House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Jobs, On-the-Job Earn-While-You-Learn Training, and Apprenticeships for Young African-Americans Act
Official title: To amend the National Apprenticeship Act in order to increase and expand the national apprenticeship system to include the immediate recruitment, employment, and on-the-job earn as you learn training of young African Americans, and to promote the development of equitable hiring standards necessary to safeguard the diversity of apprentices, and for other purposes.
Open in Bill Explorer →Where it went
- IntroducedDec 15, 2025
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Latest action: Dec 15, 2025 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6725.
- 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. 171, No. 211, December 15, 2025, Page H5900):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.Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record December 15, 2025 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
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- Statement length
- 233 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6725, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6725
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- January 14, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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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
41 cosponsors — 41 Democrats
0 of 41 cosponsors (0%) are from the other party.
Joyce Beatty (D-OH), Wesley Bell (D-MO), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Shontel Brown (D-OH), André Carson (D-IN), Kathy Castor (D-FL), Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL), Yvette Clarke (D-NY), Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Suzan DelBene (D-WA), Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Cleo Fields (D-LA), Shomari Figures (D-AL), Sylvia Garcia (D-TX), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Al Green (D-TX), Jahana Hayes (D-CT), Glenn Ivey (D-MD), Jonathan Jackson (D-IL), Henry Johnson (D-GA), Robin Kelly (D-IL), Timothy Kennedy (D-NY), Gregory Meeks (D-NY), Kweisi Mfume (D-MD), Gwen Moore (D-WI), Eleanor Norton (D-DC), Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Frank Pallone (D-NJ) and 11 more.
More from the sponsor
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Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 13, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.