Job training programs move from Education to Labor.
H.R. 9607 — Less Bureaucracy, Better Workforce Development Act · Filed by Tim Walberg (R-MI) · Introduced Jul 9, 2026 · Reported out
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What it does
This bill moves job training and adult reading programs to the Labor office. The Labor Secretary will run the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act. The Labor Secretary will also run Title II of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. The budgets and staff move too. The goal is to cut red tape.
Who it affects
Workers seeking job training and adults learning to read may be affected. Schools that run these programs may face disruption during the move. State and local groups that work with these programs must adjust.
One thing to notice
The bill does not require the government to keep funding the same. It does not protect program quality during the move.
From the analysis of the bill text, linked under Primary records below.
Where it stands
- Jul 9, 2026 — Introduced · Congress.gov: “Introduced in House”
- Jul 9, 2026 — Referred to House Committee on Education and Workforce · Congress.gov: “Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce”
- Jul 15, 2026 — Markup held in committee · Congress.gov: “Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held”
- Jul 15, 2026 — Reported out of committee · Congress.gov: “Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 19 - 16”
Dates and quoted wording are Congress.gov's action record; the timeline shows status changes, not every procedural step.
Money around this bill
1 groups reported lobbying about this bill. They filed 1 reports from Jun 2026 to Jun 2026.
Those reports show $40,000 in lobbying spending. Each report lists about 9 bills. So that money was not all for this bill.
More groups named this bill than 0% of bills with any report.
Tim Walberg, who sponsored the bill, received $810,948 from PACs for the 2026 election.
- Illinois Association of School Boards — $40,000 in 1 report
Lobbying is legal. These reports show who lobbied about this bill, not what changed.
Words to know
- Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act — A federal law that pays for job training in schools.
- Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act — A federal law that pays for job training and work help for adults.
- 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 (10,032 characters) on Jul 10, 2026. Section numbers in the findings refer to that text, linked below; transparency and hidden-provision scores are compared against the median of 14,522 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 16, 2026 · page rendered 2026-09-22.
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