MONTGOMERY — Members of the Alabama House advanced five of the seven-bill package of workforce development bills this week that its supporters say will help break down barriers to employment, albeit with several modifications through amendments and substitutions.

“The goal of this package of bills is really to provide incentives to help people get back into the workforce,” said Rep. Cynthia Almond, R-Tuscaloosa, who was carrying the Alabama Workforce Housing Credit Act, the first of the five workforce bills to hit the floor.

The Alabama Workforce Housing Credit Act, which would provide up to a total of $5 million in tax credits a year to eligible housing projects, passed unanimously with one minor, inconsequential change that saw no opposition on the House floor.