00                      CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 309(L&C)                                                                    
01 "An Act establishing a construction trades training grant program for award by the                                      
02 Department of Labor and Workforce Development, providing for special employee                                           
03 unemployment contributions to fund the program and an offsetting credit against the                                     
04 employees' general unemployment contribution, and providing for an expiration date                                      
05 for the program, contributions, and credit; and providing for an effective date."                                       
06 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                                
07    * Section 1. AS 23.15 is amended by adding a new section to article 8 to read:                                     
08            Sec. 23.15.815. Special employee unemployment contributions for                                            
09       construction trades training grant. (a) In the manner provided in AS 23.20, the                                 
10       department shall collect from each employee an amount equal to one-tenth of one                                   
11       percent of the wages, as set out in AS 23.20.175, on which the employee is required to                            
12       make contributions under AS 23.20.290(d). The department shall remit to the                                       
13       Department of Revenue, in accordance with AS 37.10.050, money collected under this                                
01       subsection.                                                                                                       
02            (b)  Notwithstanding AS 23.20.290(d), the department shall credit each                                       
03       employee with an amount equal to the amount collected from the employee under (a)                                 
04       of this section against unemployment contributions owed by the employee under                                     
05       AS 23.20.                                                                                                         
06            (c)  The Department of Labor and Workforce Development shall assess and                                      
07       collect, under AS 23.20.185 - 23.20.275, interest and penalties for delinquent reports                            
08       and payments due under this section. Interest and penalties collected shall be handled                            
09       in accordance with AS 23.20.130(d).                                                                               
10            (d)  Amounts collected under (a) of this section may be appropriated under                                   
11       AS 37.05.316(a) to the Department of Labor and Workforce Development for a grant                                  
12       to Alaska Works Partnership, Inc., or a nonprofit corporation that the commissioner                               
13       determines is able to successfully provide training statewide in the construction trades,                         
14       for the training of resident workers for construction jobs and construction job                                   
15       apprenticeships in the heavy construction, highway construction, building                                         
16       construction, and oil or gas pipeline construction.                                                               
17            (e)  The Department of Labor and Workforce Development shall require a                                       
18       grantee under this section to provide to the department, by November 1 of each year                               
19       during the term of the grant, a report describing the grantee's performance under the                             
20       grant.                                                                                                            
21    * Sec. 2. AS 23.15.815 is repealed July 1, 2012.                                                                   
22    * Sec. 3. This Act takes effect July 1, 2006.