BILL NUMBER: AB 520	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Levine and Atkins

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2015

   An act to amend Section 3073.5 of the Labor Code, relating to
apprenticeship.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 520, as introduced, Levine. Apprenticeship.
   Existing law provides for apprenticeship programs within the
Division of Apprenticeship Standards within the Department of
Industrial Relations, sponsored by specific entities and employers,
and requires the Chief of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards to
perform various functions with respect to apprenticeship programs
and the welfare of apprentices.
   Existing law also establishes the California Apprenticeship
Council within the Division of Apprenticeship Standards, and requires
the council to aid the director in formulating policies with respect
to apprentice regulation.
    Existing law requires the Chief of the Division of Apprenticeship
Standards and the California Apprenticeship Council to report
annually through the Director of Industrial Relations on the
activities of the division and the council, and further requires that
the report include specified information with respect to
apprenticeship programs in this state.
   This bill would require the report to include an analysis of any
apprenticeship standards or regulations that were proposed or adopted
in the previous year.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 3073.5 of the Labor Code is amended to read:
   3073.5.  The Chief of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards and
the California Apprenticeship Council shall annually report through
the Director of Industrial Relations to the Legislature and the
public on the activities of the division and the council. The report
shall contain information including, but not limited to, analyses of
the following:
   (a) The number of individuals, including numbers of women and
minorities, registered in apprenticeship programs in this state for
the current year and in each of the previous five years.
   (b) The number and percentage of apprentices, including numbers
and percentages of minorities and women, registered in each
apprenticeship program having five or more apprentices, and the
percentage of those apprentices who have completed their programs
successfully in the current year and in each of the previous five
years.
   (c) Remedial actions taken by the division to assist those
apprenticeship programs having difficulty in achieving affirmative
action goals or having very low completion rates.
   (d) The number of disputed issues with respect to individual
apprenticeship agreements submitted to the Administrator of
Apprenticeship for determination and the number of those issues
resolved by the council on appeal.
   (e) The number of apprenticeship program applications received by
the division, the number approved, the number denied and the reason
for those denials, the number being reviewed, and deficiencies, if
any, with respect to those program applications being reviewed.
   (f) The number of apprenticeship programs, approved by the
Division of Apprenticeship Standards, that are disapproved by the
California Apprenticeship Council, and the reasons for those
disapprovals. 
   (g) Any apprenticeship standards or regulations that were proposed
or adopted in the previous year.