Relating to apprenticeship training delivered via interactive distance learning, and including applicability provisions

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Where it is now

Done: IntroducedJanuary 22, 2019
Done: SubcommitteeJanuary 29, 2019
Stopped: Senate committeeDied when the General Assembly ended
Next: Passes the Senate
Next: House committee
Next: Passes the House
Next: To the Governor
Next: Signed into law

Died when the session ended The 2020 session adjourned on June 14, 2020, the General Assembly’s last regular session. Bills that didn’t pass both chambers died. What’s a funnel?

What’s in it

This bill relates to apprenticeship training delivered via interactive distance learning. The bill defines “interactive distance learning” as educational instruction and content delivered to participants via the internet in a live instructor-facilitated environment, that is accessible to participants who are separated by physical distance, and which supports regular and substantive synchronous interactions between all participants and the instructor. It is distinguished from “online training” which is defined in the bill as educational instruction and content delivered to participants via the internet in an environment that is not facilitated by a live instructor, and that does not allow for regular and substantive synchronous interactions between all participants.

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Online training includes educational instruction that allows a participant to participate in learning outside of a classroom, or at the participant’s convenience, or independent of an instructor. The bill allows interactive distance learning to be counted toward contact hours for purposes of calculating a training grant award pursuant to Code chapter 15B. “Contact hours” are defined in the bill as the time an apprenticeship instructor spends instructing an apprentice in person, or via interactive distant learning. In the case of a lead apprenticeship sponsor with programs totaling 100 or more total instructional hours, “contact hours” also include time spent in online training if the total amount of online training is not more than 30 percent of the total instructional hours. Current law does not make a distinction between interactive distance learning and online training, nor does it define either term. The bill applies to training grants awarded to apprenticeship sponsors and lead apprenticeship sponsors for any training year beginning on or after January 1, 2019. “Training year” is defined in the bill as the calendar year immediately preceding the calendar year in which an apprenticeship sponsor or lead apprenticeship sponsor applies for a grant.

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Senate subcommittee

Named January 29, 2019. It hasn’t reported yet.

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Iowa Code it changes

Amends§15B.2 §15B.4

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Lobbying

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