Senate Bill No. 607

Introduced by Senator Bates

(Coauthor: Assembly Member Jones)

February 27, 2015

An act to add Section 108.6 to the Labor Code, relating to certified electricians.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 607, as introduced, Bates. Certified electricians: skilled journeyperson.

Existing law requires the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to maintain minimum standards for the competency and training of electricians through a system of testing and certification.

Existing law also sets forth requirements for the use of a skilled and trained workforce of all workers that are either skilled journeypersons or registered apprentices to perform specified work on state agency design-build projects, local agency design-build projects, and at certain stationary sources posing a regulated substances accident risk.

This bill would deem an electrician certified pursuant to those standards a skilled journeyperson for purposes of any law.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.  

Section 108.6 is added to the Labor Code, to
read:

108.6.  

Notwithstanding any other law, an electrician certified
pursuant to this chapter shall be deemed a skilled journeyperson
for purposes of any law.