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HR 1642 · 119th Congress · HouseIn committee

Connecting Small Businesses with Career and Technical Education Graduates Act of 2025

In plain language: This bill directs federally funded Small Business Development Centers and Women’s Business Centers to help small employers recruit and hire graduates from career and technical education programs. In addition, these support centers must reach out to vocational students and alumni to teach them how to use federal business counseling and services to launch their own companies. The goal is to build direct pipelines between local trade programs and small business jobs.

Provisional: our plain-language summary, pending review.

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People affected—The bill affects Small Business Development Centers, Women's Business Centers, participating small businesses, and CTE graduates, but does not provide specific population numbers or participation targets.
Fiscal magnitude—The bill does not authorize or appropriate any specific dollar amounts.
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Issues

What this bill touches.

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Who it affects

Who it helps · who it burdens.

Who it helps

  • Small businesses (including women-owned small businesses)Receive assistance, educational information on hiring CTE graduates, and direct connections to CTE programs to help meet hiring needs.provisional
  • Career and technical education students and graduatesGain connections to small businesses for job and career opportunities, as well as information on center resources to start and expand small businesses.provisional
  • Career and technical education programsReceive outreach and information from development centers on resources to help students start businesses and facilitate employment connections with local small businesses.provisional

Who it burdens

  • Small Business Development CentersMust provide educational information on hiring CTE graduates and relevant programs, share information with CTE programs on business startup resources, and connect small businesses with CTE programs.provisional
  • Women's Business CentersMust provide educational information to women-owned small businesses on hiring CTE graduates, inform CTE programs on center resources for starting businesses, and connect women-owned small businesses with CTE programs.provisional

Dollar-level funding (FEC sector totals) is coming in a later phase.

What it does

The provisions, in plain language.

  1. Directs Small Business Development Centers to assist small businesses with hiring career and technical education graduates, inform vocational programs on how students and graduates can use center resources to start and grow businesses, and connect small businesses with these programs to help graduates find jobs.

    Sec. 2(b)provisional

  2. Directs Women’s Business Centers to assist women-owned small businesses with hiring career and technical education graduates, inform vocational programs on how students and graduates can use center resources to start and grow businesses, and connect women-owned businesses with these programs to help graduates find jobs.

    Sec. 2(c)provisional

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Timeline

How it moved.

  1. Jun 4, 2025Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
  2. Jun 3, 2025Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
  3. Jun 3, 2025On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 396 - 5 (Roll no. 146). (text: CR H2392)
  4. Jun 3, 2025Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: (2/3 required): 396 - 5 (Roll no. 146). (text: CR H2392)
  5. Mar 24, 2025Reported by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 119-36.
  6. Mar 24, 2025Reported by the Committee on Small Business. H. Rept. 119-36.
  7. Mar 5, 2025Ordered to be Reported by the Yeas and Nays: 25 - 0.
  8. Feb 26, 2025Introduced in House
  9. Feb 26, 2025Introduced in House

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