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Senate committee preserves $5 million annual distribution to apprenticeship trust fund, adds statutory priorities for student housing
Summary
Senate Finance Committee recommended a "do pass" for House Bill 7 to maintain a $5 million annual distribution to the workforce development and apprenticeship trust fund and approved an amendment listing student-housing and student-life priorities for higher-education institutions; the committee recorded an 8-0 roll-call in favor.
The Senate Finance Committee voted to recommend passage of House Bill 7, which would keep the statutory annual distribution to the Workforce Development and Apprenticeship Trust Fund at $5,000,000 for fiscal 2027 and subsequent years. Senator Michael Padilla presented the bill and credited Representative Garrett and other sponsors for work on the legislation.
Sarita Nair of the Workforce Solutions Department told the committee the fund started at $30,000,000, that the committee had taken…
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