
      The Secretary of Labor is authorized and directed to formulate
    and promote the furtherance of labor standards necessary to
    safeguard the welfare of apprentices, to extend the application of
    such standards by encouraging the inclusion thereof in contracts of
    apprenticeship, to bring together employers and labor for the
    formulation of programs of apprenticeship, to cooperate with State
    agencies engaged in the formulation and promotion of standards of
    apprenticeship, and to cooperate with the Secretary of Education in
    accordance with section 17 of title 20. For the purposes of this
    chapter the term "State" shall include the District of Columbia.

                                AMENDMENTS                            
      1973 - Pub. L. 93-198 inserted provision that "State" includes
    the District of Columbia.
                     EFFECTIVE DATE OF 1973 AMENDMENT                 
      Amendment by Pub. L. 93-198 effective July 1, 1974, see section
    771(b) of Pub. L. 93-198, set out in part as a note under section
    49b of this title.
                                SHORT TITLE                            
      The act of Aug. 16, 1937, ch. 663, 50 Stat. 664, which enacted
    this chapter, is popularly known as the "National Apprenticeship
    Act".

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