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JOBS Act Job Opportunities Between our Shores Act [HB-2867]
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JOBS Act Job Opportunities Between our Shores Act This bill amends the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to direct the Department of Labor to make grants to or enter into contracts with eligible entities to carry out demonstration and pilot projects that provide education and training programs for jobs in advanced manufacturing. The bill prescribes requirements for project activities and performance goals and measures.
Sponsored by: Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton
Introduced In House on 06/08/2017
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Accelerating Individuals into the Workforce Act [HB-2842]
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Accelerating Individuals into the Workforce Act This bill amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act to require the Administration for Children & Families (ACF) to make grants to states for demonstration projects that provide wage subsidies to enable low-income individuals to enter and retain employment. States may use grant funds to subsidize an individual's wages for up to 12 months. The subsidy may be up to 50% of an individual's wages. Individuals are eligible for subsidized wages if
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny K. Davis
Received In The Senate And Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 06/26/2017
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Better Education and Skills Training for America's Workforce Act [HB-2865]
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Better Education and Skills Training for America's Workforce Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax credits for: (1) qualified training expenses paid with respect to U.S.-based positions for job trainees who have been unemployed for at least 90 days before enrolling in a training program and have not been employed by the taxpayer during the two-year period before the trainee was hired, and (2) investment in a qualified job training partnership between a private business and an institution of higher education or a labor organization.
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Sponsored by: Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton
Introduced In House on 06/08/2017
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Welfare Reform and Upward Mobility Act [HB-2832]
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Welfare Reform and Upward Mobility Act This bill requires the President to include in the annual budget proposal the total level of means-tested welfare spending by the federal, state, and local governments for the most recent fiscal year for which such data is available, and estimated levels for the current and 10 ensuing fiscal years. For each of FY2018-FY2028 each state that receives means-tested welfare spending by the federal government shall report annually to the Congressional Budget Office on the total amount of such spending by the state
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Sponsored by: Rep. Alexander Mooney
Referred To The Subcommittee On Nutrition. on 06/26/2017
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Welfare Reform and Upward Mobility Act [S.1290]
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Welfare Reform and Upward Mobility Act This bill requires the President to include in the annual budget proposal the total level of means-tested welfare spending by the federal, state, and local governments for the most recent fiscal year for which such data is available, and estimated levels for the current and 10 ensuing fiscal years. For each of FY2019-FY2029 each state that receives means-tested welfare spending by the federal government shall report annually to the Congressional Budget Office on the total amount of such spending by the state
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Lee
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 06/05/2017
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Restoring Accountability in the Indian Health Service Act of 2017 [HB-2662]
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Restoring Accountability in the Indian Health Service Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. Doug LaMalfa
Subcommittee Hearings Held. on 06/21/2017
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SNAP Work Opportunities Act of 2017 [HB-2684]
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[Poverty ]
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SNAP Work Opportunities Act of 2017 This bill amends the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to exempt Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the food stamp program) beneficiaries from work requirements if they are not offered a position in a state job training or workfare program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Barbara Lee
Referred To The Subcommittee On Nutrition. on 06/26/2017
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Restoring Accountability in the Indian Health Service Act of 2017 [S.1250]
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Restoring Accountability in the Indian Health Service Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve Daines
Committee On Indian Affairs. Ordered To Be Reported With An Amendment In The Nature Of A Substitute Favorably. on 04/11/2018
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Advancing Career Pathways Innovation Act [S.1245]
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Advancing Career Pathways Innovation Act This bill requires the Department of Education (ED) to establish a career pathways innovation grant program to award competitive three-year grants to eligible agencies (a local educational agency, or consortium thereof, or a school operated or funded by the Bureau of Indian Education) for the purpose of addressing the specialized skill needs of business and industry by carrying out career pathways programs, featuring school partnerships, that support career pathways at the secondary school level or career
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Sponsored by: Sen. Al Franken
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 05/25/2017
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Federal Maritime Commission Authorization Act of 2017 [HB-2593]
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[Trade ]
Federal Maritime Commission Authorization Act of 2017
Sponsored by: Rep. Peter A. DeFazio
Reported (amended) By The Committee On Transportation And Infrastructure. H. Rept. 115-1017. on 11/13/2018
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Better Education and Skills Training for America's Workforce Act [S.1193]
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Better Education and Skills Training for America's Workforce Act This bill amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow tax credits for: (1) qualified training expenses paid with respect to U.S.-based positions for job trainees who have been unemployed for at least 90 days before enrolling in a training program and have not been employed by the taxpayer during the two-year period before the trainee was hired, and (2) investment in a qualified job training partnership between a private business and an institution of higher education or a labor organization.
