HR 1446
Validate Prior Learning to Accelerate Employment Act
Summary
Validate Prior Learning to Accelerate Employment Act This bill incorporates assessments that measure an individual's prior knowledge, skills, competencies, and experiences into specified state and local employment training activities under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. An assessment may be used, for example, to award a recognized postsecondary credential that employers use for recruitment, hiring, retention, or advancement purposes.
Bill status
- Status
- In committee
- Sponsor
- Rep. Rick W. Allen [R-GA-12]
- Cosponsors
- 1
- Policy area
- Labor and Employment
- Introduced
- 2025-02-21
- Latest action
- 2025-02-21: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Committee referrals
Recent actions
- 2025-02-21: Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
- 2025-02-21: Introduced in House
- 2025-02-21: Introduced in House