Women in the construction industry: report., the official text

An act to add Section 9603 to the Unemployment Insurance Code, relating to employment.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

Existing law requires the Employment Development Department, among other duties, to establish, in conjunction with other state entities, a systemwide policy of actively promoting the training of women in nontraditional occupations. Existing law defines “nontraditional occupations” as any job classification in which not more than 25% of the employees are women, according to the statistics of the United States Department of Labor.
This bill would require the department to collect specified data on construction workers, including, among other data, the training and educational capacity to produce trained, certified, and licensed construction workers. This bill would also require the department to work with the Department of Industrial Relations’ Division of Apprenticeship Standards to determine this capacity within state-registered construction preapprenticeship and apprenticeship programs and to determine the number of construction preapprentices and apprentices in any given year who are women. The bill would require the department, on or before July 1, 2027, and every 3 years thereafter, to report this data to the Legislature and post the report on its internet website.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.
Section 9603 is added to the Unemployment Insurance Code, to read:
9603.
(a) The department shall collect all of the following data:
(1) The current supply of construction workers who are women, by specialty.
(2) The geographical distribution of construction workers who are women, by specialty.
(3) The diversity of construction workers who are women, by specialty, including, but not limited to, data on race, ethnicity, and languages spoken.
(4) The current and forecasted demand for construction workers, by specialty.
(5) The training and educational capacity to produce trained, certified, and licensed construction workers, by specialty and geographical distribution, including, but not limited to, the number of state-registered preapprenticeship and apprenticeship slots, the number of enrollments, the attrition rate, and wait time to enter a program. The department shall work with the Department of Industrial Relations’ Division of Apprenticeship Standards to determine this capacity within state-registered construction preapprenticeship and apprenticeship programs as well as to determine the number of construction preapprentices and apprentices in any given year who are women.
(b) On or before July 1, 2027, and every three years thereafter, the department shall transmit a report of the data collected pursuant to this section to the Legislature. The department shall transmit the report in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.
(c) The department shall post a report transmitted pursuant to subdivision (b) on its internet website.