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House advances bill to centralize workforce oversight and create executive office
Summary
H.707 would create an Office of Workforce Expansion and Development, transfer two Department of Labor positions, streamline the state workforce board from 63 to 26 members, and set reporting deadlines for implementing a data trust and governance review; Appropriations says the measure is cost neutral and it was ordered to third reading.
Member from Jericho presented H.707, describing a task-force-driven plan to integrate Vermont’s workforce education and training systems into a coordinated office in the executive branch. The bill creates an Office of Workforce Expansion and Development, transfers at least two existing Department of Labor positions into that office, and establishes an executive committee and…
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