S 1542
114th Congress
Senate
Labor and Employment
Accounting and auditing
Appropriations
Department of Labor
Employment and training programs
Executive agency funding and structure
Government studies and investigations
Manufacturing
Minority employment
Science and engineering education
Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Vocational and technical education
Manufacturing Skills Act of 2015
Introduced: June 10, 2015
Introduced by:
Coons, Christopher A.
Democratic
· Delaware
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Became law
Jun 10, 2015
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Jun 10, 2015
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Manufacturing Skills Act of 2015
This bill requires the Department of Commerce, Department of Labor, Department of Education, Department of Defense and the Director of the National Science Foundation to jointly establish a Manufacturing Skills Partnership to administer and carry out a program to award competitive, 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.
The Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology shall:
- acting through the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, 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
- work with states and metropolitan areas to determine how federal funds can be more tailored to meet their different needs.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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