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[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 5448 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 5448

To clarify the time period for registering health care apprenticeships 
  under the Act of August 16, 1937 (commonly known as the ``National 
 Apprenticeship Act'') and require the digitization of apprenticeship 
        agreement forms under such Act, and for other purposes.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            December 5, 2024

   Mr. Wyden introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
  referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL

 
To clarify the time period for registering health care apprenticeships 
  under the Act of August 16, 1937 (commonly known as the ``National 
 Apprenticeship Act'') and require the digitization of apprenticeship 
        agreement forms under such Act, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fast Track Healthcare 
Apprenticeships Act''.

SEC. 2. HEALTH CARE APPRENTICESHIP REGISTRATION.

    The Act of August 16, 1937 (commonly known as the ``National 
Apprenticeship Act''; 50 Stat. 664, chapter 663; 29 U.S.C. 50 et seq.) 
is amended--
            (1) by redesignating section 4 as section 6; and
            (2) by inserting after section 3 the following:

``SEC. 4. HEALTH CARE APPRENTICESHIP REGISTRATION.

    ``(a) In General.--In administering this Act, the Secretary of 
Labor shall establish a national apprenticeship system that provides, 
with respect to any application submitted seeking to register a program 
in the health care field as an apprenticeship program under this Act, 
that--
            ``(1) a decision shall be provided to the applicant on the 
        application not later than 45 days after receipt of the 
        application; and
            ``(2) if a decision is not made within the 45 days after 
        receipt, a written explanation for the delay and an estimated 
        timeline for a determination (that is not more than 90 days 
        after the date of such written explanation) shall be provided 
        to the applicant.
    ``(b) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Health care field.--The term `health care field' 
        means the following occupations:
                    ``(A) Healthcare practitioners and technical 
                occupations, as described in the Bureau of Labor 
                Statistics Standard Occupational Classification System 
                (or any corresponding occupation in any corresponding 
                System).
                    ``(B) Healthcare support occupations, as described 
                in such System (or any corresponding occupation in any 
                corresponding System).
            ``(2) National apprenticeship system.--The term `national 
        apprenticeship system' means the system established by the 
        Secretary of Labor to carry out the activities authorized and 
        directed to be carried out under section 1.''.

SEC. 3. DIGITIZATION OF APPRENTICESHIP AGREEMENT FORMS.

    The Act of August 16, 1937 (commonly known as the ``National 
Apprenticeship Act''; 50 Stat. 664, chapter 663; 29 U.S.C. 50 et seq.), 
as amended by section 2, is further amended by inserting after section 
4 (as added by section 2) the following:

``SEC. 5. DIGITIZATION OF APPRENTICESHIP AGREEMENT FORMS.

    ``In administering this Act, the Secretary of Labor shall establish 
a national apprenticeship system (as such term is defined in section 4) 
that provides that any apprenticeship agreement form for such system 
(including any employer agreement form or any disability disclosure 
form) shall be digitized.''.
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