Changes to Just Transition Office

Joint Budget Committee. The bill relocates the just transition office (office) from the division of employment and training in the department of labor and employment to the office of the executive director of the department of labor and employment. The bill changes the deadline for the office to expend money in the just transition cash fund (fund) from state fiscal year 2023-24 to state fiscal year 2029-30. Any unexpended money in the fund at the end of state fiscal year 2029-30, including unexpended money in the coal transition workforce assistance program account in the fund, shall be transferred to the general fund.

The bill modifies the types of programs that the office supports using money from the fund.

(Note: Italicized words indicate new material added to the original summary; dashes through words indicate deletions from the original summary.)

(Note: This summary applies to the reengrossed version of this bill as introduced in the second house.)