Summary of Amendments Submitted to the Rules Committee on
H.R. 1261 - Workforce Reinvestment and Adult Education Act of 2003
RULE TO PROVIDE FOR CONSIDERATION OF H.R.1261, AND AMENDMENTS MADE IN ORDER
May 7, 2003 (6:25 p.m.)
Acevedo-Vila #19
Permits the Secretary of Labor to use alternative sources for determining high school dropout and jobless out-of-school youth numbers if a Current Population Survey is not available, as in the case in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. (WITHDRAWN)
Allen #2
Allows the inclusion of an adult education representative on local Workforce Investment Boards.(REVISED)
Cox #28
Allows states to use their job training and placement funds to encourage telecommuting options for dislocated workers. (LATE)
Davis (IL) #7
Requires states to have members of the ex-offender re-entry community and drug treatment provider community on the State Workforce Investment Board.
Davis(IL)/Baker #8
Strikes section 402 and 403 of the bill to maintain current law, which requires Senate confirmation of the Commissioner of Rehabilitation Services Administration. Section 402 and 403 changes the current structure of the position from a presidential appointee to an appointment by the Secretary of Labor.
DeLauro #4
Allows Governors to utilize technical assistance money to educate front line staff about opportunities and requirements for preparing women and all job seekers to enter high-skill, high-wage, non-traditional occupations.
Faleomavaega #1
Amends Section 169(b)(2), enlarging the class of Eligible Entities for Competitive Youth Challenge Grants to include the “outlying territories.”
Hastings (FL) #24
Increases the amounts that are required according to the formulas established
under section 132(b)(2)(B) form 80 to 85 percent and reduces the discretionary
amounts from 20 to 15 percent. (REVISED)
Holt # 5
Would authorize an additional $650 million for fiscal year 2004, and such sums as may be necessary for each of fiscal years 2005 through 2009.
Jackson-Lee #16
Allows the use of certain pilot project grant and contract funds for particular innovations (i.e. incorporating advanced technologies) in access and delivery of training and employment services.
Jackson-Lee #17
Strikes the provision that provides a formula for the allotment of funds.
Kaptur # 11
Requires states to report specific training in which participants are enrolled, as well as outcomes of the programs and activities for participants. Also requires states to report expended, obligated, and remaining balances in quarterly financial reports.(REVISED)
Kaptur #12
Requires the Department of Labor to establish a coordinated system that provides technical assistance to localities when such assistance would not be duplicative to assistance provided by a state. Requires states to report specific training in which participants are enrolled, as well as outcomes of the programs and activities for participants. Also requires states to report expended, obligated and remaining balances in quarterly financial reports.(REVISED)
Kaptur #13
Requires the Department of Labor to establish a coordinated system that provides technical assistance to localities when such assistance would not be duplicative to assistance provided by a state.
Kildee # 21
Codifies H.R. 1652, which would extend unemployment benefits for an additional 26 weeks for newly unemployed workers and 13 weeks for those workers who have previously exhausted their unemployment benefits.
Kildee/Wu #22
Authorizes funding to provide for extended unemployment benefits through WIA .
