GROWTH Act

Bill: 116-hr-4760
Sponsor: Rep. Hern, Kevin [R-OK-1]
Introduced: 2019-10-18 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: 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

Summary:
action_date: 2019-10-18
text: 

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. 
 


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2019-10-21
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Highways and Transit.
action_date: 2019-10-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Transportation and Infrastructure, Armed Services, and Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-10-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Transportation and Infrastructure, Armed Services, and Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-10-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Transportation and Infrastructure, Armed Services, and Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-10-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Transportation and Infrastructure, Armed Services, and Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-10-18
text: Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor, Transportation and Infrastructure, Armed Services, and Small Business, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2019-10-18
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2019-10-18
text: Introduced in House