BILL NUMBER: SB 725 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Senator Hancock
FEBRUARY 27, 2009
An act to add Section 52332 to the Education Code, relating to
regional occupational centers or programs.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 725, as introduced, Hancock. Regional occupational centers or
programs: California Apprenticeship Preparation Program.
Existing law authorizes the county superintendent of schools of
each county, with the consent of the State Board of Education, to
establish and maintain at least one regional occupational center or
program (ROC/P) in the county to provide education in career
technical education courses. Existing law states the intent of the
Legislature that ROC/Ps provide career technical and occupational
instruction related to the attainment of skills so that trainees are
prepared for gainful employment in the area for which training was
provided, or are upgraded so that they have the higher level skills
required because of new and changing technologies or so that they are
prepared for enrollment in more advanced training programs.
This bill would enact the California Apprenticeship Preparation
Program Act of 2009. The bill would authorize an ROC/P, upon approval
and certification by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, to
offer a California Apprenticeship Preparation Program. The
Superintendent would be required to approve and certify an ROC/P as a
California Apprenticeship Preparation Program if the ROC/P completed
specified requirements, including, but not limited to, entering into
at least one memorandum of understanding with a local Division of
Apprenticeship Standards certified building and trades construction
apprenticeship program for the provision of occupational and academic
support that includes specified criteria. The bill would authorize
state-approved joint labor management and unilateral nonunion
apprenticeship programs to enter into a memorandum of understanding
with a regional occupational center or program if the apprenticeship
program satisfies the criteria of this section.
The bill would require the State Department of Education, in
collaboration with representatives from building trades and
construction apprenticeship training organizations, ROC/P faculty
members, and ROC/P curriculum coordinators, to develop curriculum
covering all aspects of the building trades and construction
industry. The bill would require that the curriculum meet specified
standards and requirements. The bill would authorize an ROC/P to
exceed its enrollment limit only if the memorandum of understanding
entered into between an ROC/P and a local building and trades
construction apprenticeship program includes an agreement by the
local building and trades construction apprenticeship program to fund
the instructional costs of those pupils enrolled above the
enrollment limit. The bill would require an ROC/P offering a
California Apprenticeship Preparation Program to comply with
specified provisions of existing law.
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 52332 is added to the Education Code, to read:
52332. (a) This section shall be known and may be cited as the
California Apprenticeship Preparation Program Act of 2009.
(b) Upon approval by the Superintendent, a regional occupational
center or program may offer a California Apprenticeship Preparation
Program.
(c) The Superintendent shall approve and certify a regional
occupational center or program as a California Apprenticeship
Preparation Program if the regional occupational center or program
completes all of the following:
(1) Offers the state-approved sequence of courses pursuant to
subdivision (c).
(2) Ensures that instructors for courses offered pursuant to this
section are properly credentialed by the Commission on Teacher
Credentialing, with a career technical education designated subjects
credential.
(3) Enters into at least one memorandum of understanding with a
local Division of Apprenticeship Standards certified building trades
and construction apprenticeship program that has graduated at least
one apprentice in each of the past five years. The memorandum of
understanding shall do all of the following:
(A) Outline roles and responsibilities of the building and
construction trades apprenticeship program for the provision of
occupational and academic support that includes, but is not limited
to, advisory committee input, joint use of facilities and equipment,
and guest lecturers.
(B) Ensure that pupils who complete the sequence of courses
developed under this section shall be given credit or preferential
consideration toward admission to the program, related and
supplemental instruction hours, or credit for hours needed toward
successful completion of an apprenticeship program.
(C) Specify the criteria for preferential consideration toward
admission to an apprenticeship program approved by the Division of
Apprenticeship Standards . It shall not be a violation of the Labor
Code or the regulations of the California Apprenticeship Council for
an apprenticeship program to provide preferential consideration
pursuant to the memorandum of understanding.
(D) Outline the criteria by which a pupil who successfully
completes a California Apprenticeship Preparation Program may be
awarded a skills certificate as referenced in subdivision (a) of
Section 52302.
(4) A memorandum of understanding with a joint labor management
apprenticeship program shall include labor and management signatures.
A memorandum of understanding with a unilateral nonunion
apprenticeship program shall include the signature for the program
management as certified by the Superintendent.
(d) The department, in collaboration with representatives from
building trades and construction apprenticeship training
organizations, regional occupational center or program faculty
members, and regional occupational center or program curriculum
coordinators, shall develop curriculum covering all aspects of the
building trades and construction industry.
(1) The curriculum shall be aligned with the state board-approved
California career technical education model curriculum standards and
building trades industry standards agreed upon by building trades and
construction apprenticeship representatives, including those
standards adopted by the California Apprenticeship Council.
(2) The sequence of courses shall begin with an overview of all
aspects of the building and construction trades that are conducive to
apprenticeship using the California Apprenticeship Council
Orientation to Apprenticeship course curriculum as a resource, and
include an overview of employee rights and responsibilities.
(3) Subsequent courses shall be structured so that pupils may be
provided trade-specific instruction offering pupils increased
exposure to that specific trade. This may be accomplished with
projects that involve all or most trades with pupils provided the
opportunity to concentrate in one specific trade.
(4) Each course shall include either the cooperative career
technical education or community classroom instructional methodology
pursuant to Section 52372.1.
(5) Each course shall include thorough safety instruction. Pupils
shall be capable of demonstrating safe work habits through measurable
objectives.
(6) California Apprenticeship Preparation Program outreach efforts
shall include a targeted effort to include female students,
utilizing women from diverse ethnic backgrounds as role models.
(e) A regional occupational center or program that offers a
California Apprenticeship Preparation Program shall comply with
Sections 52302.3, 52304, and 52304.1.
(f) For purposes of this section, a regional occupational center
or program may exceed its enrollment limit only if the memorandum of
understanding entered into pursuant to subdivision (b) includes an
agreement by the local building trades and construction
apprenticeship program to fund the instructional costs of those
pupils enrolled above the enrollment limit.
(g) Both joint labor-management and unilateral nonunion
apprenticeship programs that are approved by the State of California
may enter into a memorandum of understanding with a regional
occupational center or program if the apprenticeship program
satisfies the criteria of this section.