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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 531 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To assist States in, and pay for the Federal share of the cost of, defraying |
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| 6 | 6 | | the cost of pre-apprenticeships or related instruction associated with |
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| 7 | 7 | | qualified apprenticeship programs, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 9 | 9 | | FEBRUARY11, 2025 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Ms. K |
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| 11 | 11 | | LOBUCHAR(for herself and Ms. COLLINS) introduced the following bill; |
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| 12 | 12 | | which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Edu- |
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| 13 | 13 | | cation, Labor, and Pensions |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To assist States in, and pay for the Federal share of the |
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| 16 | 16 | | cost of, defraying the cost of pre-apprenticeships or re- |
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| 17 | 17 | | lated instruction associated with qualified apprenticeship |
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| 18 | 18 | | programs, and for other purposes. |
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| 19 | 19 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 20 | 20 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 22 | 22 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘American Apprentice-4 |
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| 23 | 23 | | ship Act’’. 5 |
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| 24 | 24 | | SEC. 2. PRE-APPRENTICESHIP AND QUALIFIED APPREN-6 |
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| 25 | 25 | | TICESHIP PROGRAMS. 7 |
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| 26 | 26 | | (a) D |
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| 27 | 27 | | EFINITIONS.—In this Act: 8 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (1) QUALIFIED APPRENTICESHIP .—The term 1 |
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| 32 | 32 | | ‘‘qualified apprenticeship’’, used with respect to a 2 |
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| 33 | 33 | | program, means an apprenticeship program that 3 |
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| 34 | 34 | | is— 4 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (A) registered under the Act of August 16, 5 |
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| 36 | 36 | | 1937 (commonly known as the ‘‘National Ap-6 |
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| 37 | 37 | | prenticeship Act’’; 50 Stat. 664, chapter 663; 7 |
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| 38 | 38 | | 29 U.S.C. 50 et seq.); and 8 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (B) concentrated in an industry sector or 9 |
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| 40 | 40 | | occupation that represents less than 10 percent 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | of apprenticeable occupations or of the pro-11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | grams under the national apprenticeship sys-12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | tem. 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (2) P |
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| 45 | 45 | | OSTSECONDARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITU -14 |
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| 46 | 46 | | TION.—The term ‘‘postsecondary educational institu-15 |
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| 47 | 47 | | tion’’ means an institution of higher education, as 16 |
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| 48 | 48 | | defined in section 102 of the Higher Education Act 17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1002). 18 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (3) P |
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| 51 | 51 | | RE-APPRENTICESHIP.—The term ‘‘pre-ap-19 |
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| 52 | 52 | | prenticeship’’, used with respect to a program, 20 |
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| 53 | 53 | | means an initiative or set of strategies that— 21 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (A) is designed to prepare individuals to 22 |
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| 55 | 55 | | enter and succeed in a qualified apprenticeship 23 |
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| 56 | 56 | | program; 24 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (B) is carried out by a sponsor described 1 |
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| 61 | 61 | | in paragraph (6)(B) that has a documented 2 |
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| 62 | 62 | | partnership with one or more sponsors of quali-3 |
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| 63 | 63 | | fied apprenticeship programs; and 4 |
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| 64 | 64 | | (C) includes each of the following: 5 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (i) Training (including a curriculum 6 |
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| 66 | 66 | | for the training), aligned with industry 7 |
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| 67 | 67 | | standards related to apprenticeships in a 8 |
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| 68 | 68 | | qualified apprenticeship program, and re-9 |
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| 69 | 69 | | viewed and approved annually by sponsors 10 |
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| 70 | 70 | | of such apprenticeships within the docu-11 |
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| 71 | 71 | | mented partnership, that will prepare indi-12 |
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| 72 | 72 | | viduals by teaching the skills and com-13 |
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| 73 | 73 | | petencies needed to enter one or more 14 |
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| 74 | 74 | | qualified apprenticeship programs. 15 |
