First Regular Session
Sixty-first General Assembly
LLS NO. 970248.01 EBD
HOUSE BILL 971011
STATE OF COLORADO
BY REPRESENTATIVE Schauer;
also SENATOR Schroeder.
REENGROSSED
BUSINESS AFFAIRS & LABOR
A BILL FOR AN ACT
CONCERNING AN INCREASE IN THE NUMBER OF APPRENTICES A LICENSED ELECTRICIAN MAY SUPERVISE, AND MAKING AN APPROPRIATION THEREFOR.
(Note: This summary applies to this bill as introduced
and does not necessarily reflect any amendments which may be subsequently
adopted.)
Increases the number of apprentices a licensed electrician
may supervise from one to 2. Allows the board, by rule, to increase
that number beyond 2.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Colorado:
SECTION 1. 1223110.5 (1), Colorado Revised Statutes, 1991 Repl. Vol., is amended to read:
1223110.5. Apprentices
supervision registration discipline.
(1) Any person may work as an apprentice but shall
not do any electrical wiring for the installation of electrical
apparatus or equipment for light, heat, or power except under
the supervision of a licensed electrician. The degree of supervision
required shall be no more than one licensed electrician to supervise
no more than one apprentice
TWO APPRENTICES at the jobsite; EXCEPT THAT THE BOARD MAY, BY
RULE PROMULGATED IN ACCORDANCE WITH ITS AUTHORITY UNDER SECTION
1223104 AND PURSUANT TO SECTION 244103,
C.R.S., INCREASE THE NUMBER OF APPRENTICES A LICENSED ELECTRICIAN
MAY SUPERVISE BEYOND TWO. IF A LICENSED ELECTRICIAN SUPERVISES
MORE THAN ONE APPRENTICE, ALL SUCH APPRENTICES SHALL HAVE COMPLETED,
OR BE ENROLLED IN, A TRAINING PROGRAM APPROVED BY THE BOARD.
SECTION 2. Appropriation. In addition to any other appropriation, there is hereby appropriated, from the division of registrations cash fund, to the department of regulatory agencies, division of registrations, for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1996, the sum of one thousand and seven dollars ($1,007), or so much thereof as may be necessary, for the implementation of this act.
SECTION 3. Safety clause. The general assembly hereby finds, determines, and declares that this act is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety.