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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.
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 ‘‘Job and Life Skills
Improvement Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT OF JOB AND LIFE SKILLS IM-
PROVEMENT PROGRAM.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title IV of the Job Training Part-
nership Act (29 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following new part:
‘‘PART K—JOB AND LIFE SKILLS IMPROVEMENT
PROGRAM
‘‘SEC. 499F. PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary is authorized to
establish a national program of Job and Life Skills Im-
provement grants to pay the Federal share attributable
to this part of providing comprehensive services to youth
and young adults living in high poverty areas in the cities
and rural areas of the United States.
‘‘(b) ELIGIBILITY.—The Secretary may only award
grants under this part to—
‘‘(1) a private industry council or nonprofit pri-
vate organization which is providing services in a
target area of a participating community;
‘‘(2) in the case of a grant involving a target
area located in an Indian reservation or Alaska Na-
tive village, the grantee designated under subsection
(c) or (d) of section 401, or a consortium of such
grantees and the State; or
‘‘(3) in the case of a grant involving a target
area located in a migrant or seasonal farmworker
community, the grantee designated under section
402(c), or a consortium of such grantees and the
State.
‘‘(c) RENEWABILITY OF GRANTS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Grants awarded under this
part shall be for a 1-year period. Such a grant shall
be renewable for each of the 2 succeeding fiscal
years if the Secretary determines the grant recipient
complied with conditions of the grant during the
previous fiscal year.
‘‘(2) EXTENSION.—The Secretary may extend
the renewal period set forth in paragraph (1) for an
additional 2 fiscal years on reapplication.
‘‘SEC. 499G. APPLICATION.
‘‘(a) ELIGIBILITY.—Participating communities that
have the highest concentrations of poverty, as determined
by the Secretary based on the latest Bureau of the Census
estimates, shall be eligible to apply for a Job and Life
Skills Improvement grant.
‘‘(b) CONTENTS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each participating commu-
nity desiring a grant under this part shall, through
the individuals or entities set forth in subsection (c),
submit an application to the Secretary which meets
the requirements of paragraph (2).
‘‘(J) an estimate of the expected number of
youth and young adults in the target area to be
served;
‘‘(K) a description of the resources avail-
able in the participating community from pri-
vate, local government, State, and Federal
sources that will be used to achieve the goals of
the program; and
‘‘(L) an estimate of funds required to en-
sure access to appropriate education, training,
and support services for all youth and young
adults in the target area who seek such oppor-
tunities.
‘‘(c) SUBMISSION OF APPLICATION.—The application
for funds described in subsection (b) may only be submit-
ted to the Secretary on behalf of a participating commu-
nity by—
‘‘(1) the private industry council;
‘‘(2) the nonprofit private organization; or
‘‘(3) a grantee or consortium described in para-
graph (2) or (3) of section 499F(b) in applications
for Native American or migrant or seasonal farm-
worker communities, respectively.
‘‘SEC. 499H. GRANT AGREEMENT.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Each grant recipient receiving a
grant under this part on behalf of a participating commu-
nity shall enter into an agreement with the Secretary.
‘‘(b) CONTENTS.—Each such agreement shall—
‘‘(1) designate a target area that—
‘‘(A) will be the focus of the demonstration
project; and
‘‘(B) shall have a population of—
‘‘(i) not more than 25,000; or
‘‘(ii) in an appropriate case, not more
than 50,000,
except that in the event that the population of
an area from which a high school draws a sub-
stantial portion of its enrollment exceeds either
limit, the target area may encompass such
boundary;
‘‘(2) contain assurances that funds provided
under this part will be used to support education,
training, and supportive activities selected from a set
of youth and young adult program models des-
ignated by the Secretary or from alternative models
described in the application and approved by the
Secretary;
‘‘(3) provide that funds received under this part
will be used—
‘‘(A) for services to youth and young
adults ages 14 through 30 at the time of enroll-
ment; and
‘‘(B) to provide stipends to youth and
young adults ages 17 to 30 at the time of en-
rollment for participant support in paid work
experience and classroom programs (if such
programs are combined with other education
and training activities), except that employment
provided to any such youth or young adult may
not exceed 20 hours per week and the amount
of such stipend shall reflect the cost of living in
the participating community;
‘‘(4) contain assurances that the local edu-
cational agency and any other educational agency
that operates secondary schools in the target area
shall provide such activities and resources as are
necessary to achieve the educational goals specified
in the application;
‘‘(5) contain assurances that the participating
community will provide such activities and local re-
sources as are necessary to achieve the goals speci-
fied in the application;
‘‘(6) contain assurances that the participating
community will undertake outreach and recruitment
efforts in the target area to encourage, to the maxi-
mum extent possible, participation by the disadvan-
taged youth and young adults who are currently
unserved, or underserved, by education and training
programs, including targeted measures specifically
designed to enlist the participation of youth and
young adults, particularly males, under the jurisdic-
tion of the child welfare, juvenile justice, and crimi-
nal justice systems;
‘‘(7) provide that the participating community
will carry out special efforts to establish coordination
with Federal, State, or local programs that serve the
target population;
‘‘(8) provide assurances that funds provided
under this part for a fiscal year will be used only to
pay the Federal share attributable to this part of the
cost of programs and services not otherwise available
in the target area and will supplement, and not sup-
plant, funding from other local, State, and Federal
sources available to youth and young adults in the
target area during the previous year; and
‘‘(9) permit funds provided under this part to
be used to support paid work experience programs
if such programs are combined with other education
and training activities.
