United States · Bill · S
S. 356 (117th)
Transportation Opportunities for Professional Service Act
Introduced
22 February 2021
Last action
22 February 2021 · Introduced
Status
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Sponsors
Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV]
Subjects
Transport, Education
Source updated
7 April 2025
Summary
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.
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Timeline
22 February 2021
Introduced
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
Source: IntroReferral
22 February 2021
Introduced
Introduced in Senate
Source: IntroReferral
Votes
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Versions
- Introduced in Senate · 22 February 2021 · Download file
Documents
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Sponsors
- Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV] · D · Sponsor
- · sscm00 · Standing
Related records
- related to ← Transportation Workforce Centers of Excellence Act
- related to ← 21st Century Transportation Workforce Development Act
- related to ← Promoting Service in Transportation Act
Sources
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- Official source: https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/356
- Open data entity: https://api.congress.gov/v3/bill/117/s/356
- us · 117-s-356 · source updated 7 April 2025