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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 1020

To amend the Job Training Partnership Act to establish a Job and Life

Skills Improvement program to provide comprehensive services to youth

and young adults living in high poverty areas in cities and rural areas

of the United States.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

FEBRUARY 18, 1993

Ms. WATERS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the

Committee on Education and Labor

A BILL

To amend the Job Training Partnership Act to establish

a Job and Life Skills Improvement program to provide

comprehensive services to youth and young adults living

in high poverty areas in cities and rural areas of the

United States.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Job and Life Skills

5 Improvement Act of 1993’’.
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1 SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF JOB AND LIFE SKILLS IM2 PROVEMENT PROGRAM.

3 (a) IN GENERAL.—Title IV of the Job Training Part4 nership Act (29 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.) is amended by add5 ing at the end the following new part:

6 ‘‘PART K—JOB AND LIFE SKILLS IMPROVEMENT

7 PROGRAM

8 ‘‘SEC. 499F. PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.

9 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary is authorized to

10 establish a national program of Job and Life Skills Im11 provement grants to pay the Federal share attributable

12 to this part of providing comprehensive services to youth

13 and young adults living in high poverty areas in the cities

14 and rural areas of the United States.

15 ‘‘(b) ELIGIBILITY.—The Secretary may only award

16 grants under this part to—

17 ‘‘(1) a private industry council or nonprofit pri18 vate organization which is providing services in a

19 target area of a participating community;

20 ‘‘(2) in the case of a grant involving a target

21 area located in an Indian reservation or Alaska Na22 tive village, the grantee designated under subsection

23 (c) or (d) of section 401, or a consortium of such

24 grantees and the State; or

25 ‘‘(3) in the case of a grant involving a target

26 area located in a migrant or seasonal farmworker
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1 community, the grantee designated under section

2 402(c), or a consortium of such grantees and the

3 State.

4 ‘‘(c) RENEWABILITY OF GRANTS.—

5 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Grants awarded under this

6 part shall be for a 1-year period. Such a grant shall

7 be renewable for each of the 2 succeeding fiscal

8 years if the Secretary determines the grant recipient

9 complied with conditions of the grant during the

10 previous fiscal year.

11 ‘‘(2) EXTENSION.—The Secretary may extend

12 the renewal period set forth in paragraph (1) for an

13 additional 2 fiscal years on reapplication.

14 ‘‘SEC. 499G. APPLICATION.

15 ‘‘(a) ELIGIBILITY.—Participating communities that

16 have the highest concentrations of poverty, as determined

17 by the Secretary based on the latest Bureau of the Census

18 estimates, shall be eligible to apply for a Job and Life

19 Skills Improvement grant.

20 ‘‘(b) CONTENTS.—

21 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each participating commu22 nity desiring a grant under this part shall, through

23 the individuals or entities set forth in subsection (c),

24 submit an application to the Secretary which meets

25 the requirements of paragraph (2).
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1 ‘‘(2) REQUIREMENTS.—An application meets

2 the requirements of this paragraph if the application

3 is submitted at such time, in such manner, and ac4 companied by such information as the Secretary may

5 reasonably require, including—

6 ‘‘(A) a comprehensive plan for the Job and

7 Life Skills Improvement initiative designed to

8 achieve identifiable goals for youth and young

9 adults in the target area;

10 ‘‘(B) measurable program goals and out11 comes, which may include increasing the pro12 portion of—

13 ‘‘(i) youth and young adults complet14 ing high school or its equivalent;

15 ‘‘(ii) youth and young adults entering

16 into postsecondary institutions, apprentice17 ships, or other advanced training pro18 grams;

19 ‘‘(iii) youth and young adults placed

20 in jobs; or

21 ‘‘(iv) youth and young adults partici22 pating in education, training, and employ23 ment services;
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1 ‘‘(C) supporting goals for the target area

2 such as increasing security and safety, or re3 ducing the number of drug-related arrests;

4 ‘‘(D) assurances that the applicant will

5 comply with the terms of the agreement de6 scribed in section 499H;

7 ‘‘(E) a description of how the participating

8 community will make use of the resources, ex9 pertise, and commitment of institutions of high10 er education, educational agencies, and voca11 tional and technical schools and institutes;

12 ‘‘(F) an assurance that all youth and

13 young adults in the target areas will have ac14 cess to a coordinated and comprehensive range

15 of education and training opportunities that

16 serve the broadest range of the interests and

17 needs of youth and young adults and simulta18 neously mobilizes the diverse range of education

19 and training providers in the participating com20 munity;

21 ‘‘(G) assurances that the youth and young

22 adults in the target area will have access to

23 supportive services necessary for successful par24 ticipation, including such services as child care,

25 transportation, and assistance in resolving per-
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1 sonal or family crises, such as crises related to

2 substance abuse, homelessness, migration, and

3 family violence;

4 ‘‘(H) a description of a system of common

5 intake procedures or sites, individualized assess6 ment, and case management to be used by the

7 program;

8 ‘‘(I) a description of how the participating

9 community will make use of the resources, ex10 pertise, and commitment of such programs and

