(a) The Commissioner of Labor, in coordination with the Secretary of Commerce and Community Development, and in consultation with the State Workforce Development Board, is authorized to issue performance grants to one or more persons to perform workforce education and training activities in a region.

(b) Each grant shall specify the scope of the workforce education and training activities to be performed and the geographic region to be served, and shall include performance measures and results to evaluate the grantee's performance.

(c) The Commissioner of Labor and the Secretary of Commerce and Community Development shall jointly develop a grant process and eligibility criteria, as well as an outreach process for notifying potential participants of the grant program. The Commissioner of Labor shall have final authority to approve each grant. (Added 1995, No. 45, § 1; amended 1999, No. 27, § 3, eff. May 19, 1999; 1999, No. 119 (Adj. Sess.), § 5, eff. May 18, 2000; 2005, No. 103 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. April 5, 2006; 2005, No. 212 (Adj. Sess.), § 1; 2009, No. 33, § 22; 2009, No. 146 (Adj. Sess.), § G14, eff. June 1, 2010; 2011, No. 52, § 14, eff. May 27, 2011; 2013, No. 199 (Adj. Sess.), § 41; 2015, No. 11, § 10; 2015, No. 157 (Adj. Sess.), § K.1.)