House bill · 118th Congress · Did not become law
Jobs, On-the-Job Earn-While-You-Learn Training, and Apprenticeships for Young African-Americans Act
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedSep 20, 2024
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Sep 20, 2024 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 9739.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. DAVID SCOTT of Georgia, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 170, No. 147, September 20, 2024, Page H5563):to lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts, and Excises, to pay the Debts, and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States. The single subject of this legislation is: LaborSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record September 20, 2024 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 282 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 9739, 118th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/118/hr/9739
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 21, 2025
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 14, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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PORKER shows the statement exactly as printed, with the page markup removed. It is the sponsor’s claim; it is not a legal finding.
Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of July 21, 2025). Not every bill gets one.
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Vote results
No recorded roll-call votes on this bill in PORKER’s records (voice votes and unanimous consent are not roll calls; roll-call records start in 2011).
Cosponsors
27 cosponsors — 27 Democrats
0 of 27 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Alma Adams (D-NC), Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), André Carson (D-IN), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Robin Kelly (D-IL), Barbara Lee (D-CA), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Mark Pocan (D-WI), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Marilyn Strickland (D-WA), Bennie Thompson (D-MS), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Nikema Williams (D-GA).
More from the sponsor
Other 118th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. David Scott.
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- H.R. 7261 (118th) Reimagining Inclusive Arts Education Act
- H.Res. 217 (118th) Supporting the designation of March 2023 as Endometriosis Awareness Month.
- H.R. 1436 (118th) To provide additional funding for scholarships for students at 1890 institutions.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 15, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.