By: White (Senate Sponsor - Miles) H.B. No. 2790
(In the Senate - Received from the House May 12, 2017;
May 12, 2017, read first time and referred to Committee on Finance;
May 19, 2017, reported favorably by the following vote: Yeas 12,
Nays 0; May 19, 2017, sent to printer.)
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A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to funding for certain apprenticeship training programs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 133.002(b), (f), and (g), Education
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(b) A program may be conducted by an independent
apprenticeship committee or may [must] be sponsored by a public
school district or a state postsecondary institution pursuant to a
contract between the district or institution and an apprenticeship
committee.
(f) Funding for a program sponsored by a public school
district or state postsecondary institution, in addition to any
other money available, shall be provided by the apprenticeship
committee pursuant to the terms of the contract referred to in
Subsection (b).
(g) An apprenticeship training program must provide
[Pursuant to the terms of the contract referred to in Subsection
(b),] adequate facilities, personnel, and resources to effectively
administer the [apprenticeship training] program in a manner
consistent with the public's need for skilled craftsmen and the
apprentices' need for marketable skills in apprenticible
occupations [must be provided].
SECTION 2. Sections 133.005(a) and (b), Education Code, are
amended to read as follows:
(a) The commission shall maintain a clear audit trail of all
funds appropriated for the apprenticeship system of adult career
and technology education. For each course that is funded, the audit
trail shall include the following records:
(1) the name of the sponsoring public school district
or state postsecondary institution or of the apprenticeship
committee offering the course if the apprenticeship training
program is not sponsored by a public school district or state
postsecondary institution;
(2) the name of the instructor;
(3) the number of students enrolled;
(4) the place and schedule of class meetings; and
(5) certification by the bureau for preparatory and
related instruction courses that the students enrolled were
registered apprentices.
(b) A public school district, [Public school districts or]
state postsecondary institution, or apprenticeship committee
operating an apprenticeship training program not sponsored by a
public school district or state postsecondary institution that
receives [institutions receiving] funds shall maintain a clear
audit trail which shall include records of receipts for all
expenditures relating solely to each particular course. Where an
expense is shared by two or more courses, the allocation to that
expense from the funds for a particular course shall be supported by
a formula based on the comparative benefit derived by each course
from the expense. No charges for the depreciation of facilities or
the retirement of indebtedness shall be allocated to an
apprenticeship course.
SECTION 3. Section 133.006(e), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(e) No funds shall be distributed to a public school
district, [or] state postsecondary institution, or apprenticeship
committee until the district, [or] institution, or committee has
filed all reports required by this chapter and by the commission.
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2017.
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