The Vermont Statutes Online
The Statutes below include the actions of the 2025 session of the General Assembly.
NOTE: The Vermont Statutes Online is an unofficial copy of the Vermont Statutes Annotated that is provided as a convenience.
(Cite as: 21 V.S.A. § 1123)
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§ 1123. Pre-apprenticeship programs
(a) A pre-apprenticeship program is one that is designed to prepare individuals to enter
and succeed in an apprenticeship program by providing instruction and skill development
opportunities to attain competency needed to enter a related apprenticeship program.
(b) A pre-apprenticeship program may be registered by the Department after successfully
demonstrating:
(1) the program is carried out by a sponsor that has a written agreement with at least
one sponsor of an apprenticeship program;
(2) the program engages an active, advisory partnership with an industry leader or sector
partnership to inform the training and education services necessary for a pre-apprenticeship
program;
(3) there is sufficient demand in an apprenticeship program at the completion of a pre-apprenticeship
program to support a transition from the pre-apprenticeship program to an apprenticeship
program;
(4) the program follows a written plan for related instruction and work-based learning
or training that was developed in consultation with the sponsor or sponsors of the
apprenticeship program;
(5) the program includes mentoring, career exposure, career planning, and career awareness
activities;
(6) the program includes paid work-based learning or training, to the extent practicable,
or unpaid work-based learning or training in which an employer or industry partnership
and a related technical instruction provider collaborate to design the learning or
training that will introduce participants to the skills, competencies, and materials
used in one or more apprenticeable occupations;
(7) to the extent appropriate and practicable, the program meets related technical instruction
requirements that include enabling an individual to attain a secondary school diploma
or its recognized equivalent that enables a pre-apprentice to enter into an apprenticeship;
and
(8) the program includes, when relevant, any agreement for advanced standing for the pre-apprentice
upon entering a registered apprenticeship program. (Added 2023, No. 55, § 1, eff. July 1, 2023.)