Restore Funds for Apprenticeship Program

Item 105 #1h

Language
Page 86, strike lines 2 through 5.

Explanation
(This amendment eliminates the authority for the Department of Labor and Industry to assess an annual participation fee of $55.00 on participants in the department's apprenticeship program. Accompanying the elimination of the fee authority is a reduction in the nongeneral fund amounts assumed to be generated by the fee in fiscal year 2012 and an increase of general fund support for the program in fiscal year 2012 of the same amount. Because the agency did not implement the fee in fiscal year 2011 as authorized, but instead used other available agency funds to support the program, the language can be removed in its entirety even though the amendments to Chapter 874 will go into effect prior to the start of fiscal year 2012.)