I 
113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1617 
To create an emergency jobs program that will fund 2,242,000 positions 
during fiscal years 2014 and 2015. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 18, 2013 
Ms. SCHAKOWSKY (for herself, Mr. CONYERS, Mr. CUMMINGS, Mr. DANNY K. 
DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. EDWARDS, Mr. HOLT, Mr. HONDA, Mr. JOHNSON 
of Georgia, Ms. LEE of California, Ms. MOORE, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. ELLI-
SON, Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD, Ms. BROWN of Florida, and Mr. GRIJALVA) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Nat-
ural Resources, Agriculture, the Judiciary, Science, Space, and Tech-
nology, and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently deter-
mined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions 
as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To create an emergency jobs program that will fund 
2,242,000 positions during fiscal years 2014 and 2015. 
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 ‘‘Emergency Jobs to 
Restore the American Dream Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
The table of contents of this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title. 
Sec. 2. Table of contents. 
TITLE I—SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT CORPS 
Sec. 101. Purpose. 
Sec. 102. Definitions. 
Subtitle A—Grants for Modernization, Renovation, or Repair of Public School 
Facilities 
Sec. 111. Purpose. 
Sec. 112. Allocation of funds. 
Sec. 113. Allowable uses of funds. 
Sec. 114. Priority projects. 
Subtitle B—Grants for Maintenance Costs 
Sec. 115. Allocation to States. 
Sec. 116. Allowable uses of funds. 
Subtitle C—General Provisions 
Sec. 121. Supplement, not supplant. 
Sec. 122. Prohibition regarding State aid. 
Sec. 123. Maintenance of effort. 
Sec. 124. Special rules on contracting. 
Sec. 125. Use of American iron, steel, and manufactured goods. 
Sec. 126. Labor standards; compliance with existing statutes. 
Sec. 127. Charter schools. 
Sec. 128. Green schools. 
Sec. 129. Reporting. 
Sec. 130. Special rules. 
Sec. 131. Promotion of employment experiences. 
Sec. 132. Availability of funds. 
Sec. 133. Alternate distribution of funds. 
TITLE II—STUDENT JOBS CORPS 
Sec. 201. Student Jobs Corps. 
TITLE III—PARK IMPROVEMENT CORPS 
Sec. 301. Appropriation of additional funds for Public Lands Corps. 
TITLE IV—NEIGHBORHOOD HEROES CORPS 
Sec. 401. Teacher Corps. 
Sec. 402. Appropriation of additional funds for Community Oriented Policing 
Services. 
Sec. 403. Firefighters Corps. 
TITLE V—HEALTH CARE CORPS 
Sec. 501. Purpose. 
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Sec. 502. Health care and long-term care providers. 
Sec. 503. Supplement, not supplant. 
TITLE VI—COMMUNITY CORPS 
Sec. 601. Purpose. 
Sec. 602. Community Corps. 
Sec. 603. Application. 
Sec. 604. Activities of the Community Corps. 
Sec. 605. Hiring and preferences. 
Sec. 606. Additional requirements for States and units of general local govern-
ment. 
Sec. 607. Employment status and compensation. 
Sec. 608. Nondisplacement of existing employees. 
Sec. 609. Dispute resolutions, whistleblower hotline, and enforcement by the 
Secretary. 
Sec. 610. Definitions. 
TITLE VII—CHILD DEVELOPMENT CORPS 
Sec. 701. Purpose. 
Sec. 702. Child Development Corps. 
TITLE VIII—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
Sec. 801. General requirements for entities receiving funding under this Act. 
Sec. 802. Reporting. 
Sec. 803. Hiring and preferences. 
Sec. 804. Flexibility on hiring. 
Sec. 805. Nondisplacement. 
Sec. 806. Employment status and compensation in new programs. 
Sec. 807. Dispute resolutions, whistleblower hotline, and enforcement by the 
Secretary. 
Sec. 808. Termination. 
TITLE I—SCHOOL 
IMPROVEMENT CORPS 
SEC. 101. PURPOSE. 
It is the purpose of this title to provide for the cre-
ation of 400,000 construction jobs for the purpose of mod-
ernizing, renovating, or repairing public school facilities; 
and 250,000 maintenance jobs for the purpose of main-
taining and improving public school facilities. 
SEC. 102. DEFINITIONS. 
In this title: 
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(1) The term ‘‘Bureau-funded school’’ has the 
meaning given such term in section 1141 of the 
Education Amendments of 1978 (25 U.S.C. 2021). 
(2) The term ‘‘charter school’’ has the meaning 
given such term in section 5210 of the Elementary 
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
7221i). 
(3) The term ‘‘CHPS Criteria’’ means the 
green building rating program developed by the Col-
laborative for High Performance Schools. 
(4) The term ‘‘Energy Star’’ means the Energy 
Star program of the United States Department of 
Energy and the United States Environmental Pro-
tection Agency. 
(5) The term ‘‘Green Globes’’ means the Green 
Building Initiative environmental design and rating 
system referred to as Green Globes. 
(6) The term ‘‘LEED Green Building Rating 
System’’ means the United States Green Building 
Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental 
Design green building rating standard referred to as 
LEED Green Building Rating System. 
(7) The term ‘‘local educational agency’’— 
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(A) has the meaning given such term in 
section 9101 of the Elementary and Secondary 
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801); 
(B) includes any public charter school that 
constitutes a local educational agency under 
State law; and 
(C) includes the Recovery School District 
of Louisiana. 
