Workforce Development: Moving Adult Education to the Labor Department
The House committee voted to approve this bill on July 15, 2026. It is now waiting for the committee to finish its final report before it can move forward. This bill is actively moving through the legislative process.
Moving an entire office between departments is a major structural change that usually faces significant opposition from the agency losing the office and its supporters in Congress.
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Staff currently working in the Department of Education's Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education would be moved to the Department of Labor, with OMB required to ensure no net increase in federal jobs. This kind of agency reshuffling typically creates job uncertainty, new reporting lines, and possible role changes for the affected employees during the transition.
“The Director of the Office of Management and Budget shall ensure that this Act does not result in a net increase in full-time equivalent employees at the Federal agencies impacted by this Act”
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by the Yeas and Nays: 19 - 16.
The committee approved this bill and is sending it to the full chamber for a vote. This is a significant step — most bills never get this far.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held
Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce.
Introduced in House
The bill was officially filed and given a number. It now enters the legislative queue.
Rep. Mark Harris and Chairman Tim Walberg introduced a 10-bill package, including the Less Bureaucracy, Better Workforce Development Act (H.R. 9607), to codify the Trump administration's plan to move core education functions, including vocational and adult education, to the Department of Labor.
The Education Department is transferring oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies as part of a broader effort to dismantle the department. This reorganization, framed as reducing bureaucracy, precedes legislative efforts to move vocational and adult education to Labor.
Through new interagency agreements, the Education Department is relocating more than 100 programs to agencies like Labor and HHS. This move, guided by the Project 2025 agenda, aims to 'right-size' the federal role in education by shifting workforce and vocational programs to the Labor Department.
No votes or related bills recorded for this bill yet.
Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Less Bureaucracy, Better Workforce Development Act
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