S 2945 114th Congress Senate Labor and Employment Advisory bodies Department of Labor Education programs funding Elementary and secondary education Employment and training programs Executive agency funding and structure Higher education Performance measurement Teaching, teachers, curricula Unemployment Vocational and technical education Youth employment and child labor

EARNS Act

Introduced: May 18, 2016 Introduced by: Murray, Patty Democratic · Washington See on congress.gov

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

May 18, 2016

Introduced in Senate

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Effective Apprenticeships to Rebuild National Skills Act or the EARNS 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.

What's happening now May 18, 2016

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

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