H.R. 4942: BUILDS Act
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H.R. 4942: BUILDS Act
115th Congress · introduced 2018-02-06 · Labor and Employment · Latest: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2018-02-06 · official record
- Who proposed it: Rep. Mitchell, Paul [R-MI-10] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
- Where it stands now: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development. Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title
BUILDS Act
Plain 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, for up to three years and on a competitive basis, 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 jobseeker base.
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Sponsor: Rep. Mitchell, Paul [R-MI-10] · 3 cosponsors
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Lloyd Smucker (R-PA)
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-115hr4942.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/115/hr>
Record fed-us-cong115-hr4942 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115