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| To enact section 122.042 of the Revised Code to | 1 |
| require the Director of Development to administer | 2 |
| a grant program to provide funding to specified | 3 |
| entities to provide training for employees in the | 4 |
| fields of biotechnology and bioscience or any | 5 |
| other field in which critical demands exist for | 6 |
| certain skills. | 7 |
| Section 1. That section 122.042 be enacted to read as | 8 |
| follows: | 9 |
| Sec. 122.042. (A) As used in this section, "bioscience | 10 |
| sector" includes companies who manufacture medical devices, | 11 |
| biopharmaceutical products, biofuel, or agricultural bioproducts; | 12 |
| health care service companies; health care organizations; and | 13 |
| medical research organizations. | 14 |
| (B) The director of development shall provide grants to | 15 |
| entities who satisfy the requirements specified in this section | 16 |
| to provide training for individuals who are not employed in the | 17 |
| field of biotechnology or the bioscience sector and wish to | 18 |
| receive training to be employed in that field or sector. The | 19 |
| director may provide such grants to entities engaged in any other | 20 |
| field in which critical demands exist for certain skills. | 21 |
| (C) The director may accept applications for training grant | 22 |
| funds awarded pursuant to this section from any of the following | 23 |
| entities: | 24 |
| (1) A municipal corporation that provides any of the | 25 |
| training programs described in division (D) of this section; | 26 |
| (2) An employer, including an intermediary or a training | 27 |
| agent of the employer, that provides any of the training programs | 28 |
| described in division (D) of this section; | 29 |
| (3) Any of the following entities that sponsor multi-company | 30 |
| employee training projects that offer programs described in | 31 |
| division (D) of this section if those projects will address | 32 |
| common training needs identified by employers who elect to | 33 |
| participate in the project offered by the entity: | 34 |
| (a) Business associations; | 35 |
| (b) Strategic business partnerships; | 36 |
| (c) Institutions of secondary or higher education; | 37 |
| (d) Large manufacturers for supplier network companies; | 38 |
| (e) Agencies of the state or of a political subdivision of | 39 |
| the state or grant recipients under the federal "Workforce | 40 |
| Investment Act of 1998," 112 Stat. 936, 29 U.S.C. 2801, as | 41 |
| amended. | 42 |
| (D) The director may award grants to eligible applicants | 43 |
| described in division (C) of this section if in the application, | 44 |
| the applicant specifies that the money received from the grant | 45 |
| will be used for employee training programs that include, but are | 46 |
| not limited to, any of the following: | 47 |
| (1) Training programs that are in response to new or changing | 48 |
| technology introduced into the workplace; | 49 |
| (2) Job-linked training programs that offer special skills | 50 |
| for career advancement or that are preparatory for, and lead | 51 |
| directly to, a job with definite career potential and long-term | 52 |
| job security; | 53 |
| (3) Training programs that are necessary to implement a total | 54 |
| quality management system, a total quality improvement system, or | 55 |
| both within the workplace; | 56 |
| (4) Training related to learning how to operate new machinery | 57 |
| or equipment; | 58 |
| (5) Training for employees of companies that are expanding | 59 |
| into new markets or expanding exports from this state and that | 60 |
| provide jobs in this state; | 61 |
| (6) Basic training, remedial training, or both of employees | 62 |
| as a prerequisite for other vocational or technical skills | 63 |
| training or as a condition for sustained employment; | 64 |
| (7) Other training activities, training projects, or both, | 65 |
| related to the support, development, or evaluation of job training | 66 |
| programs, activities, and delivery systems, including training | 67 |
| needs assessment and design. | 68 |
| (E) The director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter | 69 |
| 119. of the Revised Code to establish the terms and conditions | 70 |
| under which a grant may be awarded under this section and as | 71 |
| necessary to implement this section. The director shall include in | 72 |
| the rules the director adopts a requirement that, if an entity | 73 |
| that applies for a grant awarded under this section is not an | 74 |
| employer, the entity must specify in the entity's application | 75 |
| employers who will benefit from the training the entity provides | 76 |
| to ensure that the training provided satisfies the needs of | 77 |
| employers located in the area where the entity provides the | 78 |
| training programs described in division (D) of this section. No | 79 |
| grant awarded under this section shall be for an amount that | 80 |
| exceeds fifty per cent of the allowable costs of the training | 81 |
| programs described in division (D) of this section provided by an | 82 |
| entity described in division (C) of this section. Under this | 83 |
| section, allowable costs include, but are not limited to, the | 84 |
| following costs: | 85 |
| (1) Administrative costs for tracking, documenting, | 86 |
| reporting, and processing training funds or project costs; | 87 |
| (2) Costs for developing a curriculum; | 88 |
| (3) Wages for instructors and if the individuals receiving | 89 |
| training are employed by the employer who offers the program, | 90 |
| wages for those individuals; | 91 |
| (4) Costs incurred for producing training materials, | 92 |
| including scrap product costs; | 93 |
| (5) Trainee travel expenses; | 94 |
| (6) Costs for rent, purchase, or lease of training equipment; | 95 |
| (7) Other usual and customary training costs. | 96 |
| (F) An entity described in division (C) of this section shall | 97 |
| use money received from a grant only for the programs that the | 98 |
| entity specified in the entity's application in accordance with | 99 |
| division (D) of this section. A municipal corporation that | 100 |
| receives a grant under this section may use the money received for | 101 |
| a training program that also is funded pursuant to the federal | 102 |
| "Workforce Investment Act of 1998," 112 Stat. 936, 29 U.S.C. 2801, | 103 |
| as amended. | 104 |
| (G) The director shall adopt rules in accordance with Chapter | 105 |
| 119. of the Revised Code to establish methods and procedures the | 106 |
| director shall use to identify transitional jobs and to develop | 107 |
| and identify training strategies that will enable individuals who | 108 |
| are not employed in the field of biotechnology or the bioscience | 109 |
| sector to be employed in that field or sector. | 110 |
| (H) The director shall require an employee of the department | 111 |
| of development to conduct at least one on-site visit to monitor | 112 |
| the application of the grant and compliance with this section and | 113 |
| any rules the director adopts pursuant to it, either during the | 114 |
| course of the grant period or within six months after the end of | 115 |
| the grant period. The employee shall verify that the grantee's | 116 |
| financial management system is structured to provide for accurate, | 117 |
| current, and complete disclosure of the financial results of the | 118 |
| grant program in accordance with all provisions, terms, and | 119 |
| conditions contained in the grant contract entered into by the | 120 |
| grantee and the director pursuant to this section and any rules | 121 |
| the director adopts pursuant to it. | 122 |