The Washington state evergreen jobs initiative is established as a comprehensive green economy jobs growth initiative with the goals of:

     (1) Creating fifteen thousand new green economy jobs by 2020, with a target of thirty percent of those jobs going to veterans, members of the national guard, and low-income and disadvantaged populations;

     (2) Capturing and deploying federal funds in a focused, effective, and coordinated manner;

     (3) Preparing the state's workforce to take full advantage of green economy job opportunities and to meet the recruitment and training needs of industry and small businesses;

     (4) Attracting private sector investment that will create new and expand existing jobs, with an emphasis on services and products that have a high economic or environmental impact and can be exported domestically and internationally;

     (5) Making Washington state a net exporter of green industry products and services, with special attention to renewable energy technology and components;

     (6) Empowering local agencies and organizations to recruit green economy businesses and jobs into the state by providing state support and assistance;

     (7) Capitalizing on existing partnership agreements in the Washington works plan and the Washington workforce compact; and

     (8) Operating in concert with the fourteen guiding principles identified by the department in its Washington state's green economy strategic framework.

[2009 c 536 § 2.]

NOTES:

     Short title -- 2009 c 536: "This act may be known and cited as the evergreen jobs act." [2009 c 536 § 15.]