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2025 SENATE BILL 242
May 9, 2025 - Introduced by Senators KAPENGA, FEYEN, HUTTON, JACQUE, JAMES,
STAFSHOLT, CABRAL-GUEVARA and TESTIN, cosponsored by Representatives
MAXEY, NEYLON, ARMSTRONG, BRILL, BROOKS, DITTRICH, FRANKLIN, GREEN,
GUNDRUM, KNODL, MELOTIK, MURPHY, NOVAK, O'CONNOR, PENTERMAN,
TUCKER, WICHGERS, WITTKE, GUSTAFSON, ZIMMERMAN and GOEBEN. Referred
to Committee on Government Operations, Labor and Economic Development.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
AN ACT to amend 106.015 (1) of the statutes; relating to: required ratio of
journeyworkers to apprentices in apprenticeship programs and contracts.
Analysis by the Legislative Reference Bureau
Under current law, the Department of Workforce Development may not
prescribe, enforce, or authorize a ratio of apprentices to journeyworkers for
apprenticeship programs or apprentice contracts that requires more than one
journeyworker for each apprentice. This bill increases the allowable ratio to one
journeyworker to two apprentices.
The people of the state of Wisconsin, represented in senate and assembly, do
enact as follows:
SECTION 1. 106.015 (1) of the statutes is amended to read:
106.015 (1) Except as provided in sub. (2), the department may not prescribe,
enforce, or authorize, whether through the promulgation of a rule, the issuance of a
general or special order, the approval of an apprenticeship program or apprentice
contract, or otherwise, a ratio of apprentices to journeyworkers for apprenticeship
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programs or apprentice contracts that requires more than one journeyworker for
each apprentice 2 apprentices.
SECTION 2. Initial applicability.
(1) This act first applies to an apprenticeship contract governed by a collective
bargaining agreement that contains provisions that are inconsistent with this act
on the day that the agreement expires or is extended, modified or renewed,
whichever occurs first.
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