Bill Text: NJ A131 | 2018-2019 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires Commissioner of Education to develop guidelines to encourage high school students to participate in apprenticeship training.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 16-3)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-02-25 - Substituted by S372 [A131 Detail]

Download: New_Jersey-2018-A131-Introduced.html

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ASSEMBLY, No. 131

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

218th LEGISLATURE

 

PRE-FILED FOR INTRODUCTION IN THE 2018 SESSION

 

 

Sponsored by:

Assemblyman  WAYNE P. DEANGELO

District 14 (Mercer and Middlesex)

 

 

 

 

SYNOPSIS

     Requires Commissioner of Education to develop guidelines to encourage high school students to participate in apprenticeship training.

 

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

     Introduced Pending Technical Review by Legislative Counsel.

  

An Act concerning apprenticeship training information and supplementing P.L.1993, c.268 (C.34:15E-1 et seq.).

 

     Be It Enacted by the Senate and General Assembly of the State of New Jersey:

 

     1.    The Commissioner of Education, in consultation with the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, shall develop guidelines for use by high school counselors to coordinate services with representatives of the New Jersey State Building and Construction Trades Council for purposes of encouraging student participation in apprenticeships and raising awareness of apprenticeship opportunities.  The Commissioner of Education shall make the guidelines available on the Department of Education's website and shall update the information annually.

 

     2.    This act shall take effect immediately.

 

 

STATEMENT

 

     The bill requires the Commissioner of Education, in consultation with the Commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development, to develop guidelines for use by high school counselors to coordinate services with representatives of the New Jersey State Building and Construction Trades Council for purposes of encouraging student participation in apprenticeships and raising awareness of apprenticeship opportunities.  The commissioner will post the guidelines on the Department of Education's website and will update the information annually.