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General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1106
January Session, 2019
LCO No. 6288
Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMIN ISTRATION
AND ELECTIONS
Introduced by:
(GAE)
AN ACT CONCERNING ST ATE CONTRACTS AND THE USE OF
APPRENTICES ON LARGE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT S.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2019) (a) Any contractor or 1
subcontractor entering into or amending a contract on or after October 2
1, 2019, (1) for the construction or repair of any building under the 3
supervision of the state or any of its agents or for the construction or 4
repair of any building that is paid with state funds, and (2) with a cost 5
exceeding ten million dollars for construction work or three million 6
dollars for infrastructure work, shall be subject to the provisions of this 7
section. 8
(b) Before commencing work under a contract under this section, 9
the contractor or subcontractor shall submit information to an 10
applicable apprenticeship program that is able to supply apprentices to 11
work for the contractor. Such information shall include: (1) An 12
estimate of the journeyperson hours to be performed under the 13
contract, (2) the number of apprentices proposed to be employed 14 Raised Bill No. 1106
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under the contract, and (3) the approximate dates the apprentices 15
would be employed. The contractor or subcontractor shall submit a 16
copy of such information to the authority awarding the contract upon 17
request. Any information submitted under this subsection shall be 18
public information and the apprenticeship program shall retain such 19
information for not less than twelve months after its receipt. 20
(c) Any contractor or subcontractor that employs workers in any 21
craft or trade for which there is a registered apprenticeship program 22
shall employ apprentices in at least the ratio set forth in subsection (d) 23
of this section. The contractor or subcontractor may apply to any 24
apprenticeship program in the applicable craft or trade that can 25
provide apprentices for the contracted work, for a certificate approving 26
the contractor or subcontractor under the apprenticeship standards for 27
the employment and training of apprentices in the area or industry 28
affected. The Labor Commissioner may review any decision of an 29
apprenticeship program to approve or deny a certificate to a contractor 30
or subcontractor. If the contractor or subcontractor is granted a 31
certificate, the apprenticeship program shall make arrangements for 32
the apprentices to work for the subcontractor or contractor. Any 33
contractor or subcontractor that has been granted a certificate under 34
this subsection for a public works project shall not be required to 35
submit an additional application to the certifying apprenticeship 36
program for additional public work contracts under such program. 37
(d) The ratio of work performed by apprentices to journeymen 38
employed in a particular craft or trade on the public work project may 39
be not higher than the ratio stipulated in the apprenticeship standards 40
under which the apprenticeship program operates if the contractor or 41
subcontractor agrees to be bound by such standards. Except as 42
otherwise provided in this section, the ratio shall not be less than one 43
hour of apprentice work for every five hours of journeyperson work. 44
Such ratio of apprentice work to journeyperson work shall apply 45
during any day or portion of a day when any journeyperson is 46
employed at the public work site and shall be computed on the basis of 47
the hours worked during the day by the journeypersons so employed. 48 Raised Bill No. 1106
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Any work performed by a journeyperson in excess of eight hours per 49
day or forty hours per week shall not be used to calculate the ratio. The 50
contractor shall employ apprentices for the number of hours computed 51
under this subsection before the end of the contract or, in the case of a 52
subcontractor, before the end of the subcontract. The contractor or 53
subcontractor shall endeavor, to the greatest extent possible, to employ 54
apprentices during the same time period that the journeypersons in the 55
same craft or trade are employed at the job site. When an hourly 56
apprenticeship ratio is not feasible for a particular craft or trade, the 57
Labor Commissioner, upon application of an apprenticeship program, 58
may order a minimum ratio of not less than one apprentice for each 59
five journeypersons in a craft or trade classification. 60
(e) An apprenticeship program may grant a participating contractor 61
or contractor association a certificate, which shall be subject to the 62
approval of the Labor Commissioner, exempting the contractor from 63
the ratio set forth in subsection (d) of this section when it finds that any 64
one of the following conditions is met: 65
(1) Unemployment for the previous three-month period in the area 66
exceeds an average of fifteen per cent; 67
(2) The number of apprentices in training in the area exceeds the 68
ratio set in the journeyperson-to-apprentice hiring ratio specified in 69
section 20-332b of the general statutes; or 70
(3) There is evidence that the craft or trade subject to apprenticeship 71
is replacing at least one-thirtieth of its journeypersons annually 72
through apprenticeship training, either on a state-wide basis or on a 73
local basis. 74
(f) On and after January 1, 2022, a contractor or subcontractor may 75
only hire apprentices pursuant to this section from an apprenticeship 76
program with a graduation rate of at least thirty per cent. 77 Raised Bill No. 1106
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This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2019 New section
Statement of Purpose:
To require contractors on certain large construction projects to use
apprentices from state-registered apprenticeship programs.
[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
not underlined.]