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SPONSOR: Rep. K. Williams & Sen. Sturgeon
Rep. Harris
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
153rd GENERAL ASSEMBLY
HOUSE BILL NO. 263
AN ACT TO AMEND TITLE 19 OF THE DELAWARE CODE RELATING TO TRAINING AND APPRENTICESHIP
PROGRAMS.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE:
1 Section 1. Amend § 205, Title 19 of the Delaware Code by making deletions as shown by strike through and
2 insertions as shown by underline as follows:
3 § 205. Apprenticeship and Training Fund.
4 (a) A special fund known as the Apprenticeship and Training Fund (“Fund”) is established and the State Treasurer
5 shall invest the Fund consistent with the investment policies established by the Cash Management Policy Board. The State
6 Treasurer shall credit interest to the Fund on a monthly basis consistent with the rate established by the Cash Management
7 Policy Board.
8 (b) The following moneys must be deposited in the Fund:
9 (1) All payments made under § 6960A of Title 29.
10 (2) Any other money appropriated or transferred to the Fund by the General Assembly.
11 (c) The Department of Labor must allocate the money in the Fund at least annually, as follows:
12 (1) Twenty percent, after administrative costs, to the Apprenticeship and Training Section of the Department
13 of Labor to do any of the following:
14 a. To promote and increase education and public awareness about registered apprenticeship and other
15 occupational training.
16 b. To support pre-apprenticeship programs.
17 (2) Eighty percent, after administrative costs, to the Department of Education to support the related technical
18 instruction of registered apprenticeship programs, including new areas of technical instruction for crafts that are in-
19 demand by employers in this State, and to support pre-apprenticeship programs. The Department of Education Labor
20 shall disperse disburse money from this Fund for the same purposes in the same manner as other appropriations for
21 adult trade extension and apprenticeship programs.
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22 (3) No more than 15% of the money annually deposited into the Fund may be used for administering this
23 Fund.
24 (d) Money in the Fund may not be used to supplant existing state funding.
25 (e) Notwithstanding paragraph (c)(3) of this section, money appropriated by the General Assembly to implement
26 this section may be reimbursed from money received under this section.
SYNOPSIS
This Act removes the Department of Education from the process related to funding for apprenticeships, as this is
administered through the Department of Labor.
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