House bill · 119th Congress · Latest step: Introduced
Job Corps and Skilled Defense Workforce Act
Official title: To require the Secretary of Defense to align the Job Corps program with the defense industrial base, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep. Joe Courtney D-CTWhere it went
- IntroducedMay 20, 2026
- Committee action—
- Passed House—
- Passed Senate—
- To the President—
- Became law—
Latest action: May 20, 2026 — Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on Education and Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Cost and committee reports
Official records Congress.gov attaches to H.R. 8925.
- Constitutional authority statementThe sponsor’s statement of where the Constitution gives Congress the power to pass this bill. Statement by Mr. COURTNEY, as printed in the Congressional Record (Vol. 172, No. 86, May 20, 2026, Page H3670):Article 1, Section 8Source: Congress.gov, Congressional Record May 20, 2026 ↗
Evidence
- Field in the Congress.gov record
- constitutionalAuthorityStatementText
- Statement length
- 20 characters
- Congress.gov bill record
- H.R. 8925, 119th Congress
- Congress.gov API record
- https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/119/hr/8925
- Record last updated by Congress.gov
- July 28, 2026
- PORKER copy retrieved
- September 13, 2026
- Stored copy, SHA-256 of the file
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Congress.gov’s record for this bill does not list a CBO cost estimate or a committee report (as of July 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
19 cosponsors — 14 Republicans, 5 Democrats
14 of 19 cosponsors (74%) are from the other party.
Don Bacon (R-NE), Jack Bergman (R-MI), Sanford Bishop (D-GA), Christopher Deluzio (D-PA), Mike Ezell (R-MS), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), Maggie Goodlander (D-NH), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Brett Guthrie (R-KY), John James (R-MI), Jennifer Kiggans (R-VA), Michael Lawler (R-NY), Daniel Meuser (R-PA), Blake Moore (R-UT), John Rutherford (R-FL), Claudia Tenney (R-NY), Eugene Vindman (D-VA), George Whitesides (D-CA), Joe Wilson (R-SC).
More from the sponsor
Other 119th Congress bills sponsored by Rep. Joe Courtney.
- H.R. 2531 (119th) Workplace Violence Prevention for Health Care and Social Service Workers Act
- H.J.Res. 155 (119th) Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of…
- H.R. 3954 (119th) Improving Access to Medicare Coverage Act of 2025
- H.R. 3036 (119th) Protecting America’s Workers Act
- H.Res. 1209 (119th) Recognizing the significance of "Community College Month" in April as a celebration of more than 1,000 institutions throughout the United…
- H.Res. 340 (119th) Recognizing the significance of "Community College Month" in April 2025 as a celebration of the more than 1,000 community colleges…
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.