US Congress House Bill 5635 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 30-0)
Status: Introduced on July 6 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-09-19 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

LEARNS Act Leveraging Effective Apprenticeships to Rebuild National Skills Act This bill establishes, in the Employment and Training Administration of the Department of Labor, an Office of Apprenticeship to: determine whether an apprenticeship program meets requirements for registration and maintains the standards necessary to remain registered, manage the national apprenticeship system (the collective group of registered apprenticeship programs and pre-apprenticeship programs in the nation), and make grants on a competitive basis to eligible entities to carry out projects that support development of pre-apprenticeship programs. The bill also establishes in Labor a National Advisory Committee on Apprenticeships. Labor and the Department of Education shall establish a voluntary Registered Apprenticeship-College Collaborative consisting of the sponsors carrying out registered apprenticeship programs, two- or four-year postsecondary educational institutions, and organizations that represent such programs or institutions, that agree to meet certain criteria in order to promote stronger connections between the registered apprenticeship programs involved and participating two- and four-year postsecondary educational institutions. Labor shall make assistance payments to eligible sponsors of new registered apprenticeship programs or of existing programs that add employers as new partners, which may include joint labor-management registered apprenticeship programs.

LEARNS Act Leveraging Effective Apprenticeships to Rebuild National Skills Act

Rep. Mark Pocan [D-WI]	Rep. Robert Scott [D-VA]	Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]	Rep. Eleanor Norton [D-DC]
Rep. Barbara Lee [D-CA]	Rep. Michael Honda [D-CA]	Rep. Debbie Dingell [D-MI]	Rep. Gwen Moore [D-WI]
Rep. Donald Payne [D-NJ]	Rep. Jerrold Nadler [D-NY]	Rep. Jared Polis [D-CO]	Rep. James Langevin [D-RI]
Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Raul Grijalva [D-AZ]	Rep. Mark DeSaulnier [D-CA]	Rep. Hakeem Jeffries [D-NY]
Rep. Donald Norcross [D-NJ]	Rep. Marcy Kaptur [D-OH]	Rep. Patrick Murphy [D-FL]	Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI]
Rep. Gene Green [D-TX]	Rep. Peter Visclosky [D-IN]	Rep. Keith Ellison [D-MN]	Rep. Eric Swalwell [D-CA]
Rep. Daniel Kildee [D-MI]	Rep. Katherine Clark [D-MA]	Rep. Mark Takano [D-CA]	Rep. Alan Lowenthal [D-CA]
Rep. Bill Pascrell [D-NJ]	Rep. Derek Kilmer [D-WA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-09-19	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
2016-07-06	House	Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
2016-07-06	House	Introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5635/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr5635/BILLS-114hr5635ih.pdf