HR 1642
Passed a chamber
Requires small business development centers and women's business centers to advise small businesses on hiring career and technical education graduates and to connect those businesses with such programs.
Official title: Connecting Small Businesses with Career and Technical Education Graduates Act of 2025
Timeline each lane is a chamber; dates pull from congress.gov actions
House
Introduced
26-FEB-2025
Referred
26-FEB-2025
Approved by committee
05-MAR-2025
Reported
24-MAR-2025
On the calendar
24-MAR-2025
Passed
03-JUN-2025
Senate
Received
04-JUN-2025
- Defines "career and technical education" by reference to the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006.
- Directs small business development centers to inform small businesses about hiring career and technical education graduates and relevant programs, and to tell those programs how their graduates can use center services.
- Directs women's business centers to provide the same types of information to small business concerns owned and controlled by women.
- Directs both types of centers to connect businesses with career and technical education programs, as appropriate, to help students and graduates identify career opportunities.
Covers an older version. The newest CRS summary describes the bill as of "Introduced in House" (26-FEB-2025); the text has changed since (Engrossed in House, 03-JUN-2025).
CRS is the Library of Congress's nonpartisan research office. Read it on congress.gov- Small Business Committee (House)
- Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee (Senate)
Commerce
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3 Democrats
2 Republicans