Chapter 525 Oregon Laws 2001

AN ACT

SB 401

Relating to Occupational Program Planning System; creating new provisions; and amending ORS 329.955.

Be It Enacted by the People of the State of Oregon:

SECTION 1. ORS 329.955 is added to and made a part of ORS chapter 657.

SECTION 2. ORS 329.955 is amended to read:

329.955. [(1)] The Occupational Program Planning System is established within the Employment Department as the state’s official occupational information system. The Director of the Employment Department shall exercise oversight and have control of the operation and management of the system. The system shall provide [the following information]:

[(a)] (1) Projections of employment by occupation and by openings.

[(b)] (2) Estimates of the number of unemployed by occupation.

[(c)] (3) Estimates of supply of workers by occupation from education, employment and job training programs.

[(d)] (4) Statistical and narrative occupational demand and supply analyses.

[(e)] (5) Information on occupational employment patterns by industry.

[(f)] (6) Occupational characteristics information.

(7) Administration of other appropriate labor market information activities.

[(2) In cooperation with education, employment and job training providers and the Employment Department, the system shall provide a systematic follow-up of program providers using the Employment Department’s unemployment insurance wage file. Follow-up information shall be provided annually to program providers and their related state agencies.]

[(3) Professional technical education and other job and employment training providers shall provide to their related state agencies such information as is necessary to provide a follow-up of former participants in their programs. Information provided shall not be published so as to identify an individual.]

[(4) The Occupational Program Planning System shall be housed in the Research and Statistics Section of the Employment Department. Policy direction for the system shall be provided by the Oregon Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, a committee of the Education and Workforce Policy Advisor, which shall forward required reports to appropriate state and local agencies.]

[(5) A report on the results of follow-up studies shall be submitted biennially to the Education Committees of the Legislative Assembly and to other appropriate legislative committees.]

[(6) The Occupational Program Planning System shall cooperate with the Interagency Shared Information System established under ORS 329.965.]

Approved by the Governor June 22, 2001

Filed in the office of Secretary of State June 25, 2001

Effective date January 1, 2002

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