Florida Senate - 2015 PROPOSED COMMITTEE SUBSTITUTE
Bill No. SB 1522
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576-03707-15
Proposed Committee Substitute by the Committee on Appropriations
(Appropriations Subcommittee on Education)
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to workforce training; amending s.
3 446.021, F.S.; redefining terms; amending s. 446.032,
4 F.S.; conforming a provision to changes made by the
5 act; requiring the Department of Education, in
6 collaboration with the Department of Economic
7 Opportunity, to identify and recommend specified
8 apprenticeship programs; requiring the department to
9 annually submit an accountability report with
10 specified requirements to the Governor, the
11 Legislature, and the Higher Education Coordinating
12 Council; requiring the department to post on its
13 Internet website specified information regarding
14 apprenticeship programs; amending s. 446.052, F.S.;
15 requiring the Department of Education, in
16 collaboration with the Department of Economic
17 Opportunity, to identify and recommend specified
18 preapprenticeship programs; requiring the department
19 to annually submit an accountability report with
20 specified content to the Governor, the Legislature,
21 and the Higher Education Coordinating Council;
22 requiring the department to post on its Internet
23 website specified information regarding
24 preapprenticeship programs; requiring the Department
25 of Education, in collaboration with the Department of
26 Economic Opportunity to submit an operational report
27 to the Governor, the Legislature, and the Higher
28 Education Coordinating Council with specified
29 information; amending s. 446.091, F.S.; conforming a
30 provision to changes made by the act; providing an
31 effective date.
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33 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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35 Section 1. Subsections (2), (4), (5), and (6) of section
36 446.021, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
37 446.021 Definitions of terms used in ss. 446.011-446.092.
38 As used in ss. 446.011-446.092, the term:
39 (2) “Apprentice” means a person at least 16 years of age
40 who is engaged in learning a recognized skilled trade through
41 actual work experience under the supervision of journeyworker
42 journeymen craftsmen, which training should be combined with
43 properly coordinated studies of related technical and
44 supplementary subjects, and who has entered into a written
45 agreement, which may be cited as an apprentice agreement, with a
46 registered apprenticeship sponsor who may be either an employer,
47 an association of employers, or a local joint apprenticeship
48 committee.
49 (4) “Journeyworker” “Journeyman” means a worker who has
50 attained certain skills, abilities, and competencies and who is
51 recognized within an industry as having mastered the skills and
52 competencies required for the occupation, including, but not
53 limited to, attainment of a nationally recognized industry
54 certification. The term includes a mentor, technician,
55 specialist, or other skilled worker who has documented
56 sufficient skills and knowledge of an occupation, through formal
57 apprenticeship, attainment of a nationally recognized industry
58 certification, or through practical, on-the-job experience or
59 formal training a person working in an apprenticeable occupation
60 who has successfully completed a registered apprenticeship
61 program or who has worked the number of years required by
62 established industry practices for the particular trade or
63 occupation.
64 (5) “Preapprenticeship program” means an organized course
65 of instruction, including, but not limited to, industry
66 certifications identified under s. 1008.44, in the public school
67 system or elsewhere, which course is designed to prepare a
68 person 16 years of age or older to become an apprentice and
69 which course is approved by and registered with the department
70 and sponsored by a registered apprenticeship program.
71 (6) “Apprenticeship program” means an organized course of
72 instruction, including, but not limited to, industry
73 certifications identified under s. 1008.44, registered and
74 approved by the department, which course shall contain all terms
75 and conditions for the qualifications, recruitment, selection,
76 employment, and training of apprentices including such matters
77 as the requirements for a written apprenticeship agreement.
78 Section 2. Section 446.032, Florida Statutes, is amended to
79 read:
80 446.032 General duties of the department for apprenticeship
81 training.—The department shall:
82 (1) Establish uniform minimum standards and policies
83 governing apprentice programs and agreements. The standards and
84 policies shall govern the terms and conditions of the
85 apprentice’s employment and training, including the quality
86 training of the apprentice for, but not limited to, such matters
87 as ratios of apprentices to journeyworkers journeymen, safety,
88 related instruction, and on-the-job training; but these
89 standards and policies may not include rules, standards, or
90 guidelines that require the use of apprentices and job trainees
91 on state, county, or municipal contracts. The department may
92 adopt rules necessary to administer the standards and policies.
93 (2) Establish procedures to be used by the State
94 Apprenticeship Advisory Council.
95 (3) Collaborate with the Department of Economic Opportunity
96 to identify, develop, and register apprenticeship programs that
97 are aligned with statewide demand for a skilled labor force in
98 high-demand occupations and with regional workforce needs.
