SEC. 422. LABOR STANDARDS AND SAFEGUARDS.
The following labor standard and safeguard require-
ments shall apply to youth apprenticeship programs de-
scribed in section 413(b)(4)(A):
(1) No youth apprentice shall displace any cur-
rently employed worker (including a partial displace-
ment, such as a reduction in the hours of non-over-
time work, wages, or employment benefits).
(2) No youth apprenticeship programs shall im-
pair existing contracts for services or collective bar-
gaining agreements, except that no program under
this Act which would be inconsistent with the terms
of a collective bargaining agreement shall be under-
taken without the written concurrence of the labor
organization and employer concerned.
(3) No youth apprentice shall be employed or
job opening filled—
(A) when any other individual is on tem-
porary layoff, with the clear possibility of recall,
from the same or any substantially equivalent
job; or
(B) when the employer has terminated the
employment of any regular employee or other-
wise reduced its workforce with the intention of
filling the vacancy so created with a youth ap-
prentice.
(4) Youth apprentices must be provided with
adequate and safe equipment and a safe and health-
ful workplace in conformity with all health and safe-
ty standards of Federal and State law.
(5) No individual shall be excluded from partici-
pation in, denied the benefits of, subject to discrimi-
nation under, or denied employment in the adminis-
tration of or in connection with any youth appren-
ticeship program on the basis of race, color, religion,
sex, national origin, age, handicap, or political affili-
ation, or belief.
(6) Such other safeguards as the Secretaries
may deem appropriate in order to ensure that youth
apprentices are afforded adequate supervision by
fully skilled adult workers, or otherwise, to further
the purposes of this Act.
Subtitle C—Relationship to Other
Federal Laws
SEC. 431. VOCATIONAL EDUCATION.
(a) YOUTH APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS.—(1) Sec-
tion 235(c)(2)(J) of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and
Applied Technology Act (Carl D. Perkins Act) (20 U.S.C.
2342(c)(2)(J)) is amended by inserting before the semi-
colon at the end the following: ‘‘, including youth appren-
ticeship programs’’.
(2) A youth apprenticeship program established
under title IV shall be considered to be an appropriate
cooperative demonstration program or project within the
meaning of section 420A of the Carl D. Perkins Voca-
tional and Applied Technology Education Act (20 U.S.C.
2420a).
(b) TECH-PREP EDUCATION PROGRAMS.—A tech-
prep education program authorized under part E of title
III of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Tech-
nology Education Act (20 U.S.C. 2394 et seq.) may serve
as the classroom portion of the academic and work-based
learning components of a youth apprenticeship program
established under title IV.
SEC. 432. JOB TRAINING.
(a) 
STATE
EDUCATION
COORDINATION
AND
GRANTS.—Services provided under school-to-work transi-
tion systems established under title III and youth appren-
ticeship programs established under title IV shall be con-
sidered to be school-to-work transition services under sec-
tion 123(a)(2)(A) of the Job Training Partnership Act (29
U.S.C. 1533(a)(2)(A)).
(b) SENSE OF THE CONGRESS WITH RESPECT TO
YOUTH TRAINING PROGRAMS.—To the extent practicable,
youth training programs carried out under title II of the
Job Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.)
should be coordinated with programs carried out under
this Act.
SEC. 433. ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION.
Subsection (b) of section 1011 of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965 is amended—
(1) in paragraph (6), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the
end of such paragraph;
(2) in paragraph (7), by striking the period at
the end of such paragraph, and inserting a semi-
colon and ‘‘and’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new
paragraph—
‘‘(8) youth apprenticeship programs established
under title IV of the National School-to-Work Tran-
sition and Youth Apprenticeship Act of 1993.’’.
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