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The bill speeds and standardizes health-care apprenticeship registration and recordkeeping—helping trainees and employers expand the workforce—while imposing new administrative, digital-adoption, privacy, and federal-centralization risks that could burden small employers and some applicants.
Prospective health-care apprentices will get faster registration decisions (45-day decision or written delay), speeding credentialing and hiring for students and health workers.
Health employers and training sponsors get clearer, predictable timelines for apprenticeship registration, reducing administrative uncertainty when launching programs.
Expanding and formalizing a national apprenticeship system for health care can increase workforce pipeline capacity for practitioners and support staff.
Employers—especially smaller providers—face new administrative and digital compliance costs to meet registration processes and electronic form requirements.
Digitizing sensitive disability disclosures and agreement data raises privacy and data-security risks for apprentices if protections are inadequate.
Reliance on digital-only forms could disadvantage applicants with limited internet access or digital literacy, harming rural and low-income applicants.
Based on analysis of 3 sections of legislative text.
Directs the Labor Secretary to establish a national apprenticeship system, require 45‑day decisions (with follow-up timelines) for health care apprenticeship registrations, and provide digitized apprenticeship forms.
Introduced December 4, 2025 by Julie Johnson · Last progress December 4, 2025
Requires the Department of Labor to create a national apprenticeship system for health care occupations, set firm timelines for deciding registration applications (a decision within 45 days or a written explanation and an estimated decision within 90 more days), and provide apprenticeship agreement and related forms in digitized form. Defines "health care field" using the Bureau of Labor Statistics occupational categories and adds these requirements into the National Apprenticeship Act.