BILL NUMBER: SB 102	CHAPTERED  10/06/05

	CHAPTER  593
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  OCTOBER 6, 2005
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  OCTOBER 6, 2005
	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 7, 2005
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 6, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 2, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 25, 2005
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 20, 2005

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Ducheny

                        JANUARY 19, 2005

   An act to add Section 10214.9 to the Unemployment Insurance Code,
relating to unemployment compensation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 102, Ducheny  Nurse training funding.
   Existing law establishes the Employment Training Panel and
authorizes the panel to utilize funds in the Employment Training Fund
for, among other expenditures, the purpose of funding special
employment training projects that improve the skills and employment
security of frontline workers, as defined, and training individuals
who are currently working and receiving certain state benefits.
   This bill would additionally authorize the panel to fund up to 5
licensed nurse training programs to train individuals who are
currently working as nurse assistants or caregivers in a health
facility, as defined.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 10214.9 is added to the Unemployment Insurance
Code, to read:
   10214.9.  (a) (1) The panel may fund up to five licensed nurse
training programs to train individuals who are currently working as
nurse assistants or caregivers in a health facility, as defined in
Section 1250 of the Health and Safety Code.
   (2) It is the intent of the Legislature that the panel allocate
these funds in a manner consistent with the objectives of this
chapter as provided in Section 10200.
   (b) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the
panel shall waive the minimum wage provisions, pursuant to
subdivision (f) of Section 10201, if all of the following conditions
are met:
   (1) The employee is enrolled in an approved licensed nurse
training program that consists of not less than 1,000 hours of
training.
   (2) The employer pays the employee not less than 120 percent of
the state minimum wage for not less than the first 20 hours of work
per week during each week the employee is enrolled in the training
program.
   (3) Each program results in full-time employment customary for the
occupation for which the individuals are being trained.
   (c) Notwithstanding any other provisions of this chapter, the
panel shall waive any limitation on the hourly length of training
programs to allow approval and funding for up to 750 hours of a
licensed nurse training program; provided, however, that those funds
be used to pay for up to 750 training hours that remain in the
licensed nurse training program after the employee has completed the
first 800 hours of that program.
   (d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, employers
that participate in the nurse training programs funded pursuant to
this section, are not required to meet the eligibility criteria set
forth in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 10200.