Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
This bill amends the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to explicitly incorporate entrepreneurial skills development and microenterprise services into state and local workforce activities. It adds entrepreneurial providers to eligible training lists, requires workforce centers to provide entrepreneurship information and referrals, and authorizes a three-year multistate study reviewing outcomes of entrepreneurial skills programs and providing recommendations.
Scope of federal involvement versus state/local control
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill primarily establishes a three-year multistate study into entrepreneurial skills development and integrates that study into the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act while also making targeted substantive amendments to program language to include entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial services.
This bill amends the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to explicitly incorporate entrepreneurial skills development and microenterprise services into state and local workforce activities.
It adds entrepreneurial providers to eligible training lists, requires workforce centers to provide entrepreneurship information and referrals, and authorizes a three-year multistate study reviewing outcomes of entrepreneurial skills programs and providing recommendations.
The bill also allows demonstration and pilot projects promoting self-employment, entrepreneurship, and job creation.
Modest cost, narrow scope, and bipartisan appeal increase chances, though many standalone technical bills still stall.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill primarily establishes a three-year multistate study into entrepreneurial skills development and integrates that study into the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act while also making targeted substantive amendments to program language to include entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial services.
Scope of federal involvement versus state/local control
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Scope of federal involvement versus state/local control
Generally supportive of expanding workforce pathways into entrepreneurship and including underserved individuals.
Cautious about oversight, equity, and avoiding diversion of resources away from wage-job training.
Wants strong measurement of outcomes and protections for participants against predatory training providers.
Pragmatic approval of an evidence-building approach to entrepreneurship within workforce policy.
Favors the study and pilots to test effectiveness but seeks clarity on costs, duplication, and measurable outcomes before larger expansion.
Favorable toward promoting entrepreneurship and microenterprise as job-creation tools, but wary of expanded federal involvement and new grant programs.
Prefers state-led flexibility and limited federal spending on studies and pilot programs.
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Still ahead
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Modest cost, narrow scope, and bipartisan appeal increase chances, though many standalone technical bills still stall.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Scope of federal involvement versus state/local control
Modest cost, narrow scope, and bipartisan appeal increase chances, though many standalone technical bills still stall.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill primarily establishes a three-year multistate study into entrepreneurial skills development and integrates that study into the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Ac…
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