109TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 27
AN ACT
To enhance the workforce investment system of the
Nation by strengthening one-stop career centers,
providing for more effective governance arrange-
ments, promoting access to a more comprehen-
sive array of employment, training, and related
services, establishing a targeted approach to serv-
ing youth, and improving performance account-
ability, and for other purposes.
109TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 27
AN ACT
To enhance the workforce investment system of the Nation
by strengthening one-stop career centers, providing for
more effective governance arrangements, promoting ac-
cess to a more comprehensive array of employment,
training, and related services, establishing a targeted ap-
proach to serving youth, and improving performance ac-
countability, and for other purposes.
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 Training Improve-
ment Act of 2005’’.
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Table of contents.
Sec. 3. References.
TITLE I—AMENDMENTS TO TITLE I OF THE WORKFORCE
INVESTMENT ACT OF 1998
Sec. 101. Definitions.
Sec. 102. Purpose.
Sec. 103. State workforce investment boards.
Sec. 104. State plan.
Sec. 105. Local workforce investment areas.
Sec. 106. Local workforce investment boards.
Sec. 107. Local plan.
Sec. 108. Establishment of one-stop delivery systems.
Sec. 109. Eligible providers of training services.
Sec. 110. Eligible providers of youth activities.
Sec. 111. Youth Activities.
Sec. 112. Comprehensive programs for adults.
Sec. 113. Performance accountability system.
Sec. 114. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 115. Job corps.
Sec. 116. Native American programs.
Sec. 117. Migrant and seasonal farmworker programs.
Sec. 118. Veterans’ workforce investment programs.
Sec. 119. Youth challenge grants.
Sec. 120. Technical assistance.
Sec. 121. Demonstration, pilot, multiservice, research and multi-State projects.
Sec. 122. Community-based job training.
Sec. 123. Personal Reemployment Accounts.
Sec. 124. Training for realtime writers.
Sec. 125. Business partnership grants.
Sec. 126. National dislocated worker grants.
Sec. 127. Authorization of appropriations for national activities.
Sec. 128. Requirements and restrictions.
Sec. 129. Nondiscrimination.
Sec. 130. Administrative provisions.
Sec. 131. General program requirements.
TITLE II—ADULT EDUCATION, BASIC SKILLS, AND FAMILY
LITERACY EDUCATION
Sec. 201. Table of contents.
Sec. 202. Amendment.
TITLE III—AMENDMENTS TO THE WAGNER-PEYSER ACT
Sec. 301. Amendments to the Wagner-Peyser Act.
TITLE IV—AMENDMENTS TO THE REHABILITATION ACT OF 1973
Sec. 401. Findings.
Sec. 402. Rehabilitation Services Administration.
Sec. 403. Director.
Sec. 404. Definitions.
Sec. 405. State plan.
Sec. 406. Scope of services.
Sec. 407. Standards and indicators.
Sec. 408. Reservation for expanded transition services.
Sec. 409. Client assistance program.
Sec. 410. Protection and advocacy of individual rights.
Sec. 411. Chairperson.
Sec. 412. Authorizations of appropriations.
Sec. 413. Conforming amendment.
Sec. 414. Helen Keller National Center Act.
TITLE V—TRANSITION AND EFFECTIVE DATE
Sec. 501. Transition provisions.
Sec. 502. Effective date.
SEC. 3. REFERENCES.
Except as otherwise expressly provided, wherever in
this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms
of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provi-
sion, the amendment or repeal shall be considered to be
made to a section or other provision of the Workforce In-
vestment Act of 1998 (20 U.S.C. 9201 et seq.).
TITLE 
I—AMENDMENTS 
TO
TITLE I OF THE WORKFORCE
INVESTMENT ACT OF 1998
SEC. 101. DEFINITIONS.
Section 101 (29 U.S.C. 2801) is amended—
(1) by striking paragraphs (13) and (24) and
redesignating paragraphs (1) through (12) as para-
graphs (3) through (14), and paragraphs (14)
through (23) as paragraphs (15) through (24), re-
spectively;
(2) by inserting after ‘‘In this title:’’ the fol-
lowing new paragraphs:
‘‘(1) ACCRUED EXPENDITURES.—The term ‘ac-
crued expenditures’ means charges incurred by re-
cipients of funds under this title for a given period
requiring the provision of funds for goods or other
tangible property received; services performed by
employees, contractors, subgrantees, and other pay-
ees; and other amounts becoming owed under pro-
grams assisted under this title for which no current
services or performance is required, such as annu-
ities, insurance claims, and other benefit payments.
‘‘(2) ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS.—The term ‘ad-
ministrative costs’ means expenditures incurred by
State and local workforce investment boards, direct
recipients (including State grant recipients under
subtitle B and recipients of awards under subtitle
D), local grant recipients, local fiscal agents or local
grant subrecipients, and one-stop operators in the
performance of administrative functions and in car-
rying out activities under this title which are not re-
lated to the direct provision of workforce investment
services (including services to participants and em-
ployers). Such costs include both personnel and non-
personnel and both direct and indirect.’’;
(3) in paragraph (6) (as so redesignated), by
inserting ‘‘(or such other level as the Governor may
establish)’’ after ‘‘8th grade level’’;
(4) in paragraph (10) (as so redesignated)—
(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking
‘‘and’’ after the semicolon;
(B) in subparagraph (C)—
(i) by striking ‘‘not less than 50 per-
cent of the cost of the training’’ and in-
serting ‘‘a significant portion of the cost of
training, as determined by the local
board’’; and
(ii) by striking the period and insert-
ing ‘‘; and’’; and
(C) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(D) in the case of customized training
with an employer in multiple local areas in the
State, for which such employer pays a signifi-
cant portion of the cost of the training, as de-
termined by the Governor.’’;