HR 9739 · 118th Congress 2023–2025, ended

Jobs, On-the-Job Earn-While-You-Learn Training, and Apprenticeships for Young African-Americans Act

Introduced Sep 20, 2024 Originated House Sponsor David Scott D-GA

Fact sheet Spreadsheet

Latest action · Sep 20, 2024 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

  1. IntroducedSep 20, 2024
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Cosponsors 27

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Sep 20, 2024 to Nov 12, 2024; 24 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-NYAlexandria Ocasio-CortezOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-NCAlma S. AdamsOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-CABarbara LeeOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-MSBennie G. ThompsonOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-NJBonnie Watson ColemanOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-PADwight EvansOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-DCEleanor Holmes NortonOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-MOEmanuel CleaverOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-NYGregory W. MeeksOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-WIGwen MooreOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-CTJahana HayesOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-NJJosh GottheimerOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-OHJoyce BeattyOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-CAJuan VargasOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-MDKweisi MfumeOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-DELisa Blunt RochesterOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-WAMarilyn StricklandOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-WIMark PocanOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-PAMary Gay ScanlonOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-GANikema WilliamsOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-MIRashida TlaibOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-ILRobin L. KellyOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-GASanford D. Bishop, Jr.OriginalSep 20, 2024
D-WASuzan K. DelBeneOriginalSep 20, 2024
D-INAndré CarsonSep 24, 2024
D-NYYvette D. ClarkeSep 25, 2024
D-ILJanice D. SchakowskyNov 12, 2024

Committees 1

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

ChamberCommitteeWhat it did
HouseEducation and Workforce Committee
Referred Sep 20, 2024

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Sep 20, 2024Introduced in House
  2. Sep 20, 2024Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts, and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States. The single subject of this legislation is: Labor

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 170, no. 147, September 20, 2024, page H5563.

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced
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.
Short Title(s) as Introduced
Jobs, On-the-Job Earn-While-You-Learn Training, and Apprenticeships for Young African-Americans Act

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Labor and Employment.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Sep 20, 2024Introduced in House

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