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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
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To demonstrate the economy and efficiency of centralizing Federal job
training programs.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AUGUST 2, 1993
Mr. CONYERS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Education and Labor
A BILL
To demonstrate the economy and efficiency of centralizing
Federal job training programs.
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 ‘‘Training for Future
Jobs Act of 1993’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) Local nonprofit organizations are effective
providers of job training for adults and out-of-school
youth.
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(2) Twelve Federal departments and independ-
ent agencies administer over 100 Federal programs
that provide over $10,000,000,000 for job training
for adults and out-of-school youth.
(3) These multiple programs and multiple agen-
cies—
(A) create confusion on the part of local
service providers and individuals seeking assist-
ance; and
(B) lead to waste and inefficiency in Fed-
eral programs.
SEC. 3. PURPOSE.
The purpose of this Act is to establish a 5-year dem-
onstration of the economy and efficiency of centralizing
Federal job training programs.
SEC. 4. JOB TRAINING COUNCIL.
(a) COMPOSITION.—There is established the Job
Training Council, which shall be comprised of—
(1) the Director of the Office of Management
and Budget,
(2) the Secretary of Agriculture,
(3) the Secretary of Commerce,
(4) the Secretary of Defense,
(5) the Secretary of Education,
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(6) the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices, and
(7) the Secretary of Labor.
(b) CHAIRPERSON.—The Director of the Office of
Management and Budget shall be the Chairperson of the
Council.
SEC. 5. GRANTS.
(a) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—The Council, subject to
the availability of appropriations, may make grants to—
(1) nonprofit organizations for the retraining of
dislocated workers; and
(2) nonprofit educational telecommunications
organizations to pay the Federal share of the costs
of the development, production, and distribution of
instructional telecommunications materials and serv-
ices for use in local vocational and technical edu-
cational schools and colleges.
Such organizations referred to in paragraph (1) may pro-
vide for the recruitment of unemployed workers, vocational
evaluation, assessment and counseling services, vocational
and technical training, support services, and job placement
assistance. The design and operation of each organization
referred to in paragraph (1) shall provide for the utiliza-
tion of appropriate existing Federal, State, and local pro-
grams.
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(b) USE OF FUNDS.—Grants awarded pursuant to
this Act may be used to provide—
(1) a sequential course of study that includes
either preproduced video courseware or direct inter-
active teaching delivered via satellite, accompanied
by a variety of print and computer-based instruc-
tional materials;
(2) the development of individual videocassettes
or a series of videocassettes that supplement instruc-
tion, which shall be distributed both via broadcast
and nonbroadcast means;
(3) videodiscs that produce simulated hands-on
training;
(4) teacher training programs for vocational
educators and administrators and correctional edu-
cators; and
(5) high technology manufacturing equipment
and the installation of such equipment in a nonprofit
organization for the purpose of training machine tool
operators in skills critical to building, operating, and
maintaining such equipment.
(c) PRIORITY OF PERSONS SERVED.—In awarding
grants under this Act, the Council shall give priority to
programs or projects which serve—
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(2) The non-Federal share of the cost of each
project assisted under this Act shall be provided
from non-Federal sources.
SEC. 6. WAIVER OF REQUIREMENT.
The Council may waive for a nonprofit organization
those requirements of different existing Federal job train-
ing assistance programs for adults and out-of-school youth
that are inconsistent, if—
(1) such a waiver is likely to make the organi-
zation’s job training program more efficient; and
(2) the chief executive of the local government
of the area in which the organization is located cer-
tifies that the organization’s job training program is
part of an economic development plan adopted by
the local government.
SEC. 7. DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION.
The Council shall disseminate information on suc-
cessful retraining models developed by any recipient of a
grant under this Act.
SEC. 8. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There 
is 
authorized 
to 
be 
appropriated
$1,000,000,000 for grants by the Council for each of the
fiscal years 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, and 1998.
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SEC. 9. TERMINATION AND REPEAL; EVALUATION.
(a) TERMINATION AND REPEAL.—This Act shall not
be effective after, and is repealed on, the date that is 5
years after the date of its enactment.
(b) EVALUATION.—The Comptroller General of the
United States shall submit to the Congress, by no later
than 4 years after the date of the enactment of this Act,
a report describing the extent to which grants under this
Act have served to train people for jobs, including rec-
ommendations with respect to extending the effectiveness
of this Act.
SEC. 10. REGULATIONS.
The Council shall issue regulations to implement this
Act within 180 days after the date of its enactment.
SEC. 11. DEFINITIONS.
In this Act—
(1) the term ‘‘Council’’ means the Job Training
Council established in section 4;
(2) the term ‘‘local government’’ means any
subdivision of a State that is a unit of general local
government (as that term is defined in section 6501
of title 31, United States Code); and
(3) the term ‘‘nonprofit organization’’ means
any organization that is owned and operated by 1 or
more corporations or associations whose net earn-
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ings do not benefit, and cannot lawfully benefit, any
private shareholder or entity.
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