Historic Infrastructure Management and Jobs Training Act

This bill would create a competitive federal grant program, run by the Secretary of the Interior, to pay for job training and apprenticeships in skills used to preserve historic buildings, sites, and records. States, territories, local governments, Indian tribes, Native Hawaiian organizations, preservation groups, and accredited schools could apply. Funded projects would teach skills such as historic masonry, timber framing, plaster and woodwork, archive conservation, and archaeological stabilization. Skilled-trade projects would have to follow Department of Labor apprenticeship standards and applicable union contracts. Priority would go to areas with high unemployment or few preservation experts, and grant recipients would report how many people trained and earned credentials.

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Sponsors

• Pablo José Hernández Democrat sponsor
• 1 cosponsors