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Menendez
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 05/22/2017
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Domestic Maritime Centers of Excellence Act of 2017 [S.1186]
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[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Veterans ]
Domestic Maritime Centers of Excellence Act of 2017 This bill authorizes the Department of Transportation (DOT) to designate state-operated maritime training centers and community and technical colleges with a maritime training program that are located in the United States along the Gulf of Mexico, Atlantic Ocean, Pacific Ocean, Artic Ocean, Bering Sea, Gulf of Alaska, or Great Lakes as centers of excellence for domestic maritime workforce training and education. DOT may provide to such centers: (1) technical assistance to assist them in expanding
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mark R. Warner
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Commerce, Science, And Transportation. on 05/18/2017
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Recognizing the essential contributions of frontline health workers to strengthening the United States national security and economic prosperity, sustaining and expanding progress on global health, and saving the lives of millions of women, men, and children around the world. [HR-342]
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Recognizing the essential contributions of frontline health workers to strengthening the United States national security and economic prosperity, sustaining and expanding progress on global health, and saving the lives of millions of women, men, and children around the world. Reaffirms the critical role of frontline health workers in achieving core global health goals. Commends U.S. progress in helping to build local capacity and save lives in the world's most vulnerable communities by training and supporting such workers. Urges greater global attention
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney
Introduced In House on 05/18/2017
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Made in America Manufacturing Communities Act of 2017 [S.701]
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[Energy ]
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Made in America Manufacturing Communities Act of 2017 (Sec. 3) This bill requires the Department of Commerce to establish a Manufacturing Community Support Program to improve the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing by: (1) designating consortiums as manufacturing communities, and (2) authorizing federal agencies electing to participate in the program to provide such communities preferential consideration in awarding financial and technical assistance. A consortium, to be eligible for such designation and assistance, must: represent a region that
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Sponsored by: Sen. Susan M. Collins
Committee On Commerce, Science, And Transportation. Reported By Senator Thune With An Amendment In The Nature Of A Substitute. With Written Report No. 115-204. on 02/05/2018
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Make It In America Manufacturing Communities Act [HB-1672]
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Make It In America Manufacturing Communities Act This bill requires the Department of Commerce to establish a Manufacturing Community Support Program to improve the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing by: (1) designating consortiums as manufacturing communities; and (2) authorizing federal agencies electing to participate in the program to provide such communities preferential consideration in awarding financial and technical assistance. A consortium, to be eligible for such designation and assistance, must: represent a region that is large enough
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Sponsored by: Rep. David N. Cicilline
Sponsor Introductory Remarks On Measure. (cr H2706) on 04/05/2017
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Workforce Training Enhancement Act of 2017 [HB-1657]
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Workforce Training Enhancement Act of 2017 This bill amends the Trade Act of 1974, with respect to trade adjustment assistance (TAA) for training to adversely affected workers, to authorize a state to use certain funds distributed by the Department of Labor to reimburse the costs of providing training to an adversely affected worker before the worker is approved for training under the Act if those costs have been paid by: the state from state funds, the state or local workforce development areas within the state from funds available for workforce
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Sponsored by: Rep. Richard M. Nolan
Referred To The Subcommittee On Trade. on 03/27/2017
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Workforce Training Enhancement Act of 2017 [S.687]
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Workforce Training Enhancement Act of 2017 This bill amends the Trade Act of 1974, with respect to trade adjustment assistance (TAA) for training to adversely affected workers, to authorize a state to use certain funds distributed by the Department of Labor to reimburse the costs of providing training to an adversely affected worker before the worker is approved for training under the Act if those costs have been paid by: the state from state funds, the state or local workforce development areas within the state from funds available for workforce
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert P. Casey
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Finance. on 03/21/2017
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Innovation Corps Act of 2017 [HB-1576]
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Innovation Corps Act of 2017 This bill requires the Department of Commerce to establish a competitive program to make grants to institutions of higher education to establish or enhance education programs that retrain workers displaced from their jobs by automation to provide such workers with skills needed for jobs in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) fields. Commerce shall establish an Innovation Corps whereby recent college graduates may volunteer, in an education program for which an institution of higher education receives
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Sponsored by: Rep. Doris O. Matsui
Introduced In House on 03/16/2017
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21st Century Worker Opportunity Act [HB-1534]
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[Manufacturing ]
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21st Century Worker Opportunity Act This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to implement a program that provides displaced workers with a subsidy or coupon for a lump sum payment of $500 that may only be applied towards: (1) broadband Internet access service, or (2) remote job training in a profession not likely to be automated in the next 20 years. A "displaced worker" is defined as an individual who, due to automation of machinery that replaces human labor, has been terminated or laid off from employment
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Sponsored by: Rep. Debbie Dingell
Referred To The Subcommittee On Communications And Technology. on 03/17/2017
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Community College to Career Fund Act [S.620]
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[Community Development ]
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Community College to Career Fund Act This bill amends the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to direct the Department of Labor to award competitive grants to eligible community colleges, four-year public institutions of higher education, tribal colleges or universities, public or private nonprofit two-year institutions of higher education in specified U.S. territories, or a consortium of any of them, in partnership with employers or an employer or industry partnership representing multiple employers, in order to develop, offer, improve, and
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Sponsored by: Sen. Dianne Feinstein
Read Twice And Referred To The Committee On Health, Education, Labor, And Pensions. on 03/14/2017