A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT To appropriate funds to the department of commerce to provide mobile ncworks career centers to areas of the state that are not served by fixed center sites and to help displaced workers in underserved areas.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  There is appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Commerce, Division of Workforce Solutions, the sum of nine million five hundred thousand dollars ($9,500,000) for the 2015‑2016 fiscal year for the following purposes:
(1)	To create mobile NCWorks Career Centers to serve (i) counties that do not have a fixed certified Center, (ii) areas of the State that are more than 30 miles from a fixed certified Center, and (iii) areas of the State that have a fixed certified Center, but the Center is staffed with employees of the Division of Workforce Solutions only three days each week.
(2)	To help displaced workers in the NCWorks Apprenticeship Program to develop skills that match current market needs and to develop skills to meet the future needs of businesses that may relocate to the area in which the workers live and work.
(3)	To maximize the application and certification of Work Ready Communities.
(4)	To align economic development and local career centers in conformance with the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective July 1, 2015.