99 Beginning in the 2015-2016 fiscal year, the department shall
100 annually, by December 31, submit an accountability report, which
101 must include information related to program usage, student
102 demographics and performance outcomes, and program requirements
103 for the existing apprenticeship and preapprenticeship programs
104 and the development of new programs. The report must include
105 regional information about program and student performance
106 outcomes. The report must be submitted to the Governor, the
107 President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of
108 Representatives, and the Higher Education Coordinating Council.
109 (4) Post on its Internet website information regarding
110 apprenticeship programs, which must, at a minimum, include:
111 (a) Program admission requirements;
112 (b) Program standards and training requirements; and
113 (c) A summary of program and student performance outcomes.
114 Section 3. Subsections (5) and (6) are added to section
115 446.052, Florida Statutes, to read:
116 446.052 Preapprenticeship program.—
117 (5) The department shall collaborate with the Department of
118 Economic Opportunity to identify, develop, and register
119 preapprenticeship programs that are aligned with statewide
120 demand for a skilled labor force in high-demand occupations and
121 with regional workforce needs. Beginning in the 2015-2016 fiscal
122 year, the department shall annually, by December 31, submit an
123 accountability report, which must include information related to
124 program usage, student demographics and performance outcomes,
125 and program requirements for the existing apprenticeship and
126 preapprenticeship programs and the development of new programs.
127 The report must include regional information about program and
128 student performance outcomes. The report must be submitted to
129 the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the
130 House of Representatives, and the Higher Education Coordinating
131 Council.
132 (6) The department shall post on its Internet website
133 information regarding preapprenticeship programs, which must, at
134 a minimum, include:
135 (a) Program admission requirements;
136 (b) Program standards and training requirements; and
137 (c) A summary of program and student performance outcomes.
138 Section 4. Preapprenticeship and apprenticeship operational
139 report.—(1) By December 31, 2015, the Department of Education,
140 in collaboration with the Department of Economic Opportunity and
141 CareerSource Florida, Inc., shall submit an operational report
142 to the Governor, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the
143 House of Representatives, and the Higher Education Coordinating
144 Council providing:
145 (a) A summary of the activities and coordination between
146 the two agencies to identify, develop, register, and administer
147 preapprenticeship and apprenticeship programs over the last 5
148 years.
149 (b) The strategies employed by the two agencies to engage
150 school districts, Florida College System institutions, technical
151 centers, businesses, and other stakeholders as partners in the
152 workforce system to expand employment opportunities for
153 individuals, including, but not limited to, those individuals
154 with unique abilities, which must include work-based learning
155 experiences, such as preapprenticeships and apprenticeships.
156 (c) Recommendations to maximize the resources of the two
157 agencies to gain efficiency in program development,
158 administration, and funding and make program governance changes
159 to improve the delivery and management of preapprenticeship and
160 apprenticeship programs based on workforce demands. These
161 recommendations must take into account federal resources and
162 must include any necessary or suggested changes to the programs
163 ensuing from implementation of the Workforce Innovation and
164 Opportunity Act of 2014 and related regulations.
165 (d) Recommendations and strategies for the two agencies to
166 communicate effectively with employers in this state and ensure
167 that employers have access to information and consultative
168 services, at no cost to the employers, regarding sponsorship of
169 demand-driven, registered preapprenticeship and apprenticeship
170 programs and information about the availability of program
171 students for employment.
172 (e) An evaluation of the feasibility of linking or
173 incorporating, and of the resources necessary to link or
174 incorporate, the Department of Education’s website information
175 on preapprenticeship and apprenticeship programs with the
176 Department of Economic Opportunity and CareerSource Florida,
177 Inc., workforce information system required under chapter 445,
178 Florida Statutes.
179 (2) This section expires on July 1, 2016.
180 Section 5. Section 446.091, Florida Statutes, is amended to
181 read:
182 446.091 On-the-job training program.—All provisions of ss.
183 446.011-446.092 relating to apprenticeship and
184 preapprenticeship, including, but not limited to, programs,
185 agreements, standards, administration, procedures, definitions,
186 expenditures, local committees, powers and duties, limitations,
187 grievances, and ratios of apprentices and job trainees to
188 journeyworkers journeymen on state, county, and municipal
189 contracts, shall be appropriately adapted and made applicable to
190 a program of on-the-job training authorized under those
191 provisions for persons other than apprentices.
192 Section 6. This act shall take effect July 1, 2015.