As used in the Apprenticeship Assistance Act:

A. "advisory committee" means the apprenticeship and training advisory committee to the division;

B. "apprentice" means a person at least sixteen years of age who is approved by the council and is covered by a written agreement with an employer or with an association of employers or employees acting as agent for an employer, which written agreement provides for reasonably continuous employment of the person for not less than two thousand hours in the given trade in which that person is apprenticed in an approved schedule of work experience and for at least one hundred forty-four hours per year of related and supplemental instruction;

C. "apprenticeship committee" means the sponsoring committee of each apprenticeable craft that is responsible for that particular apprenticeship program;

D. "apprenticeship-related instruction" means skills taught off the job that are required by the particular apprenticeable craft and that the apprentice needs to complete the apprenticeship as required by the state apprenticeship agency and the office of apprenticeship;

E. "department" means the workforce solutions department;

F. "division" means the labor relations division of the department;

G. "office of apprenticeship" means the office of apprenticeship of the employment and training administration of the United States department of labor;

H. "related instruction" means organized, off-the-job instruction in theoretical or technical subjects required for the completion of an apprenticeship for a particular apprenticeable trade;

I. "state apprenticeship agency" means the state apprenticeship agency within the department; and

J. "supplementary instruction" means new or upgrading skill training for those already employed as journeymen craftsmen.

History: Laws 1992, ch. 93, § 3; 2014, ch. 51, § 3.

The 2014 amendment, effective July 1, 2014, added definitions to move the administration of the Apprenticeship Assistance Act to the workforce solutions department; in Subsection B, after "for an employer, which", deleted "apprentice" and added "written", after "continuous employment", added "of the person for", after "two thousand hours", deleted "required for any" and added "in the", after "in the given trade", deleted "for" and added "in which", after "in which that person", deleted "for his participation" and added "is apprenticed", after "schedule of work experience", deleted "through employment", and after "per year of related", added "and"; in Subsection D, after "required by the", deleted "council" and added "state apprenticeship agency" and after "agency and the", deleted "bureau" and added "office of apprenticeship"; deleted former Subsection E which defined "bureau"; deleted former Subsection F which defined "council"; added Subsection E; in Subsection F, after "means the", deleted "vocational education" and added "labor relations", after "division of the", deleted "state", and after "department", deleted "of public education"; added Subsections G and I; and in Subsection J, after "supplementary", added "instruction".