SEC. 499I. PAYMENTS AND FEDERAL SHARE.
‘‘(a) PAYMENTS REQUIRED.—In any fiscal year, the
amount of a grant awarded under this part shall be based
on the size of the target area and the extent of the poverty
in such area, and shall be of sufficient size and scope to
carry out an effective program under this part.
‘‘(b) FEDERAL SHARE.—The Federal share attrib-
utable to this part of the cost of providing comprehensive
services as provided in section 499F(a) shall be not less
than 70 percent for each fiscal year a grant recipient re-
ceives assistance under this Act.
‘‘(c) OTHER FEDERAL SOURCES.—In providing for
the remaining share of such cost, each grant recipient may
provide not more than 20 percent of such cost from Fed-
eral sources other than funds received pursuant to this
part.
‘‘(d) NON-FEDERAL SHARE.—A grant recipient shall
provide non-Federal funds in an amount not less than 10
percent of such cost, an in-kind contribution equivalent
to such percent (as determined by the Secretary), or a
combination thereof.
‘‘SEC. 499J. REPORTING.
‘‘The Secretary is authorized to establish such report-
ing procedures as are necessary to carry out the purposes
of this part.
‘‘SEC. 499K. FEDERAL RESPONSIBILITIES.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall provide as-
sistance to participating communities in implementing the
projects assisted under this part.
‘‘(b) INDEPENDENT EVALUATION.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall provide
for a thorough, independent evaluation of the Job
and Life Skills Improvement program to assess the
outcomes of youth and young adults participating in
programs assisted under this part.
‘‘(2) EVALUATION
MEASURES.—In conducting
the evaluation described in paragraph (1) the Sec-
retary shall include an assessment of—
‘‘(A) the impact on youth and young adults
residing in target areas, including the rates of
school completion, enrollment in advanced edu-
cation or training, and employment of the youth
and young adults;
‘‘(B) the extent to which participating
communities fulfilled the goal of guaranteed ac-
cess to appropriate education, training, and
supportive services to all eligible youth and
young adults residing in target areas who seek
to participate;
‘‘(C) the effectiveness of guaranteed access
to comprehensive services combined with out-
reach and recruitment efforts in enlisting the
participation of previously unserved or under-
served youth and young adults residing in tar-
get areas;
‘‘(D) the effectiveness of efforts to inte-
grate service delivery in target areas, including
systems of common intake, assessment, and
case management; and
‘‘(E) the feasibility of extending guaran-
teed access to comprehensive education, train-
ing, and support services for youth and young
adults in all areas of the United States, includ-
ing possible approaches to incremental exten-
sion of such access over time.
‘‘(c) REPORT.—The Secretary shall prepare a report
detailing the results of the independent evaluation de-
scribed in subsection (b) and shall submit such report to
the Congress not later than December 31, 1996, along
with an analysis of expenditures made, results achieved,
and problems in the operations and coordination of pro-
grams assisted under this part.
‘‘(d) RESERVATION OF FUNDS.—The Secretary may
reserve not more than 5 percent of the amount appro-
priated under this part in each fiscal year to carry out
the provisions of this section.
under section 402(c), or a consortium of such
grantees and the State.
‘‘(3) TARGET
AREA.—The term ‘target area’
means a high poverty area or set of contiguous high
poverty areas that will be the focus of the program
in each participating community.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents relating to the Act is amended by inserting after the
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.’’.
SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Section 3(c) of the Job Training Partnership Act (29
U.S.C. 1502(c)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new paragraph:
‘‘(6) There are authorized to be appropriated to carry
out part K of title IV $5,000,000,000 for fiscal year 1994
and such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal
years 1995 through 1998.’’.
SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.
This Act and the amendments made by this Act shall
take effect on July 1, 1993, or the date of the enactment
of this Act, whichever occurs later.