S. 3461 · 110th Congress

Skills Standards Certification Evaluation Act of 2008

Stage
In committee
Introduced
2008-09-10
Latest action
2008-09-10 · Introduced in Senate

Summary

Skills Standards Certification Evaluation Act of 2008 - Directs the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Commerce to: (1) evaluate skills certification programs for employees; (2) rank such programs or determine best practices models for them; and (3) make recommendations on the merits of a unified national approach to such programs, and ways to streamline duplicative and similar programs into a single, widely recognized certification.

Requires the Secretaries to post evaluation results on the Internet and make them available to Congress and to interested parties.