A bill to promote effective registered apprenticeships, for skills, credentials, and employment, and for other purposes.
Effective Apprenticeships to Rebuild National Skills Act or the EARNS Act
This bill establishes, in the Employment and Training Administration of the Department of Labor, an Office of Apprenticeship to:
The bill also establishes in Labor a National Advisory Committee on Apprenticeships.
Labor and the Department of Education shall establish a voluntary Registered Apprenticeship-College Collaborative consisting of the sponsors carrying out registered apprenticeship programs, two- or four-year postsecondary educational institutions, and organizations that represent such programs or institutions, that agree to meet certain criteria in order to promote stronger connections between the registered apprenticeship programs involved and participating two- and four-year postsecondary educational institutions.
Labor shall make assistance payments to eligible sponsors of new registered apprenticeship programs or of existing programs that add employers as new partners, which may include joint labor-management registered apprenticeship programs.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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