Skills Connection Act

Skills Connection Act

Directs the Secretary of Labor to create a searchable and publicly available database containing a registry of industry-recognized credentials, a skills database, and a jobs bank to enable programs that lead to such credentials to receive priority under:

• youth workforce investment programs,
• statewide employment and training programs,
• career and technical programs, and
• training programs for Trade Adjustment Assistance workers.

Makes funds available from amounts appropriated for each fiscal year for the Workforce Innovation Fund for the costs of carrying out this Act.