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| 75 | 75 | | (ii) Provision of hands-on training and 16 |
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| 76 | 76 | | theoretical education to individuals that— 17 |
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| 77 | 77 | | (I) is carried out in a manner 18 |
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| 78 | 78 | | that includes proper observation of su-19 |
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| 79 | 79 | | pervision and safety protocols; and 20 |
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| 80 | 80 | | (II) is carried out in a manner 21 |
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| 81 | 81 | | that does not displace a paid em-22 |
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| 82 | 82 | | ployee. 23 |
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| 83 | 83 | | (iii) A formal agreement with a spon-24 |
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| 84 | 84 | | sor of a qualified apprenticeship program 25 |
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| 88 | 88 | | that would enable participants who suc-1 |
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| 89 | 89 | | cessfully complete the pre-apprenticeship 2 |
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| 90 | 90 | | program to enter directly into the qualified 3 |
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| 91 | 91 | | apprenticeship program (if a place in the 4 |
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| 92 | 92 | | program is available and if the participant 5 |
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| 93 | 93 | | meets the qualifications of the qualified ap-6 |
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| 94 | 94 | | prenticeship program), and includes agree-7 |
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| 95 | 95 | | ments concerning earning credit recognized 8 |
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| 96 | 96 | | by a postsecondary educational institution 9 |
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| 97 | 97 | | for skills and competencies acquired during 10 |
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| 98 | 98 | | the pre-apprenticeship program. 11 |
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| 99 | 99 | | (4) R |
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| 100 | 100 | | ELATED INSTRUCTION .—The term ‘‘re-12 |
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| 101 | 101 | | lated instruction’’ means an organized and system-13 |
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| 102 | 102 | | atic form of classroom or web-based instruction de-14 |
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| 103 | 103 | | signed to provide an apprentice with the knowledge 15 |
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| 104 | 104 | | of the theoretical and technical subjects related to 16 |
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| 105 | 105 | | the occupation of the apprentice or the instruction 17 |
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| 106 | 106 | | needed to prepare an individual to enter and succeed 18 |
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| 107 | 107 | | in an qualified apprenticeship program. 19 |
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| 108 | 108 | | (5) S |
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| 109 | 109 | | ECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means 20 |
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| 110 | 110 | | the Secretary of Labor. 21 |
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| 111 | 111 | | (6) S |
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| 112 | 112 | | PONSOR.—The term ‘‘sponsor’’ means— 22 |
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| 113 | 113 | | (A) with respect to a qualified apprentice-23 |
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| 114 | 114 | | ship program, an employer, joint labor-manage-24 |
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| 115 | 115 | | ment partnership, trade association, profes-25 |
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| 119 | 119 | | sional association, labor organization, or other 1 |
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| 120 | 120 | | entity, that administers the qualified appren-2 |
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| 121 | 121 | | ticeship program; and 3 |
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| 122 | 122 | | (B) with respect to a pre-apprenticeship 4 |
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| 123 | 123 | | program, a local educational agency, a sec-5 |
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| 124 | 124 | | ondary school, an area career and technical 6 |
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| 125 | 125 | | education school, a State board, a local board, 7 |
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| 126 | 126 | | a joint labor-management committee, a labor 8 |
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| 127 | 127 | | organization, or a community-based organiza-9 |
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| 128 | 128 | | tion, with responsibility for the pre-apprentice-10 |
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| 129 | 129 | | ship program. 11 |
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| 130 | 130 | | (7) W |
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| 131 | 131 | | ORKFORCE INNOVATION AND OPPOR -12 |
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| 132 | 132 | | TUNITY ACT DEFINITIONS .—The terms ‘‘area career 13 |
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| 133 | 133 | | and technical education school’’, ‘‘community-based 14 |
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| 134 | 134 | | organization’’, ‘‘individual with a barrier to employ-15 |
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| 135 | 135 | | ment’’, ‘‘local board’’, ‘‘local educational agency’’, 16 |
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| 136 | 136 | | ‘‘secondary school’’, and ‘‘State board’’ have the 17 |
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| 137 | 137 | | meanings given the terms in section 3 of the Work-18 |
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| 138 | 138 | | force Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 19 |
