3.0.0 2620 2022-11-01T03:47:35Z 2022-11-01T03:47:35Z Senate S 2019-10-17 116 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2019-10-17T16:02:21Z GROWTH Act 116 4760 HR 2019-10-21 Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit. Identical bill CRS 2019-10-17 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2019-10-17 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress I000024 Sen. Inhofe, James M. [R-OK] Jim Inhofe R OK N H001046 Sen. Heinrich, Martin [D-NM] Martin Heinrich D NM T. 2019-10-17 True Labor and Employment Educational guidance Elementary and secondary education Employee hiring Employment and training programs Government lending and loan guarantees Higher education Licensing and registrations Medical education Military personnel and dependents Roads and highways Small business Student aid and college costs Transportation costs Transportation employees Vocational and technical education Labor and Employment 00 2019-10-17 Introduced in Senate 2021-01-07T17:57:21Z Generating Real Opportunities for Workforce Training and Hiring Act or the GROWTH Act

This bill sets forth provisions to promote career and technical education and establish highway construction workforce development initiatives.

Specifically the bill

  • expands tax-exempt tuition programs (529 plans) to allow plans to pay transportation costs for attendance at workforce training programs and to repay student loan amounts,
  • directs the Department of Transportation to make grants to establish highway construction workforce initiatives to attract, train, and place workers into highway construction careers,
  • extends and expands the program for reimbursement of military spouses for professional relicensing costs due to a permanent change in duty station, and
  • includes workforce development as an objective of the loan guaranty program of the Small Business Administration.
]]> GROWTH Act Display Title GROWTH Act Short Title(s) as Introduced GROWTH Act Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Generating Real Opportunities for Workforce Training and Hiring Act Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to bolster the domestic workforce by encouraging communication between career and technical education institutions and emphasizing potential employment opportunities, to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to treat certain costs relating to career and technical education as qualified higher education expenses for purposes of section 529 programs, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-116s2620is/xml/BILLS-116s2620is.xml 2019-10-17 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. 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.