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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6445 
To clarify the time period for registering health care apprenticeships under 
the Act of August 16, 1937 (commonly known as the ‘‘National Appren-
ticeship Act’’) and require the digitization of apprenticeship agreement 
forms under such Act, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 4, 2025 
Ms. JOHNSON of Texas (for herself and Mr. KENNEDY of Utah) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
Workforce 
A BILL 
To clarify the time period for registering health care appren-
ticeships under the Act of August 16, 1937 (commonly 
known as the ‘‘National Apprenticeship Act’’) and re-
quire the digitization of apprenticeship agreement forms 
under such Act, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives 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’’. 
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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 apprentice-
ship 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 appli-
cant 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 tech-
nical occupations, as described in the Bureau of 
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Labor Statistics Standard Occupational Classi-
fication System (or any corresponding occupa-
tion 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 ap-
prenticeship agreement form for such system (including 
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any employer agreement form or any disability disclosure 
form) shall be digitized.’’. 
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