA"; substituted "LEAD" for "The Labor and Economic Analysis Division, DLEA" in subsections (b) and (c); and substituted "LEAD" for "DLEA" in subsection (d). For applicability, see Editor's note. Session Laws 2015-241, s. 15.11(d), effective July 1, 2015, substituted "NCWorks Commission" for "Commission on Workforce Development" in subdivision (d)(1).