Jobs, On-the-Job ‘Earn-While-You-Learn’ Training, and Apprenticeships for Young African Americans Act
Official title: To amend the National Apprenticeship Act in order to increase and expand the national apprenticeship system to include the immediate recruitment, employment, a… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: To amend the National Apprenticeship Act in order to increase and expand the national apprenticeship system to include the immediate recruitment, employment, and on-the-job earn-as-you-learn training of young African Americans, and to promote the development of equitable hiring standards necessary to safeguard the diversity of apprentices, and for other purposes.
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Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
Jobs, On-the-Job 'Earn-While-You-Learn' Training, and Apprenticeships for Young African Americans Act
This bill makes changes to the national apprenticeship system aimed at promoting diversity.
Specifically, the bill
- establishes the Diversity and Inclusion Administrator in the Office Apprenticeship within the Office of Employment and Training Administration at the Department of Labor,
- requires every apprenticeship program that registers or renews an apprenticeship with the Office of Apprenticeship to submit a plan to increase participation by individuals who are African American, and
- requires the Diversity and Inclusion Administrator to award grants to create or expand diversity in registered apprenticeship programs.
- Introduced in House Formatted Text PDF Formatted XML
Cite this page
U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3445: Jobs, On-the-Job ‘Earn-While-You-Learn’ Training, and Apprenticeships for Young African Americans Act. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-3445/
"H.R. 3445: Jobs, On-the-Job ‘Earn-While-You-Learn’ Training, and Apprenticeships for Young African Americans Act." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-3445/.
H.R. 3445, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-HR-3445/.
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