Bill Text: NY A08695 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Enacts the "Learning for Work" act; appropriates moneys therefor.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 30-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-30 - held for consideration in education [A08695 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A08695-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          8695
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 12, 2016
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        Introduced by M. of A. LUPINACCI, MALLIOTAKIS, KOLB, WALTER -- read once
          and referred to the Committee on Education
        AN  ACT  to  amend  the labor law, in relation to establishing the youth
          apprenticeship program; and making an appropriation therefor (Part A);
          to amend the education law, in relation to establishing  the  enhanced
          regents  professional  diploma  (Part B); and to amend the tax law, in
          relation to establishing a youth apprenticeship tax credit (Part C)
          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section  1.  This act shall be known and may be cited as the "learning
     2  for work act".
     3    § 2. Legislative findings and intent. According to  a  recent  college
     4  and  career  readiness  study  released  by the New York state education
     5  department, only  thirty-five  percent  of  high  school  graduates  are
     6  college  or career ready. This lack of preparedness has driven many high
     7  school graduates into low-paying jobs, or college degree  programs  that
     8  they  are  not  interested  in, fail to lead to careers and result in an
     9  unreasonably high amount of student debt. For many  current  and  future
    10  high  school  students,  the  traditional pathway of a basic high school
    11  education and then on to a four-year college  may  not  be  the  correct
    12  route  to  take.  These students would benefit from a program that would
    13  prepare them for employment immediately  upon  graduating  high  school.
    14  Therefore,  the legislature finds it necessary to establish this "learn-
    15  ing for work" program in our high  schools  that  will  create  a  youth
    16  apprenticeship  program, an enhanced regents professional diploma with a
    17  designation in a specified  occupational  area  and  a  tax  credit  for
    18  employers  who take part in the youth apprenticeship program. This would
    19  further the goals of limiting the accumulation of unsustainable  student
    20  debt, and ensuring all students in the state of New York are prepared to
    21  enter the twenty-first century workforce.
    22    §  3.  This  act enacts into law major components of legislation which
    23  are necessary to implement the "learning for work act".  Each  component
    24  is  wholly  contained within a Part identified as Parts A through C. The
    25  effective date for each particular provision contained within such  Part
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13269-01-5