S. 1048 · Where this bill is now
In committee
Introduced in the Senate, Mar 13, 2025
What this bill does
In plain words · AI-written from the official summaryLinks small businesses with vocational education graduates
Right now, Small Business Development Centers and Women's Business Centers help small businesses grow and succeed. This bill expands their job to include two new things: helping small businesses find and hire people who've graduated from career and technical education programs (like trade schools or apprenticeships), and helping those graduates start their own small businesses.
How it affects you
If you own a small business, you'd have access to help finding skilled workers trained in specific trades. If you've graduated from a career and technical education program, you'd have more support available when starting a small business of your own.
Read the official summary (Introduced in Senate, Mar 13, 2025)
Connecting Small Businesses with Career and Technical Education Graduates Act
This bill includes within the responsibilities of Small Business Development Centers and Women's Business Centers the provision of assistance to small businesses in hiring graduates from career and technical education programs and to graduates of such programs in starting small businesses.
Written by AI (Claude) using only the official summary by the Congressional Research Service, the Library of Congress’s nonpartisan research staff. It can miss nuance, so check the official summary and the bill text for details.
1st SessionS. 1048
A BILL
Connecting Small Businesses with Career and Technical Education Graduates Act
Sponsor: Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) · Introduced Mar 13, 2025 · Commerce · 1 version of the text
Sources: Congress.gov actions and votes · bill text from GovInfo · latest official action Mar 13, 2025: “Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.”