11 service providers as—

12 ‘‘(i) community-based organizations

13 providing vocational skills, literacy skills,

14 remedial education, and general equiva15 lency preparation, including community16 based organizations serving youth and

17 young adults with limited-English pro18 ficiency;

19 ‘‘(ii) youth corps programs, including

20 youth conservation and human service

21 corps;

22 ‘‘(iii) Job Corps centers;

23 ‘‘(iv) apprenticeship programs; and

24 ‘‘(v) other projects and programs

25 funded under this Act;
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1 ‘‘(J) an estimate of the expected number of

2 youth and young adults in the target area to be

3 served;

4 ‘‘(K) a description of the resources avail5 able in the participating community from pri6 vate, local government, State, and Federal

7 sources that will be used to achieve the goals of

8 the program; and

9 ‘‘(L) an estimate of funds required to en10 sure access to appropriate education, training,

11 and support services for all youth and young

12 adults in the target area who seek such oppor13 tunities.

14 ‘‘(c) SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION.—The application

15 for funds described in subsection (b) may only be submit16 ted to the Secretary on behalf of a participating commu17 nity by—

18 ‘‘(1) the private industry council;

19 ‘‘(2) the nonprofit private organization; or

20 ‘‘(3) a grantee or consortium described in para21 graph (2) or (3) of section 499F(b) in applications

22 for Native American or migrant or seasonal farm23 worker communities, respectively.
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1 ‘‘SEC. 499H. GRANT AGREEMENT.

2 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Each grant recipient receiving a

3 grant under this part on behalf of a participating commu4 nity shall enter into an agreement with the Secretary.

5 ‘‘(b) CONTENTS.—Each such agreement shall—

6 ‘‘(1) designate a target area that—

7 ‘‘(A) will be the focus of the demonstration

8 project; and

9 ‘‘(B) shall have a population of—

10 ‘‘(i) not more than 25,000; or

11 ‘‘(ii) in an appropriate case, not more

12 than 50,000,

13 except that in the event that the population of

14 an area from which a high school draws a sub15 stantial portion of its enrollment exceeds either

16 limit, the target area may encompass such

17 boundary;

18 ‘‘(2) contain assurances that funds provided

19 under this part will be used to support education,

20 training, and supportive activities selected from a set

21 of youth and young adult program models des22 ignated by the Secretary or from alternative models

23 described in the application and approved by the

24 Secretary;

25 ‘‘(3) provide that funds received under this part

26 will be used—
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1 ‘‘(A) for services to youth and young

2 adults ages 14 through 30 at the time of enroll3 ment; and

4 ‘‘(B) to provide stipends to youth and

5 young adults ages 17 to 30 at the time of en6 rollment for participant support in paid work

7 experience and classroom programs (if such

8 programs are combined with other education

9 and training activities), except that employment

10 provided to any such youth or young adult may

11 not exceed 20 hours per week and the amount

12 of such stipend shall reflect the cost of living in

13 the participating community;

14 ‘‘(4) contain assurances that the local edu15 cational agency and any other educational agency

16 that operates secondary schools in the target area

17 shall provide such activities and resources as are

18 necessary to achieve the educational goals specified

19 in the application;

20 ‘‘(5) contain assurances that the participating

21 community will provide such activities and local re22 sources as are necessary to achieve the goals speci23 fied in the application;

24 ‘‘(6) contain assurances that the participating

25 community will undertake outreach and recruitment
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1 efforts in the target area to encourage, to the maxi2 mum extent possible, participation by the disadvan3 taged youth and young adults who are currently

4 unserved, or underserved, by education and training

5 programs, including targeted measures specifically

6 designed to enlist the participation of youth and

7 young adults, particularly males, under the jurisdic8 tion of the child welfare, juvenile justice, and crimi9 nal justice systems;

10 ‘‘(7) provide that the participating community

11 will carry out special efforts to establish coordination

12 with Federal, State, or local programs that serve the

13 target population;

14 ‘‘(8) provide assurances that funds provided

15 under this part for a fiscal year will be used only to

16 pay the Federal share attributable to this part of the

17 cost of programs and services not otherwise available

18 in the target area and will supplement, and not sup19 plant, funding from other local, State, and Federal

20 sources available to youth and young adults in the

21 target area during the previous year; and

22 ‘‘(9) permit funds provided under this part to

23 be used to support paid work experience programs

24 if such programs are combined with other education

25 and training activities.
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1 SEC. 499I. PAYMENTS AND FEDERAL SHARE.

2 ‘‘(a) PAYMENTS REQUIRED.—In any fiscal year, the

3 amount of a grant awarded under this part shall be based

4 on the size of the target area and the extent of the poverty

5 in such area, and shall be of sufficient size and scope to

6 carry out an effective program under this part.

7 ‘‘(b) FEDERAL SHARE.—The Federal share attrib8 utable to this part of the cost of providing comprehensive

9 services as provided in section 499F(a) shall be not less

10 than 70 percent for each fiscal year a grant recipient re11 ceives assistance under this Act.

12 ‘‘(c) OTHER FEDERAL SOURCES.—In providing for

13 the remaining share of such cost, each grant recipient may

14 provide not more than 20 percent of such cost from Fed15 eral sources other than funds received pursuant to this

16 part.

