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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1362
To amend the National Apprenticeship Act to require minimum funding
for certain outreach recruitment and training programs, to restore a
national information collection system, to require increases in force within
the Bureau of Apprenticeship and Training of the Department of Labor
and to limit decreases in such force, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MARCH 16, 1993
Mr. OBERSTAR introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Education and Labor
A BILL
To amend the National Apprenticeship Act to require mini-
mum funding for certain outreach recruitment and train-
ing programs, to restore a national information collection
system, to require increases in force within the Bureau
of Apprenticeship and Training of the Department of
Labor and to limit decreases in such force, and for
other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Apprenticeship Im-
provement Act of 1991’’.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF INFORMATION COLLECTION
SYSTEM.
Section 2 of the Act of August 16, 1937 (50 Stat.
664; 29 U.S.C. 50), popularly known as the ‘‘National Ap-
prenticeship Act’’, (hereinafter in this Act referred to as
the ‘‘Act’’) is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘(a)’’ after ‘‘SEC. 2.’’, and
(2) by adding at the end thereof the following
new subsection:
‘‘(b) The Secretary shall establish and maintain a na-
tional information collection system for apprenticeships
and apprenticeship programs.’’.
SEC. 3. OUTREACH PROGRAM.
The Act is further amended—
(1) by redesignating section 4 as section 5, and
(2) by inserting after section 3 the following
new section:
‘‘SEC. 4. The Secretary shall assure that from the
amounts appropriated to carry out this Act in each fiscal
year, not less than 1 percent of such amounts shall be
available to establish outreach recruitment activities to in-
crease the participation of women, minorities, handicapped
individuals, displaced workers, and disadvantaged individ-
uals in the apprenticeship programs authorized by this
Act.’’.
SEC. 4. ESTABLISHMENT OF BUREAU OF APPRENTICESHIP
AND TRAINING; APPOINTMENT OF EMPLOY-
EES.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is established in the
Department of Labor, the Bureau of Apprenticeship and
Training (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Bu-
reau’’) which shall carry out the policies and functions of
this Act in behalf of the Secretary of Labor (hereinafter
in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’). The Bureau
shall be under the direction of an administrator to be
known as the Administrator of the Bureau of Apprentice-
ship and Training. The Administrator shall report directly
to the Secretary.
(b) TRANSFER OF FUNCTIONS.—Functions of the
Assistant Secretary for Employment and Training Admin-
istration of the Department of Labor with respect to the
promotion of labor standards of apprenticeship, including
research, information, and publications are transferred to
the Bureau. Functions related to apprenticeship, including
appropriate administrative and program support services,
together with personnel necessary to the administration of
such functions, and unexpended balances of appropria-
tions and other funds related thereto, are transferred to
the Bureau.
(c) APPOINTMENT OF EMPLOYEES.—The Secretary
is authorized to appoint such employees as may be nec-
essary for the administration of this Act in accordance
with laws applicable to the appointment and compensation
of employees and advisors of the United States.
SEC. 5. INCREASE IN FORCE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall increase the
force within the Bureau to 377 full-time employees no
later than January 1, 1992.
(b) CONSIDERATION OF EMPLOYEES WORKING LESS
THAN FULL TIME.—In the administration of subsection
(a)—
(1) a part-time employee shall be counted as a
fraction, the numerator of which is the number cor-
responding to the average number of hours in such
employee’s regularly scheduled workweek and the de-
nominator of which is 40; and
(2) an individual employed on a temporary or
intermittent basis shall not be counted.
SEC. 6. LIMITATIONS ON REDUCTION IN FORCE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—A reduction in force may not be
conducted within the Bureau if—
(1) the reduction in force would reduce the total
number of civilian employees within such Bureau;
and
(2) such total number, after the reduction in
force, would be less than the equivalent of 377 full-
time employees.
(b) CONSIDERATION OF EMPLOYEES WORKING LESS
THAN FULL TIME.—In the administration of subsection
(a)—
(1) a part-time employee shall be counted as a
fraction, the numerator of which is the number cor-
responding to the average number of hours in such
employee’s regularly scheduled workweek and the de-
nominator of which is 40; and
(2) an individual employed on a temporary or
intermittent basis shall not be counted.
SEC. 7. REPORT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall prepare and
submit to the Congress, not later than 6 months after the
date of enactment of this Act, a detailed report concerning
whether the apprenticeship program conducted by the De-
partment of Labor under the Act of August 16, 1937 (50
Stat. 664; 29 U.S.C. 50), complies with regulations gov-
erning equal opportunity.
(b) CONTENTS OF REPORT.—The report required by
this section shall include—
(1) a detailed description of activities carried
out by the Department of Labor to ensure compli-
ance;
(2) a list of compliance reviews undertaken by
the Department; and
(3) a description of any sanctions imposed as a
result of the compliance reviews.
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