SB 963 — AN ACT CONCERNING EDUCATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES RELATING TO MANUFACTURING.

General Assembly   RaisedSubstitute Bill No.

963 January Session, 2017   LCO*_____SB00963CE____032117____* No.AN ACT CONCERNING EDUCATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES RELATING TO MANUFACTURING.

4740   *04740_______CE_* Referred to Committee on COMMERCE   Introduced by:

  (CE)   AN ACT CONCERNING EDUCATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES RELATING TO MANUFACTURING.

(NEW) (Effective July 1, 2017) The State Board of Education, upon receipt of a proper application, shall issue an initial educator certificate, in accordance with the provisions of section 10-145b of the general statutes, to any applicant in the certification endorsement area of occupational subjects in vocational-technical schools who hascompletes completed five years of experience in the field for which thesuch certificate is to be endorsed, whichincluding, maybut includenot uplimited toto, five years of apprenticeship or specialized schooling.

(Effective from passage) (a) ThereThe ischairpersons establishedof the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to commerce shall appoint and convene a taskworking forcegroup to develop a program to train inmates in the custody of the Commissioner of Correction for jobs in the manufacturing field.

(b) TheAppointments taskto forcethe working group shall consistinclude, but need not be limited to, a manufacturing instructor employed by a college or university, a person who has experience providing job training to inmates, a manufacturing teacher employed at a technical high school, a representative of an association of manufacturers, an owner or manager of a manufacturing company with fewer than one hundred employees, an owner or manager of a manufacturing company with more than one hundred employees, a representative of a private educational institution with a manufacturing program, the followingCommissioner members:of Economic and Community Development, or the commissioner's designee, the Labor Commissioner, or the commissioner's designee, and the Commissioner of Correction, or the commissioner's designee.

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(6) One appointed by the minority leader of the Senate, who is a representative from a private education institution with a manufacturing program;

(7) The Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, or the commissioner's designee;

(8) The Labor Commissioner, or the commissioner's designee;

and (9) The Commissioner of Correction, or the commissioner's designee.

(c) Any member of the task force appointed under subdivision (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) or (6) of subsection (b) of this section may be a member of the General Assembly.

(d) All appointments to the task force shall be made not later than thirty days after the effective date of this section.

Any vacancy shall be filled by the appointing authority.

(e) The speaker of the House of Representatives and the president pro tempore of the Senate shall select the chairpersons of the task force from among the members of the task force.

Such chairpersons shall schedule the first meeting of the task force, which shall be held not later than sixty days after the effective date of this section.

(f) The administrative staff of the joint standing committee of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to commerce shall serve as administrative staff of the task force.

(g) Not later than January 1, 2018, the task force shall submit a report on its findings and recommendations to the joint standing committees of the General Assembly having cognizance of matters relating to commerce and labor, in accordance with the provisions of section 11-4a of the general statutes.

The task force shall terminate on the date that it submits such report or January 1, 2018, whichever is later.

4 from passage New section StatementCE ofJoint Purpose:Favorable Subst.

To (1) decrease the number of years of employment experience an applicant seeking teacher certification for a position at a technical high school shall complete from eight years to five years, (2) require the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection to adopt regulations consistent with the federal Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements Rule, (3) require the Board of Regents for Higher Education to develop a plan to offer certain manufacturing related courses across the state, and (4) establish a task force to develop a program to train inmates for jobs in the manufacturing field.

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