HB 1594 - Residential Electrician Certification

Allowing certain types of maintenance experience to substitute for work experience required to be eligible to take the examination for the residential maintenance specialty electrician certificate..

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Sponsors:  Goehner, Springer 

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What the bill does:

• Allows property management maintenance  staff to achieve specialty electrical certification through direct maintenance experience rather than a formal apprenticeship program
• Staff will be put through 24 hours of required  Classroom Time
• If they pass the test at 720 hours, they can work unsupervised for the remaining 1280 hours needed to become a journeyman
• This is called a "Modified Training Card"
• This creates a safer work environment statewide, revenues for the state and potential lower insurance rates

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