What's happening
This bill creates a grant program to support apprenticeship programs for small businesses and nonprofits, excluding construction employers.
Why it matters
Expands access to apprenticeship funding beyond traditional industries. , specifically targeting small businesses and nonprofits (excluding construction), which are often left out of workforce development programs but face significant hiring and training challenges.
Provides dollar-for-dollar matching grants up to $50,000 annually. , helping eligible organizations cover both capital and operational costs related to running apprenticeships, including support for dedicated mentors—potentially making it financially viable for small entities to offer such programs.
Prioritizes transparency and oversight. by requiring annual public reporting on grant recipients, grant amounts, apprentice numbers, and job creation, allowing policymakers and the public to measure the program’s effectiveness and prevent misuse.
Places an annual statewide spending cap of $2.5 million. , ensuring the program’s fiscal impact is limited while still aiming to incentivize the growth of apprenticeship opportunities in sectors that traditionally lack such pipelines.
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STATE OF NEW YORK
709
2019-2020 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY (Prefiled)
January 9, 2019
Introduced by M. of A. BRONSON -- read once and referred to the Committee on Labor
AN ACT to amend the labor law, in relation to the empire state apprenticeship grant program for small business and not-for-profit corporations
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows:
Section 1. The labor law is amended by adding a new section 813-a to read as follows:
§ 813-a. Empire state apprenticeship grant program for small business and not-for-profit corporations. 1. The department shall establish a grant program designed to encourage the adoption of apprenticeships administered by small businesses and not-for-profit corporations. The department shall provide grants within available appropriations, on a competitive basis, in response to a request for proposals from eligible entities. The program shall provide one to one state matching funds to eligible entities not to exceed fifty thousand dollars annually. An eligible entity shall include a business employing and/or training an apprentice pursuant to an apprenticeship agreement registered with the department pursuant to paragraph (d) of subdivision one of section eight hundred eleven of this article which is a resident in this state, independently owned and operated, and employs twenty-five or less persons, or a not-for-profit organization employing and/or training an apprentice pursuant to an apprenticeship agreement as defined by section eight hundred sixteen of this article and registered with the department. An eligible entity shall not include an employer who is a contractor or subcontractor who is a partnership, firm, corporation, limited liability company, association or other legal entity permitted by law to do business within the state who engages in construction. For purposes of this section, the term "construction" means constructing, reconstructing,
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altering, maintaining, moving, rehabilitating, repairing, renovating, fabricating, servicing, or demolition of any building, structure, or improvement, or component, or relating to the excavation of or other development or improvement to land. Grant recipients may use grant funds only for costs related to apprenticeship programs for capital and/or operating expenses, and to support dedicated mentors for apprentices. The commissioner is directed to establish guidelines and an application process. Total statewide expenditures for the grant program shall not exceed two million five hundred thousand dollars per year.
2. The state apprenticeship and training council shall review requests for proposals and will recommend project applications deemed to meet the intent of the program to the department.
3. The department shall report on or before October first, two thousand twenty and annually thereafter to the governor, temporary president of the senate, speaker of the assembly, and chairs of the assembly committee on labor and the legislative commission on skills development and career education on activities and progress of the grant. Such report shall contain the names, addresses and descriptions of any eligible entity issued a grant under this section, the amount of the grant awarded to the employer, for what purposes, the number of apprentices and their trade or trades, and whether each apprenticeship is a new job created after being issued a grant pursuant to this program.
§ 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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