Assembly Bill No. 150–Committee on Commerce and Labor

 

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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:

 

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

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

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

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

 apprenticeship committee registered with the state apprenticeship council

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

   (a) Attending a class for vocational training; or

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

under the direction of the apprenticeship committee. Such an apprentice or

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

 of NRS.

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

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

 of an employer who is participating in a program of training and

 instruction as an apprentice or trainee approved pursuant to chapter 610 of

 NRS while:

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

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

 work performed.

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

 equal to his average monthly wage as determined pursuant to the

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

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

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

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

 deemed to be an employee of the apprenticeship committee pursuant to

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

 employer participating in the program solely because of that injury, the

 apprentice or trainee shall be deemed to be an employee of the

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

 monthly wage as determined pursuant to the regulations adopted by the

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

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

 direction of an apprenticeship committee specified in subsection 1 and,

 for that purpose, is described by that apprenticeship committee as a

 “journeyworker trainee.”

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

 

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