HB 5704 Connecticut House · 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT CREATING A CONSTRUCTION PIPELINE PROGRAM.

HB 5704 establishes a working group to study how to create a construction workforce pipeline program, focusing on training students and workers for skilled trades jobs. The group will examine expanding high school pre-apprenticeship programs, increasing career awareness, removing barriers to apprenticeships, and exploring financial incentives for employers. It will include representatives from trade associations, schools, business groups, and education officials, with the first report due by December 2025. The bill does not create the program itself but directs a study to inform future policy, with no fiscal impact on state or local budgets.

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 21, 2025 Last action Apr 7, 2025

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What changed between versions

Proposed Bill → Committee Bill · 6 edits

MODERATE

The bill was amended from a proposed version to a committee version, adding a new working group to study and recommend a construction workforce pipeline program. The committee version expands the scope by including detailed study topics, appointing specific members, and establishing a timeline for the working group's operation and termination.

Scope change

The bill's scope expanded from a general statement of purpose to establish a Construction Pipeline Program to creating a formal working group with specific membership requirements, study topics, and operational guidelines to develop the program.

REQUIREMENT

Added a new working group to study and make recommendations for a construction workforce pipeline program, replacing the original general statement of purpose.

Added specific study topics including expanding preapprenticeship programs, increasing career awareness, removing barriers to apprenticeships, financial incentives for employers, curriculum gaps, and pathways to higher education.

Added detailed membership requirements for the working group, including representatives from trade associations, business associations, public schools, and education officials.

Added provisions for selecting chairpersons from working group members and designating administrative staff from the joint standing committee on labor and public employees.

TIMELINE

Added specific timelines for appointments (within 30 days), first meeting (within 60 days), quarterly meetings, annual reports (by December 31, 2025), and working group termination (December 31, 2030).

TECHNICAL

Changed bill number from LCO No. 1878 to LCO No. 6679 and updated the page count from 1 of 1 to 4 of 4.

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Committee

Mar 20, 2025

Lower · Passed

Joint Favorable

lower

Mar 19, 2025

Committee

REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Labor and Public Employees

lower

Mar 18, 2025

Lower · Passed

DRAFTED BY COMMITTEE

lower

Jan 21, 2025

Committee

REF. TO JOINT COMM. ON Labor and Public Employees

lower

14 primary · 0 co-sponsors