Bill > LB847

This bill establishes the "Nebraska Registered Apprenticeship Act," creating the Nebraska Office of Registered Apprenticeship within the Department of Labor to oversee and register apprenticeship programs, including quality pre-apprenticeships and youth apprenticeships, and to set standards for them, with the goal of developing a nationally recognized state apprenticeship completion credential. The Act defines key terms like "apprentice," "apprenticeable occupation," and "apprenticeship program," and establishes the Nebraska Apprenticeship Council as an advisory body to the office. Additionally, the bill amends provisions related to the combined tax rate under the Employment Security Law, specifically changing the allocation between the contribution rate and the state unemployment insurance tax rate for employers, by reducing the minimum percentage of the combined tax rate that must be the contribution rate from eighty percent to fifty percent and increasing the maximum percentage that can be the state unemployment insurance tax rate from twenty percent to fifty percent, while maintaining specific provisions for employers with higher combined tax rates.

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