[Massachusetts-NFB] Urgent Legislative Action Item!

[Kyra Sweeney]

Hi everyone - see below for an update on the TCIEA from the national
legislative team. Let's continue our advocacy efforts on this! If you need
any help or instructions, please contact me. Thanks.

Dear Federation Family,



We wanted to provide you with an update on our advocacy efforts around the
Transformation to Competitive Integrated Employment Act (TCIEA) getting
into the Workforce Innovation Opportunity Act (WIOA). Congress’ original
plan as mentioned in one of our legislative alerts was to get it pushed
through very quickly after the Thanksgiving recess without the TCIEA
included. On the Senate side specifically, they hoped to do it through
unanimous consent, but due to our advocacy, Senator Casey (Pennsylvania)
has put a hold on the legislation until the TCIEA is placed back in the
Workforce package and we have reliable sources he is continued to remain
committed to this demand.



So there is still a chance we could make this happen, but the end of the 118
th Congress is rapidly approaching. It’s reported their last scheduled day
is Friday December 20 making it not impossible, but if we continue our
work, we might have a shot.



We greatly appreciate your great advocacy on this effort and if there’s any
continued updates, we’ll let you know as soon as possible.



Justin
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