STATE OF NEW YORK
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3481
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE
January 31, 2023
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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 appren-
4 tice training matters, including the matters of related and supplemental
5 instruction; (b) may recommend suggested standards for apprenticeship
6 agreements; (c) shall maintain a close and effective liaison with
7 governmental and nongovernmental agencies which are concerned with
8 skilled manpower development and problems; [and] (d) may recommend
9 research projects on facts and trends relating to apprenticeship train-
10 ing and the supply of and needs for skilled manpower[.]; (e) shall meet
11 no less than six times per calendar year at the call of the chair. Meet-
12 ings may be held via teleconference. Special meetings may be called by
13 the chair at the request of a majority of the members of the council;
14 and (f) shall provide an annual report to the governor and the legisla-
15 ture of its findings, meeting conclusions, recommendations and activ-
16 ities 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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