3.0.0 1599 2023-01-11T13:37:04Z 2023-01-11T13:37:04Z Senate S 2017-07-20 115 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2017-07-20T17:29:32Z BUILDS Act 115 4942 HR 2018-04-05 Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Development. Related bill CRS WORKER Act 115 6623 HR 2018-08-16 Referred to the Subcommittee on Water, Power and Oceans. Related bill CRS 2017-07-20 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S4117-4118) IntroReferral 2017-07-20 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000384 Sen. Kaine, Tim [D-VA] Timothy Kaine D VA M. N P000449 Sen. Portman, Rob [R-OH] Rob Portman R OH 2017-07-20 True Labor and Employment Education programs funding Educational guidance Employee hiring Employment and training programs Food assistance and relief Higher education Infrastructure development Poverty and welfare assistance Public-private cooperation Teaching, teachers, curricula Vocational and technical education Labor and Employment 00 2017-07-20 Introduced in Senate 2018-05-09T21:20:15Z Building U.S. Infrastructure by Leveraging Demands for Skills or the BUILDS Act

This bill requires the Department of Labor to award implementation or renewal grants, for up to three years and on a competitive basis, to eligible industry or sector partnerships to achieve certain strategic objectives with respect to targeted infrastructure industries (e.g., transportation, construction, energy, information technology, or utilities industries).

Such strategic objectives must include:

  • recruiting key stakeholders in the targeted infrastructure industries;
  • identifying the training needs of multiple businesses in such industries;
  • facilitating actions that lead to economies of scale by aggregating multiple businesses' training and education needs;
  • helping grant recipients who provide career and technical education and training in aligning curricula, entrance requirements, and programs to the targeted infrastructure's needs and required credentials;
  • providing information on grant activities to state agencies to enable them to inform unemployment compensation recipients of employment and training opportunities; and
  • helping partner businesses to attract potential workers from a diverse jobseeker base.
]]> BUILDS Act Display Title BUILDS Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to require the Secretary of Labor to award grants for promoting industry or sector partnerships to encourage industry growth and competitiveness and to improve worker training, retention, and advancement. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced BUILDS Act Short Titles as Introduced Building U.S. Infrastructure by Leveraging Demands for Skills Introduced in Senate 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-115s1599is/xml/BILLS-115s1599is.xml 2017-07-20 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S4117-4118) text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.