(E) Section 4107(c)(1) is amended by striking
‘‘the number counseled’’ and inserting ‘‘the number
who received intensive services’’.
(F) Section 4109(a) is amended by striking
‘‘counseling,’’ each place it appears and inserting
‘‘intensive services,’’.
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made
by paragraph (1) shall take effect on the date of the
enactment of this Act.
(b) ADDITIONAL VETS DUTY TO IMPLEMENT TRAN-
SITIONS TO CIVILIAN CAREERS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—(A) Section 4102 is amend-
ed by striking the period and inserting ‘‘, including
programs carried out by the Veterans’ Employment
and Training Service to implement all efforts to ease
the transition of servicemembers to civilian careers
that are consistent with, or an outgrowth of, the
military experience of the servicemembers.’’.
(B) Such section is further amended by striking
‘‘and veterans of the Vietnam era’’ and inserting
‘‘and veterans who served on active duty during a
war or in a campaign or expedition for which a cam-
paign badge has been authorized’’.
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made
by paragraph (1) shall take effect on the date of the
enactment of this Act.
(c) MODERNIZATION OF EMPLOYMENT SERVICE DE-
LIVERY POINTS TO INCLUDE TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVA-
TIONS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 4101(7) is amended
to read as follows:
‘‘(7) The term ‘employment service delivery sys-
tem’ means a service delivery system at which or
through which labor exchange services, including em-
ployment, training, and placement services, are of-
fered in accordance with the Wagner-Peyser Act.’’.
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made
by paragraph (1) shall take effect on the date of the
enactment of this Act.
(d) INCREASE IN ACCURACY OF REPORTING SERV-
ICES FURNISHED TO VETERANS.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—(A) Section 4107(c)(1) is
amended—
(i) by striking ‘‘veterans of the Vietnam
era,’’; and
(ii) by striking ‘‘and eligible persons who
registered for assistance with’’ and inserting
‘‘eligible persons, recently separated veterans
(as defined in section 4211(6) of this title), and
servicemembers transitioning to civilian careers
who registered for assistance with, or who are
identified as veterans by,’’.
(B) Section 4107(c)(2) is amended—
(i) by striking ‘‘the job placement rate’’
the first place it appears and inserting ‘‘the
rate of entered employment (as determined in a
manner consistent with State performance
measures applicable under section 136(b) of the
Workforce Investment Act of 1998)’’; and
(ii) by striking ‘‘the job placement rate’’
the second place it appears and inserting ‘‘such
rate of entered employment (as so deter-
mined)’’.
(C) Section 4107(c)(4) is amended by striking
‘‘sections 4103A and 4104’’ and inserting ‘‘section
4212(d)’’.
(D) Section 4107(c) is amended—
(i) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of para-
graph (4);
(ii) by striking the period at the end of
paragraph (5) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(iii) by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
‘‘(6) a report on the operation during the pre-
ceding program year of the program of performance
incentive awards for quality employment services
under section 4112 of this title, including an anal-
ysis of the amount of incentives distributed to each
State and the rationale for such distribution.’’.
(E) Section 4107(b), as amended by section
4(a)(3)(B), is further amended by striking the sec-
ond sentence and inserting the following: ‘‘Not later
than February 1 of each year, the Secretary shall re-
port to the Committees on Veterans’ Affairs of the
Senate and the House of Representatives on the per-
formance of States and organizations and entities
carrying out employment, training, and placement
services under this chapter, as measured under sub-
section (b)(7) of section 4102A of this title. In the
case of a State that the Secretary determines has
not met the minimum standard of performance (es-
tablished by the Secretary under subsection (f) of
such section), the Secretary shall include an analysis
of the extent and reasons for the State’s failure to
meet that minimum standard, together with the
State’s plan for corrective action during the suc-
ceeding year.’’.
(2) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made
by paragraph (1) shall apply to reports for program
years beginning on or after July 1, 2002.
(e) CLARIFICATION OF AUTHORITY OF NVETSI TO
PROVIDE TRAINING FOR PERSONNEL OF OTHER DEPART-
MENTS AND AGENCIES.—Section 4109 is amended by
adding at the end the following new subsection:
‘‘(c)(1) Nothing in this section shall be construed as
preventing the Institute to enter into contracts or agree-
ments with departments or agencies of the United States
or of a State, or with other organizations, to carry out
training of personnel of such departments, agencies, or or-
ganizations in the provision of services referred to in sub-
section (a).
‘‘(2) All proceeds collected by the Institute under a
contract or agreement referred to in paragraph (1) shall
be applied to the applicable appropriation.’’.
SEC. 6. COMMITTEE TO RAISE EMPLOYER AWARENESS OF
SKILLS OF VETERANS AND BENEFITS OF HIR-
ING VETERANS.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMITTEE.—There is es-
tablished within the Department of Labor a committee to
be known as the President’s National Hire Veterans Com-
mittee (hereinafter in this section referred to as the ‘‘Com-
mittee’’).
(b) DUTIES.—The Committee shall establish and
carry out a national program to do the following:
(1) To furnish information to employers with
respect to the training and skills of veterans and dis-
abled veterans, and the advantages afforded employ-
ers by hiring veterans with such training and skills.
(2) To facilitate employment of veterans and
disabled veterans through participation in America’s
Career Kit national labor exchange, and other
means.
