1. (a) The department annually shall prepare a written report of its training activities and the training activities of the workforce service area during the immediately preceding state fiscal year. The department's annual report for a particular state fiscal year must include information for each training project for which either the department or the workforce service area provided any funding during that state fiscal year. At a minimum, the following information must be provided for each training project:

   1. (1) A description of the training project, including the name and address of the training provider.
   2. (2) The amount of funding that either the department or the workforce service area provided for the project and an indication of which entity provided the funding.
   3. (3) The number of trainees who participated in the project.

   4. (4) Demographic information about the trainees, including:

      1. (A) the age of each trainee;
      2. (B) the education attainment level of each trainee; and
      3. (C) for those training projects that have specific gender requirements, the gender of each trainee.

   5. (5) The results of the project, including:

      1. (A) skills developed by trainees;
      2. (B) any license or certification associated with the training project;
      3. (C) the extent to which trainees have been able to secure employment or obtain better employment; and
      4. (D) descriptions of the specific jobs which trainees have been able to secure or to which trainees have been able to advance.
2. (b) With respect to trainees that have been able to secure employment or obtain better employment, the department shall compile data on the retention rates of those trainees in the jobs which the trainees secured or to which they advanced. The department shall include information concerning those retention rates in each of its annual reports.
3. (c) On or before October 1 of each state fiscal year, each workforce service area shall provide the department with a written report of its training activities for the immediately preceding state fiscal year. The workforce service area shall prepare the report in the manner prescribed by the department. However, at a minimum, the workforce service area shall include in its report the information required by subsection (a) for each training project for which the workforce service area provided any funding during the state fiscal year covered by the report. In addition, the workforce service area shall include in each report retention rate information as set forth in subsection (b).

4. (d) The department shall provide a copy of its annual report for a particular state fiscal year to the:

   1. (1) governor; and

   2. (2) legislative council;

      on or before December 1 of the immediately preceding state fiscal year. An annual report provided under this subsection to the legislative council must be in an electronic format under IC 5-14-6 .

As added by P.L.69-2015, SEC.37. Amended by P.L.171-2016, SEC.51.