Interagency Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship: homeless youth and foster youth.

Existing law establishes the Interagency Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship within the Division of Apprenticeship Standards, which is in the Department of Industrial Relations. Existing law prescribes the composition of the committee, which includes specified officials or their designees, serving as ex officio members, and 6 persons appointed by the Secretary of Labor and Workforce Development who are familiar with certain apprenticeable occupations, as specified requirements. This bill would add the director of the State Department of Social Services as a member of the Interagency Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship. This bill would require the Interagency Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship to create a subcommittee to study and report on issues related to the participation of homeless youth and foster youth, as defined, in apprenticeships and preapprenticeships, and prescribe specified subjects the subcommittee is to address. The bill would authorize the subject matters of study and reporting to be expanded to include issues relating to minority populations, at the request of a committee member. The bill would require, on and after July 1, 2023, that the findings and recommendations be included in a specified report. Existing law requires the Chief of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards, the California Apprenticeship Council, and the Interagency Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship to annually report separately through the Director of Industrial Relations to the Legislature and the public on their activities. Existing law specifies the subjects upon which they are to report, including the number of individuals, including numbers of women and minorities, in apprenticeship, preapprenticeship, and other specified programs for the current year and in each of the previous 5 years. This bill would expand the above-described reporting requirements to include provisions relating to foster youth and homeless youth, as defined. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 3071.5 of the Labor Code proposed by AB 1273 to be operative only if this bill and AB 1273 are enacted and this bill is enacted last.