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Committee presses for details on USDOL-funded CBIN apprenticeship standards project

Joint Interim Committees (contract review) · February 6, 2026
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Summary

The committee heard from the Commission on Higher Education about a USDOL-funded, sole‑source subaward to CBIN to develop interoperable apprenticeship standards; senators requested more information and placed the item on hold pending cost and scope details.

Stephanie Dolan, associate director of planning and policy for the Alabama Commission on Higher Education, told the committee the project is a USDOL‑funded effort to develop a framework for apprenticeship standards interoperability and is being carried out through a subaward to CBIN. “This is our second year,” Dolan said, adding the current contract figure for this year as $11,000,875 and describing CBIN as “the key element because they actually have the only availability of the framework that…

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