| C. Ensure that the State Apprenticeship and Training | Council provides to the Commissioner of Labor a semiannual | and annual list of the number of Maine Job Training | Workforce Investment System referrals received and the | number of registered apprenticeship positions established | from these referrals; and |
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| | Sec. 24. 26 MRSA §2173, first ¶, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 408, §3, is | amended to read: |
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| | Each person enrolled in a program under the Maine Job Training | Workforce Investment System shall must be provided an | informational pamphlet on labor law which that explains the | person's rights and responsibilities and lists the appropriate | agency to contact for additional information. The informational | pamphlet shall must be developed and disseminated to all Maine | Job Training Workforce Investment System service providers by | January 1, 1990. |
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| | Sec. 25. 26 MRSA §2173, sub-§§2 and 3, as enacted by PL 1989, c. 408, | §3, are amended to read: |
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| | 2. Review with providers. To enhance the trainees' knowledge | of labor law, the Maine Job Training Workforce Investment System | service providers shall, when offering prevocational services to | program participants, review the content of the informational | pamphlet with the program participants, unless the participants | have already received this review. |
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| | 3. Staff training. The direct service staff of the Maine Job | Training Workforce Investment System service providers shall must | receive training to expand their knowledge of the labor laws | contained in the informational pamphlet. |
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| | Sec. 26. 26 MRSA §2182, as amended by PL 1999, c. 532, §1, is | further amended to read: |
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| | The Corps shall strive to include a diversity of participants. | Priority must be given to those whose family income is 150% or | less of the nonfarm income official poverty line as defined by | the federal Office of Management and Budget as revised annually | in accordance with the United States Omnibus Budget | Reconciliation Act of 1981, Section 673, Subsection 2 and to | those who are economically disadvantaged low-income individuals | as defined by the United States Job Training Partnership Act, | Subchapter II, Public Law 97-300 federal Workforce Investment Act | of 1998, 29 United States Code, Section |
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