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109TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 694 

To amend the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to provide for a job 

training grant pilot program. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

APRIL 4, 2005 

Mr. COLEMAN introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 

A BILL 

To amend the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to provide 

for a job training grant pilot program. 

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

3 SECTION 1. JOB TRAINING GRANT PILOT PROGRAM. 

4 Section 171 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 

5 (29 U.S.C. 2916) is amended by striking subsection (d) 

6 and inserting the following: 

7 ‘‘(d) JOB TRAINING GRANT PILOT PROGRAM.— 

8 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.— 
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1 ‘‘(A) GRANTS.—The Secretary shall pro2 vide grants to qualified job training programs 

3 as follows: 

4 ‘‘(i) PLACEMENT GRANTS.—Grants in 

5 an amount to be determined by the Sec6 retary shall be provided to qualified job 

7 training programs upon placement of a 

8 qualified graduate in qualifying employ9 ment. 

10 ‘‘(ii) RETENTION GRANTS.—An addi11 tional grant in an amount to be deter12 mined by the Secretary shall be provided 

13 to qualified job training programs upon re14 tention of a qualified graduate in quali15 fying employment for a period of 1 year. 

16 ‘‘(B) DETERMINATION.—In determining 

17 the amount of the grants to be provided under 

18 subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall consider 

19 the economic benefit received by the Govern20 ment from the employment of the qualified 

21 graduate, including increased tax revenue and 

22 decreased unemployment benefits or other sup23 port obligations. 
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1 ‘‘(2) QUALIFIED JOB TRAINING PROGRAM.—For 

2 purposes of this subsection, a qualified job training 

3 program is one that— 

4 ‘‘(A) is operated by a nonprofit or for-prof5 it entity, partnership, or joint venture formed 

6 under the laws of— 

7 ‘‘(i) the United States or a territory 

8 of the United States; 

9 ‘‘(ii) any State; or 

10 ‘‘(iii) any county or locality; 

11 ‘‘(B) offers education and training in— 

12 ‘‘(i) basic skills, such as reading, writ13 ing, mathematics, information processing, 

14 and communications; 

15 ‘‘(ii) technical skills, such as account16 ing, computers, printing, and machining; 

17 ‘‘(iii) thinking skills, such as rea18 soning, creative thinking, decision making, 

19 and problem solving; and 

20 ‘‘(iv) personal qualities, such as re21 sponsibility, self-esteem, self-management, 

22 honesty, and integrity; 

23 ‘‘(C) provides income supplements when 

24 needed to eligible participants (defined for pur25 poses of this paragraph as an individual who 
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1 meets the criteria described in subparagraphs 

2 (A) through (C) of paragraph (3)) for housing, 

3 counseling, tuition, and other basic needs; 

4 ‘‘(D) provides eligible participants with not 

5 less than 160 hours of instruction, assessment, 

6 or professional coaching; and 

7 ‘‘(E) invests an average of $10,000 in 

8 training per graduate of such program. 

9 ‘‘(3) QUALIFIED GRADUATE.—For purposes of 

10 this subsection, a qualified graduate is an individual 

11 who is a graduate of a qualified job training pro12 gram and who— 

13 ‘‘(A) is 18 years of age or older; 

14 ‘‘(B) had in either of the two preceding 

15 taxable years Federal adjusted gross income not 

16 exceeding the maximum income of a very low17 income family (as defined in section 3(b)(2) of 

18 the United States Housing Act of 1937 (42 

19 U.S.C. 1437a(b)(2))) for a single individual; 

20 and 

21 ‘‘(C) has assets of not more than $10,000, 

22 exclusive of the value of an owned homestead, 

23 indexed for inflation. 

24 ‘‘(4) QUALIFYING EMPLOYMENT.—For purposes 

25 of this subsection, qualifying employment shall in-
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1 clude any permanent job or employment paying an2 nual wages of not less than $18,000, and not less 

3 than $10,000 more than the qualified graduate 

4 earned before receiving training from the qualified 

5 job training program.’’. 

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