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1 1 Amend the House amendment, S-5540, to Senate File
1 2 2296, as amended, passed, and reprinted by the Senate,
1 3 as follows:
1 4 #1. Page 2, by inserting after line 11 the
1 5 following:
1 6 "Sec. ___. NEW SECTION. 15.361 TITLE.
1 7 This part shall be known and may be cited as the
1 8 "Certified School to Career Program".
1 9 Sec. ___. NEW SECTION. 15.362 DEFINITIONS.
1 10 As used in this part, unless the context otherwise
1 11 requires:
1 12 1. "Certified school to career program" or
1 13 "certified program" means a sequenced and articulated
1 14 secondary and postsecondary program registered as an
1 15 apprenticeship program under 29 C.F.R. subtit. A, pt.
1 16 29, which is conducted pursuant to an agreement as
1 17 provided in section 15.364 or a program approved by
1 18 the state board of education, in conjunction with the
1 19 department of economic development, as meeting the
1 20 standards enumerated in section 15.363, that
1 21 integrates a secondary school curriculum with private
1 22 sector job training which places students in job
1 23 internships, and which is designed to continue into
1 24 postsecondary education and that will result in
1 25 teaching new skills and adding value to the wage-
1 26 earning potential of participants and increase their
1 27 long-term employability in the state and which is
1 28 conducted pursuant to an agreement as provided in
1 29 section 15.364.
1 30 2. "Participant" means an individual between the
1 31 ages of sixteen and twenty-four who is enrolled in a
1 32 public or private secondary or postsecondary school
1 33 and who initiated participation in a certified school
1 34 to career program as part of secondary school
1 35 education.
1 36 3. "Payroll expenditures" means the base wages
1 37 actually paid by an employer to a participant plus the
1 38 amount held in trust to be applied toward the
1 39 participant's postsecondary education.
1 40 4. "Sponsor" means any person, association,
1 41 committee, or organization operating a school to
1 42 career program and in whose name the program is or
1 43 will be registered or approved.
1 44 Sec. ___. NEW SECTION. 15.363 CERTIFICATION
1 45 STANDARDS.
1 46 The state board of education, in consultation with
1 47 the department of economic development, shall adopt
1 48 rules pursuant to chapter 17A to guide the board and
1 49 department in determining whether a potential school
1 50 to career program should be approved.
2 1 A school to career program which is approved by the
2 2 state board of education in conjunction with the
2 3 department of economic development shall comply with
2 4 all of the following standards:
2 5 1. The program is conducted pursuant to an
2 6 organized, written plan embodying the terms and
2 7 conditions of employment, job training, classroom
2 8 instruction, and supervision of one or more
2 9 participants, subscribed to by a sponsor who has
2 10 undertaken to carry out the school to career program.
2 11 2. The program complies with all state and federal
2 12 laws pertaining to the workplace.
2 13 3. The employer agrees to assign an employee to
2 14 serve as a mentor for a participant. The mentor's
2 15 occupation shall be in the same career pathway as the
2 16 career interests of the participant.
2 17 4. The program involves an eligible postsecondary
2 18 institution as defined in section 261C.3.
2 19 5. Other standards adopted by rule by the state
2 20 board of education after consultation with the
2 21 department of economic development.
2 22 Sec. ___. NEW SECTION. 15.364 CERTIFIED PROGRAM
2 23 AGREEMENT.
2 24 The certified program shall be conducted pursuant
2 25 to a signed written agreement between each participant
2 26 and the employer which contains at least the following
2 27 provisions:
2 28 1. The names and signatures of the participant and
2 29 the sponsor or employer and the signature of a parent
2 30 or guardian if the participant is a minor.
2 31 2. A description of the career field in which the
2 32 participant is to be trained, and the beginning date
2 33 and duration of the training.
2 34 3. The employer's agreement to provide paid
2 35 employment, at a base wage, for the participant during
2 36 the summer months after the participant's junior and
2 37 senior years in high school and after the
2 38 participant's first year of postsecondary education.
2 39 4. The participant and employer shall agree upon
2 40 set minimum academic standards which must be
2 41 maintained through the participant's secondary and
2 42 postsecondary education.
2 43 5. This base wage paid to the participant shall
2 44 not be less than the minimum wage prescribed by Iowa
2 45 law or the federal Fair Labor Standards Act, whichever
2 46 is applicable.
