87R4651 KSD-D
 
  By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 614
 
 
 
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
 
AN ACT
  relating to the administration of apprenticeship training
  programs.
         BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
         SECTION 1.  Sections 133.001(1), (3), (4), (5), and (6),
  Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
               (1)  "Apprenticeship training program" means a
  training program that provides on-the-job training, preparatory
  instruction, supplementary instruction, or related instruction in
  a trade that has been certified as an apprenticeable
  [apprenticible] occupation by the Office of Apprenticeship [Bureau
  of Apprenticeship Training of the United States Department of
  Labor].
               (3)  "Supplementary instruction" means a course of
  instruction for persons employed as journeymen craftsmen in
  apprenticeable [apprenticible] trades that is designed to provide
  new skills or upgrade current skills.
               (4)  "Related instruction" means organized,
  off-the-job instruction in theoretical or technical subjects
  required for the completion of an apprenticeship program for a
  particular apprenticeable [apprenticible] trade.
               (5)  "Commission" means the Texas Workforce
  [Employment] Commission.
               (6)  "Office of Apprenticeship" ["Bureau"] means the
  Office of Apprenticeship [Bureau of Apprenticeship Training] of the
  United States Department of Labor.
         SECTION 2.  Sections 133.002(c), (d), (g), and (h),
  Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
         (c)  A program must be under the direction of an
  apprenticeship committee whose members are appointed by one or more
  employers of apprentices, one or more bargaining agents
  representing members of an apprenticeable [apprenticible] trade,
  or a combination of the above, and the committee shall perform the
  duties set forth in Section 133.003. If an apprenticeship
  committee is composed of representatives of one or more employers
  and one or more bargaining agents, the number of committee members
  designated by the employer or employers shall be equal to the number
  of committee members designated by the bargaining agent or agents.
         (d)  Each apprentice participating in a program must be given
  a written apprenticeship agreement by the apprenticeship committee
  stating the standards and conditions of the apprentice's employment
  and training. The standards must conform substantially with the
  standards of apprenticeship for the particular trade which have
  been adopted by the Office of Apprenticeship [bureau].
         (g)  An apprenticeship training program must provide
  adequate facilities, personnel, and resources to effectively
  administer the program in a manner consistent with the public's
  need for skilled craftsmen and the apprentices' need for marketable
  skills in apprenticeable [apprenticible] occupations.
         (h)  A program must be registered with the Office of
  Apprenticeship [bureau] and approved by the commission.
         SECTION 3.  Section 133.006(b), Education Code, is amended
  to read as follows:
         (b)  At least annually, the [The] commission shall prepare
  and submit to the Texas Workforce Investment Council or to the
  Apprenticeship and Training Advisory Committee, as designated by
  the Texas Workforce Investment Council, a report that includes:
               (1)  an apprenticeship-related instruction cost study
  for the most recent state fiscal year; and
               (2)  the funding distribution for
  apprenticeship-related instruction programs for the state fiscal
  year in which the report is submitted [an update to the
  Apprenticeship Related Instruction Cost Study adopted by the State
  Board of Education on February 10, 1973, prior to each biennial
  session of the legislature].
         SECTION 4.  This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.