H.R. 1783: American Apprenticeship Act

119th Congress · introduced 2025-03-03 · Labor and Employment · Latest: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.

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American Apprenticeship Act

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American Apprenticeship Act This bill authorizes the Department of Labor to make grants to assist states in carrying out projects that defray the cost of pre-apprenticeship or related instruction for qualified apprenticeship programs. Labor shall (1) establish performance measures and an evaluation system for such grant program; and (2) identify in-demand occupations that lack the use of apprenticeships, analyze the use of the qualified apprenticeship program model in those occupations, and report on such analysis to states and Congress.

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American Apprenticeship Act

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Sponsor: Rep. DeLauro, Rosa L. [D-CT-3] · 14 cosponsors

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Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-119hr1783.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/119/hr>

Record fed-us-cong119-hr1783 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong119 · updated 2026-11-03 by psicol fed-bills