Connecticut 2019 Regular Session

Connecticut Senate Bill SB01106 Compare Versions

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7	7	General Assembly Raised Bill No. 1106
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12	12	Referred to Committee on GOVERNMENT ADMIN ISTRATION
13	13	AND ELECTIONS
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16	16	Introduced by:
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22	22	AN ACT CONCERNING ST ATE CONTRACTS AND THE USE OF
23	23	APPRENTICES ON LARGE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT S.
24	24	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
25	25	Assembly convened:
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27	27	Section 1. (NEW) (Effective October 1, 2019) (a) Any contractor or 1
28	28	subcontractor entering into or amending a contract on or after October 2
29	29	1, 2019, (1) for the construction or repair of any building under the 3
30	30	supervision of the state or any of its agents or for the construction or 4
31	31	repair of any building that is paid with state funds, and (2) with a cost 5
32	32	exceeding ten million dollars for construction work or three million 6
33	33	dollars for infrastructure work, shall be subject to the provisions of this 7
34	34	section. 8
35	35	(b) Before commencing work under a contract under this section, 9
36	36	the contractor or subcontractor shall submit information to an 10
37	37	applicable apprenticeship program that is able to supply apprentices to 11
38	38	work for the contractor. Such information shall include: (1) An 12
39	39	estimate of the journeyperson hours to be performed under the 13
40	40	contract, (2) the number of apprentices proposed to be employed 14 Raised Bill No. 1106
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46	46	under the contract, and (3) the approximate dates the apprentices 15
47	47	would be employed. The contractor or subcontractor shall submit a 16
48	48	copy of such information to the authority awarding the contract upon 17
49	49	request. Any information submitted under this subsection shall be 18
50	50	public information and the apprenticeship program shall retain such 19
51	51	information for not less than twelve months after its receipt. 20
52	52	(c) Any contractor or subcontractor that employs workers in any 21
53	53	craft or trade for which there is a registered apprenticeship program 22
54	54	shall employ apprentices in at least the ratio set forth in subsection (d) 23
55	55	of this section. The contractor or subcontractor may apply to any 24
56	56	apprenticeship program in the applicable craft or trade that can 25
57	57	provide apprentices for the contracted work, for a certificate approving 26
58	58	the contractor or subcontractor under the apprenticeship standards for 27
59	59	the employment and training of apprentices in the area or industry 28
60	60	affected. The Labor Commissioner may review any decision of an 29
61	61	apprenticeship program to approve or deny a certificate to a contractor 30
62	62	or subcontractor. If the contractor or subcontractor is granted a 31
63	63	certificate, the apprenticeship program shall make arrangements for 32
64	64	the apprentices to work for the subcontractor or contractor. Any 33
65	65	contractor or subcontractor that has been granted a certificate under 34
66	66	this subsection for a public works project shall not be required to 35
67	67	submit an additional application to the certifying apprenticeship 36
68	68	program for additional public work contracts under such program. 37
69	69	(d) The ratio of work performed by apprentices to journeymen 38
70	70	employed in a particular craft or trade on the public work project may 39
71	71	be not higher than the ratio stipulated in the apprenticeship standards 40
72	72	under which the apprenticeship program operates if the contractor or 41
73	73	subcontractor agrees to be bound by such standards. Except as 42
74	74	otherwise provided in this section, the ratio shall not be less than one 43
75	75	hour of apprentice work for every five hours of journeyperson work. 44
76	76	Such ratio of apprentice work to journeyperson work shall apply 45
77	77	during any day or portion of a day when any journeyperson is 46
78	78	employed at the public work site and shall be computed on the basis of 47
79	79	the hours worked during the day by the journeypersons so employed. 48 Raised Bill No. 1106
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85	85	Any work performed by a journeyperson in excess of eight hours per 49
86	86	day or forty hours per week shall not be used to calculate the ratio. The 50
87	87	contractor shall employ apprentices for the number of hours computed 51
88	88	under this subsection before the end of the contract or, in the case of a 52
89	89	subcontractor, before the end of the subcontract. The contractor or 53
90	90	subcontractor shall endeavor, to the greatest extent possible, to employ 54
91	91	apprentices during the same time period that the journeypersons in the 55
92	92	same craft or trade are employed at the job site. When an hourly 56
93	93	apprenticeship ratio is not feasible for a particular craft or trade, the 57
94	94	Labor Commissioner, upon application of an apprenticeship program, 58
95	95	may order a minimum ratio of not less than one apprentice for each 59
96	96	five journeypersons in a craft or trade classification. 60
97	97	(e) An apprenticeship program may grant a participating contractor 61
98	98	or contractor association a certificate, which shall be subject to the 62
99	99	approval of the Labor Commissioner, exempting the contractor from 63
100	100	the ratio set forth in subsection (d) of this section when it finds that any 64
101	101	one of the following conditions is met: 65
102	102	(1) Unemployment for the previous three-month period in the area 66
103	103	exceeds an average of fifteen per cent; 67
104	104	(2) The number of apprentices in training in the area exceeds the 68
105	105	ratio set in the journeyperson-to-apprentice hiring ratio specified in 69
106	106	section 20-332b of the general statutes; or 70
107	107	(3) There is evidence that the craft or trade subject to apprenticeship 71
108	108	is replacing at least one-thirtieth of its journeypersons annually 72
109	109	through apprenticeship training, either on a state-wide basis or on a 73
110	110	local basis. 74
111	111	(f) On and after January 1, 2022, a contractor or subcontractor may 75
112	112	only hire apprentices pursuant to this section from an apprenticeship 76
113	113	program with a graduation rate of at least thirty per cent. 77 Raised Bill No. 1106
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119	119	This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
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122	122	Section 1 October 1, 2019 New section
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124	124	Statement of Purpose:
125	125	To require contractors on certain large construction projects to use
126	126	apprentices from state-registered apprenticeship programs.
127	127	[Proposed deletions are enclosed in brackets. Proposed additions are indicated by underline,
128	128	except that when the entire text of a bill or resolution or a section of a bill or resolution is new, it is
129	129	not underlined.]
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