Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Creates a competitive grant program under WIOA to fund establishment, expansion, or enhancement of youth mentoring programs. Grants (up to 3 years) support mentoring, social-emotional learning, career exploration, work-based learning, and related workforce readiness activities for defined eligible youth.
Scope of federal role: federal funding versus local control
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a well-structured statutory grant authorization that provides clear purposes, definitions, eligible activities, application requirements, reporting obligations, and statutory cross-references, and it supplements the grant program with a mandated evaluation.
Creates a competitive grant program under WIOA to fund establishment, expansion, or enhancement of youth mentoring programs.
Grants (up to 3 years) support mentoring, social-emotional learning, career exploration, work-based learning, and related workforce readiness activities for defined eligible youth.
Prioritizes high-need communities, requires annual reporting (including academic, employment, and social-emotional metrics) while protecting student privacy, and authorizes appropriations for FY2026–2030.
Program is modest and bipartisan-leaning, improving chances; final outcome depends on securing appropriations and clearing Senate procedures.
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a well-structured statutory grant authorization that provides clear purposes, definitions, eligible activities, application requirements, reporting obligations, and statutory cross-references, and it supplements the grant program with a mandated evaluation.
Scope of federal role: federal funding versus local control
These are examples from the analysis, not a ranked list of the most-affected groups.
Scope of federal role: federal funding versus local control
Generally favorable: advances supports for underserved youth, social-emotional learning, and workforce pathways.
Likely to welcome prioritization of high-poverty and trauma-informed services, while seeking stronger funding and protections for equity.
May want clearer funding levels and strong enforcement of nondiscrimination and youth-centered design.
Cautiously supportive: program aligns mentoring with measurable workforce and education outcomes and prioritizes high-need areas.
Will emphasize fiscal oversight, clear evaluation metrics, and coordination with local agencies.
Wants clarity on funding, performance measures, and administrative burden.
Skeptical: views the bill as an expansion of federal programming into local mentoring and workforce training.
Concerns include federal overreach, vague funding authorizations, and mandated training elements like cultural competency.
May support mentoring generally but oppose increased federal control and open-ended spending.
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Program is modest and bipartisan-leaning, improving chances; final outcome depends on securing appropriations and clearing Senate procedures.
The bill has not accumulated any surfaced votes yet.
Scope of federal role: federal funding versus local control
Program is modest and bipartisan-leaning, improving chances; final outcome depends on securing appropriations and clearing Senate procedure…
Relative to its intended legislative type, this bill is a well-structured statutory grant authorization that provides clear purposes, definitions, eligible activities, application requirements, reporting obligations, an…
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