Supporting Apprenticeship Colleges Act of 2025
Sponsored By: Representative Craig
Introduced
Summary
Expand apprenticeship-focused college enrollment and support. This bill would create two federal grant programs to help colleges that run construction and manufacturing registered apprenticeship programs recruit students and provide advising and wraparound supports to boost retention and completion.
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- Students and families: Grants fund expanded academic and career advising plus services such as ESL support, mentoring, mental health and substance-abuse counseling, and childcare to help students stay in and finish programs.
- Colleges and grantees: Eligible apprenticeship colleges could receive up to $500,000 each for outreach and up to $500,000 for student supports, may get both grants, and must report participant counts, enrollment growth, completion, credential attainment, and WIOA performance indicators.
- Employers and local workforce partners: Funding supports outreach to high schools, businesses, workforce boards, and apprenticeship intermediaries to build employer relationships and place graduates in local construction and manufacturing jobs, with priority for rural, exurban, suburban, and underrepresented communities.
*Would authorize $5 million per year for each grant program for FY2026–2030, about $10 million per year and $50 million total, increasing federal spending over that period.*
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
3 provisions identified: 2 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
Grants to recruit apprenticeship students
This bill would create outreach grants for colleges that run construction or manufacturing apprenticeships. Grants would be up to $500,000 per college, with $5 million per year authorized for 2026 through 2030. Money could fund outreach to high schools, local employers (with a focus on rural, exurban, and suburban areas), and workforce boards. Priority would go to plans reaching rural, first-generation, minority, and other underrepresented students.
Student support grants for apprenticeships
This bill would fund student support at apprenticeship colleges. Grants would be up to $500,000 per college, with $5 million per year authorized for 2026 through 2030. Funds could pay for advising, ESL help, mentoring, mental health and substance use counseling, first-generation student support, and childcare. Colleges could receive both the outreach and the student support grants. Each grantee would need to report results within 180 days after activities end.
Who can qualify for these grants
This bill would define which colleges and programs could get the grants. A college would need to sponsor an accredited construction or manufacturing registered apprenticeship that leads to a recognized postsecondary credential, or gives credits toward one. The rules would also say Braille and American Sign Language count as second languages. Other terms would use existing federal definitions, like for first-generation students, high schools, and institutions of higher education.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Craig
MN • D
Cosponsors
Bresnahan
PA • R
Sponsored 7/22/2025
Rep. Magaziner, Seth [D-RI-2]
RI • D
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Budzinski
IL • D
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Rep. Veasey, Marc A. [D-TX-33]
TX • D
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Rep. Moulton, Seth [D-MA-6]
MA • D
Sponsored 7/23/2025
Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1]
PA • R
Sponsored 8/8/2025
Rep. Carey, Mike [R-OH-15]
OH • R
Sponsored 9/4/2025
Kean
NJ • R
Sponsored 9/23/2025
Rep. Valadao, David G. [R-CA-22]
CA • R
Sponsored 10/6/2025
Turner (OH)
OH • R
Sponsored 10/6/2025
Rep. Lawler, Michael [R-NY-17]
NY • R
Sponsored 10/6/2025
Cisneros
CA • D
Sponsored 10/6/2025
Rep. Sykes, Emilia Strong [D-OH-13]
OH • D
Sponsored 10/6/2025
Barragan
CA • D
Sponsored 10/6/2025
Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24]
NY • R
Sponsored 11/10/2025
Rep. Morrison, Kelly [D-MN-3]
MN • D
Sponsored 11/10/2025
Rep. Finstad, Brad [R-MN-1]
MN • R
Sponsored 12/1/2025
Stauber
MN • R
Sponsored 12/1/2025
Rep. Dingell, Debbie [D-MI-6]
MI • D
Sponsored 12/1/2025
Rep. Landsman, Greg [D-OH-1]
OH • D
Sponsored 12/1/2025
Rep. Fischbach, Michelle [R-MN-7]
MN • R
Sponsored 1/21/2026
Rep. Kiggans, Jennifer A. [R-VA-2]
VA • R
Sponsored 1/21/2026
Rep. Suozzi, Thomas R. [D-NY-3]
NY • D
Sponsored 2/3/2026
Rep. Salinas, Andrea [D-OR-6]
OR • D
Sponsored 2/4/2026
Bilirakis
FL • R
Sponsored 2/9/2026
Rep. Miller, Max L. [R-OH-7]
OH • R
Sponsored 2/10/2026
Rep. Panetta, Jimmy [D-CA-19]
CA • D
Sponsored 2/10/2026
Rep. Houlahan, Chrissy [D-PA-6]
PA • D
Sponsored 2/17/2026
Rep. Steil, Bryan [R-WI-1]
WI • R
Sponsored 3/16/2026
Del. Norton, Eleanor Holmes [D-DC-At Large]
DC • D
Sponsored 4/6/2026
Rep. Strickland, Marilyn [D-WA-10]
WA • D
Sponsored 4/6/2026
Kennedy (NY)
NY • D
Sponsored 4/20/2026
Van Drew
NJ • R
Sponsored 5/11/2026
Rep. Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]
MA • D
Sponsored 5/11/2026
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