2025 Regular Session HB 2877

• Bill Title: Relating to workforce assistance to veterans in the construction industry; declaring an emergency.

Catchline/Summary

Digest: This Act tells ODVA to start a pilot program to give help to veterans in the construction industry. (Flesch Readability Score: 61.6).

Directs the Department of Veterans' Affairs to develop and implement one or more pilot programs statewide to provide training, job placement services, financial assistance, technical support and business creation assistance to veterans in the construction and construction materials industries.

Permits the department to use moneys in the Veterans' Services Fund to develop, implement and maintain the pilot programs.

Requires a report to the Legislative Assembly regarding the status of the pilot programs by September 15, 2026.

Sunsets pilot programs on December 31, 2027.

Declares an emergency, effective July 1, 2025.

• Fiscal Impact: May Have Fiscal Impact, But No Statement Yet Issued
• Revenue Impact: May Have Revenue Impact, But No Statement Yet Issued
• Current Location: In House Committee
• Current Committee: House Committee On Higher Education and Workforce Development

Subsequent Referral(s)

• House Committee On Emergency Management, General Government, and Veterans
• Joint Committee On Ways and Means