Section 11-504 - Workforce investment training program; special provisions for Carroll County.
§ 11-504. Workforce investment training program; special provisions for Carroll County.
(a) Established.- A workforce investment training program is established to implement the federal Act.
(b) Purpose; transit passes.-
(1) This program shall provide employment, training, supportive and related services for unemployed individuals who are low income, for dislocated workers, and for those who are not low income, but who qualify under the federal Act as having barriers to employment, including, but not limited to, displaced homemakers, school dropouts, teenage parents, individuals with disabilities, older workers, veterans, and other participants as defined by the federal Act.
(2) (i) Subject to subparagraph (iv) of this paragraph, the State Department of Transportation shall issue to training organizations weekly transit passes, in the form of magentic passes or loaded smart cards, for local bus, light rail, or metro subway service provided by the Maryland Transit Administration.
(ii) The training organizations shall provide the weekly transit passes issued under subparagraph (i) of this paragraph to individuals receiving employment and training services under the program established in accordance with subsection (a) of this section.
(iii) A training organization shall reimburse the Department of Transportation for the cost of transit passes provided to the training organization under this paragraph.
(iv) To be eligible to receive transit passes under this paragraph, a training organization shall include in its contract with the local workforce investment board or local workforce investment agency a provision requiring reimbursement of the training organization for its costs under subparagraph (iii) of this paragraph.
(c) Carroll County.- The County Commissioners of Carroll County may appropriate funds necessary to enter into contracts with private or public enterprises for the training or retraining of workers of those enterprises.
[1983, ch. 268; 1987, ch. 266; 1988, ch. 6, § 1; 1991, ch. 8, § 7; 1995, ch. 120, §§ 3, 5; 1998, ch. 21, § 1; 2001, chs. 255, 315; 2002, ch. 19, § 4; 2007, ch. 332.]