Bill Text: CA AB666 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Substance use disorder workforce development.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-1)

Status: (Passed) 2022-03-09 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 7, Statutes of 2022. [AB666 Detail]

Download: California-2021-AB666-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 666

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Introduced by Assembly Member Chiu

February 12, 2021

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An act to amend Section 3071 of the Labor Code, relating to apprenticeship.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 666, as introduced, Chiu. Apprenticeship.

Existing law establishes the California Apprenticeship Council within the Division of Apprenticeship Standards, which is in the Department of Industrial Relations. Existing law prescribes duties for the council that include establishing standards for minimum wages, maximum hours, and working conditions for apprentice agreements in the building and construction trades and for firefighter occupations, which are referred to as apprenticeship standards.

This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in the provisions relating to apprenticeship standards that are described above.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 3071 of the Labor Code is amended to read:

3071.

 (a) The California Apprenticeship Council shall meet quarterly at a designated date and special meetings may be held at the call of the chair. The council shall issue rules and regulations which establish standards for minimum wages, maximum hours, and working conditions for apprentice agreements in the building and construction trades and for firefighter occupations, hereinafter in this chapter referred to as apprenticeship standards, which in no case shall shall not be lower than those prescribed by this chapter; and shall issue rules and regulations governing equal opportunities in apprenticeship, affirmative action programs which include women and minorities in apprenticeship, and other on-the-job training, and criteria for selection procedures with a view particularly toward eliminating criteria not relevant to qualification for training employment or more stringent than is reasonably necessary.

(b) For purposes of this section, “firefighter occupations” means those occupations submitted by the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Committee and approved by the Chief of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards.

(c) Notwithstanding the standards established pursuant to subdivision (a), if the minimum wages, maximum hours, and working conditions for apprentices in the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Program are in conflict with the provisions of a collective bargaining agreement with a public employer, the provisions of the collective bargaining agreement shall prevail.