Workforce development: High road training partnerships: scoring preference.

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Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Zbur
Last action: 2026-04-23
Official status: From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary does not provide specific details on the scoring preference amount or when it will take effect.

Workforce Development: High Road Training Partnerships

This law requires applicants for high road training partnership funding to meet certain conditions, including having a collective bargaining agreement or labor-management partnership, and gives the California Workforce Development Board permission to give extra points in scoring when awarding grants to such partnerships.

What This Bill Does

Requires applicants to have a collective bargaining agreement or labor-management partnership to be eligible for funding.
Gives the California Workforce Development Board permission to provide a scoring preference to applicants that are either bona fide labor-management cooperation committees or entities applying on behalf of such committees when awarding grants.

Who It Names or Affects

The California Workforce Development Board
Applicants for funding who have collective bargaining agreements or labor-management partnerships

Terms To Know

High road training partnerships: Training programs that focus on industry-based, worker-focused initiatives and include labor-management partnerships.
Labor-management cooperation committee: A group made up of both workers' representatives and management to work together on issues like training and development.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify how much the scoring preference will be.
It is unclear when this law will take effect after final approval.

Bill History

2026-04-23 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2026-04-15 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on L. & E.
2026-04-14 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended.
2026-03-23 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on L. & E.
2026-03-19 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended.
2026-03-19 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on L. & E.
2026-02-21 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2026-02-20 California Legislative Information
Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 2634, as amended, Zbur.
Workforce development: High road training
partnerships.
partnerships: scoring preference.
The California Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act establishes the California Workforce Development Board to assist the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California’s workforce investment system and the alignment of the education and workforce investment systems to the needs of the 21st century economy and workforce. Existing law requires the board to administer, promote, expand, and provide field assistance for high road training partnerships, defined as an initiative or project that models strategies for developing industry-based, worker-focused training partnerships, including labor-management partnerships. Existing law requires high road training partnerships to demonstrate job quality standards and employment practices that include, among other things, adoption of mechanisms to include worker voice and agency in the workplace.
This bill would require
an applicant to satisfy specified requirements to be eligible to receive funding for a high road training partnership, including having a collective bargaining agreement or labor-management partnership.
the board, when awarding grants for a high road training partnership program or any successor program, to provide a scoring preference to an applicant that is either a bona fide labor-management cooperation committee, as defined, or is an entity applying on behalf of a bona fide labor-management cooperation committee, as specified. The bill would require the board to determine the amount of the scoring preference provided and to incorporate that preference into program guidelines and grant solicitations.

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