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| 139 | 139 | | 3102). 20 |
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| 140 | 140 | | (b) G |
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| 141 | 141 | | RANTS FORTUITIONASSISTANCE.— 21 |
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| 142 | 142 | | (1) I |
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| 143 | 143 | | N GENERAL.—The Secretary may make 22 |
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| 144 | 144 | | grants to States on a competitive basis to assist the 23 |
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| 145 | 145 | | States in, and pay for the Federal share of the cost 24 |
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| 146 | 146 | | of, defraying the cost of a pre-apprenticeship, or the 25 |
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| 150 | 150 | | cost of related instruction, associated with a quali-1 |
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| 151 | 151 | | fied apprenticeship program. 2 |
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| 152 | 152 | | (2) A |
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| 153 | 153 | | PPLICATION.—To be eligible to receive a 3 |
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| 154 | 154 | | grant under this subsection, a State shall submit an 4 |
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| 155 | 155 | | application to the Secretary for such a project at 5 |
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| 156 | 156 | | such time, in such manner, and containing a stra-6 |
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| 157 | 157 | | tegic plan that contains such information as the Sec-7 |
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| 158 | 158 | | retary may require, including— 8 |
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| 159 | 159 | | (A) information identifying the State agen-9 |
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| 160 | 160 | | cy (referred to in this Act as the ‘‘State enti-10 |
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| 161 | 161 | | ty’’) that will administer the grant as deter-11 |
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| 162 | 162 | | mined by the Governor of the State; 12 |
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| 163 | 163 | | (B) a description of strategies that the 13 |
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| 164 | 164 | | State entity will use to collaborate with key in-14 |
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| 165 | 165 | | dustry representatives, State agencies, postsec-15 |
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| 166 | 166 | | ondary educational institutions, labor-manage-16 |
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| 167 | 167 | | ment entities, and other relevant partners to 17 |
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| 168 | 168 | | launch or expand pre-apprenticeships for and 18 |
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| 169 | 169 | | apprenticeships in qualified apprenticeship pro-19 |
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| 170 | 170 | | grams; 20 |
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| 171 | 171 | | (C) a description of how the State entity 21 |
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| 172 | 172 | | will— 22 |
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| 173 | 173 | | (i) coordinate activities carried out 23 |
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| 174 | 174 | | under this subsection with activities car-24 |
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| 175 | 175 | | ried out under the Carl D. Perkins Career 25 |
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| 179 | 179 | | and Technical Education Act of 2006 (20 1 |
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| 180 | 180 | | U.S.C. 2301 et seq.) and the Workforce 2 |
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| 181 | 181 | | Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 3 |
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| 182 | 182 | | U.S.C. 3101 et seq.) to support pre-ap-4 |
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| 183 | 183 | | prenticeships for and apprenticeships in 5 |
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| 184 | 184 | | qualified apprenticeship programs; 6 |
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| 185 | 185 | | (ii) leverage funds provided under the 7 |
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| 186 | 186 | | Acts specified in clause (i) to support pre- 8 |
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| 187 | 187 | | apprenticeships for and apprenticeships in 9 |
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| 188 | 188 | | qualified apprenticeship programs; and 10 |
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| 189 | 189 | | (iii) utilize, and encourage individual 11 |
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| 190 | 190 | | participants in programs supported under 12 |
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| 191 | 191 | | this subsection to utilize, available Federal 13 |
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| 192 | 192 | | and State financial assistance, including 14 |
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| 193 | 193 | | assistance available under the Workforce 15 |
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| 194 | 194 | | Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 16 |
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| 195 | 195 | | U.S.C. 3101 et seq.), education assistance 17 |
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| 196 | 196 | | benefits available to veterans, and Federal 18 |
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| 197 | 197 | | Pell Grants available under section 401 of 19 |
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| 198 | 198 | | the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 20 |
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| 199 | 199 | | U.S.C. 1070a), prior to using assistance 21 |
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| 200 | 200 | | made available under this Act; 22 |
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| 201 | 201 | | (D) a description of strategies to elevate 23 |
