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2019 -- S 0711 Enacted 05/01/2019 |
S E N A T E R E S O L U T I O N |
RESPECTFULLY REQUESTING THE GOVERNOR’S WORKFORCE BOARD TO WORK WITH THE RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF LABOR AND TRAINING TO DEVELOP A REPORT ON THE FEASIBILITY OF EXPANDING NON-TRADE REGISTERED APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS IN RHODE ISLAND |
Introduced By: Senators Lawson, Nesselbush, Metts, Murray, and Valverde |
Date Introduced: March 21, 2019 |
WHEREAS, An apprenticeship is a system of training a new generation of practitioners |
of a trade or profession with a combination of on-the-job learning and related classroom |
instruction; and |
WHEREAS, Apprenticeships provide workers with practical and theoretical skills and |
expand their opportunities in sectors where employers cannot find the workers they need; and |
WHEREAS, Employers realize the financial benefits associated with apprenticeship |
programs, gaining on average one dollar and forty seven cents per dollar invested in an |
apprentice; and |
WHEREAS, Rhode Island currently has traditional apprenticeship programs with over |
one thousand four hundred apprentices primarily in construction and has begun expansion into |
nontraditional apprenticeship programs; and |
WHEREAS, Non-trade apprenticeships are models that fall outside the traditional trades |
such as plumbing and carpentry and into new areas such as information technology and |
healthcare; and |
WHEREAS, The Governor’s Workforce Board has begun awarding development grants |
to organizations throughout the state that will develop new and innovative apprenticeship models; |
and |
WHEREAS, An apprenticeship is an effective workforce development tool that is |
increasingly gaining recognition as a way to meet employer demands for skilled workers while |
building pathways into the middle class for Rhode Islanders: and |
WHEREAS, Opportunities and challenges exist to continue to expand such programs to |
meet the needs of our workers and employers and to maximize the return on investment; now, |
therefore be it |
RESOLVED, That this Senate of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations |
hereby respectfully requests the Governor’s Workforce Board to work with the Rhode Island |
Department of Labor and Training to develop a report on the feasibility of expanding and |
enhancing the Governor's Workforce Board's state grant program for non-trade registered |
apprenticeship programs in Rhode Island; and be it further |
RESOLVED, That this Senate hereby respectfully requests that a progress report on the |
status and expansion of non-trade registered apprenticeship programs in Rhode Island be |
submitted to the Senate President and Senate Majority Leader on or before January 1, 2020; and |
be it further |
RESOLVED, That the Secretary of State be and hereby is authorized and directed to |
transmit duly certified copies of this resolution to the Executive Director and Chairperson of the |
Governor’s Work Force Board, and to the Director of the Department of Labor and Training. |
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