S-1176.1 _______________________________________________
SENATE BILL 5794
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State of Washington 54th Legislature 1995 Regular Session
By Senators Wood, Quigley, Swecker, Deccio, Hochstatter, Moyer, Strannigan, Schow, McCaslin, West and Oke
Read first time 02/07/95. Referred to Committee on Ways & Means.
AN ACT Relating to performance audits of job opportunities and basic skills training program contractors; adding a new section to chapter 74.25 RCW; providing an effective date; and declaring an emergency.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
NEW SECTION. Sec. 1. A new section is added to chapter 74.25 RCW to read as follows:
Performance-based contracts with private nonprofit contractors for job opportunities and basic skills training program services and the general operation and budget for the department shall be audited by the legislative budget committee for the period between June 30, 1993, and July 1, 1997, to determine the effectiveness of programs and services for aid to families with dependent children, food stamp, and general assistance programs to assess eligible recipients in returning to work. The audit shall provide the following information about the effectiveness of the program and about the job opportunities and basic skills training program-eligible participants, in addition to any other information the auditors may provide: The number of participants participating in at least one hundred twenty hours of job readiness training per month; the number of job placements in full-time jobs as a percent of program graduates; the average number of hours worked upon hire; the number as a percent of recipients who held jobs for thirty days, ninety days, and twelve months; wages of graduates on hourly, weekly, and monthly basis and number earning more than one hundred twenty-five percent of the federal poverty level; the number as a percent receiving earned income tax credit; length of time on welfare for each stay and over a five-year period, benefits levels of the aid to families with dependent children, general assistance, and food stamp recipients; total earnings as compared to welfare benefits while on public assistance and working and at the time of ineligibility as a result of excess income; net tax improvement; any additional state and federal government savings; savings to employers in reduction in hiring and turnover costs; adult placement characteristics, such as age, gender, number of children, children under three years of age; criminal record; education; an estimate of the total number of welfare recipients who no longer depend on public assistance and who left public assistance by means of employment; and an estimate of the cost to the state as compared to private contracts for each job opportunities and basic skills training program completion, job placement, ninety-day job retention costs, and the monthly reimbursement in job opportunities and basic skills program funds.
The legislative budget committee shall report its findings to the governor and the appropriate standing committees of the legislature by July 1, 1998.
NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. This act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, or safety, or support of the state government and its existing public institutions, and shall take effect July 1, 1995.
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