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| 202 | 202 | | apprenticeships in qualified apprenticeship pro-24 |
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| 203 | 203 | | grams as a workforce solution in nontraditional 25 |
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| 207 | 207 | | industries, such as information technology, 1 |
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| 208 | 208 | | health care, advanced manufacturing, transpor-2 |
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| 209 | 209 | | tation, and other industries determined to be 3 |
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| 210 | 210 | | high-demand by the State board for the State; 4 |
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| 211 | 211 | | (E) a description of activities that the 5 |
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| 212 | 212 | | State entity will carry out to build awareness 6 |
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| 213 | 213 | | about the economic potential of apprenticeships 7 |
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| 214 | 214 | | in qualified apprenticeship programs; 8 |
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| 215 | 215 | | (F) a description that outlines how the 9 |
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| 216 | 216 | | State entity will increase opportunities for pre- 10 |
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| 217 | 217 | | apprenticeships for and apprenticeships in 11 |
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| 218 | 218 | | qualified apprenticeship programs, among mem-12 |
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| 219 | 219 | | bers of minority groups, youth, individuals with 13 |
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| 220 | 220 | | disabilities, veterans, and individuals with bar-14 |
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| 221 | 221 | | riers to employment; 15 |
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| 222 | 222 | | (G) a description of— 16 |
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| 223 | 223 | | (i) how the State entity will ensure 17 |
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| 224 | 224 | | that the qualified apprenticeship program 18 |
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| 225 | 225 | | meets certain performance measures and 19 |
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| 226 | 226 | | quality standards, including that the quali-20 |
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| 227 | 227 | | fied apprenticeship program has been in 21 |
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| 228 | 228 | | existence for not fewer than 6 months 22 |
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| 229 | 229 | | prior to the application date; 23 |
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| 230 | 230 | | (ii) the targeted outreach strategies 24 |
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| 231 | 231 | | that the State entity will use for popu-25 |
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| 235 | 235 | | lations previously underserved through ap-1 |
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| 236 | 236 | | prenticeships; and 2 |
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| 237 | 237 | | (iii) any State performance measures 3 |
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| 238 | 238 | | that the State will use, at the election of 4 |
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| 239 | 239 | | the State, to measure the effectiveness of 5 |
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| 240 | 240 | | the project; and 6 |
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| 241 | 241 | | (H) in the case of a State that has already 7 |
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| 242 | 242 | | received a grant under this subsection for a 8 |
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| 243 | 243 | | project, information indicating that the State 9 |
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| 244 | 244 | | met the performance measures with respect to 10 |
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| 245 | 245 | | the project. 11 |
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| 246 | 246 | | (3) A |
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| 247 | 247 | | PPLICATION REVIEW PROCESS .—A joint 12 |
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| 248 | 248 | | team of employees from the Department of Labor 13 |
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| 249 | 249 | | and the Department of Education shall— 14 |
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| 250 | 250 | | (A) review such an application; and 15 |
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| 251 | 251 | | (B) make recommendations to the Sec-16 |
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| 252 | 252 | | retary regarding approval of the application. 17 |
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| 253 | 253 | | (4) U |
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| 254 | 254 | | SE OF FUNDS.—A State that receives a 18 |
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| 255 | 255 | | grant under this subsection shall use the funds made 19 |
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| 256 | 256 | | available through the grant to defray any of the fol-20 |
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| 257 | 257 | | lowing costs of related instruction: 21 |
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| 258 | 258 | | (A) Tuition and fees. 22 |
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| 259 | 259 | | (B) Cost of textbooks, equipment, cur-23 |
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| 260 | 260 | | riculum development, and other required edu-24 |
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| 261 | 261 | | cational materials. 25 |
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| 265 | 265 | | (C) Costs of any other item or service de-1 |
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| 266 | 266 | | termined by the State to be necessary. 2 |
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| 267 | 267 | | (5) A |
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| 268 | 268 | | DMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—The State may 3 |
