H. R. 1385
One Hundred Fifth Congress
of the
United States of America
AT THE SECOND SESSION
Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
the twenty-seventh day of January, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-eight
An Act
To consolidate, coordinate, and improve employment, training, literacy, and
vocational rehabilitation programs in the United States, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Workforce
Investment Act of 1998’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for this Act
is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
TITLE I—WORKFORCE INVESTMENT SYSTEMS
Subtitle A—Workforce Investment Definitions
Sec. 101. Definitions.
Subtitle B—Statewide and Local Workforce Investment Systems
Sec. 106. Purpose.
CHAPTER 1—STATE PROVISIONS
Sec. 111. State workforce investment boards.
Sec. 112. State plan.
CHAPTER 2—LOCAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 116. Local workforce investment areas.
Sec. 117. Local workforce investment boards.
Sec. 118. Local plan.
CHAPTER 3—WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES PROVIDERS
Sec. 121. Establishment of one-stop delivery systems.
Sec. 122. Identification of eligible providers of training services.
Sec. 123. Identification of eligible providers of youth activities.
CHAPTER 4—YOUTH ACTIVITIES
Sec. 126. General authorization.
Sec. 127. State allotments.
Sec. 128. Within State allocations.
Sec. 129. Use of funds for youth activities.
CHAPTER 5—ADULT AND DISLOCATED WORKER EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING
ACTIVITIES
Sec. 131. General authorization.
Sec. 132. State allotments.
Sec. 133. Within State allocations.
Sec. 134. Use of funds for employment and training activities.
CHAPTER 6—GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 136. Performance accountability system.
Sec. 137. Authorization of appropriations.
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Subtitle C—Job Corps
Sec. 141. Purposes.
Sec. 142. Definitions.
Sec. 143. Establishment.
Sec. 144. Individuals eligible for the Job Corps.
Sec. 145. Recruitment, screening, selection, and assignment of enrollees.
Sec. 146. Enrollment.
Sec. 147. Job Corps centers.
Sec. 148. Program activities.
Sec. 149. Counseling and job placement.
Sec. 150. Support.
Sec. 151. Operating plan.
Sec. 152. Standards of conduct.
Sec. 153. Community participation.
Sec. 154. Industry councils.
Sec. 155. Advisory committees.
Sec. 156. Experimental, research, and demonstration projects.
Sec. 157. Application of provisions of Federal law.
Sec. 158. Special provisions.
Sec. 159. Management information.
Sec. 160. General provisions.
Sec. 161. Authorization of appropriations.
Subtitle D—National Programs
Sec. 166. Native American programs.
Sec. 167. Migrant and seasonal farmworker programs.
Sec. 168. Veterans’ workforce investment programs.
Sec. 169. Youth opportunity grants.
Sec. 170. Technical assistance.
Sec. 171. Demonstration, pilot, multiservice, research, and multistate projects.
Sec. 172. Evaluations.
Sec. 173. National emergency grants.
Sec. 174. Authorization of appropriations.
Subtitle E—Administration
Sec. 181. Requirements and restrictions.
Sec. 182. Prompt allocation of funds.
Sec. 183. Monitoring.
Sec. 184. Fiscal controls; sanctions.
Sec. 185. Reports; recordkeeping; investigations.
Sec. 186. Administrative adjudication.
Sec. 187. Judicial review.
Sec. 188. Nondiscrimination.
Sec. 189. Administrative provisions.
Sec. 190. Reference.
Sec. 191. State legislative authority.
Sec. 192. Workforce flexibility plans.
Sec. 193. Use of certain real property.
Sec. 194. Continuation of State activities and policies.
Sec. 195. General program requirements.
Subtitle F—Repeals and Conforming Amendments
Sec. 199. Repeals.
Sec. 199A. Conforming amendments.
TITLE II—ADULT EDUCATION AND LITERACY
Sec. 201. Short title.
Sec. 202. Purpose.
Sec. 203. Definitions.
Sec. 204. Home schools.
Sec. 205. Authorization of appropriations.
Subtitle A—Adult Education and Literacy Programs
CHAPTER 1—FEDERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 211. Reservation; grants to eligible agencies; allotments.
Sec. 212. Performance accountability system.
CHAPTER 2—STATE PROVISIONS
Sec. 221. State administration.
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Sec. 222. State distribution of funds; matching requirement.
Sec. 223. State leadership activities.
Sec. 224. State plan.
Sec. 225. Programs for corrections education and other institutionalized individ-
uals.
CHAPTER 3—LOCAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 231. Grants and contracts for eligible providers.
Sec. 232. Local application.
Sec. 233. Local administrative cost limits.
CHAPTER 4—GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 241. Administrative provisions.
Sec. 242. National Institute for Literacy.
Sec. 243. National leadership activities.
Subtitle B—Repeals
Sec. 251. Repeals.
TITLE III—WORKFORCE INVESTMENT-RELATED ACTIVITIES
Subtitle A—Wagner-Peyser Act
Sec. 301. Definitions.
Sec. 302. Functions.
Sec. 303. Designation of State agencies.
Sec. 304. Appropriations.
Sec. 305. Disposition of allotted funds.
Sec. 306. State plans.
Sec. 307. Repeal of Federal advisory council.
Sec. 308. Regulations.
Sec. 309. Employment statistics.
Sec. 310. Technical amendments.
Sec. 311. Effective date.
Subtitle B—Linkages With Other Programs
Sec. 321. Trade Act of 1974.
Sec. 322. Veterans’ employment programs.
Sec. 323. Older Americans Act of 1965.
Subtitle C—Twenty-First Century Workforce Commission
Sec. 331. Short title.
Sec. 332. Findings.
Sec. 333. Definitions.
Sec. 334. Establishment of Twenty-First Century Workforce Commission.
Sec. 335. Duties of the Commission.
Sec. 336. Powers of the Commission.
Sec. 337. Commission personnel matters.
Sec. 338. Termination of the Commission.
Sec. 339. Authorization of appropriations.
Subtitle D—Application of Civil Rights and Labor-Management Laws to the
Smithsonian Institution
Sec. 341. Application of civil rights and labor-management laws to the Smithsonian
Institution.
TITLE IV—REHABILITATION ACT AMENDMENTS OF 1998
Sec. 401. Short title.
Sec. 402. Title.
Sec. 403. General provisions.
Sec. 404. Vocational rehabilitation services.
Sec. 405. Research and training.
Sec. 406. Professional development and special projects and demonstrations.
Sec. 407. National Council on Disability.
Sec. 408. Rights and advocacy.
Sec. 409. Employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities.
Sec. 410. Independent living services and centers for independent living.
Sec. 411. Repeal.
Sec. 412. Helen Keller National Center Act.
Sec. 413. President’s Committee on Employment of People With Disabilities.
Sec. 414. Conforming amendments.