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Senate Bill S3473

2025-2026 Legislative Session

Relates to the state apprenticeship and training council

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2025-S3473 (ACTIVE) - Details

Current Committee:
Senate Labor
Law Section:
Labor Law
Laws Affected:
Amd §813, Lab L
Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
2019-2020: S6842
2021-2022: S2608
2023-2024: S3481

2025-S3473 (ACTIVE) - Summary

Requires the state apprenticeship and training council to meet a certain number of times per year and provide a report.

2025-S3473 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo

2025-S3473 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf 

                             
                     S T A T E   O F   N E W   Y O R K
 ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                   3473
 
                        2025-2026 Regular Sessions
 
                             I N  S E N A T E
 
                             January 27, 2025
                                ___________
 
 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:
 
   Section  1.  Subdivision 2 of section 813 of the labor law, as amended
 by chapter 55 of the laws of 1992, is amended to read as follows:
   2. The council: (a)  shall  advise  the  commissioner  [of  labor]  on
 apprentice  training  matters,  including  the  matters  of  related and
 supplemental instruction; (b)  may  recommend  suggested  standards  for
 apprenticeship  agreements;  (c)  shall  maintain  a close and effective
 liaison  with  governmental  and  nongovernmental  agencies  which   are
 concerned  with skilled manpower development and problems; [and] (d) may
 recommend research projects on facts and trends relating to  apprentice-
 ship  training  and the supply of and needs for skilled manpower[.]; (E)
 SHALL MEET NO LESS THAN SIX TIMES PER CALENDAR YEAR AT THE CALL  OF  THE
 CHAIR. MEETINGS MAY BE HELD VIA TELECONFERENCE.  SPECIAL MEETINGS MAY BE
 CALLED  BY  THE CHAIR AT THE REQUEST OF A MAJORITY OF THE MEMBERS OF THE
 COUNCIL; AND (F) SHALL PROVIDE AN ANNUAL REPORT TO THE GOVERNOR AND  THE
 LEGISLATURE  OF  ITS  FINDINGS, MEETING CONCLUSIONS, RECOMMENDATIONS AND
 ACTIVITIES UNDERTAKEN BY THE COUNCIL, NOT LATER THAN ONE YEAR AFTER  THE
 EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS PARAGRAPH AND EVERY YEAR THEREAFTER.
   § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
 
 
 
  EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                       [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                            LBD07365-01-5

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