Title: POST Act
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
Promoting Opportunities in Skilled Trades Act or the POST Act
This bill allows recipients of existing federal career and technical education funds to use those funds to raise awareness for skilled trade programs and other programs that prepare students for in-demand occupations.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4967 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4967

To amend the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 
  to raise public awareness for skilled trade programs, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 6, 2021

  Mrs. McClain (for herself, Ms. Houlahan, Mrs. Miller-Meeks, and Mr. 
    Trone) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 
  to raise public awareness for skilled trade programs, 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 ``Promoting Opportunities in Skilled 
Trades Act'' or the ``POST Act''.

SEC. 2. INNOVATION AND MODERNIZATION.

    Sec. 114(e)(7) of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical 
Education Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. 2324(e)(7)) is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
                    ``(M) Raising public awareness and conducting 
                public service announcements about career and technical 
                education programs and community-based and youth 
                services organizations, including through social media 
                campaigns, elementary and secondary school showcases 
                and school visits, and other endeavors focused on 
                programs such as skilled trade and other programs that 
                prepare students (especially students in 
                underrepresented geographic areas) for high-skill, 
                high-wage, or in-demand industry sectors or occupations 
                in current or emerging professions and in non-
                traditional fields.''.

SEC. 3. LOCAL USES OF FUNDS.

    Section 135(b) of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical 
Education Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. 2355(b)) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1)(D), by inserting before the semicolon 
        the following: ``, including to support career and technical 
        education faculty, academic advisors, and guidance counselors 
        in providing guidance and career options in high-skill, high-
        wage, or in-demand industry sectors or occupations in current 
        or emerging professions and in non-traditional fields 
        (including skilled trade)''; and
            (2) in paragraph (5)(K), by inserting before the semicolon 
        the following: ``, guidance and counseling on postsecondary 
        education and career options in nontraditional fields 
        (including skilled trade), and professional development that 
        ensures guidance counselors in academic counseling programs 
        have the skills to inform students of the value of career and 
        technical education programs and pathways in geographical areas 
        relevant to the students''.
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