3.0.0 2415 2022-11-01T13:50:12Z 2022-11-01T13:50:12Z Senate S 2019-08-01 116 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-08-01T14:50:41Z 2019-08-01 sseg00 Energy and Natural Resources Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. IntroReferral 2019-08-01 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress E000295 Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] Joni Ernst R IA N K000383 Sen. King, Angus S., Jr. [I-ME] Angus King I ME S. 2019-08-01 True Energy Alternative and renewable resources Congressional oversight Education programs funding Employment and training programs Government studies and investigations Higher education Licensing and registrations Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation Vocational and technical education Energy 00 2019-08-01 Introduced in Senate 2020-05-04T16:05:25Z Wind Workforce Modernization and Training Act of 2019

This bill provides incentives for programs that prepare students for careers in the wind energy industry.

The Department of Energy (DOE) must establish a program to award grants to community colleges or technical schools that offer wind training programs. Such colleges and schools must use the grants for large pieces of wind component equipment (e.g., towers or blades) for use in training wind technician students.

DOE must also establish a program to prepare veterans for careers in the wind energy industry that shall be modeled off of the Solar Ready Vets pilot program.

In addition, DOE must convene a task force to study the wind technician workforce.

]]> Wind Workforce Modernization and Training Act of 2019 Display Title Wind Workforce Modernization and Training Act of 2019 Short Title(s) as Introduced Wind Workforce Modernization and Training Act of 2019 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to establish a grant program for training wind technicians, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s2415is/xml/BILLS-116s2415is.xml 2019-08-01 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. 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.