(8) The term ‘‘outlying area’’— 
(A) means the United States Virgin Is-
lands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Com-
monwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; 
and 
(B) includes the Republic of Palau. 
(9) The term ‘‘public school facilities’’ means 
existing public elementary or secondary school facili-
ties, including public charter school facilities and 
other existing facilities planned for adaptive reuse as 
public charter school facilities. 
(10) The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Education. 
(11) The term ‘‘State’’ means each of the 50 
States, the District of Columbia, and the Common-
wealth of Puerto Rico. 
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Subtitle A—Grants for Moderniza-
tion, Renovation, or Repair of 
Public School Facilities 
SEC. 111. PURPOSE. 
Grants under this subtitle shall be for the purpose 
of modernizing, renovating, or repairing public school fa-
cilities (including early learning facilities, as appropriate), 
based on the need of the facilities for such improvements, 
to ensure that public school facilities are safe, healthy, 
high-performing, and technologically up-to-date. 
SEC. 112. ALLOCATION OF FUNDS. 
(a) RESERVATION.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—From the amount appro-
priated to carry out this subtitle for each fiscal year 
pursuant to section 132(a)(1), the Secretary shall 
reserve 2 percent of such amount, consistent with 
the purpose described in section 132(a)(1)— 
(A) to provide assistance to the outlying 
areas; and 
(B) for payments to the Secretary of the 
Interior to provide assistance to Bureau-funded 
schools. 
(2) USE OF RESERVED FUNDS.—In each fiscal 
year, the amount reserved under paragraph (1) shall 
be divided between the uses described in subpara-
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graphs (A) and (B) of such paragraph in the same 
proportion as the amount reserved under section 
1121(a) of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6331(a)) is divided 
between the uses described in paragraphs (1) and 
(2) of such section 1121(a) in such fiscal year. 
(3) DISTRESSED AREAS AND NATURAL DISAS-
TERS.—From the amount appropriated to carry out 
this subtitle for each fiscal year pursuant to section 
132(a), the Secretary shall reserve 5 percent of such 
amount for grants to— 
(A) local educational agencies serving geo-
graphic areas with significant economic distress, 
to be used consistent with the purpose de-
scribed in section 111 and the allowable uses of 
funds described in section 113; 
(B) local educational agencies serving geo-
graphic areas recovering from a natural dis-
aster; and 
(C) local educational agencies serving geo-
graphic areas that contain a military installa-
tion selected for closure under the base closure 
and realignment process pursuant to the De-
fense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 
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1990 (part A of title XXIX of Public Law 101– 
510; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note). 
(b) ALLOCATION TO STATES.— 
(1) STATE-BY-STATE
ALLOCATION.—Of the 
amount appropriated to carry out this subtitle for 
each fiscal year pursuant to section 132(a)(1), and 
not reserved under subsection (a), each State shall 
be allocated an amount in proportion to the amount 
received by all local educational agencies in the State 
under part A of title I of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 et 
seq.) for the previous fiscal year relative to the total 
amount received by all local educational agencies in 
every State under such part for such fiscal year. 
(2) STATE ADMINISTRATION.—A State may re-
serve up to 1 percent of its allocation under para-
graph (1) to carry out its responsibilities under this 
subtitle, which include— 
(A) providing technical assistance to local 
educational agencies; 
(B) developing an online, publicly search-
able database that includes an inventory of pub-
lic school facilities in the State, including for 
each such facility, its design, condition, mod-
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ernization, renovation and repair needs, utiliza-
tion, energy use, and carbon footprint; and 
(C) creating voluntary guidelines for high- 
performing school buildings, including guide-
lines concerning the following: 
(i) Site location, storm water manage-
ment, outdoor surfaces, outdoor lighting, 
and transportation, including public transit 
and pedestrian and bicycle accessability. 
(ii) Outdoor water systems, land-
scaping to minimize water use, including 
elimination of irrigation systems for land-
scaping, and indoor water use reduction. 
(iii) Energy efficiency (including min-
imum and superior standards, such as for 
heating, ventilation, and air conditioning 
systems), use of alternative energy sources, 
commissioning, and training. 
(iv) Use of durable, sustainable mate-
rials, including life-cycle cost effectiveness, 
and waste reduction. 
(v) Indoor environmental quality, such 
as day lighting in classrooms, lighting 
quality, indoor air quality (including with 
reference to reducing the incidence and ef-
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fects of asthma and other respiratory ill-
nesses), acoustics, and thermal comfort. 
(vi) Operations and management, 
such as use of energy-efficient equipment, 
indoor environmental management plan, 
maintenance plan, and pest management. 
(3) GRANTS
TO
LOCAL
EDUCATIONAL
AGEN-
CIES.—From the amount allocated to a State under 
paragraph (1), each eligible local educational agency 
in the State shall receive an amount in proportion 
to the amount received by such local educational 
agency under part A of title I of the Elementary and 
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 6311 
et seq.) for the previous fiscal year relative to the 
total amount received by all local educational agen-
cies in the State under such part for such fiscal 
year, except that no local educational agency that re-
ceived funds under such part for such fiscal year 
shall receive a grant of less than $5,000 in any fiscal 
year under this subtitle. 
(4) SPECIAL RULE.—Section 1122(c)(3) of the 
Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 
(20 U.S.C. 6332(c)(3)) shall not apply to paragraph 
(1) or (3). 
(c) SPECIAL RULES.— 
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