1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Building U.S. Infrastructure by Leveraging Demands for Skills or the BUILDS Act . 2. Purpose The purpose of this Act is to promote industry or sector partnerships that engage in collaborative planning, resource alignment, and training efforts across multiple businesses, for a range of workers employed or potentially employed by infrastructure industries, in order to encourage industry growth and competitiveness and to improve worker training, retention, and advancement. 3. Definitions In this Act: (1) Apprenticeship program The term apprenticeship program means a program of apprenticeship under the Act of August 16, 1937 (commonly known as the National Apprenticeship Act ; 50 Stat. 664, chapter 663; 29 U.S.C. 50 et seq. ). (2) Career and technical education; career guidance and academic counseling The terms career and technical education and career guidance and academic counseling have the meanings given such terms in section 3 of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act of 2006 ( 20 U.S.C. 2302 ). (3) Career pathway; economic development agency The terms career pathway and economic development agency have the meanings given such terms in section 3 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act ( 29 U.S.C. 3102 ). (4) Eligible partnership The term eligible partnership means a partnership that is an industry or sector partnership, or, with respect to an implementation grant, a partnership that is in the process of establishing an industry or sector partnership. (5) Implementation grant The term implementation grant , with respect to a grant under this Act, means a grant described in section 4(b)(1)(A). (6) Individual with a barrier to employment; industry or sector partnership; local board