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| 269 | 269 | | use not more than 10 percent of the grant funds for 4 |
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| 270 | 270 | | administrative costs relating to carrying out the 5 |
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| 271 | 271 | | project described in paragraph (1). 6 |
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| 272 | 272 | | (6) P |
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| 273 | 273 | | ERFORMANCE AND EVALUATION .—The 7 |
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| 274 | 274 | | Secretary, after consultation with the Secretary of 8 |
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| 275 | 275 | | Education, shall— 9 |
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| 276 | 276 | | (A) establish performance measures based 10 |
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| 277 | 277 | | on indicators set by the Administrator of the 11 |
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| 278 | 278 | | Office of Apprenticeship of the Department of 12 |
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| 279 | 279 | | Labor; and 13 |
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| 280 | 280 | | (B) establish an evaluation system aligned 14 |
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| 281 | 281 | | with the performance measures, and reporting 15 |
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| 282 | 282 | | requirements for the program carried out under 16 |
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| 283 | 283 | | this subsection. 17 |
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| 284 | 284 | | (c) F |
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| 285 | 285 | | EDERALSHARE.— 18 |
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| 286 | 286 | | (1) I |
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| 287 | 287 | | N GENERAL.—The Federal share of the 19 |
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| 288 | 288 | | cost described in subsection (b)(1) shall be not less 20 |
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| 289 | 289 | | than 20 percent and not more than 50 percent. 21 |
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| 290 | 290 | | (2) N |
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| 291 | 291 | | ON-FEDERAL SHARE .—The State may 22 |
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| 292 | 292 | | make the non-Federal share available— 23 |
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| 293 | 293 | | (A) in cash or in kind, fairly evaluated, in-24 |
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| 294 | 294 | | cluding plant, equipment, or services; and 25 |
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| 298 | 298 | | (B) directly or through donations from 1 |
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| 299 | 299 | | public or private entities. 2 |
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| 300 | 300 | | (d) R |
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| 301 | 301 | | EPORT.—The Secretary shall prepare and sub-3 |
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| 302 | 302 | | mit to Congress, not later than September 30, 2030, a 4 |
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| 303 | 303 | | report— 5 |
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| 304 | 304 | | (1) detailing the results of the evaluation de-6 |
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| 305 | 305 | | scribed in subsection (b)(6)(B); and 7 |
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| 306 | 306 | | (2) analyzing the extent to which States have 8 |
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| 307 | 307 | | used grant funds effectively under this section. 9 |
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| 308 | 308 | | (e) P |
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| 309 | 309 | | OLICY OF THEUNITEDSTATES.—It is the pol-10 |
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| 310 | 310 | | icy of the United States that funds made available under 11 |
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| 311 | 311 | | this section should be used to supplement and not sup-12 |
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| 312 | 312 | | plant other funds available under the Workforce Innova-13 |
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| 313 | 313 | | tion and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.) and 14 |
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| 314 | 314 | | other Federal and State funds available to the State to 15 |
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| 315 | 315 | | support workforce development programs. 16 |
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| 316 | 316 | | SEC. 3. IDENTIFYING IN-DEMAND OCCUPATIONS. 17 |
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| 317 | 317 | | The Secretary shall— 18 |
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| 318 | 318 | | (1) identify in-demand occupations nationally 19 |
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| 319 | 319 | | and regionally that lack the use of apprenticeships 20 |
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| 320 | 320 | | in qualified apprenticeship programs; 21 |
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| 321 | 321 | | (2) analyze the use of the qualified apprentice-22 |
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| 322 | 322 | | ship program model in those identified in-demand 23 |
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| 327 | 327 | | (3) prepare and submit to States and Congress 1 |
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| 328 | 328 | | a report that contains the analysis described in para-2 |
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| 329 | 329 | | graph (2). 3 |
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| 330 | 330 | | SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 4 |
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| 331 | 331 | | There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out 5 |
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| 332 | 332 | | this Act $15,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2026 through 6 |
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