Senate Bill sb1090

    Florida Senate - 2004                                  SB 1090

    By Senator Cowin





    20-774-04

  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to the State Apprenticeship

  3         Advisory Council within the Division of

  4         Workforce Development of the Department of

  5         Education; amending s. 446.045, F.S.; deleting

  6         a requirement that the Governor appoint two

  7         nominating committees for the purpose of

  8         filling vacancies on the council; requiring the

  9         Governor to appoint certain members to the

10         council representing sponsors of joint employee

11         organizations and nonjoint employer

12         organizations; providing an effective date.

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14  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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16         Section 1.  Section 446.045, Florida Statutes, is

17  amended to read:

18         446.045  State Apprenticeship Advisory Council.--

19         (1)  For the purposes of this section, the term:

20         (a)  "Joint employee organization" means an

21  apprenticeship sponsor who participates in a collective

22  bargaining agreement and represents employees.

23         (b)  "Nonjoint employer organization" means an

24  apprenticeship sponsor who does not participate in a

25  collective bargaining agreement and who represents management.

26         (2)(a)  There is created a State Apprenticeship

27  Advisory Council to be composed of 13 members appointed by the

28  Governor, which shall be advisory to the Division of Workforce

29  Development. The purpose of the advisory council is to advise

30  the division and the council on matters relating to

31  apprenticeship.  The advisory council may not establish

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 1  policy, adopt rules, or consider whether particular

 2  apprenticeship programs should be approved by the division.

 3         (b)  The division director or the division director's

 4  designee shall be ex officio chair of the State Apprenticeship

 5  Advisory Council, but may not vote. The state director of the

 6  Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training of the United States

 7  Department of Labor shall be appointed a nonvoting member of

 8  the council. The Governor shall appoint two three-member

 9  committees for the purpose of nominating candidates for

10  appointment to the council.  One nominating committee shall be

11  composed of joint employee organization representatives, and

12  the other nominating committee shall be composed of nonjoint

13  employer organization representatives.  The joint employee

14  organization nominating committee shall submit to the Governor

15  the names of three persons for each vacancy occurring among

16  the joint employee organization members on the council, and

17  the nonjoint employer organization nominating committee

18  likewise shall submit to the Governor the names of three

19  persons for each vacancy occurring among the nonjoint employer

20  organization members on the council. The Governor shall

21  appoint to the council five members representing sponsors of

22  joint employee organizations and five members representing

23  sponsors of nonjoint employer organizations from the

24  candidates nominated for each position by the respective

25  nominating committees.  Each member shall represent industries

26  that which have registered apprenticeship programs or in which

27  a need for apprenticeship programs has been demonstrated.

28  Initially, the Governor shall appoint four members for terms

29  of 4 years, two members for terms of 3 years, two members for

30  terms of 2 years, and two members for terms of 1 year.

31  Thereafter, Members shall be appointed for 4-year terms.  A

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 1  vacancy shall be filled for the remainder of the unexpired

 2  term.

 3         (c)  The council shall meet at the call of the chair or

 4  at the request of a majority of its membership, but at least

 5  twice a year.  A majority of the voting members shall

 6  constitute a quorum, and the affirmative vote of a majority of

 7  a quorum is necessary to take action.

 8         (d)  The Governor may remove any member for cause.

 9         (e)  The council shall maintain minutes of each

10  meeting. The division shall keep on file the minutes of each

11  meeting and shall make such minutes available to any

12  interested person.

13         (f)  Members of the council shall serve without

14  compensation, but shall be entitled to receive reimbursement

15  for per diem and travel expenses as provided in s. 112.061.

16         Section 2.  This act shall take effect upon becoming a

17  law.

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20                          SENATE SUMMARY

21    Deletes provisions requiring the Governor to appoint two
      committees for nominating candidates to vacancies on the
22    State Apprenticeship Advisory Council. Requires that the
      Governor appoint members to the council who represent
23    sponsors of joint employee organizations and nonjoint
      employer organization.
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