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Panel OKs bill letting highway interest support workforce-training grants
Senate Transportation Committee · April 15, 2021
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Summary
HB 1782 would expand the transportation-related research grant program to allow grant awards for workforce development, enabling two-year colleges and technical institutes to compete for roughly $500,000 a year in awards, ARDOT testified.
Senators reviewed House Bill 1782, which would permit interest earnings on highway revenue to be used for transportation-related research and workforce-development grants. Gil Rogers of the Arkansas Department of Transportation said the existing competitive grant program (about $500,000 annually) would add "workforce development" as…
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