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Panel approves bill formalizing transfer of vocational rehabilitation and apprenticeship functions to Labor Cabinet

2360384 · February 20, 2025
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Summary

Senate Bill 178 would place the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation and related divisions under the Education and Labor Cabinet, rename an apprenticeship division, and codify work already moved; the committee recommended the bill favorably.

Senate Bill 178, sponsored by Senator Nemes, would codify an internal administrative move that transferred the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation and related workforce and apprenticeship functions from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (CHFS) to the Education and Labor Cabinet.

Senator Nemes told the committee the statutory language needed to be updated because the office was already operating within the…

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