NY State Senate Bill 2023-S1021

Senate Bill S1021

2023-2024 Legislative Session

Establishes an online database identifying regional skills and employment gaps and the skills and training needed to fill open and anticipated jobs

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Current Bill Status - In Senate Committee Labor Committee

Introduced
- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
Delivered to Governor
Signed By Governor

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2023-S1021 (ACTIVE) - Details

See Assembly Version of this Bill:: A3092
Current Committee:: Senate Labor
Law Section:: Labor Law
Laws Affected:: Amd §21, Lab L
Versions Introduced in 2021-2022 Legislative Session:: S8451, A9059

2023-S1021 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Directs the commissioner of labor to establish an online database identifying regional skills and employment gaps and the skills and training needed to fill open and anticipated jobs.

2023-S1021 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

                                 
BILL NUMBER: S1021

SPONSOR: COONEY
 
TITLE OF BILL:

An act to amend the labor law, in relation to establishing an online
database identifying regional skills and employment gaps and the skills
and training needed to fill open and anticipated jobs

 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:

The purpose of this bill is to establish an online database which iden-
tifies regional labor market shortages, regional skills gaps, and the
skills and training needed to fill open and anticipated jobs.

 
SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS:

Section 1 amends section 21 of the labor law by adding a new subdivision
16 to require the Department of Labor to establish and maintain an
online database using statewide labor market data and other data sources
to show regional labor market shortages and skills gaps; to create defi-
nitions and set forth the types of data to be included in the database;

and to establish a deadline of within one year for the database to
become publicly accessible. Section 2 provides the effective date.

 
JUSTIFICATION:

The combination of thousands of open, unfilled jobs and the shortage of
skilled workers to fill them, as well as the loss of workers due to the
pandemic and looming retirements, makes clear the need for a tool that
employers, educators, training providers, economic development planners,
policy makers and the public can use to proactively address shortages in
the educational pipeline and skills gaps in the existing workforce.

The Monroe Community College Economic and Workforce Development Center
(EWDC) has developed such a tool - the Labor Market Information website
- for its region, and this bill requires the Department of Labor to
replicate and expand that online, user-friendly, data-driven tool to
address regional labor markets statewide. Monroe Community College has
successfully pulled together many sources of data to show database users
what specific jobs are in demand, how many openings there are in the
region, how many potential workers are recently trained in the skills
needed for those jobs, and how to get the training needed for those
jobs.

In the words of the EWDC: "The overall goal of this resource is to
deliver high-quality, relevant and actionable labor market data. Data is
useful only to the extent that it may be analyzed and applied to create
or support meaningful outcomes."

The bill requires the Department of Labor to provide data that reflect
the 10 Regional Economic Development Councils and the industries and
economic development priorities they have already established, including
focusing on jobs in healthcare, advanced manufacturing, applied technol-
ogies, information and computer technology, and education.

 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:

2021-22: S.8451
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS FOR STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS:

To be determined.

 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This bill shall take effect immediately.

2023-S1021 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   1021
 
                        2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                              January 9, 2023
                                ___________
 
 Introduced  by  Sen.  COONEY -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
   printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
 
 AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation  to  establishing  an  online
   database  identifying  regional  skills  and  employment  gaps and the
   skills and training needed to fill open and anticipated jobs

   THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND  ASSEM-
 BLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
 
