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113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3614 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the recognition by States 
of skills learned in the military by a veteran when issuing licenses 
and credentials. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 21, 2013 
Mr. REICHERT introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
A BILL 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to improve the 
recognition by States of skills learned in the military 
by a veteran when issuing licenses and credentials. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Military Skills to Ca-
reers Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. STATE RECOGNITION OF MILITARY EXPERIENCE OF 
VETERANS IN ISSUING LICENSES AND CRE-
DENTIALS TO VETERANS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 4102A(c)(9) of title 38, 
United States Code, is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(9)(A) As a condition of a grant or contract under 
which funds are made available to a State under sub-
section (b)(5) in order to carry out section 4103A or 4104 
of this title, the State shall— 
‘‘(i) establish a program under which the State 
administers an examination to each veteran seeking 
a license or credential issued by the State and issues 
such license or credential to such veteran without re-
quiring such veteran to undergo any training or ap-
prenticeship if the veteran— 
‘‘(I) receives a satisfactory score on com-
pletion of such examination, as determined by 
the State; 
‘‘(II) has been awarded a military occupa-
tional speciality that is substantially equivalent 
to or exceeds the requirements of the State for 
the issuance of such license or credential; 
‘‘(III) has engaged in the active practice of 
the occupation for which the veteran is seeking 
such license or credential for at least two of the 
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five years preceding the date of application for 
such license or credential; and 
‘‘(IV) pays any customary or usual fees re-
quired by the State for such license or creden-
tial; and 
‘‘(ii) submit each year to the Secretary a report 
on the exams administered under clause (i) during 
the most recently completed 12-month period that 
includes, for the period covered by the report, the 
number of veterans who completed an exam adminis-
tered by the State under clause (i) and a description 
of the results of such exams, disaggregated by occu-
pational field. 
‘‘(B) The Secretary may waive the requirement under 
subparagraph (A) that a State establish a program de-
scribed in that subparagraph as a condition of a grant 
or contract if the State certifies to the Secretary that the 
State— 
‘‘(i) takes into account previous military train-
ing for the purposes of issuing licenses or creden-
tials; 
‘‘(ii) permits veterans to completely satisfy 
through examination any training or testing require-
ments for a license or credential with respect to 
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which a veteran has previously completed military 
training; and 
‘‘(iii) for any credential or license for which a 
veteran is unable to completely satisfy such require-
ments through examination, substantially reduces 
training time required to satisfy such requirement 
based on the military training received by the vet-
eran. 
‘‘(C) Not less frequently than once each year, the 
Secretary shall submit to Congress and the Secretary of 
Defense a report summarizing the information received by 
the Secretary under subparagraph (A)(ii).’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.— 
(1) EXAMS.—Subparagraph (A) of section 
4102A(c)(9) of such title, as added by subsection 
(a), shall take effect on the date that is one year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act and shall 
apply with respect to grants and contracts described 
in such subparagraph awarded after such date. 
(2) REPORTS.—Subparagraph (B) of section 
4102A(c)(9), as added by subsection (a), shall take 
effect on the date that is one year after the date of 
the enactment of this Act and the Secretary of 
Labor shall submit the first report under such sub-
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paragraph not later than two years after the date of 
the enactment of this Act. 
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