S. 383 · 119th Congress

JOBS Act of 2025

Introduced on Feb 4, 2025 by Tim Kaine (D-VA). 41 cosponsors, 17 of them from another party. Latest action (Feb 4, 2025): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Stage
Introduced
Introduced
Feb 4, 2025
Cosponsors
41
17 from the other party
Policy area
Education
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Progress

The furthest stage the measure reached. Simple and concurrent resolutions do not go to the President.

  1. Introduced
  2. 2Reported by committee
  3. 3Passed one chamber
  4. 4Passed both chambers
  5. 5Sent to the President
  6. 6Became law

Official title

A bill to extend Federal Pell Grant eligibility of certain short-term programs.

Subjects

  • Data collection, sharing, protection
  • Employee hiring
  • Employment and training programs
  • Higher education
  • Licensing and registrations
  • Performance measurement
  • Student aid and college costs
  • Vocational and technical education

Summary

By the Congressional Research Service (Introduced in Senate, Feb 4, 2025). Public domain.

Jumpstart Our Businesses by Supporting Students Act of 2025 or the JOBS Act of 2025

This bill expands student eligibility for Pell Grants by establishing the Job Training Federal Pell Grant program.

Specifically, the bill requires the Department of Education to award a job training Pell Grant to a student who does not have a degree; attends an institution of higher education (IHE); is enrolled in a career and technical education program at an IHE that provides 150 to 600 clock hours of instructional time over a period of 8 to 15 weeks and provides training aligned with high-skill, high-wage, or in-demand industry sectors (i.e., job training programs); and meets all other eligibility requirements for a Pell Grant.

The bill also specifies that any period during which a student receives a job training Pell Grant counts toward that student's Pell Grant eligibility period.

Sponsor and cosponsors

Cosponsors by party as of the day they signed on. Original cosponsors signed on the day of introduction.

Tim KaineD-VASponsor

Democrats · 23

Independents · 1

Republicans · 17

Roll calls

Recorded votes on the measure. Most measures move by voice vote or unanimous consent, which record no individual positions.

No recorded roll call on this measure: it moved by voice vote or unanimous consent, or has not reached the floor.

History

Every action as published, oldest first. Roll calls link to how each member voted.

  1. Feb 4, 2025Introduced in Senate
  2. Feb 4, 2025 · SenateRead twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Committees

Committees and subcommittees the measure was referred to.

Agencies in its committees' jurisdiction

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Who lobbied on it

Organizations whose lobbying reports (LD-2) name this measure. Spending is what they reported for those quarters on all issues, not on this measure alone.

  1. INDEPENDENT ELECTRICAL CONTRACTORS INC8 reports
    $90K reported (all issues)
  2. ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE TRUSTEES7 reports
    $140K reported (all issues)
  3. EXHIBITIONS & CONFERENCES ALLIANCE7 reports
    $170K reported (all issues)
  4. ASSOCIATED GENERAL CONTRACTORS OF AMERICA6 reports
    $922.7K reported (all issues)
  5. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY COUNCIL6 reports
    $4.3M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC$271.1K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  6. TRINITY HEALTH6 reports
    $1.4M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: TRINITY HEALTH$226.3K in contracts, FY2026AI match · 95%
  7. AMERICAN SUPPLY ASSOCIATION5 reports
    $160K reported (all issues)
  8. WORKDAY, INC.5 reports
  9. Goodwill Industries International, Inc.4 reports
    $160K reported (all issues)
  10. RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY4 reports
    $380K reported (all issues)Federal contractor: RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY$15.3M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  11. Jobs and Careers Coalition (FKA-OA Jobs and Careers Coalition)3 reports
    $10K reported (all issues)
  12. ACTE2 reports
    $120K reported (all issues)
  13. AMERICAN TRUCKING ASSOCIATIONS INC.2 reports
    $1.5M reported (all issues)
  14. American Federation of Teachers2 reports
    $870K reported (all issues)
  15. Career Education Colleges & Universities (FKA Ass'n of Private Sector Colleges a2 reports
    $200K reported (all issues)
  16. Society for Human Resource Management2 reports
    Federal contractor: SOCIETY FOR HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENTAI match · 100%
  17. Water and Sewer Distributors of America2 reports
    $40K reported (all issues)
  18. AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COLLEGES1 report
    $50K reported (all issues)
  19. INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION (IBM)1 report
    $1M reported (all issues)Federal contractor: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION$586.1M in contracts, FY2026AI match · 100%
  20. NATIONAL UTILITY CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION1 report
  21. National Utility Contractors Association (NUCA)1 report
    $20K reported (all issues)
  22. The Business Roundtable, Inc.1 report
    $6.9M reported (all issues)

Reports filed in 2025, 2026.

Sources and method

Every figure on this page traces to these records.

  • Bill status: bills and resolutions, sponsors, actions, subjects and CRS summaries (U.S. Government Publishing Office (GovInfo), from Congress.gov (Library of Congress))GovInfo Bill Status bulk data (Congress.gov; summaries by the Congressional Research Service) · data current to Oct 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Members of Congress, their terms, committees and identifiers (The @unitedstates project (from the Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress, the House and the Senate))unitedstates/congress-legislators: legislators, committees and current committee membership · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)
  • House roll-call votes (Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives)Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives, roll-call vote records · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Senate roll-call votes and DW-NOMINATE scores (Voteview (UCLA Department of Political Science))Lewis, Jeffrey B., Keith Poole, Howard Rosenthal, Adam Boche, Aaron Rudkin, and Luke Sonnet (2026). Voteview: Congressional Roll-Call Votes Database. https://voteview.com/ · data current to Oct 3, 2026 · loaded Oct 3, 2026 · license: Free to use with the required citation
  • Lobbying disclosures (LD-1 registrations, LD-2 quarterly reports, LD-203 contribution reports) (Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives)Clerk of the House, Lobbying Disclosure Act filings (organizations only; lobbyists' names are not loaded) · data current to Oct 6, 2026 · loaded Oct 6, 2026 · license: Public domain (U.S. Government work, 17 U.S.C. § 105)
  • Positions are shown only where a roll call recorded them; voice votes and unanimous consent record none.
  • Money and votes are shown side by side; neither explains the other.