Childcare was one of Rep. Suzanne Schreiber's primary focuses this past legislative session, and she was determined to help Oklahoma parents reenter the workforce by making childcare options more available.
Oklahoma's workforce management system is on the cusp of significant change after both bodies of the state legislature passed a bill that will create an Oklahoma Workforce Commission.
Oklahoma needs a singular workforce owner, a leading force that will set visions and goals to fulfill workforce needs, reduce administrative costs, eliminate wasteful duplication, align funding with goals that produce effective results and hold state entities accountable for failures and shortcomings. Senate Bill 621 presents a plan that will establish leadership and bring the state’s workforce into alignment.
A workforce revitalization bill that creates an Oklahoma Workforce Commission is back on track after it passed the Oklahoma Senate on Wednesday.
"There is a lot of good work being done along Oklahoma's workforce pipeline, but there is nobody that walks into work every day with the job of coordinating the state’s workforce development entities. That needs to change"
"I think a high tide raises all ships. So we want to make sure that we're creating a competitive business environment, support what we've got, grow what we've got, and then bring in new entities as well."
A bill that streamlines Oklahoma's family childcare home licensing regulations to make childcare more available to Oklahomans is now state law.
A workforce revitalization bill that creates an Oklahoma Workforce Commission passed the House of Representatives, but it now must be considered by a legislative Conference Committee.
A bill that seeks to make childcare more available in Oklahoma by streamlining family childcare home licensing regulations is one step away from becoming state law.
Senate Bill 621 brings order to our uncoordinated workforce development efforts by creating an accountable owner of the problem, the Oklahoma Workforce Commission.
