HB 2468 HD1 SD1

Amends the private sector On-the-Job Training Work Experience Program to allow the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations to contract with employers and trade organizations or apprenticeship program sponsors without regard to chapters 103D and 103F, HRS; establish that an intern may become an apprentice in a registered apprenticeship program under certain conditions; require employers to pay $20 per hour for a maximum of forty hours per week for all interns; require sponsors to contribute 50% of each intern's wages; requires sponsors to pay, supervise, and train interns; and allow sponsors to be reimbursed for administrative costs of 10% of interns' wages. Amends the State Internship and Workforce Development Program to require experience gained by interns to be applied towards the experience needed to meet minimum qualifications for civil service positions; require the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations and Department of Human Resources Development to develop guidelines for participation in the program; transfer certain program responsibilities from DLIR to DHRD. Appropriates funds. Effective 1/1/2077. (SD1)