Senate Bill sb1562

    Florida Senate - 2003        (NP)                      SR 1562

    By Senator Jones





    13-960-03

  1                    Senate Resolution No. ____

  2         A resolution recognizing the value of Florida's

  3  Apprenticeship programs in educating and training the workers

  4  needed to perform the high-skill, high-wage jobs required to

  5  support the state's developing economy, and recognizing March

  6  6, 2003, as Apprenticeship Day 2003 in the State of Florida.

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  8         WHEREAS, apprenticeship programs are recognized

  9  throughout the world as providing one of the most effective,

10  efficient, and economical means of educating and training

11  workers who are needed to perform high-skill, high-wage jobs

12  in the building trades, and

13         WHEREAS, since being authorized by the Florida

14  Legislature in 1947, apprenticeship programs in Florida have

15  educated and trained tens of thousands of workers to perform

16  capably in every facet of the building trades, providing the

17  state's builders with the highly skilled personnel required to

18  meet their employment needs and enabling the state's builders

19  to be competitive leaders in developing the state's economy,

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21         WHEREAS, through the strong and viable partnerships

22  that have been developed by and among business and labor in

23  Florida, there are now 314 approved apprenticeship programs

24  operating in the state, actively educating and training 11,953

25  workers, and

26         WHEREAS, workers who graduate from approved

27  apprenticeship programs in Florida consistently earn high

28  wages, experience low rates of need for public assistance,

29  provide economic stability among the rank and file of

30  Florida's workforce, and supply the lifeblood of the state's

31  builders, NOW, THEREFORE,

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    Florida Senate - 2003        (NP)                      SR 1562
    13-960-03




  1  Be It Resolved by the Senate of the State of Florida:

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  3         That the Florida Senate acknowledges the immeasurable

  4  value of the state's approved apprenticeship programs to

  5  Florida's economy and recognizes March 6, 2003, as

  6  Apprenticeship Day 2003 in the State of Florida.

  7         BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a copy of this resolution,

  8  with the Seal of the Senate affixed, be presented to the

  9  Director of the Division of Workforce Development of the

10  Florida Department of Education as a tangible token of the

11  sentiments of the Florida Senate.

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