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General Assembly Committee Bill No. 6316
January Session, 2021
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Referred to Committee on VETERANS' AFFAIRS
Introduced by:
(VA)
AN ACT CONCERNING TH E EVALUATION OF MILITARY TRAINING
EVALUATION APPLICATIONS SUBMITT ED TO THE LABOR
DEPARTMENT.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly convened:
Section 1. Section 31-22u of the general statutes is repealed and the 1
following is substituted in lieu thereof (Effective October 1, 2021): 2
Any member of the armed forces or National Guard or any veteran, 3
within two years of such veteran's discharge from the armed forces, may 4
submit an application for military training evaluation to the Labor 5
Department program of apprentice training set forth in section 31-22q. 6
Such application shall include (1) evidence of satisfactory completion of 7
a program or course of instruction as part of military training that is 8
equivalent in content and quality to that required for a specific trade in 9
this state, and (2) if such applicant is a veteran, such veteran's military 10
discharge document or a certified copy thereof. The Labor 11
Commissioner, the Commissioner of Veterans Affairs and the 12
Commissioner of Consumer Protection, or the commissioners' 13
designees, shall evaluate any such application and determine whether 14
the applicant's military training may be substituted for all or part of the 15
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term of an apprenticeship program registered with the Labor 16
Department for a specific trade. If the [commissioner determines] 17
commissioners, or the commissioners' designees, jointly determine that 18
the applicant's military training is equivalent to the training required for 19
completion of such apprenticeship program, the [commissioner] Labor 20
Commissioner, or the commissioner's designee, shall issue such 21
applicant a recommendation for review by the appropriate examining 22
board established under section 20-331. Presentation of such 23
recommendation, pursuant to section 20-333, shall allow such applicant 24
to sit for any licensure examination without participation in an 25
apprenticeship program. If the [commissioner determines] 26
commissioners, or the commissioners' designees, jointly determine that 27
the applicant's military training is equivalent to part of the training 28
required for completion of an apprenticeship program, such applicant's 29
hours of qualified military training, as determined jointly by the 30
[commissioner] commissioners, or the commissioners' designees, shall 31
be deducted from the hours of apprenticeship training required for the 32
specific trade provided (A) such applicant completes the minimum 33
number of hours of apprenticeship training required under federal law, 34
and (B) prior to implementation of this provision, the Labor Department 35
obtains concurrence with such provision from the federal office of 36
apprenticeship pursuant to 29 CFR 29.13(b)(9). For the purposes of this 37
section, (i) "veteran" means any person who was discharged or released 38
under conditions other than dishonorable from active service in the 39
armed forces, (ii) "armed forces" has the same meaning as provided in 40
section 27-103, and (iii) "military discharge document" has the same 41
meaning as provided in section 1-219. 42
This act shall take effect as follows and shall amend the following
sections:
Section 1 October 1, 2021 31-22u
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Statement of Purpose:
To require the Labor Commissioner, the Commissioner of Veterans
Affairs and the Commissioner of Consumer Protection, or the
commissioners' designees, to jointly evaluate military training
applications to the Labor Department's program of apprenticeship
training.
[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.]
Co-Sponsors: REP. WELANDER, 114th Dist.
H.B. 6316