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Manufacturing Skills Act of 2014

Introduced: September 18, 2014 See on congress.gov
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Dec 11, 2014
Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
Nov 17, 2014
Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Sep 18, 2014
Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Sep 18, 2014
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Manufacturing Skills Act of 2014 - Directs the Secretaries of Commerce, Labor, Education, and Defense (DOD) and the Director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) to jointly establish a Manufacturing Skills Partnership to administer and carry out a program to award compeititve, three-year grants to enable up to five states and five metropolitan areas to carry out proposals to promote reforms in workforce education and skill training for manufacturing.

Requires the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST): (1) acting through the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, to conduct an audit of all federal education and skills training programs related to manufacturing to ensure that states and metropolitan areas are able to align federal resources with the labor demands of their primary manufacturing industries; and (2) to work with states and metropolitan areas to determine how federal funds can be more tailored to meet their different needs.

What's happening now December 11, 2014

Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.

 Related & companion bills 1
  • S 2897 Identical bill Manufacturing Skills Act of 2014
 Bill text 1 version

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Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Sep 18, 2014
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 5564: Manufacturing Skills Act of 2014. 113th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/113-HR-5564/
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