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. § 1125)
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§ 1125. Career pathway alignment with apprenticeship programs
(a) The Vermont Registered Apprenticeship Program shall coordinate with other State agencies
and departments in the furtherance of registered apprenticeship as a training model
that can advance equity, provide Vermonters with access to good paying careers, and
make available untapped talent for Vermont employers.
(b)(1) The Vermont Registered Apprenticeship Program shall provide technical assistance and
training to sponsors on an ongoing basis related to developing or modifying their
minimum qualifications, equal opportunity requirements, promotion of diversity, apprentice
selection procedures, and other requirements for advanced standing in their standards
of apprenticeship.
(2) The Program shall provide technical assistance and training with assistance from Vocational
Rehabilitation, including HireAbility, and the Division for Blind and Visual Impairments;
the Agency of Education, including Adult Education and Literacy, Career Technical
Education, and Special Education Transition Specialists; the Office of Veterans Affairs;
and other workforce partners.
(3) The Program shall provide necessary technical assistance, training, and support to
sponsors to promote the adoption of pre-apprenticeship programs for individuals with
disabilities, refugees, individuals for whom English is not the primary spoken language,
adults with limited literacy and numeracy skills or who do not have a high school
diploma or equivalent, and other groups who are excluded from access to high-wage
careers and participation in the registered apprenticeship system because they do
not meet the minimum qualifications established in standards of apprenticeship.
(c) The Vermont Registered Apprenticeship Program shall develop policies and procedures
for the registration of pre-apprenticeship and youth apprenticeship programs meeting
the definition established in this chapter and that may be included in career pathway
alignment efforts.
(d) The Vermont Registered Apprenticeship program, working with the Agency of Education,
shall develop program guidelines for youth apprenticeships that start while an apprentice
is still in high school and that can be included as part of the Agency’s career pathways
efforts in addition to the Vermont Registered Apprenticeships Program’s efforts to
align talent pipelines between education providers and registered apprenticeship program
sponsors. (Added 2023, No. 55, § 1, eff. July 1, 2023.)