Bill gives firms tax breaks for worker training programs.
H.R. 9438 — SKILL Act · Filed by Sam Liccardo (D-CA) · 1 cosponsor · Introduced Jun 24, 2026 · Referred to committee
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What it does
The bill lets firms claim a tax cut of up to $2,500 per worker. Workers must finish a training program at a public college or school. The tax cut is worth $500 million per year through 2031. States get the money based on how many people live there. States pick which training programs can use the tax cut.
Who it affects
Workers who want job training at public colleges may have more programs. Firms that help pay for these programs can pay less in taxes. States will run the program and pick which training programs get the tax cut.
One thing to notice
The bill gives money to firms but does not require them to pay workers more or promise jobs. It does not say how states will check if firms really did what they claim.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
1 cosponsor: 1 Democrats.
- Jun 24, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jun 24, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
2 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 2 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $1,230,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 70 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 41% of bills with any report.
Sam Liccardo, who sponsored the bill, received $704,767 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- AFL-CIO — $760,000 in 1 report
- Semi — $470,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- public colleges — Schools that teach job skills and other classes, usually for free or low cost.
- training programs — Classes that teach people skills they need for jobs.
- lobbying — Trying to influence lawmakers about a bill. Companies and groups pay people to do this.
- PACs — Groups that collect money and give it to candidates for office.
- sponsored — To sponsor a bill is to introduce it in Congress and put your name on it.
How this was measured
Analysis — Quorum's AI read the bill text published by Congress.gov (4,397 characters) on Aug 12, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,707 analysed bills.
Status and sponsors — Congress.gov's bill record — actions, committee referrals and cosponsors — loaded nightly. The timeline shows status changes, not every procedural action.
Money — Senate Lobbying Disclosure Act filings whose specific-issue field names this bill for quarters ending Jun 2026 to Jun 2026. A filing's amount is reported whole beside the median number of bills a filing names; it is never divided across them. PAC receipts are FEC-reported contributions to the sponsor's candidate committee in the 2026 cycle.
As of — lobbying records through Jul 20, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-23.
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