BRIDGE for Workers Act
Also known as Building on Reemployment Improvements to Deliver Good Employment for Workers Act
Where it stands
- Introduced10/2/23
- Passed HousePassed 9/17/24
- SenatePassed 11/13/24
- PresidentSigned 11/25/24
- LawPublic Law 118-120
Passed the House by voice vote on September 17, 2024. Passed the Senate by unanimous consent on November 13, 2024. Became Public Law 118-120 on November 25, 2024.
Passed by voice vote or unanimous consent — no individual positions were recorded.
Building on Reemployment Improvements to Deliver Good Employment for Workers Act or the BRIDGE for Workers Act
This act permanently expands the allowable purposes for certain Department of Labor grants to states for reemployment services and eligibility assessments. Specifically, the act permanently allows these grants to be used to fund reemployment services and eligibility assessments for all claimants for unemployment compensation.
(Under the current statute, the grants may only be used to provide such services to a subset of claimants who have been identified by the state as likely to exhaust unemployment benefits and need job search assistance to become employed. However, in recent years, annual appropriations acts have allowed the grants to be used for all claimants for unemployment compensation. This act makes this authority permanent.)
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10/2/23
What happens next
Became Public Law 118-120.
All actions (20)
- 10/2/23Introduced in House
- 10/2/23Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
- 11/2/23Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
- 11/2/23Ordered to be Reported in the Nature of a Substitute (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 41 - 0.
- 11/21/23Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 118-277.
- 11/21/23Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 222.
- 9/17/24Mr. Smith (MO) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
- 9/17/24Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5253-5254)
- 9/17/24DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5861.
- 9/17/24Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5253)
- 9/17/24On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5253)
- 9/17/24Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
- 9/18/24Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
- 11/13/24Senate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent.
- 11/13/24Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
- 11/13/24Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6567)
- 11/14/24Message on Senate action sent to the House.
- 11/20/24Presented to President.
- 11/25/24Signed by President.
- 11/25/24Became Public Law No: 118-120.