US SB175 | 2009-2010 | 111th Congress

Status

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Introduced on January 8 2009 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2009-01-08 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Summary

Skills Standards Certification Evaluation Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Education to: (1) evaluate skills certification programs for employees; (2) rank such programs or determine best practices models for them; and (3) make recommendations on the merits of a unified national approach to such programs, and ways to streamline duplicative and similar programs into a single, widely recognized certification. Requires the Secretaries to post evaluation results on the Internet and make them available to Congress and to interested parties.

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Title

Skills Standards Certification Evaluation Act of 2009

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History

DateChamberAction
2009-01-08 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
2009-01-08 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S220)

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