STATE OF NEW YORK
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3473
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 27, 2025
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Introduced by Sen. HELMING -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to requiring the state
apprenticeship and training council to meet a certain number of times
per year and provide a report
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. Subdivision 2 of section 813 of the labor law, as amended
2 by chapter 55 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
3 2. The council: (a) shall advise the commissioner [of labor] on
4 apprentice training matters, including the matters of related and
5 supplemental instruction; (b) may recommend suggested standards for
6 apprenticeship agreements; (c) shall maintain a close and effective
7 liaison with governmental and nongovernmental agencies which are
8 concerned with skilled manpower development and problems; [and] (d) may
9 recommend research projects on facts and trends relating to apprentice-
10 ship training and the supply of and needs for skilled manpower[.]; (e)
11 shall meet no less than six times per calendar year at the call of the
12 chair. Meetings may be held via teleconference. Special meetings may be
13 called by the chair at the request of a majority of the members of the
14 council; and (f) shall provide an annual report to the governor and the
15 legislature of its findings, meeting conclusions, recommendations and
16 activities undertaken by the council, not later than one year after the
17 effective date of this paragraph and every year thereafter.
18 § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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