17 ‘‘(d) NON-FEDERAL SHARE.—A grant recipient shall

18 provide non-Federal funds in an amount not less than 10

19 percent of such cost, an in-kind contribution equivalent

20 to such percent (as determined by the Secretary), or a

21 combination thereof.

22 ‘‘SEC. 499J. REPORTING.

23 ‘‘The Secretary is authorized to establish such report24 ing procedures as are necessary to carry out the purposes

25 of this part.
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1 ‘‘SEC. 499K. FEDERAL RESPONSIBILITIES.

2 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall provide as3 sistance to participating communities in implementing the

4 projects assisted under this part.

5 ‘‘(b) INDEPENDENT EVALUATION.—

6 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall provide

7 for a thorough, independent evaluation of the Job

8 and Life Skills Improvement program to assess the

9 outcomes of youth and young adults participating in

10 programs assisted under this part.

11 ‘‘(2) EVALUATION MEASURES.—In conducting

12 the evaluation described in paragraph (1) the Sec13 retary shall include an assessment of—

14 ‘‘(A) the impact on youth and young adults

15 residing in target areas, including the rates of

16 school completion, enrollment in advanced edu17 cation or training, and employment of the youth

18 and young adults;

19 ‘‘(B) the extent to which participating

20 communities fulfilled the goal of guaranteed ac21 cess to appropriate education, training, and

22 supportive services to all eligible youth and

23 young adults residing in target areas who seek

24 to participate;

25 ‘‘(C) the effectiveness of guaranteed access

26 to comprehensive services combined with out-
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1 reach and recruitment efforts in enlisting the

2 participation of previously unserved or under3 served youth and young adults residing in tar4 get areas;

5 ‘‘(D) the effectiveness of efforts to inte6 grate service delivery in target areas, including

7 systems of common intake, assessment, and

8 case management; and

9 ‘‘(E) the feasibility of extending guaran10 teed access to comprehensive education, train11 ing, and support services for youth and young

12 adults in all areas of the United States, includ13 ing possible approaches to incremental exten14 sion of such access over time.

15 ‘‘(c) REPORT.—The Secretary shall prepare a report

16 detailing the results of the independent evaluation de17 scribed in subsection (b) and shall submit such report to

18 the Congress not later than December 31, 1996, along

19 with an analysis of expenditures made, results achieved,

20 and problems in the operations and coordination of pro21 grams assisted under this part.

22 ‘‘(d) RESERVATION OF FUNDS.—The Secretary may

23 reserve not more than 5 percent of the amount appro24 priated under this part in each fiscal year to carry out

25 the provisions of this section.
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1 ‘‘SEC. 499L. DEFINITIONS.

2 ‘‘For the purposes of this part—

3 ‘‘(1) HIGH POVERTY AREA.—The term ‘high

4 poverty area’ means an urban census tract, a

5 nonmetropolitan county, a Native American Indian

6 reservation, or an Alaska Native village, with a pov7 erty rate of 30 percent or more, as determined by

8 the Bureau of the Census, or a migrant or seasonal

9 farmworker community.

10 ‘‘(2) PARTICIPATING COMMUNITY.—The term

11 ‘participating community’—

12 ‘‘(A) in the case of a community conduct13 ing a project in an urban area, means a city in

14 a metropolitan statistical area;

15 ‘‘(B) in the case of a community conduct16 ing a project in a rural area, means a

17 nonmetropolitan county or contiguous

18 nonmetropolitan counties;

19 ‘‘(C) in the case of a community conduct20 ing a project in an Indian reservation or Alaska

21 Native village, the grantee designated under

22 subsection (c) or (d) of section 401, or a con23 sortium of such grantees and the State; or

24 ‘‘(D) in the case of a community conduct25 ing a project in a migrant or seasonal farm26 worker community, the grantee designated
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1 under section 402(c), or a consortium of such

2 grantees and the State.

3 ‘‘(3) TARGET AREA.—The term ‘target area’

4 means a high poverty area or set of contiguous high

5 poverty areas that will be the focus of the program

6 in each participating community.’’.

7 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of con8 tents relating to the Act is amended by inserting after the

9 item relating to section 499C the following new items:

‘‘PART K—JOB AND LIFE SKILLS IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM

‘‘Sec. 499F. Program authorized.

‘‘Sec. 499G. Application.

‘‘Sec. 499H. Grant agreement.

‘‘Sec. 499I. Payments and federal share.

‘‘Sec. 499J. Reporting.

‘‘Sec. 499K. Federal responsibilities.

‘‘Sec. 4989L. Definitions.’’.

10 SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

11 Section 3(c) of the Job Training Partnership Act (29

12 U.S.C. 1502(c)) is amended by adding at the end the fol13 lowing new paragraph:

14 ‘‘(6) There are authorized to be appropriated to carry

15 out part K of title IV $5,000,000,000 for fiscal year 1994

16 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal

17 years 1995 through 1998.’’.

18 SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

19 This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall

20 take effect on July 1, 1993, or the date of the enactment

21 of this Act, whichever occurs later.
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