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HB 571: Career Planning Opportunities for Students

GENERAL BILL by Kendall ; (CO-INTRODUCERS) Alvarez, J. ; Spencer ; Stark ; Tant

Career Planning Opportunities for Students; Provides requirements relating to work-based learning opportunities, career fairs, career planning courses, & apprenticeship & preapprenticeship programs; requires student's personalized academic & career plan to be reviewed annually for certain period of time & signed by certain persons; requires such plan to be revised as necessary; requires adoption of regulations & rules to enable certain students to earn postsecondary credit & career education clock hours for certain training & education acquired while apprentice or preapprentice; requires Articulation Coordinating Committee to convene workshop by date certain to develop certain process; requires Articulation Coordinating Committee to review apprenticeship & preapprenticeship programs &, annually, approve prioritized list of postsecondary course equivalencies & minimum postsecondary credit or career education clock hours to be awarded for certain programs; requires certain information to be included in statewide articulation agreement; requires state universities, FCS institutions, & career centers to award postsecondary credit or career education clock hours; provides that postsecondary credit or career education clock hours are guaranteed to transfer to other state universities, FCS institutions, & career centers.

Effective Date: 7/1/2025
Last Action: 3/19/2025 House - Now in Education & Employment Committee
Bill Text: PDF



Bill History

Date Chamber Action
2/12/2025 House • Filed
2/19/2025 House • Referred to Careers & Workforce Subcommittee
• Referred to Education Administration Subcommittee
• Referred to Education & Employment Committee
• Now in Careers & Workforce Subcommittee
3/4/2025 House • 1st Reading (Original Filed Version)
3/10/2025 House • Added to Careers & Workforce Subcommittee agenda
3/12/2025 House • Favorable by Careers & Workforce Subcommittee
• Reported out of Careers & Workforce Subcommittee
• Now in Education Administration Subcommittee
3/17/2025 House • Added to Education Administration Subcommittee agenda
3/19/2025 House • Favorable by Education Administration Subcommittee
• Reported out of Education Administration Subcommittee
• Now in Education & Employment Committee