Florida Senate - 2019 SB 522
By Senator Diaz
36-00544A-19 2019522__
1 A bill to be entitled
2 An act relating to apprenticeship programs; amending
3 s. 446.011, F.S.; revising legislative intent;
4 amending s. 446.032, F.S.; requiring the Department of
5 Education to provide a specified annual report to the
6 Legislature and the State Apprenticeship Advisory
7 Council; providing requirements for the report;
8 requiring the department to provide certain
9 information on its website; creating s. 446.042, F.S.;
10 requiring the department to develop and manage the
11 Florida Apprenticeship Grant Program, subject to
12 appropriation of funds by the Legislature; authorizing
13 certain registered apprenticeship program sponsors to
14 apply for grant awards to help fund apprenticeship
15 programs; amending s. 446.051, F.S.; requiring the
16 department to perform certain duties related to
17 apprenticeships when a program sponsor has received a
18 grant award; providing an effective date.
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20 Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:
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22 Section 1. Subsection (1) of section 446.011, Florida
23 Statutes, is amended to read:
24 446.011 Legislative intent regarding apprenticeship
25 training.—
26 (1) It is the intent of the State of Florida to provide
27 educational opportunities for its residents young people so that
28 they can be trained for trades, occupations, and professions
29 suited to their abilities. It is the intent of this act to
30 promote the mode of training known as apprenticeship in
31 occupations throughout industry in the state that require
32 physical manipulative skills. By broadening job training
33 opportunities and providing for increased coordination between
34 public school academic programs, career programs, and registered
35 apprenticeship programs, the residents of this young people of
36 the state will benefit from the valuable training opportunities
37 developed when on-the-job training is combined with academic
38 related classroom experiences. This act is intended to develop
39 the apparent potentials in apprenticeship training by assisting
40 in the establishment of preapprenticeship programs in the public
41 school system and elsewhere and by expanding presently
42 registered programs as well as promoting new registered programs
43 in jobs that lend themselves to apprenticeship training.
44 Section 2. Present subsection (2) of section 446.032,
45 Florida Statutes, is renumbered as subsection (4), and new
46 subsections (2) and (3) are added to that section, to read:
47 446.032 General duties of the department for apprenticeship
48 training.—The department shall:
49 (2) Provide an annual report to the Legislature and the
50 State Apprenticeship Advisory Council on apprenticeship and
51 preapprenticeship training in this state. The report must
52 include all of the following information:
53 (a) The number of apprenticeship and preapprenticeship
54 programs in this state, respectively.
55 (b) The number of apprenticeship sponsors, as described in
56 s. 446.071, in this state.
57 (c) The number of apprentices and preapprentices in this
58 state for each apprenticeable trade and occupation,
59 respectively.
60 (d) The amount of state funding per apprentice and per
61 apprenticeable trade and occupation.
62 (3) Provide information under the apprenticeship programs
63 section of its website as to how a Florida College System
64 institution or a school district may assume the responsibilities
65 of a local educational agency for the purposes of administering
66 an apprenticeship program.
67 Section 3. Section 446.042, Florida Statutes, is created to
68 read:
69 446.042 Florida Apprenticeship Grant Program.—
70 (1) Subject to the appropriation of funds by the
71 Legislature, the department shall develop and manage the Florida
72 Apprenticeship Grant Program.
73 (2) Registered apprenticeship program sponsors that do not
74 require assistance, as described in s. 446.051(2), may apply to
75 the department for grant awards to assist in funding
76 apprenticeship programs.
77 Section 4. Subsection (1) of section 446.051, Florida
78 Statutes, is amended to read:
79 446.051 Related instruction for apprentices.—
80 (1) The administration and supervision of related and
81 supplemental instruction for apprentices, coordination of such
82 instruction with job experiences, and selection and training of
83 teachers and coordinators for such instruction, all as approved
84 by the registered program sponsor, shall be the responsibility
85 of the appropriate career education institution or, if the
86 program sponsor has received a grant award from the Florida
87 Apprenticeship Grant Program, the department.
88 Section 5. This act shall take effect July 1, 2019.