Assembly Bill No. 150–Committee on Commerce and Labor

 

February 15, 2001

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Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor

 

SUMMARY—Establishes deemed wage for certain trainees for purpose of industrial insurance. (BDR 53‑1055)

 

FISCAL NOTE:            Effect on Local Government: No.

                                    Effect on the State: No.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; establishing a deemed wage for certain trainees for the purpose of industrial insurance; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1    Section 1. NRS 616A.215 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2    616A.215  1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, any

1-3  person who is an apprentice or trainee shall be deemed for the purposes of

1-4  chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, of NRS to be an employee of an

1-5  apprenticeship committee registered with the state apprenticeship council

1-6  at a wage of $150 per month while he is:

1-7    (a) Attending a class for vocational training; or

1-8    (b) Receiving bona fide instruction as an apprentice[,] or trainee,

1-9  under the direction of the apprenticeship committee. Such an apprentice or

1-10  trainee is entitled to the benefits of chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive[.] ,

1-11  of NRS.

1-12    2.  A person who is an apprentice or trainee shall be deemed for the

1-13  purposes of chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, of NRS to be an employee

1-14  of an employer who is participating in a program of training and instruction

1-15  as an apprentice or trainee approved pursuant to chapter 610 of NRS

1-16  while:

1-17    (a) The apprentice or trainee is performing work for that employer; and

1-18    (b) The employer is paying the apprentice or trainee a wage for the

1-19  work performed.

1-20  The apprentice or trainee shall be deemed to be an employee at a wage

1-21  equal to his average monthly wage as determined pursuant to the

1-22  regulations adopted by the administrator pursuant to NRS 616C.420 and is

1-23  entitled to the benefits of chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, of NRS.

2-1    3.  If an apprentice or trainee who is employed by an employer

2-2  participating in a program of training and instruction is injured while he is

2-3  deemed to be an employee of the apprenticeship committee pursuant to

2-4  subsection 1 and the apprentice or trainee is unable to work for an

2-5  employer participating in the program solely because of that injury, the

2-6  apprentice or trainee shall be deemed to be an employee of the

2-7  apprenticeship committee at a wage of $150 per month or at his average

2-8  monthly wage as determined pursuant to the regulations adopted by the

2-9  administrator pursuant to NRS 616C.420, whichever is greater.

2-10    4.  As used in this section, “trainee” means a person who is under the

2-11  direction of an apprenticeship committee specified in subsection 1 and,

2-12  for that purpose, is described by that apprenticeship committee as a

2-13  “journeyworker trainee.”

2-14    Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2001.

 

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