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The bill modernizes and speeds registration and recordkeeping for healthcare apprenticeships—expanding training capacity and reducing paperwork—while creating administrative deadlines, digital-transition costs, and data-security risks that could strain agencies and smaller sponsors.
Healthcare apprentices, prospective trainees, and employers get faster, more predictable processing and recordkeeping: registration decisions must be issued quickly (45 days with a limited 90-day delay explanation) and apprenticeship agreements/records can be managed online, reducing wait times and paperwork.
Expedites creation and scaling of registered healthcare apprenticeship programs, expanding training pipelines for nurses, technicians, and support staff.
Clarifies which occupations qualify (BLS SOC healthcare practitioners/technical and support), reducing regulatory uncertainty for program sponsors and state/local governments.
State agencies and the Department of Labor may face administrative strain to meet strict 45-day decision deadlines, potentially causing rushed reviews or diverting resources from other work.
If the Department lacks capacity, applicants may receive repeated delay explanations up to the 90-day extension, prolonging uncertainty about program start dates for apprentices and trainees.
Digitization creates privacy and data-security risks for apprentices and applicants if systems are not properly secured.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Introduced December 4, 2025 by Julie Johnson · Last progress December 4, 2025
Requires the Department of Labor to decide applications to register apprenticeship programs in the health care field within 45 days and, if delayed, provide a written explanation and a final timeline that cannot extend beyond 90 days after that explanation. Also requires the national apprenticeship system administered by the Department to digitize every apprenticeship agreement form used in that system, including employer agreement forms and disability disclosure forms.