HR 2831
116th Congress
House
Labor and Employment
Education programs funding
Educational guidance
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Food assistance and relief
Higher education
Infrastructure development
Poverty and welfare assistance
Public-private cooperation
Teaching, teachers, curricula
Unemployment
Vocational and technical education
BUILDS Act
Introduced: May 17, 2019
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Everywhere this bill has been
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Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
May 17, 2019
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
May 17, 2019
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Building U.S. Infrastructure by Leveraging Demands for Skills or the BUILDS Act
This bill requires the Department of Labor to award implementation or renewal grants to eligible industry or sector partnerships to achieve certain strategic objectives with respect to targeted infrastructure industries (e.g., transportation, construction, energy, information technology, or utilities industries).
Such strategic objectives must include
- recruiting key stakeholders in the targeted infrastructure industries;
- identifying the training needs of multiple businesses in such industries;
- facilitating actions that lead to economies of scale by aggregating multiple businesses' training and education needs;
- helping grant recipients who provide career and technical education and training in aligning curricula, entrance requirements, and programs to the targeted infrastructure's needs and required credentials;
- providing information on grant activities to state agencies to enable them to inform unemployment compensation recipients of employment and training opportunities; and
- helping partner businesses to attract potential workers from a diverse job seeker base.
What's happening now
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Committees of jurisdiction
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