CAREER Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Senator Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY]
Introduced
Summary
Reauthorizes and expands treatment, recovery, and workforce grants and recovery housing through 2030. It would update how grants are calculated, allow limited transportation tied to work or treatment, and align program job outcomes with WIOA employment metrics.
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- Families and people in recovery: Grants and a Recovery Housing Pilot would be extended through 2030 and would use updated 2018–2022 overdose, unemployment, and labor force participation data to guide where support goes.
- Workers and job program participants: The bill would align employment and earnings outcomes with the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act and let grantees use up to 5 percent of funds for transportation to work, training, or treatment.
- Grantees and program funding: It would raise the grant program cap from $5.0 million for FY2019–2023 to $12.0 million for FY2026–2030 and change grant-rate calculations to anchor on the highest overdose and unemployment rates and lowest participation rates from 2018–2022.
*Increases authorized federal spending for these grants by raising the funding cap to $12.0 million for FY2026–2030 from $5.0 million previously.*
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.
More recovery and job grants
If enacted, the bill would fund $12 million per year for CAREER Act grants for fiscal years 2026 through 2030. Grantees could use up to 5% of funds for transportation to work, training, or treatment. Programs would be required to track employment and earnings using WIOA employment metrics. Grant awards would be targeted using 2018–2022 averages for overdose deaths, unemployment, and labor force participation. The agency could not require grantees to spend money on activities not listed. Grantees and the agency would meet a reporting deadline of September 30, 2030.
Recovery housing pilot extended
If enacted, the bill would extend the Recovery Housing Pilot Program through 2030. The agency would need to take required actions within 60 days after enactment. Site selection and triggers would use 2018–2022 averages for unemployment and participation and add 2018–2022 age-adjusted overdose death rates. The bill would also remove an explicit two-year phrase in one subsection, changing program timing language.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY]
KY • R
Cosponsors
Bill Hagerty
TN • R
Sponsored 2/10/2025
John Fetterman
PA • D
Sponsored 2/10/2025
Bernie Moreno
OH • R
Sponsored 5/1/2025
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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