Congress 116 - HR 6646 - Relaunching America’s Workforce Act

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Adult education and literacy Aging Alaska Natives and Hawaiians Cardiovascular and respiratory health Child care and development Community life and organization Computers and information technology Disability assistance Drug, alcohol, tobacco use Economic development Economic performance and conditions Education of the disadvantaged Education programs funding Educational technology and distance education Emergency medical services and trauma care Employment and training programs Food industry and services Health care coverage and access Health personnel Higher education Home and outpatient care Indian social and development programs Infectious and parasitic diseases Labor and Employment Labor-management relations Licensing and registrations Manufacturing Mental health Migrant, seasonal, agricultural labor Military personnel and dependents Minority education Minority employment Performance measurement Poverty and welfare assistance Public-private cooperation Retail and wholesale trades Rural conditions and development State and local finance State and local government operations Student aid and college costs Teaching, teachers, curricula Transportation costs Transportation employees Unemployment Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation Vocational and technical education Youth employment and child labor

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Relaunching America's Workforce Act

This bill establishes several grant programs to address employment, the workforce, and education access in response to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) national emergency.

The Department of Labor must provide grants in response to the COVID-19 national emergency to

provide training and employment for dislocated, unemployed, and underemployed workers;
support youth employment;
establish workforce information systems improvements;
provide reentry employment opportunities for justice-involved youth and young adults; and
create or expand apprenticeship programs.

Programs directed towards assisting Native Americans and migrant and seasonal farmworkers may be extended.

The Department of Education must provide grants to expand the capacity of adult education providers to prioritize serving adults with low-literacy or numeracy levels negatively impacted by the COVID-19 national emergency, and to improve or expand career and technical education programs and programs of study to respond to state and local needs as a result of the COVID-19 national emergency.

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May 1, 2020

Referred to the House Committee on Education and Labor.
May 1, 2020

Introduced in House

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