S 2620
116th Congress
Senate
Labor and Employment
Educational guidance
Elementary and secondary education
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Government lending and loan guarantees
Higher education
Licensing and registrations
Medical education
Military personnel and dependents
Roads and highways
Small business
Student aid and college costs
Transportation costs
Transportation employees
Vocational and technical education
GROWTH Act
Introduced: October 17, 2019
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Everywhere this bill has been
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Became law
Oct 17, 2019
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Oct 17, 2019
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Generating Real Opportunities for Workforce Training and Hiring Act or the GROWTH Act
This bill sets forth provisions to promote career and technical education and establish highway construction workforce development initiatives.
Specifically the bill
- expands tax-exempt tuition programs (529 plans) to allow plans to pay transportation costs for attendance at workforce training programs and to repay student loan amounts,
- directs the Department of Transportation to make grants to establish highway construction workforce initiatives to attract, train, and place workers into highway construction careers,
- extends and expands the program for reimbursement of military spouses for professional relicensing costs due to a permanent change in duty station, and
- includes workforce development as an objective of the loan guaranty program of the Small Business Administration.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Committees of jurisdiction
1
Cosponsors
1