§ 34-14-3 — High-demand Career List

(a) The State Workforce Development Board shall develop and approve a High-demand Career List that shall identify those careers most critical to the state's current and future workforce needs. The State Workforce Development Board, in consultation with the Office of Workforce Development, shall assess current labor market information and other employment data sources and determine which careers merit inclusion on such list, regionally or state wide, and shall implement a data-driven process to assess present and future growing and declining industries, occupations, skills, and credentials. The High-demand Career List shall: (1) Include the skills, certificates, licenses, diplomas, degrees, or other credentials of value required by employers for the high-demand careers included on the list; and (2) Be published annually on or before December 31 on the State Workforce Development Board's public website. (b) All state agencies and political subdivisions of the state, including local school systems, shall utilize the High-demand Career List to inform their use of federal and state funding for secondary, postsecondary, and adult education programs that lead to certificates, licenses, diplomas, degrees, or other credentials of value in careers on the list to ensure alignment with such list and effective use of funding by such entities.

Legislative History

Added by 2024 Ga. Laws 554,§ 1-1, eff. 7/1/2024.