74-5002s. Division of workforce development; establishment; administration; director, appointment; annual legislative report by division monitoring unit.
(a) There is hereby established, within the Kansas department of commerce, a division of workforce development. The head of the division shall be the director of workforce development, who shall be appointed by and serve at the pleasure of the secretary of the department of commerce. The director shall be in the unclassified service under the Kansas civil service act and shall receive an annual salary fixed by the secretary of commerce, with the approval of the governor. Under the supervision of the secretary of commerce, the director of workforce development shall administer the division of workforce development.
(b) The monitoring unit of the division of workforce development shall report annually, on or before January 15, to the senate committee on commerce, the house committee on commerce, labor and economic development, and any successor committees thereto, on the monitoring activities of the division during the preceding calendar year, any problems within workforce development activities, compliance with federal and state requirements and such other matters concerning workforce development which the monitoring unit deems appropriate.
History: Executive Reorganization Order No. 31, L. 2004, ch. 191, § 1; L. 2007, ch. 35, § 1; L. 2013, ch. 134, § 7; July 1.