Wind Workforce Modernization and Training Act of 2019
United States116th CongressS-2415Senate
Updated: Aug 1, 2019
Summary
Wind Workforce Modernization and Training Act of 2019 This bill provides incentives for programs that prepare students for careers in the wind energy industry. The Department of Energy (DOE) must establish a program to award grants to community colleges or technical schools that offer wind training programs. Such colleges and schools must use the grants for large pieces of wind component equipment (e.g., towers or blades) for use in training wind technician students. DOE must also establish a program to prepare veterans for careers in the wind energy industry that shall be modeled off of the Solar Ready Vets pilot program. In addition, DOE must convene a task force to study the wind technician workforce.
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HR-8957: Wind Workforce Modernization and Training Act of 2020Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, 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.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
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