Cal. LAB § 3073.5 — California Code / Code lab / Division 3 / Chapter 4 / Article 1 / Section 3073.5
Section 3073.5
Status: in_force

The Chief of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards, the California Apprenticeship Council, and the Interagency Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship shall annually report separately through the Director of Industrial Relations to the Legislature and the public on their activities. The report shall contain information including, but not limited to, analyses of the following:

(a) (1) The number of individuals, including numbers of women, minorities, foster youth, and homeless youth, registered in apprenticeship, preapprenticeship, and other programs administered pursuant to this chapter in the state for the current year and in each of the previous five years.

(2) For construction trade and firefighter apprenticeship programs, the report shall include demographic data detailing the racial, ethnic, and gender makeup of those participants for the annual reporting period.

(b) The number and percentage of participants, including numbers and percentages of women, minorities, foster youth, and homeless youth, registered in each program having five or more participants, and the percentage of those participants who have completed their programs successfully in the current year and in each of the previous five years.

(c) Remedial actions taken by the division to assist those programs having difficulty in achieving affirmative action goals or having very low completion rates.

(d) The number of disputed issues with respect to individual apprenticeship or other agreements submitted to the Administrator of Apprenticeship for determination and the number of those issues resolved by the administrator or the council on appeal.

(e) The number of apprenticeship and other program applications received by the division, the number approved, the number denied and the reason for those denials, the number being reviewed, and deficiencies, if any, with respect to those program applications being reviewed.

(f) The number of apprenticeship programs, approved by the Division of Apprenticeship Standards, that are disapproved by the California Apprenticeship Council, and the reasons for those disapprovals.

(g) The number of apprenticeship programs receiving reimbursement for related and supplemental instruction pursuant to Section 8152 or 79149.3 of the Education Code including the amounts reimbursed to each program, as reported to the Division of Apprenticeship Standards by the Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges.

(h) The number of apprenticeship programs receiving reimbursement as part of the budget formula developed pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 84750.5 of the Education Code or its successor section, as described in Section 79149.1 of the Education Code including the amounts reimbursed to each program, as reported to the Division of Apprenticeship Standards by the Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges.

(i) The activities of the division in expanding youth apprenticeships and outcomes related to the Youth Apprenticeships Grant Program, including:

(1) The number of new youth apprentices registered in the current year.

(2) The number of active youth apprentices as of the end of the previous year.

(3) The number of youth apprentices and preapprentices supported by the Youth Apprenticeship Grant Program, including numbers of women, minorities, foster youth, homeless youth, and individuals in “target populations” as defined in subdivision (g) of Section 3122.

(4) The number of grant recipients and the amount of funding disbursed through the Youth Apprenticeship Grant Program pursuant to Section 3122.

(j) Any apprenticeship standards or regulations that were proposed or adopted in the previous year.

(k) For purposes of this section:

(1) “Current foster youth” means a child or nonminor dependent, as defined by Section 675(8) of Title 42 of the United States Code and subdivision (v) of Section 11400 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, who is between the ages of 13 and 21 years, has been removed from the custody of their parent, legal guardian, or Indian custodian, pursuant to Section 361 or Section 726 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, and is under an order of foster care placement by the juvenile court.

(2) “Former foster youth” means a person between the ages of 18 and 26 years who previously met the definition of “current foster youth.” “Former foster youth” does not include a child or nonminor dependent whose placement was terminated by reunification with a parent, legal guardian, Indian custodian, appointment of a legal guardian, or adoption.

(3) “Foster youth” means current foster youth and former foster youth.

(4) “Homeless youth” means a person up to 26 years of age who meets the definition of “homeless children and youths” in Section 11434a(2) of Title 42 of the United States Code, as it read on January 1, 2021.

(5) “Youth apprentice” means an apprentice between the ages of 16 and 24 years.

(6) “Youth preapprentice” means a preapprentice between the ages of 16 and 24 years.