THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
STATE HOUSE, BOSTON 02133

By His Excellency

MICHAEL S. DUKAKIS
GOVERNOR

EXECUTIVE ORDER NO. 250

MASSACHUSETTS OCCUPATIONAL INFORMATION
COORDINATING COMMITTEE

(Superseding E.O. 247)

    WHEREAS, there is a need to maintain a comprehensive system
to provide occupational information to planners, researchers and
administrators of the Commonwealth; and

    WHEREAS, employment and training information must be pro-
vided to administrators of the Commonwealth in order to evalu-
ate, plan, and allocate resources for educational, employment,
and training programs; and

    WHEREAS, there is a need to coordinate the development of
this information to avoid duplication of effort and to fully
utilize available information and coordinate resources; and

    WHEREAS, Public Law 98-524, amending the Vocational
Education Act of 1963, provides for and requires that a State
Occupational Information Coordinating Committee perform these
important responsibilities with funds available to it from the
National Occupational Information Coordinating Committee; and

    WHEREAS, the enactment by the United States Congress of said
Public Law 98-524, provides for and requires the establishment
by the Commonwealth of a State Occupational Information Coordi-
nating Committee composed of representatives of Massachusetts
Board of Education, the Massachusetcs Division of Employment
Security, the State Job Matching Coordinating Council, the
agency administering the Vocational Rehabilitation Programs and
the agency representing State economic development programs; and

    WHEREAS, the enactment of Public Law 97-300, requires the
designation of an agency to be responsible for oversight and
management of a statewide comprehensive labor market and occu-
pational supply and demand information system:

    NOW, THEREFORE, I, Michael S. Dukakis, Governor of the
Commonwealth of Massachusetts, by virtue of the authority vested
in me as Supreme Executive Magistrate, do hereby order as
follows:

    1.  The Massachusetts Occupational Information Coordinating
Committee, hereinafter referred to as the Committee, is hereby
established and the Committee is designated as the State agency
to perform the functions and fulfill the responsibilities of the
State Occupational Information Coordinating Committee, which
Committee is denominated and which functions and responsibili-
ties are set out in Public Law 98-524.

    2.  The Committee shall be composed of:

	a) The Associate Commissioner of Education for Occupa-
	tional Education, representing the Massachusetts Board
	of Education; 

	b) The Secretary of Economic Affairs, or his designee(s),
	representing the State Job Training Coordinating Council
	and State economic development programs;

	c) The Director of the Division of Employment Security,
	representing the Division of Employment Security;
	
	d) The Commissioner of Rehabilitation representing the
	agency administering the Vocational Rehabilitation
	Program. 

    3.  For the purposes of administration, the Committee shall
be a State agency in and reporting to the Director of the Massa-
chusetts Division of Employment Security.

    4.  The Massachusetts Division of Employment Security is
designated as the lead State agency in Massachusetts for labor
market information and will serve as the Committee's fiscal
agent, to manage and receive funds available to the Committee
from the National Occupational Information Coordinating Com-
mittee pursuant to applicable portions of Public Law 98-524.

    5.  The Committee shall provide for such advisory or
associate members as the members of the Committee shall deem
appropriate.

    6.  The Committee shall develop and implement an occupa-
tional information system in the Commonwealth which will meet
the common needs for information for the planning for and the
operation of programs of the Massachusetts Board of Education
assisted under the Vocational Education Act of 1963 as amended
and of the administering agencies under the Job Training and
Partnership act of 1984, and other similarly interested public
agencies.

    7.  The Committee will serve the purposes of applicable
provisions of Public Law 98-524 and any successor legislation,
consistent with the requirements of state law.

    8.  The Committee may employ an Executive Director and such
other staff as it may require to perform its functions.  The
Executive Director and the staff employed by the Committee shall
be appointed by the Director of the Division of Employment Secur-
ity upon the approval of the Governor and of the Committee.

    9.  The time and place of meetings of the Committee shall be
as provided for by the rules of the Committee.

    10.  Executive Orders Nos. 140 and 207 are hereby revoked.

Given at the Executive Chamber in
Boston this 5th day of February in
the year of our Lord one thousand
nine hundred and eighty-five, and
of the Independence of the United
States of America two hundred and
nine.

MICHAEL S. DUKAKIS
GOVERNOR
Commonwealth of Massachusetts

MICHAEL JOSEPH CONNOLLY
Secretary of the Commonwealth

GOD SAVE THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS