Labor and Workforce Development, Dept. of - As introduced, requires the governor to approve all eligible workforce training programs for the purposes of federal workforce Pell grants and coordinate approval of eligible workforce training programs with other state and federal workforce programs to avoid duplicative payments for the same student costs that are covered by federal workforce Pell grants. - Amends TCA Title 4, Chapter 3, Part 14.

Summary

The bill directs the governor, in consultation with the state workforce development board, to approve every training program eligible for federal Workforce Pell Grants and to align those approvals with other state and federal programs. It also requires the board to create an internal process to confirm programs meet federal criteria and bars any agency from issuing rules to implement the section. The goal is to stop paying the same student costs more than once.

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