2 47 6. That in addition to the base wage paid to the
2 48 participant, the employer shall pay an additional sum
2 49 to be held in trust to be applied toward the
2 50 participant's postsecondary education required for
3 1 completion of the certified program. The additional
3 2 amount must be not less than an amount determined by
3 3 the department of economic development to be
3 4 sufficient to provide payment of tuition expenses
3 5 toward completion of not more than two academic years
3 6 of the required postsecondary education component of
3 7 the certified program at an Iowa community college or
3 8 an Iowa public or private college or university. This
3 9 amount shall be held in trust for the benefit of the
3 10 participant pursuant to rules adopted by the
3 11 department of economic development. Payment into an
3 12 ERISA-approved fund for the benefit of the participant
3 13 shall satisfy this requirement. The specific fund
3 14 shall be specified in the agreement.
3 15 7. The participant's agreement to work for the
3 16 employer for at least two years following the
3 17 completion of the participant's postsecondary
3 18 education required by the certified program and the
3 19 employer's agreement to both of the following:
3 20 a. To provide and pay at least eighty percent of
3 21 the cost of a standard medical and dental insurance
3 22 plan for the participant.
3 23 b. To pay a full-time hourly wage to the
3 24 participant of at least eleven dollars per hour
3 25 indexed to 1998 dollars based on the gross national
3 26 product implicit price deflator published by the
3 27 bureau of economic analysis of the United States
3 28 department of commerce or one hundred thirty percent
3 29 of the average wage in the county in which the
3 30 facility where the participant will be employed is
3 31 located, whichever is higher.
3 32 However, the agreement may provide for additional
3 33 education and work commitments beyond the two years.
3 34 8. If the participant does not complete the two-
3 35 year employment obligation, the participant's
3 36 agreement to repay to the employer the amount paid by
3 37 the employer toward the participant's postsecondary
3 38 education expenses pursuant to subsection 6.
3 39 9. That if a participant does not complete the
3 40 certified program contemplated by the agreement, any
3 41 unexpended funds being held in trust for the
3 42 participant's postsecondary education shall be paid
3 43 back to the employer. In addition the participant
3 44 must repay to the employer amounts paid from the trust
3 45 which were expended on the participant's behalf for
3 46 postsecondary education.
3 47 Sec. ___. NEW SECTION. 15.365 PAYROLL
3 48 EXPENDITURE REFUND.
3 49 1. An employer who employs a participant in a
3 50 certified school to career program may claim a refund
4 1 of twenty percent of the employer's payroll
4 2 expenditures for each participant in the certified
4 3 program. The refund is limited to the first four
4 4 hundred hours of payroll expenditures per participant
4 5 for each calendar year the participant is in the
4 6 certified program, not to exceed three years per
4 7 participant.
4 8 2. To receive a refund under subsection 1 for a
4 9 calendar year, the employer shall file the claim by
4 10 July 1 of the following calendar year. The claim
4 11 shall be filed on forms provided by the department of
4 12 economic development and the employer shall provide
4 13 such information regarding the employer's
4 14 participation in a certified school to career program
4 15 as the department may require. Forms should be
4 16 designed such that claims for refunds for more than
4 17 one participant may be made on a single form. A valid
4 18 claim shall be paid with interest, the interest to
4 19 begin to accrue on the first day of the second
4 20 calendar month following the date the claim for refund
4 21 was to be filed or was filed, whichever is the latest,
4 22 at the rate in effect under section 421.7 counting
4 23 each fraction of a month as an entire month under
4 24 rules prescribed by the department.
4 25 3. For each fiscal year of the fiscal period
4 26 beginning July 1, 1999, and ending June 30, 2004,
4 27 there is appropriated annually from the general fund
4 28 of the state to the department of economic development
4 29 an amount sufficient to pay refunds under this
4 30 section.
4 31 4. The department of economic development shall
4 32 consult with the department of revenue and finance for
4 33 purposes of this section. The department of economic
4 34 development shall adopt rules as deemed necessary to
4 35 carry out the purposes of the certified school to
4 36 career program.
4 37 Sec. ___. NEW SECTION. 15.366 REPEAL.
4 38 This part of chapter 15 is repealed June 30, 2004.
4 39 However, any contracts in existence on June 30, 2004,
4 40 shall continue to be valid and each party to such
4 41 contract is obligated to perform as required under
4 42 such contract. However, no employer is entitled to
4 43 any payroll expenditure refund for payroll
4 44 expenditures incurred after December 31, 2002."
4 45
4 46
4 47
4 48 TOM VILSACK
4 49 SF 2296.225 77
4 50 tm/jl/28
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