S. 175 · 111th Congress

Skills Standards Certification Evaluation Act of 2009

Stage
In committee
Introduced
2009-01-08
Latest action
2009-01-08 · Introduced in Senate

Summary

Skills Standards Certification Evaluation Act of 2009 - Directs the Secretary of Labor, the Secretary of Commerce, and the Secretary of Education 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.