Congress 114 - HR 4174 - Manufacturing Skills Act of 2015

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Accounting and auditing Appropriations Department of Labor Employment and training programs Executive agency funding and structure Government studies and investigations Labor and Employment Manufacturing Minority employment Science and engineering education Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation Vocational and technical education

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Manufacturing Skills Act of 2015

This bill requires the Department of Commerce, Department of Labor, Department of Education, Department of Defense and the Director of the National Science Foundation to jointly establish a Manufacturing Skills Partnership to administer and carry out a program to award competitive, three-year grants to enable up to five states and five metropolitan areas to carry out proposals to promote reforms in workforce education and skill training for manufacturing.

The Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology shall:

acting through the Advanced Manufacturing National Program Office, conduct an audit of all federal education and skills training programs related to manufacturing to ensure that states and metropolitan areas are able to align federal resources with the labor demands of their primary manufacturing industries; and
work with states and metropolitan areas to determine how federal funds can be more tailored to meet their different needs.

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Sep 30, 2016

Referred to the Subcommittee on Research and Technology.
Dec 3, 2015

Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Science, Space, and Technology, and Appropriations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Dec 3, 2015

Introduced in House

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