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Union Calendar No. 74 

118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1541 

[Report No. 118–97] 

To amend the Small Business Act to include requirements relating to apprenticeship program assistance for small business development centers, and 

for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MARCH 10, 2023 

Mr. CROW (for himself, Mr. MOLINARO, Mr. THANEDAR, and Ms. SALAZAR) 

introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 

Small Business 

JUNE 5, 2023 

Reported from the Committee on Small Business; committed to the Committee 

of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 


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A BILL 

To amend the Small Business Act to include requirements 

relating to apprenticeship program assistance for small 

business development centers, and for other purposes. 


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1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Small Business Work5 force Pipeline Act of 2023’’. 

6 SEC. 2. SMALL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT CENTER APPREN7 TICESHIP PROGRAM ASSISTANCE. 

8 Section 21(c)(3) of the Small Business Act (15 

9 U.S.C. 648(c)(1)) is amended— 

10 (1) in subparagraph (T), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 

11 the end; 

12 (2) in clause (v) of the first subparagraph (U) 

13 (relating to succession planning), by striking the pe14 riod at the end and inserting a semicolon; 

15 (3) in second subparagraph (U) (relating to 

16 training on domestic and international intellectual 

17 property protections)— 

18 (A) in clause (ii)(II), by striking the period 

19 at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

20 (B) by redesignating such subparagraph as 

21 subparagraph (V); and 

22 (4) by adding at the end the following new sub23 paragraph: 

24 ‘‘(W) providing information and assistance 

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1 seminating relevant information from the De2 partment of Labor and other Federal agencies, 

3 on how to establish and improve— 

4 ‘‘(i) work-based learning opportunities 

5 (as defined in section 3 of the Carl D. Per6 kins Career and Technical Education Act 

7 of 2006 (20 U.S.C. 2302)); 

8 ‘‘(ii) apprenticeship programs reg9 istered under the Act of August 16, 1937 

10 (50 Stat. 664, chapter 663; commonly 

11 known as the ‘National Apprenticeship 

12 Act’; 29 U.S.C. 50 et seq.); 

13 ‘‘(iii) pre-apprenticeship programs; 

14 and 

15 ‘‘(iv) job training programs.’’. 


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Union Calendar No. 74 

118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1541 

[Report No. 118–97] 

A BILL 

To amend the Small Business Act to include reters, and for other purposes. assistance for small business development cen- quirements relating to apprenticeship program 

JUNE 5, 2023 

Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the 

State of the Union and ordered to be printed 


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