Amendments to H.R. 447
Each En Bloc receives 20 minutes of debate
Each stand alone amendment receives 10 minutes of debate
Levin (D-MI) En Bloc #1 Blunt Rochester (D-DE) – Amendment No. 1 - Includes "ethnicity" as a "non-traditional apprenticeship population," expands outreach to Title I schools for apprenticeship opportunities, expands coordination with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs to promote awareness of related apprenticeship opportunities, and improves website accessibility
Brown (D-MD) – Amendment No. 2 - Clarifies the requirement in the State plan for describing apprenticeship opportunities in nontraditional apprenticeship industries or occupations
Bush, Cori (D-MO), Bowman (D-NY), Pressley (D-MA) – Amendment No. 3 - Includes child care as a transitional assistance program for formerly incarcerated people entering the workforce through apprenticeship programs
Castro (D-TX) – Amendment No. 4 - Adds "media and entertainment" to the list of eligible programs for nontraditional apprenticeship industries or occupations
Crow (D-CO), Clark, Katherine (D-MA) – Amendment No. 5 - Includes education and early childhood education occupations in the expansion of programs under the national apprenticeship system and ensures that individuals in these programs can access apprenticeship funds
Escobar (D-TX) – Amendment No. 6 - Adds Job Corps to the list of Education and Training Providers, which allows Job Corps to qualify for apprenticeship grants or contracts that would support alignment between the national apprenticeship system and Job Corps and encourages the consideration of Job Corps as an education and training partner as apprenticeships are being developed. Also allows apprentices, pre-apprentices, or youth apprentices to use emergency grant funding, provided by the program they are participating in, to obtain internet access
Higgins, Brian (D-NY) – Amendment No. 9 - Ensures that the technical assistance provided to grant recipients includes facilitating a forum for sharing best practices to improve overall outcomes and meet
grant requirements
Lawrence (D-MI) – Amendment No. 13 - Clarifies that intermediary grants can be used for national industry intermediaries, equity intermediaries, or local or regional intermediaries
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En Bloc #2 Meng (D-NY), Strickland (D-WA), Morelle (D-NY) – Amendment No. 14 - Includes user-friendly formats and languages that are easily accessible in efforts to promote youth apprenticeships and greater diversity in the national apprenticeship system. Includes the FCC under the Ex Officio nonvoting members section of the National Advisory Committee on Apprenticeships
Moore (D-WI), Strickland (D-WA), Morelle (D-NY) – Amendment No. 15 - Strengthens efforts to ensure that low-income individuals and others with barriers to employment are able to participate in apprenticeships, including in fields where such groups are underrepresented
OcasioCortez (D-NY), Bush, Cori (D-MO), Tlaib (D-MI), Barragán (D-CA), Pressley (D-MA) – Amendment No. 16 - Includes "renewable energy" to energy occupations listed under eligible programs for nontraditional apprenticeship industries or occupations
Payne, Jr. (D-NJ) – Amendment No. 18 - Expands apprenticeship and grant access for minority, veteran, and women-owned businesses
Ross, Deborah (D-NC) – Amendment No. 19 - Increases support to State apprenticeship agencies to establish or expand apprenticeship hubs, and workforce development organizations that support nontraditional populations and dislocated workers
Smith, Adam (D-WA), Langevin (D-RI) – Amendment No. 21 - Allows pre-apprenticeship programs that receive grant funding under Title II to use funds to provide stipends to pre-apprentices for costs incurred during the pre-apprenticeship program such as housing, transportation, childcare, and other out-of-pocket expenses
Strickland (D-WA) – Amendment No. 23 - Requires the Office of Apprenticeship to disseminate best practices to recruit nontraditional apprenticeship populations, women, minorities, long-term unemployed, individuals with a disability, individuals recovering from substance abuse disorders, veterans, military spouses, individuals experiencing homelessness, individuals impacted by the criminal or juvenile justice system, and foster and former foster youth
Torres, Ritchie (D-NY) – Amendment No. 25 - Ensures that grants are awarded to encourage employer participation in apprenticeship programs that target individuals with language barriers (English language learners)
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Levin (D-MI) En Bloc #3 Feenstra (R-IA) – Amendment No. 7 - Includes the Department of Justice as an agency that the Office of Apprenticeship shall cooperate with in order to provide technical assistance in aligning the national apprenticeship system with mentorship programs in the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Golden (D-ME), Herrera Beutler (R-WA) – Amendment No. 8 - Adds "agriculture, forestry, fishing, and hunting" to the list of eligible programs for nontraditional apprenticeship industries or occupations
Kilmer (D-WA), Fitzpatrick (R-PA) – Amendment No. 11 - Adds "computer science" to the list of eligible programs for nontraditional apprenticeship industries or occupations
Lamb (D-PA), Taylor (R-TX), Adams (D-NC) – Amendment No. 12 - Incorporates veterans into the underlying bill by: adding veterans service organizations (VSOs) to the list of partner organizations involved in the national apprenticeship system; adding VSOs to the entities that should be contacted for promoting and raising awareness about apprenticeship opportunities, and adding veteran status as one of the demographic identifiers for reporting on apprenticeships
Pappas (D-NH), Stevens (D-MI), Torres, Norma (D-CA) – Amendment No. 17 - Allows for demonstration projects to provide for innovation in the national apprenticeship system, including activities responding to the COVID-19 public health emergency
Slotkin (D-MI), Meijer (R-MI), Katko (R-NY) – Amendment No. 20 - Adds "Environmental Protection and Conservation" to the category of Green Jobs under nontraditional apprenticeship industries or occupations. Adds eligible expenses for apprenticeships grants, including equipment, instructional materials, etc
Titus (D-NV), Bilirakis (R-FL), Brown (D-MD), Case (D-HI), Lee, Susie (D-NV), Murphy, Stephanie (D-FL), Peters (D-CA), Sablan (D-MP), Welch (D-VT), Horsford (D-NV) – Amendment No. 24 - Adds "hospitality and tourism" to the list of eligible programs for nontraditional apprenticeship industries or occupations
Trone (D-MD) – Amendment No. 26 - Directs the Office of Apprenticeship to coordinate with the Attorney General and Bureau of Prisons to support the establishment and expansion of pre-apprenticeship and apprenticeship programs in all Federal correctional institutions, to offer technical assistance for State prison systems and employers seeking to operate or improve corrections-based pre-apprenticeship or apprenticeship programs, and to support the successful transition of individuals in correctional institutions to pre-apprenticeship or apprenticeship programs upon exiting from correctional settings
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Hill, French (R-AR) – Amendment No. 10 - Changes the Title II funding partnership requirements to the extent practical to partner with an industry or with a labor or joint labor management organization
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Stefanik (R-NY) – Amendment No. 22 - Provides authority for additional programs of work-based learning, strikes the establishment of the National Advisory Committee and interagency agreement, and provides additional flexibility for the state plan process
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