I 
113TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 4422 
To authorize the President to establish the Veterans’ Job Corps as a means 
of providing gainful employment to unemployed veterans and widows 
of veterans through the performance of useful public works, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 8, 2014 
Mr. BRALEY of Iowa introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Veterans’ Affairs 
A BILL 
To authorize the President to establish the Veterans’ Job 
Corps as a means of providing gainful employment to 
unemployed veterans and widows of veterans through 
the performance of useful public works, 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 ‘‘Veterans’ Job Corps 
Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF VETERANS’ 
JOB CORPS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT AND PURPOSE.—In order to 
provide employment opportunities to veterans and widows 
and to provide for the restoration of depleted natural re-
sources in the United States and the advancement of an 
orderly program of useful public works, the President may 
establish and operate a Veterans’ Job Corps to employ vet-
erans and widows who are otherwise unemployed, in the 
construction, maintenance, and carrying on of works of 
a public nature in connection with— 
(1) the forestation of lands belonging to the 
United States or a State; 
(2) the prevention of forest fires, floods, and 
soil erosion; 
(3) public safety; 
(4) plant pest and disease control; 
(5) the construction, maintenance, or repair of 
paths, trails, and fire-lanes in units of the National 
Park System, public lands, and other lands under 
the jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior and 
units of the National Forest System; and 
(6) such other work on Federal or State land 
incidental to or necessary in connection with any 
projects of the character enumerated in paragraphs 
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(1) through (5) that the President determines to be 
desirable. 
(b) ROLE OF FEDERAL AGENCIES.—To operate the 
Veterans’ Job Corps, the President may use existing Fed-
eral departments and agencies, including the Department 
of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, and the 
Department of Veterans Affairs. 
(c) INCLUSION OF OTHER LANDS.—The President 
may extend the activities of the Veterans’ Job Corps to 
lands owned by a political subdivision of a State and lands 
in private ownership for the purpose of conducting such 
kinds of cooperation work authorized by law in preventing 
and controlling forest fires and the attacks of forest tree 
pests and diseases and such work as is necessary and in 
the public interest to control floods. 
(d) CONTRACT AUTHORITY.—The President may 
enter into such contracts or agreements that may be nec-
essary to carry out this Act. 
(e) ACQUISITION OF REAL PROPERTY.—The Presi-
dent, or the head of any department or agency authorized 
by the President to construct any project or to carry on 
any public works under this Act, may acquire real prop-
erty for such project or public work by purchase, donation, 
or otherwise. 
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SEC. 3. ADMINISTRATION OF VETERANS’ JOB CORPS. 
(a) EMPLOYMENT
PREFERENCE.—The President 
shall employ individuals in the Veterans’ Job Corps in the 
following order of preference: 
(1) Unemployed veterans. 
(2) Widows who, immediately before employ-
ment in the Veterans’ Job Corps, are eligible for un-
employment compensation payable under any State 
law or Federal unemployment compensation law, in-
cluding any additional compensation or extended 
compensation under such laws. 
(b) HOUSING
AND CARE
OF EMPLOYEES.—The 
President may provide housing for individuals employed 
in the Veterans’ Job Corps and furnish them with such 
subsistence, clothing, medical attendance and hospitaliza-
tion, and cash allowance, as may be necessary, during the 
period they are so employed. 
(c) TRANSPORTATION.—The President may provide 
for the transportation of individuals employed in the Vet-
erans’ Job Corps to and from the places of employment. 
(d) EXCLUSION.—The following individuals may not 
be employed under the provisions of this Act: 
(1) An individual convicted of a felony. 
(2) A veteran who was discharged from the 
Armed Forces under dishonorable conditions. 
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SEC. 4. USE OF FUNDS. 
(a) USE OF UNOBLIGATED FUNDS APPROPRIATED 
FOR PUBLIC WORKS.— 
(1) USE OF EXISTING FUNDS.—In addition to 
any amounts appropriated to carry out this Act, the 
President may use any moneys previously appro-
priated for public works and unobligated as of the 
date of the enactment of this Act to establish and 
operate a Veterans’ Job Corps under this Act. 
(2) USE
TO
RELIEVE
UNEMPLOYMENT.—Not 
less than 75 percent of the funds used pursuant to 
paragraph (1) shall be used to provide for the em-
ployment of individuals under this Act. 
(b) DURATION OF AVAILABILITY.—Amounts appro-
priated to carry out this Act or made available under sub-
section (b) shall remain available until expended. 
SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) The term ‘‘veteran’’ has the meaning given 
that term in section 101(2) of title 38, United 
States Code. 
(2) The term ‘‘widow’’— 
(A) means the spouse of a veteran who has 
not remarried after the death of such veteran; 
and 
(B) includes widowers. 
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SEC. 6. TERMINATION. 
The authority of the President to establish and oper-
ate a Veterans’ Job Corps under this Act expires on Sep-
tember 30, 2024. 
Æ 
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