I have introduced legislation, the Apprenticeship and Jobs Training Act, that would help achieve this goal by giving tax credits to businesses that hire apprentices.
Support legislation that gives tax credits to businesses that hire apprentices.
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Evidence
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Sen. Susan Collins and Sen. Maria Cantwell introduced the Apprenticeship and Jobs Training Act of 2014, which would create a $5,000 tax incentive for employers that use apprenticeship programs and a tax credit for companies that hire and pay employees enrolled in registered apprentice programs.
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Collins wrote that she was a coauthor of the Apprenticeship and Jobs Training Act of 2015, which would give employers a $5,000 tax credit based on wages paid by companies who hire individuals enrolled in a federal or state registered apprentice program.
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GovInfo records that Ms. Cantwell, for herself, Ms. Collins, and Ms. Klobuchar, introduced S. 1352, titled 'To establish a tax credit for on-site apprenticeship programs,' and the bill was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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GovInfo lists S. 2020 as introduced September 9, 2015 by Cantwell for herself and Susan Collins; full title: tax credit for on-site apprenticeship programs.
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Collins' Senate release says the bipartisan legislation would create a $5,000 tax credit for companies hiring registered apprentices.
Assessments
The promise was to support legislation giving tax credits to businesses that hire apprentices, not necessarily to secure enactment. During Collins' 2015-2021 Senate term following the 2014 campaign, she was an original cosponsor/coauthor of S. 2020, the Apprenticeship and Jobs Training Act of 2015, which would establish an apprenticeship tax credit for employers. That directly matches the promised action and occurred in the same federal term.
The promise was to support legislation creating tax credits for businesses that hire apprentices, not necessarily to secure enactment. During the 2015-2021 Senate term tied to the 2014 campaign, Collins coauthored and publicly backed the Apprenticeship and Jobs Training Act of 2015, which directly matched the promised policy by proposing an employer tax credit for hiring registered apprentices. Later reintroduction in 2017 reinforces continued support, but same-term sponsorship is enough to count the support promise as fulfilled even though the bill did not become law.
The promise was to support legislation creating tax credits for businesses that hire apprentices, not necessarily to secure enactment. During the 2015-2021 Senate term tied to the 2014 campaign, Collins publicly coauthored and supported the Apprenticeship and Jobs Training Act of 2015, which would have provided employer tax credits for hiring registered apprentices. She also continued advancing similar legislation later in the term. Because the promised action was support for legislation and she materially did that in the same federal term, this counts as delivered even though the bill did not become law.