House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Immersive Technology for the American Workforce Act of 2025
Official title: To direct the Secretary of Labor to carry out a competitive grant program to support community colleges and area career and technical education centers in developing immersive technology education and training services programs for workforce development, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. John Mannion D-NYWhere it went
- IntroducedJan 7, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: Jan 7, 2026 — Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 6968.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. MANNION, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 4, January 7, 2026, Page H135):Section 8 of article I of the ConstitutionSource: Congress.gov, Congressional Record January 7, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 42 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 6968, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/6968
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- August 28, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 12, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
891633481f5e68104500e99e0e6756c4bd9ad7f6e45287b4b766178037af89e3
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 August 28, 2026). 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
3 cosponsors — 1 Republican, 2 Democrats
1 of 3 cosponsors (33%) are from the other party.
Steve Cohen (D-TN), Gabe Evans (R-CO), Pablo Hernández (D-PR).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. John Mannion.
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- H.R. 5436 (119th) End Transcript Withholding for Veterans Act
- H.R. 2333 (119th) Protecting Students with Disabilities Act
- H.R. 8979 (119th) Elementary and Secondary School Counseling Act
- H.R. 8978 (119th) Enhancing Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Through Campus Planning Act
- H.R. 10232 (119th) To prohibit the transfer of certain offices and functions of the Department of Education to other Federal agencies, and for other purposes.
Related bills
Relationships as recorded by Congress.gov.
Sponsor’s state and district
Data as of Sep 25, 2026 · bill record checked by PORKER from Congress.gov · votes from Senate.gov and the House Clerk. PORKER is non-partisan.