WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT: Provides relative to waivers under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (EN NO IMPACT See Note)

The Transition Advisory Team was removed entirely, replacing it with a broader mandate for the secretary to design a planning process that includes statewide, regional, or other governance structures as designated by the governor.

A new legislative declaration was inserted to formally state that the current fragmented system causes high administrative costs and fails to meet the needs of employers and job seekers.

New language was added to explicitly allow for the consolidation or restructuring of local workforce development boards to reduce duplicative administrative costs.

The specific list of allowable state-level responsibilities was updated to include performance management and oversight alongside administration and planning.

Updated document headers to reflect the final 'Enrolled' status and corrected the page count from 15 to 12.

Added names of additional representatives (Bamburg, Bayham, Berault, Billings, Braud, Bryant, Butler, Carver, Chenevert, Coates, Crews, DeWitt, Domangue, Echols, Freiberg, Glorioso, Hebert, Kerner, Knox, Lafleur, Lyons, McMakin, Melerine, Owen, Riser, Sawyer, Schamerhorn, Walters, Wright, and Zeringue) to the list of bill sponsors.

Reordered the text within the legislative declaration section, moving the description of the 'Transition Advisory Team' and its members to appear after the general planning process description, though the final requirements for the team remain identical.