(c) MEMBERSHIP.—(1) The Secretary of Labor shall
appoint 15 individuals to serve as members of the Com-
mittee, of whom one shall be appointed from among rep-
resentatives nominated by each organization described in
subparagraph (A) and of whom eight shall be appointed
from among representatives nominated by organizations
described in subparagraph (B).
(A) Organizations described in this subpara-
graph are the following:
(i) The Ad Council.
(ii) The National Committee for Employer
Support of the Guard and Reserve.
(iii) Veterans’ service organizations that
have a national employment program.
(iv) State employment security agencies.
(v) One-stop career centers.
(vi) State departments of veterans affairs.
(vii) Military service organizations.
(B) Organizations described in this subpara-
graph are such businesses, small businesses, indus-
tries, companies in the private sector that furnish
placement services, civic groups, workforce invest-
ment boards, and labor unions as the Secretary of
Labor determines appropriate.
(2) The following shall be ex officio, nonvoting mem-
bers of the Committee:
(A) The Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
(B) The Secretary of Defense.
(C) The Assistant Secretary of Labor for Vet-
erans’ Employment and Training.
(D) The Administrator of the Small Business
Administration.
(E) The Postmaster General.
(F) The Director of the Office of Personnel
Management.
(3) A vacancy in the Committee shall be filled in the
manner in which the original appointment was made.
(d) ADMINISTRATIVE MATTERS.—(1) The Committee
shall meet not less frequently than once each calendar
quarter.
(2) The Secretary of Labor shall appoint the chair-
man of the Committee.
(3)(A) Members of the Committee shall serve without
compensation.
(B) Members of the Committee shall be allowed rea-
sonable and necessary travel expenses, including per diem
in lieu of subsistence, at rates authorized for persons serv-
ing intermittently in the Government service in accordance
with the provisions of subchapter I of chapter 57 of title
5 while away from their homes or regular places of busi-
ness in the performance of the responsibilities of the Com-
mittee.
(4) The Secretary of Labor shall provide staff and
administrative support to the Committee to assist it in
carrying out its duties under this section. The Secretary
shall assure positions on the staff of the Committee in-
clude positions that are filled by individuals that are now,
or have ever been, employed as one of the following:
(A) Staff of the Assistant Secretary of Labor
for Veterans’ Employment and Training under sec-
tion 4102A of title 38, United States Code as in ef-
fect on the date of the enactment of this Act.
(B) Directors for Veterans’ Employment and
Training under section 4103 of such title as in effect
on such date.
(C) Assistant Director for Veterans’ Employ-
ment and Training under such section as in effect
on such date.
(D) Disabled veterans’ outreach program spe-
cialists under section 4103A of such title as in effect
on such date.
(E) Local veterans’ employment representatives
under section 4104 of such title as in effect on such
date.
(5) Upon request of the Committee, the head of any
Federal department or agency may detail, on a non-
reimbursable basis, any of the personnel of that depart-
ment or agency to the Committee to assist it in carrying
out its duties.
(6) The Committee may contract with and com-
pensate government and private agencies or persons to
furnish information to employers under subsection (b)(1)
without regard to section 3709 of the Revised Statutes
(41 U.S.C. 5).
(e) REPORT.—Not later than December 31, 2003,
2004, and 2005, the Secretary of Labor shall submit to
Congress a report on the activities of the Committee under
this section during the previous fiscal year, and shall in-
clude in such report data with respect to placement and
retention of veterans in jobs attributable to the activities
of the Committee.
(f) TERMINATION.—The Committee shall terminate
60 days after submitting the report that is due on Decem-
ber 31, 2005.
(g) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There
are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of
Labor from the employment security administration ac-
count (established in section 901 of the Social Security
Act (42 U.S.C. 1101)) in the Unemployment Trust Fund
$3,000,000 for each of fiscal years 2003 through 2005
to carry out this section.
SEC. 7. SENSE OF CONGRESS COMMENDING VETERANS
AND MILITARY SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS.
It is the sense of Congress that—
(1) veterans and military service organizations
are to be commended for the continued assistance
the organizations provide veterans; and
(2) veterans and military service organizations
are encouraged to provide job placement assistance
to veterans who are job-ready by making personal
computers with access to electronic job placement
services and programs available to veterans at local
posts and through other means.
SEC. 8. STUDY ON ECONOMIC BENEFITS TO THE UNITED
STATES OF LONG-TERM SUSTAINED EMPLOY-
MENT OF VETERANS.
(a) STUDY.—The Secretary of Labor shall enter into
a contract with an appropriate organization or entity to
conduct a study to quantify the economic benefit to the
United States attributable to the provision of employment
and training services under chapter 41 of title 38, United
States Code, in assisting veterans to attain long-term, sus-
tained employment. Such study shall include analyses on
the impact of such employment on Federal, State, and
local tax generated by reason of such employment, the
contributions of such employment on the domestic gross
national product, and such other indicators of the effect
of such employment on the economy of the United States.
(b) REPORT.—A condition of the contract under sub-
section (a) shall be that the organization submit to the
Secretary of Labor a report on the study conducted by
the organization not later than 18 months after the date
on which that Secretary enters into such contract.
(c) AUTHORIZATION
OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There
are authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of
Labor $1,000,000 to carry out the provisions of this sec-
tion, such sums to remain available until expended.
Passed the House of Representatives May 21, 2002.
Attest:
Clerk.