Substitute House Bill 1170 - Washington BEST Manufacturing Act (2021 Regular Session)

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Substitute House Bill 1170, State of Washington 67th Legislature 2021 Regular Session, by House Community & Economic Development, read first time 02/05/21. The act relates to building economic strength through manufacturing and adds new sections to chapter 43.330 RCW. Section 1 provides that the act may be known and cited as the Washington BEST manufacturing act, and Section 2 states the legislature's intent to invest in strategies for manufacturing and research and development in every region of the state. Section 3 directs the department to prepare and update each fiscal biennium a report on the state of the manufacturing and research and development industry and workforce, and Section 7 makes the duties subject to appropriated amounts.

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     H-0353.1

                           SUBSTITUTE HOUSE BILL 1170


     State of Washington         67th Legislature       2021 Regular Session

     By House Community & Economic Development (originally sponsored by
     Representatives Boehnke, Paul, Walsh, Kloba, Shewmake, Santos,
     Springer, Dolan, Dye, Graham, Leavitt, McCaslin, Young, Walen,
     Riccelli,   Bateman,   Lovick,   Lekanoff, Eslick, Frame,  Barkis,
     Sutherland, Robertson, and Dent)

     READ FIRST TIME 02/05/21.




 1       AN   ACT   Relating to     building  economic strength through
 2   manufacturing; adding new     sections to chapter 43.330 RCW; and
 3   creating a new section.


 4   BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:


 5       NEW SECTION.   Sec. 1.   This act may be known and cited as the
 6   Washington BEST manufacturing act.


 7       NEW SECTION. Sec. 2. It is the intent of the legislature that
 8   Washington retain and build on its leadership in the manufacturing
 9   and research and development sectors. The legislature finds that a
10   thriving research and production sector are complimentary and should
11   be promoted in every region of the state. The legislature finds this
12   is critical to provide a strong, resilient tax base for good schools,
13   safe streets, and community optimism. Therefore, the legislature
14   intends to identify and invest in strategies to ensure every
15   geographic   region  of   the  state   can  benefit  from   a  strong
16   manufacturing and research and development base, with the goal of
17   doubling the state's manufacturing employment base, the number of
18   small businesses, and the number of women and minority-owned
19   manufacturing businesses in the next 10 years.


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 1       NEW SECTION.    Sec. 3.    (1) The department is responsible for
 2   identifying and developing strategies to help achieve the goals
 3   established in section 2 of this act. In support of pursuing the
 4   goal, the department must prepare and update each fiscal biennium a
 5   report on the state of the manufacturing and research and development
 6   industry and workforce. The report must identify progress or
 7   challenges the state has encountered in achieving the goals
 8   established in section 2 of this act and identify recommendations to
 9   the legislature.
10       (2) The report may include, but not be limited to:
11       (a)   Recommendations   for   specific  actions    to   develop   a
12   manufacturing    workforce   pipeline   and   specific    manufacturing
13   subsectors that present workforce opportunities or challenges;
14       (b) Identification of dislocated workers;
15       (c) Career-connected learning opportunities;
16       (d) A survey of financial aid that can be leveraged to fund
17   training for the manufacturing workforce pipeline, such as Washington
18   college grant opportunities, passport to careers, and prison to
19   postsecondary funding;
20       (e) Recommendations on improving the state's competitiveness for
21   manufacturing and research and development job retention and
22   creation;
23       (f)   Identification   of   high-demand   advanced   manufacturing
24   industries and subsectors globally;
25       (g) Identification of site selection criteria of advanced
26   manufacturing and research and development projects; and
27       (h) Recommendations of best practices to streamline environmental
28   permit approval and appeal processes for the purpose of getting
29   manufacturing businesses who want to site or expand in Washington
30   more certainty, faster.
31       (3) The department must convene a manufacturing council to advise
32   and consult on the development of the report and recommendations.
33       (a) The director or the director's designee must appoint to the
34   council such persons from the private, nonprofit, and public sectors
35   as may best inform the state's ability to innovate, diversify supply
36   chains, and expand living wage jobs in the manufacturing sector.
37       (b) Representatives must include small to mid-sized private
38   sector manufacturing businesses, labor and apprenticeship programs,
39   statewide business associations, higher education institutions, and
40   workforce partners. The department must work to ensure:
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 1       (i) Equal representation of business and labor on the council;
 2       (ii) That appointees represent every region of the state such
 3   that economic diversification across all regions is supported; and
 4       (iii) That the council includes a strong array of voices from
 5   women and minority executives and labor in manufacturing.
 6       (4) All state agencies with expertise in workforce development
 7   and economic development are encouraged to provide such information
 8   and resources as may be requested to inform and facilitate
 9   identification and analysis of public policy challenges and potential
10   recommendations for the report in subsections (1) and (2) of this
11   section.
12       (5) In its first biennial report, the department shall coordinate
13   with the office of the superintendent of public instruction and the
14   state board for community and technical colleges to assess any
15   inadequacy or gaps in delivering hands-on, skills-based learning
16   remotely to all Washingtonians seeking to enter the manufacturing
17   workforce   or  to   be  retrained   for  a   transition  within   the
18   manufacturing workforce.


19       NEW SECTION.    Sec. 4.    (1) The department must support the
20   development of regionally tailored strategies to facilitate the
21   continued existence and development of manufacturing workforce across
22   the state.
23       (2) To support regional manufacturing cluster development and job
24   creation, the department must grant any funding provided in section 5
25   of this act for initiatives that accelerate the development of
26   regional clusters intended to grow living wage jobs in manufacturing
27   and research and development.
28       (3) The department is encouraged to consider the creation of
29   regional offices or establishing additional duty stations that
30   facilitate sector leads to be located in the regions most dependent
31   on their sector.


32       NEW SECTION. Sec. 5. (1) The manufacturing cluster acceleration
33   subaccount is established in the economic development strategic
34   reserve account. All receipts from appropriations made to the
35   manufacturing cluster acceleration subaccount shall be deposited into
36   the subaccount.
37       (2) The department may make expenditures from the subaccount to
38   support   regional   cluster   acceleration  strategies,   including:
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 1   Supporting projects to assist manufacturers to diversify their
 2   customer base and supply chain, supporting pilot or demonstration
 3   manufacturing   projects    coordination   with   organized  cluster
 4   initiatives, and supporting projects that are intended to increase
 5   manufacturing and research and development jobs regionally.
 6       (3) The department is encouraged to seek match funds for any
 7   funds appropriated to this account and may utilize funds to match
 8   nonstate funds being expended on a specific project that aligns with
 9   the purpose of this section.

10       NEW SECTION.    Sec. 6.     (1) The department must appoint a
11   workforce innovation sector lead, to coordinate workforce activities
12   and needs identified by industry sector leads such as the
13   manufacturing, clean technology, and aerospace sector leads, and
14   connect this work with the lead workforce agencies to inform
15   strategic allocation of funding.
16       (2) Within existing resources, the department must report to the
17   appropriate committees of the legislature beginning December 1, 2022,
18   and continuing every fourth year thereafter, the progress made in
19   developing, recruiting, and retaining research and development
20   employers and workforce; and a description of how the state's policy
21   toolkit for developing strength in research and development as a
22   sector compares to competitor states.


23       NEW SECTION. Sec. 7. The duties in sections 2 through 6 of this
24   act are subject to the availability of amounts appropriated for the
25   specific purpose.

26       NEW SECTION. Sec. 8. Sections 2 through 7 of this act are each
27   added to chapter 43.330 RCW and codified with the subchapter heading
28   of "MANUFACTURING AND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT SECTOR PROMOTION."

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