Resolve, Directing the Department of Economic and Community Development, the Department of Labor and the Department of Transportation To Develop Partnerships with Businesses, Unions and Educational Programs and Institutions To Provide Training and Transportation for Workers
Maine Legislature, Session 130, LD 1613
Committee: Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and Business
Sponsors: MADIGAN

Legislative Document
No. 1613
H.P. 1202
House of Representatives, April 27, 2021
Resolve, Directing the Department of Economic and Community 
Development, the Department of Labor and the Department of 
Transportation To Develop Partnerships with Businesses, Unions 
and Educational Programs and Institutions To Provide Training 
and Transportation for Workers
Reference to the Committee on Innovation, Development, Economic Advancement and 
Business suggested and ordered printed.
ROBERT B. HUNT
Clerk
Presented by Representative MADIGAN of Waterville.
Sec. 1.  Department of Economic and Community Development, 
Department of Labor and Department of Transportation to develop 
partnerships with businesses, unions and educational programs and 
institutions to provide training and transportation for workers.  Resolved:  
That the Department of Economic and Community Development, the Department of Labor 
and the Department of Transportation shall collaborate to develop partnerships with 
businesses, unions and educational programs and institutions to provide a hub where 
workers can access transportation to training programs, apprenticeships and jobs and 
receive information about open positions and training opportunities.  As part of this 
collaboration, the departments shall:
1. Focus on areas with no viable public transportation;
2. Consider creating a fund for young people in job training programs, including 
technical education at secondary schools, for driver education, with participation based 
upon a means test and including youth in foster care; and 
3. Coordinate with businesses, unions, educational programs and institutions, training 
programs, employers and community organizations to improve dissemination of 
information about available job opportunities and resources for training and transportation.
Sec. 2.  Report.  Resolved:  That, by January 1, 2023, the Department of Economic 
and Community Development, the Department of Labor and the Department of 
Transportation shall provide a report on the progress made to carry out this resolve to the 
joint standing committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over innovation, 
development, economic advancement and business matters, the joint standing committee 
of the Legislature having jurisdiction over labor and housing matters and the joint standing 
committee of the Legislature having jurisdiction over transportation matters, which each 
may report out legislation to the First Regular Session of the 131st Legislature.
SUMMARY
This resolve directs the Department of Economic and Community Development, the 
Department of Labor and the Department of Transportation to collaborate to develop 
partnerships with businesses, unions and educational programs and institutions to provide 
a hub for workers to get transportation to training programs, apprenticeships and jobs and 
receive information about open positions and training opportunities.