Fast Track Healthcare Apprenticeships Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill creates a health care apprenticeship registration rule inside the National Apprenticeship Act. When an applicant seeks to register a health-care-field apprenticeship, the Department of Labor must provide a decision within 45 days after receiving the application. If DOL misses that window, it must send a written explanation and an estimated determination timeline that is no more than 90 days after the explanation. The health care field is defined through Bureau of Labor Statistics health-care practitioner, technical, and support occupations. A second provision requires national apprenticeship agreement forms, including employer agreement forms and disability disclosure forms, to be digitized.
Who Benefits and How
Hospitals, clinics, health systems, training sponsors, and workforce intermediaries benefit from shorter federal registration timelines for health care apprenticeships. Health-care support workers and technical trainees benefit if program sponsors can launch registered pathways faster. Applicants also benefit from digitized agreement forms that reduce paper handling and make onboarding easier to track.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Department of Labor bears the main administrative burden: it must track health-care apprenticeship applications, issue decisions within 45 days, explain delays, keep delayed determinations within the new 90-day outer timeline, and digitize apprenticeship forms. Sponsors may need to adapt submissions to the new digital form process.
Key Provisions
- Requires DOL to decide health-care apprenticeship registration applications within 45 days.
- Requires a written delay explanation and a new estimated timeline capped at 90 days after the explanation when the 45-day deadline is missed.
- Defines covered health-care occupations by reference to BLS practitioner, technical, and support classifications.
- Requires employer agreement forms, disability disclosure forms, and other apprenticeship agreement forms in the national system to be digitized.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Amends the National Apprenticeship Act to force faster registration decisions for health care apprenticeship programs and to digitize national apprenticeship agreement forms.
Key Policy Areas
Labor, Healthcare, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Amends the National Apprenticeship Act to force faster registration decisions for health care apprenticeship programs and to digitize national apprenticeship agreement forms.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Health care apprenticeship sponsors
- Hospitals
- Health clinics
- Health-care support trainees
- Health-care technical trainees
Identified Costs
- Department of Labor apprenticeship offices
- National apprenticeship system administrators
- Program sponsors adapting to digital forms
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMs. Johnson of Texas (for herself and Mr. Kennedy of …
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Introduced in House
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5030-5031)
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Apprentices using digital agreement forms, Health care support trainees, Health care technical trainees
Department of Labor apprenticeship office, Department of Labor digital apprenticeship systems
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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