87R4651 KSD-D
By: Zaffirini S.B. No. 614
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to the administration of apprenticeship training
programs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 133.001(1), (3), (4), (5), and (6),
Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
(1) "Apprenticeship training program" means a
training program that provides on-the-job training, preparatory
instruction, supplementary instruction, or related instruction in
a trade that has been certified as an apprenticeable
[apprenticible] occupation by the Office of Apprenticeship [Bureau
of Apprenticeship Training of the United States Department of
Labor].
(3) "Supplementary instruction" means a course of
instruction for persons employed as journeymen craftsmen in
apprenticeable [apprenticible] trades that is designed to provide
new skills or upgrade current skills.
(4) "Related instruction" means organized,
off-the-job instruction in theoretical or technical subjects
required for the completion of an apprenticeship program for a
particular apprenticeable [apprenticible] trade.
(5) "Commission" means the Texas Workforce
[Employment] Commission.
(6) "Office of Apprenticeship" ["Bureau"] means the
Office of Apprenticeship [Bureau of Apprenticeship Training] of the
United States Department of Labor.
SECTION 2. Sections 133.002(c), (d), (g), and (h),
Education Code, are amended to read as follows:
(c) A program must be under the direction of an
apprenticeship committee whose members are appointed by one or more
employers of apprentices, one or more bargaining agents
representing members of an apprenticeable [apprenticible] trade,
or a combination of the above, and the committee shall perform the
duties set forth in Section 133.003. If an apprenticeship
committee is composed of representatives of one or more employers
and one or more bargaining agents, the number of committee members
designated by the employer or employers shall be equal to the number
of committee members designated by the bargaining agent or agents.
(d) Each apprentice participating in a program must be given
a written apprenticeship agreement by the apprenticeship committee
stating the standards and conditions of the apprentice's employment
and training. The standards must conform substantially with the
standards of apprenticeship for the particular trade which have
been adopted by the Office of Apprenticeship [bureau].
(g) An apprenticeship training program must provide
adequate facilities, personnel, and resources to effectively
administer the program in a manner consistent with the public's
need for skilled craftsmen and the apprentices' need for marketable
skills in apprenticeable [apprenticible] occupations.
(h) A program must be registered with the Office of
Apprenticeship [bureau] and approved by the commission.
SECTION 3. Section 133.006(b), Education Code, is amended
to read as follows:
(b) At least annually, the [The] commission shall prepare
and submit to the Texas Workforce Investment Council or to the
Apprenticeship and Training Advisory Committee, as designated by
the Texas Workforce Investment Council, a report that includes:
(1) an apprenticeship-related instruction cost study
for the most recent state fiscal year; and
(2) the funding distribution for
apprenticeship-related instruction programs for the state fiscal
year in which the report is submitted [an update to the
Apprenticeship Related Instruction Cost Study adopted by the State
Board of Education on February 10, 1973, prior to each biennial
session of the legislature].
SECTION 4. This Act takes effect September 1, 2021.