   Section  1.  Section  21  of  the labor law is amended by adding a new
 subdivision 16 to read as follows:
   16. (I) SHALL ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN AN ONLINE DATABASE  USING  STATE-
 WIDE  LABOR  MARKET  DATA AND OTHER DATA SOURCES TO PRESENT DATA SHOWING
 REGIONAL LABOR MARKET SHORTAGES AND SURPLUSES AND REGIONAL  SKILLS  GAPS
 AND  OTHER  INFORMATION  TO  ENABLE THE PUBLIC, EDUCATORS, EMPLOYERS AND
 TRAINING PROVIDERS TO MAKE INFORMED DECISIONS AND ADDRESS REGIONAL LABOR
 SHORTAGES AND ANTICIPATED SHORTAGES IN REGIONAL LABOR MARKETS. THE DATA-
 BASE SHALL AGGREGATE DATA ON A  REGIONAL  BASIS  AND  INCLUDE  DATA  FOR
 INDUSTRIES  AND OCCUPATIONS CONSISTENT WITH THOSE IDENTIFIED BY REGIONAL
 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCILS AS PRIORITY OR KEY  INDUSTRIES,  INCLUDING
 BUT  NOT  LIMITED TO JOBS IN HEALTHCARE, ADVANCED MANUFACTURING, APPLIED
 TECHNOLOGIES, INFORMATION AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY, AND EDUCATION.
   (II) THE DATABASE SHALL IDENTIFY AVAILABLE DATA AND THE SOURCE OF SUCH
 DATA FOR THE FOLLOWING:
   (A) SPECIFIC OCCUPATIONS AND CLUSTERS OF OCCUPATIONS WITHIN EACH IDEN-
 TIFIED INDUSTRY AND THE MEDIAN HOURLY WAGES FOR EACH  OCCUPATION  BROKEN
 DOWN BY LEVELS OF EXPERIENCE.
  (B)  THE  ESTIMATED  ANNUAL  LABOR  MARKET DEMAND AND TURNOVER FOR EACH
 INDUSTRY AND THE CLUSTERS AND OCCUPATIONS WITHIN THOSE INDUSTRIES.
   (C) THE CURRENT AVAILABILITY  OF  JOB  OPENINGS  AND  ANTICIPATED  JOB
 OPENINGS FOR EACH INDUSTRY AND THE CLUSTERS AND OCCUPATIONS WITHIN THOSE
 INDUSTRIES.
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD02676-01-3
 S. 1021                             2

 
   (D) THE EDUCATION AND TRAINING NEEDED TO FILL OPEN OR ANTICIPATED JOBS
 FOR  EACH  INDUSTRY AND THE CLUSTERS AND OCCUPATIONS WITHIN THOSE INDUS-
 TRIES.
   (E)  THE  ANNUAL  NUMBER OF REGIONAL DEGREE AND CERTIFICATE EARNERS IN
 OCCUPATIONS AND CLUSTERS WITHIN THE INDUSTRIES IDENTIFIED.
   (F) ESTIMATES OF THE DEFICIT OR SURPLUS OF WORKERS ACROSS  THE  REGION
 FOR EACH INDUSTRY, CLUSTERS OF OCCUPATIONS AND SPECIFIC OCCUPATIONS.
   (G)  REGIONAL SKILLS GAPS FOR THE OCCUPATIONS, CLUSTERS AND INDUSTRIES
 IDENTIFIED.
   (H) INCOME BENCHMARKS BY REGION AND INDUSTRY, USING POVERTY THRESHOLDS
 SET BY THE NEW YORK STATE SELF-SUFFICIENCY STANDARD STEERING COMMITTEE.
   (III) THE DATABASE CREATED  PURSUANT  TO  THIS  SUBDIVISION  SHALL  BE
 PUBLICLY  ACCESSIBLE  WITHIN  ONE  YEAR AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS
 SUBDIVISION AND SHALL BE UPDATED AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH THEREAFTER.
   (IV) AS USED IN THIS SUBDIVISION THE FOLLOWING TERMS  SHALL  HAVE  THE
 FOLLOWING MEANINGS:
   (A)  "REGION"  AND  "REGIONAL" SHALL REFER TO THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
 REGIONS AS DEFINED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
   (B) "SKILLS GAP" SHALL MEAN THE GAPS BETWEEN THE SKILLS  OF  POTENTIAL
 EMPLOYEES IN EACH REGION AND THE SKILLS EMPLOYERS IN EACH REGION SEEK IN
 EMPLOYEES.
   (C)  "CLUSTER"  SHALL MEAN THE GROUPS OF OCCUPATIONS WITHIN INDUSTRIES
 THAT ARE CLOSELY ASSOCIATED IN THE TYPE OF WORK AND THE SKILLS NEEDED TO
 ACCOMPLISH THAT WORK.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.

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