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119-s-4386119th CongressWALLET

ADVICE Act

Sponsored By: Senator Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]

Introduced

Summary

Standardizes and links apprenticeship and workforce data across federal and state systems. The bill creates an Apprenticeship Advisory Committee to recommend interoperability, reporting improvements, and outcomes tracking.

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  • Families & apprentices: Improved data on long-term outcomes, including retention and wage tracking up to five years after completion, so participants and analysts can measure program value.
  • Program sponsors & employers: Requires recommendations to reduce reporting burdens by improving user interfaces and lowering software and staff time needed for data collection.
  • State workforce and education agencies: Pushes integration of apprenticeship data with unemployment insurance, wage systems, state longitudinal databases, and other federal and state systems to enable cross-system analysis.
  • K-12 and higher education institutions: Encourages including apprenticeship records in individual student data to link coursework, credentials, and employment outcomes.
  • Labor organizations and industry partners: Ensures labor groups, employers, and higher education have seats on a 16-member committee shaping the report to the Secretary and Congress.

*Directs the Secretary of Labor to issue a policy plan based on the committee's recommendations and to request targeted appropriations to help states implement those recommendations.*

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

1 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 0 mixed.

New apprenticeship data committee and plan

This bill would create a 16-member Apprenticeship Advisory Committee at the Department of Labor. Within two years, the Committee would send a report with recommendations to standardize, connect, and make apprenticeship and related training data interoperable across many federal and state systems. The report would require tracking wages during and after apprenticeships and retention up to five years after completion. Within 30 days of a specific part of that report, the Secretary of Labor would issue a policy plan and ask Congress for targeted funding to help States carry out the plan. The Secretary of Labor and Secretary of Education would be directed to consider that policy plan when running apprenticeship programs under current law.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]

LA • R

Cosponsors

  • Sen. Tuberville, Tommy [R-AL]

    AL • R

    Sponsored 4/27/2026

Roll Call Votes

No roll call votes available for this bill.

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