House Lawmakers Introduce CHIPPING IN Act – By Frank Konkel (Nextgov) / June 29, 2022
The bipartisan bill aims to provide a boost to the nation’s semiconductor workforce.
House lawmakers Wednesday introduced the latest bipartisan legislation focused on addressing the nation’s semiconductor shortage.
Introduced by Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., the Creating Helpful Initiatives to Produce Personnel in Needed Growth Industries, or CHIPPING In Act of 2022 takes a three-pronged approach to the shortage. First, the legislation creates National Science Foundation awards for universities, nonprofit organizations and consortia to foster “research, development and related activities, to advance innovative approaches to developing, improving and expanding evidence-based microelectronics education and workforce development activities and learning experiences at all levels of education, and for other purposes.”
“We invented and innovated the semiconductor chip in the United States but are currently only manufacturing 12% of the global supply,” Stevens said in a statement. “We’re experiencing the semiconductor chip shortage first-hand in Oakland County, where we have parking lots full of cars that cannot be sold due to missing chips. Solving the semiconductor chips shortage and investing in the semiconductor workforce is essential to our country’s success as we re-shore American manufacturing and lead the world in innovation.”
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