Authorizes 26 weeks of extended benefits for newly unemployed workers and 13
weeks for those workers who have previously exhausted their unemployment benefits.(REVISED)
Kline #14
Clarifies the methodology for determining the contributions that one-stop partner programs will make to the costs of infrastructure of the one-stop career center system. Requires that, when making the determination regarding the funds to be contributed, the Governor, in consultation with the State board, consider: the proportionate use of the one-stop centers by each partner; the costs of administration unrelated to the use of the one-stop centers by each partner; and other relevant factors. Requires that the funds provided by the one-stop partner programs for the infrastructure costs are to be provided from funds available for administrative costs under each program and that those funds shall be subject to whatever administrative cost limits are applicable to each program.(REVISED)
Lewis (GA) #26
Extends the eligibility criteria age for those to be served by the programs that are
intended to target services to out of school youth to 24 years old. (LATE)
Lewis (GA) #27
Authorizes $50 million to Youth Build USA for the purpose of establishing model
programs for out of school youth and at risk youth including those leaving the
foster and criminal justice system. (LATE)
McKeon/Boehner #15
Manager’s Amendment. Clarifies that if a state has more than one state unit for
vocational rehabilitation, the representative of the designated state unit that serves
the most individuals with disabilities would serve on the state workforce
investment board. Makes Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) a mandatory partner in the one-stop career center system, unless the Governor of the state notifies the Secretaries of Labor and Health and Human Services that the Governor does not want the TANF program to be mandatory partner. Reinstates the requirement that youth providers be selected by competitive process, unless the local board determines that there are insufficient numbers of eligible providers of youth services in the local area involved. Revises the factors for the youth formula for allocation of funds to states to better reflect available data on youth. Also clarifies that the new formula applies only to funds appropriated in excess of the level of funds appropriated in 2003. Revises the formula for allocation of funds to states under the consolidated adult funding stream. The amendment includes a hold-harmless provision for states so that in each year each state will receive at least what that state would have received under the current formulas for the three adult employment and training programs. Revises the new formula to create a two-part formula reflective of the population to be served. Clarifies that reemployment services provided to unemployment claimants are core services. Increases the authorized level for the youth grants to $1.25 billion. Clarifies that state-recognized tribes may continue to participate in the WIA program for Native Americans. Clarifies that housing assistance provided under the program for migrant and seasonal farmworker program may be permanent housing. Under Title II, the amendment clarifies that eligible agencies must demonstrate how they meet the goals established under this Section. Under Title II, the amendment ensures that eligible providers use grant funds under this section only after using funds available for similar services are used first. Concerning the Establishment of the National Institute for Literacy, the amendment provides that the Institute is under the direction of an Interagency Group, composed of the Department of Education, the Department of Labor, and the Department of Health and Human Services. This is current law. Under Title II, Internet Site - The amendment ensures that the Institute website provides information consistent with the purposes established in this Section. Under Title II, Transition. - The amendment provides for an orderly transition in the implementation of this title. The amendment makes additional clarifying, technical, and conforming amendments to Titles I and II. (REVISED)
Millender-McDonald #3
Clarifies the definition of eligible populations for job training services to include single parents, displaced homemakers and pregnant single women.
Payne #10
Strikes the provision in the bill that eliminates the Employment Service authorized under the Wagner-Peyser Act and the dislocated worker job training program authorized under WIA. (REVISED)
Ryan (OH) #23
Allow for the hiring of 100,000 first responders (fire, police, and security
personnel) to create jobs and ensure that communities have the emergency
personnel they needed.
Solis #20
Requires the Secretary of Labor to study programs that integrate occupational training and language acquisition to the list of defined research projects. Standardizes the one-stop career center assessments for special participant populations that face multiple barriers to employment. Creates partnership with organizations that have expertise in developing and implementing assessment mechanisms to evaluate skill levels of special participant populations. Includes special participant populations in the list of considerations in evaluating the effectiveness of programs. Ensures that states will outline in the State Plan how they intend to serve individuals with multiple barriers to employment, including individuals with limited English proficiency. Ensures WIA funding accessibility to community-based organizations currently providing adult literacy services. (WITHDRAWN)
Tierney/Evans #6
Strikes the authorization for states to take program dollars from veterans training
programs, vocational rehabilitation programs, adult education programs and other
mandatory partners to fund infrastructure and administrative costs for the Workforce Investment system. Would authorize a specific line item for infrastructure funding for the One-Stop Centers.
Van Hollen #25
Restores current law which prohibits the use of federal funds to discriminate in
hiring based on religion.(REVISED)
Vitter #18
Inserts language from Section 118 (relating to the Local plans of the WIA boards) into two parts of the bill: the Certification of One-Stop Centers (section 121) and Criteria for One-Stop Centers to be eligible for Infrastructure funds (section 122).
Watson #9
Specifies that local WIA boards may use funds allocated to a local area under Section 133(b) to carry out the training programs for displaced homemakers and nontraditional training for women.
* Summaries derived from information submitted by the amendment sponsors.
