GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2001
H	1
HOUSE BILL 427

 
 
Short Title:	Clarify In-Plant Training Program-AB.	()	
Sponsors:	Representatives Goodwin;  Dockham and McLawhorn.	
Referred to:	Education.	
March 1, 2001

A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to clarify the provisions of the in-plant training program.

The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 115D‑5(d) reads as rewritten:
"(d)	Community colleges shall assist in the preemployment and in‑service training of employees in industry, business, agriculture, health occupation and governmental agencies. Such training shall include instruction on worker safety and health standards and practices applicable to the field of employment. The State Board of Community Colleges shall adopt regulations regarding the implementation of this program. These regulations shall include,  at a minimum, the following requirements:
(1)	The number of hours of instruction provided at State expense in an in-plant training program shall not exceed the maximum that is set out in the regulations.
(2)	During the hours in which a person is employed by a community college for instructional or educational purposes, that person shall not engage in the normal management,  supervisory, or operational functions of the establishment in which the instruction is offered.
(3)	Occupational extension courses taught by a community college instructor at the trainees' workstation are not considered in-plant training when the trainees are in a full-time training capacity and are not performing work-related duties.
(4)	Courses approved to the Continuing Education Master Course List by the State Board of Community Colleges may contain a lab or on-the-job training supplement to classroom-based training. This lab or on-the-job-training supplement may require that a community college instructor provide a specified number of hours of on-the-job training at a workstation. The instructor shall not be a full- or part-time employee of the company at which the training is provided. The training shall follow a structured training outline that is kept on-file by the college. Colleges shall earn FTE for the lab or on-the-job training on a contact hour basis.
(5)	Colleges may offer customized on-the-job training as an occupational extension course if the Vice President of Economic Development has approved an outline of the training course, including learning objectives and training assessments, before the course is offered. These classes shall be limited to no more than 15 trainees per instructor and no more than 240 hours of total training time per trainee. A community college instructor who is not a full- or part-time employee of the company shall teach these courses. Colleges shall earn FTE on a contact hour basis for courses provided in accordance with this subdivision.
(6)	Community colleges may use occupational extension funds to reimburse company instructors for providing training, defined as Company Provided Training, if the training is necessary to meet specific conditions established by the State Board of Community Colleges to ensure that expenditures for the program are for a public purpose. Company instructors shall be in a full-time training capacity during the designated instructional periods, and they shall follow a structured training outline that is jointly developed by the college and the company. This outline shall be kept on-file at the college. These courses shall be registered Company Provided Training and shall earn only the administrative component of FTE for occupational extension."
SECTION 2.  This act is effective when it becomes law.