# H.R. 1642 (119th): Connecting Small Businesses with Career and Technical Education Graduates Act of 2025

Connecting Small Businesses with Career and Technical Education Graduates Act of 2025 This bill requires Small Business Development Centers and Women's Business Centers to provide educational information to small businesses about hiring graduates of career and technical education programs. This includes, as appropriate, connecting small businesses with career and technical education programs to assist students and graduates of such programs with identifying career opportunities.

## How this bill is scored

Tier: no Tier 1 record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Lane: career_technical_education. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: family_policy. Category: children. Lane tag: command.
Lane: small_business. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Lane: workforce_development. Category: not stored. Lane tag: not stored.
Tier 1 sign-off: no record. A bill with no record cannot newly become Tier 1.
Stored polarity: mixed. Only tags the rules mark scoreable on a mixed bill are scored. A yea can draw a penalty or a credit according to the tag. A nay on a tag scored as good can draw a penalty.
Roll 146: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Vote type: final_passage.
Polarity rationale: Reviewed enrichment (llm_import) polarity: The bill is a modest, prudential workforce measure that aims at a real good (connecting workers with skills training and employers) without restraining or advancing a named moral harm. Under the framework it is best classed as mixed/prudential rather than good or evil, since the question is one of administrative method and policy judgment.
Theological note: The bill concerns vocational formation, honest work, and the connection between employers and workers. Scripture commends diligent labor and the equipping of people for useful work, so the subject bears on stewardship and neighbor-love. It raises no direct moral question about life, sexuality, speech, or coercive state power.

## Recorded votes

Roll 146: On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass. Yea 396 · Nay 5 · Other 30.

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