Transportation Opportunities for Professional Service Act

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Never voted on. It didn't reach a floor vote before the 117th Congress ended, so it expired. A bill has to be introduced again to be considered in a new Congress.

D Cortez MastoSponsor

No cosponsors.

Transportation Opportunities for Professional Service Act or the TOPS Act

What it does: CRS summary · Introduced in Senate · Feb 22, 2021

Transportation Opportunities for Professional Service Act or the TOPS Act

This bill establishes federal training and educational programs to develop the transportation workforce.

It directs the Department of Transportation to

create a task force on developing a 21st century surface transportation workforce;
provide grants to partnerships including states, institutions of higher education, and others, to support transportation-sector education and workforce development projects;
conduct a national and international scanning tour of surface transportation agencies to identify critical future investment in workforce development;
designate certain geographically diverse consortia of two-year institutions of higher education as Community and Technical College Centers of Excellence in Transportation Workforce Training;
establish and administer a transportation workforce outreach program to carry out a series of public service announcement campaigns, including to increase diversity and the awareness of career opportunities in the transportation sector; and
address emerging technologies in the transportation workforce, including cybersecurity related to such technologies.

Additionally, the Government Accountability Office must study issues relating to workforce development in intelligent and zero-emissions transportation technologies.

Written by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. All summary versions on Congress.gov

About this bill and sources

Official title: Transportation Opportunities for Professional Service Act

Latest action (Feb 22, 2021): Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.

Policy area: Transportation and Public Works · Origin: Senate · Introduced: Feb 22, 2021

Official page on Congress.gov · Bill text (GovInfo) · Status record (XML)

No recorded floor vote found.