HF 432 (LSB 1855YH (2) 91)

HOUSE FILE 432

BY  COOLING

A BILL FOR

An Act relating to eligibility for financial assistance from the department of workforce development for certain apprenticeship programs.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF IOWA:

    Section 1.  Section 84E.4, subsection 1, paragraph a, Code 2025, is amended to read as follows:
   a.  An apprenticeship sponsor or lead apprenticeship sponsor that conducts an apprenticeship program that is registered with the United States department of labor, office of apprenticeship, through Iowa, for apprentices who will be employed at worksites located in this state may apply to the department for financial assistance under this section if the apprenticeship program includes a minimum of seventy-five contact hours per apprentice for the first training year of an apprenticeship program and one hundred contact hours per apprentice for each full training year of the apprenticeship program thereafter.
EXPLANATION
The inclusion of this explanation does not constitute agreement with
the explanation’s substance by the members of the general assembly.
   This bill provides that an apprenticeship sponsor or lead apprenticeship sponsor that conducts an apprenticeship program registered with the United States department of labor, office of apprenticeship, through Iowa, for apprentices who will be employed at worksites located in Iowa may apply to the department of workforce development for financial assistance if the apprenticeship program includes a minimum of 75 contact hours per apprentice for the first training year of an apprenticeship program and 100 contact hours per apprentice for each full training year of the apprenticeship program thereafter. Under current law, the required time period is a minimum of 100 contact hours per apprentice for each training year of the apprenticeship program.