Published on: 9409308. The purpose and effect of this series of rule revisions will be to update and repeal unnecessary rules relating to the registered apprenticeship and preapprenticeship programs to align with statutory changes, federal regulatory changes, and needs of the apprenticeship community and labor market.
Published on: 7834222. The purpose of this rule development is to: provide criteria for apprenticeable occupations; identify the Department of Education as the entity that formulates and promotes the standards necessary to safeguard the welfare and wages of apprentices; revise apprenticeship definitions; revise the eligibility and procedures for registering apprenticeship programs; revise the apprenticeship standards; revise the information contained in the Apprenticeship Agreement; revise the process for deregistration of a registered program and rename the entities involved; identify the entities responsible for hearings and to indicate the timeframe for rendering an opinion; identify the entity to which a complaint should be addressed, to revise the timeframe for certain actions, and to set forth conditions for filing complaints; revise the entities to which evidence for reinstatement must be presented; and revise the entities pertinent to preapprenticeship programs, revise preapprenticeship definitions, certain criteria, and processes, pursuant to Sections 120.57, 446.011, 446.021, 446.032, 446.041, 446.052, 446.071, 446.075, 446.081(3), 446.092, Florida Statutes; Title 29 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 29; Title 29 Code of Federal Regulations, Part 30.