I
103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4407
To establish a comprehensive and efficient workforce preparation and
development system in the United States, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 12, 1994
Mr. GOODLING (for himself, Mr. HOEKSTRA, Mr. BALLENGER, Mr. PETRI,
Mr. CASTLE, Mr. FAWELL, Mr. KLUG, Mr. LEWIS of Florida, Mr.
EWING, and Mr. SHAYS) introduced the following bill; which was referred
to the Committee on Education and Labor
A BILL
To establish a comprehensive and efficient workforce prepa-
ration and development system in the United States,
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; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the
‘‘Consolidated and Reformed Education, Employment,
and Retraining Systems Act’’ or the ‘‘CAREERS Act’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents is
as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Findings and purposes.
Sec. 3. Definitions.
TITLE I—FEDERAL RESPONSIBILITIES
Subtitle A—Federal Workforce Preparation and Development Council
Sec. 101. Establishment.
Sec. 102. Membership.
Sec. 103. Co-chairpersons.
Sec. 104. Duties.
Sec. 105. Administration.
Sec. 106. Agency contributions.
Sec. 107. Report.
Subtitle B—National Commission for Employment Policy
Sec. 111. Additional membership requirements.
Sec. 112. Selection of chairman.
Sec. 113. Functions of commission.
Sec. 114. Reporting requirements.
Subtitle C—Federal Waiver Authority for Provisions of Workforce
Preparation and Development Programs
Sec. 121. Waiver authority.
Sec. 122. Application.
Sec. 123. Review of application.
Sec. 124. Approval and disapproval of application.
Sec. 125. Revocation of waiver.
Sec. 126. Notification of inspector general.
Subtitle D—Implementation Grants and Technical Assistance
Sec. 131. Authority.
Sec. 132. Use of amounts.
Sec. 133. Allocation requirement.
Sec. 134. Authorization of appropriations.
TITLE II—STATE RESPONSIBILITIES
Subtitle A—State Human Resource Investment Council
Sec. 201. Establishment.
Sec. 202. Chairperson.
Sec. 203. Duties.
Sec. 204. Administration.
Subtitle B—Unified Single State Plan
Sec. 211. Establishment.
Sec. 212. Contents.
Sec. 213. Sense of the Congress relating to cost-effective methods for collecting
data for post-program follow-up of workforce preparation and
development participants.
Sec. 214. Annual reports.
Subtitle C—Unified Service Areas
Sec. 221. Establishment.
Sec. 222. Criteria.
Subtitle D—Local Workforce Development Boards
Sec. 231. Establishment.
Sec. 232. Membership.
Sec. 233. Chairperson.
Sec. 234. Duties.
Sec. 235. Unified local plan.
Sec. 236. Annual reports.
Subtitle E—Community Job Resource Centers
Sec. 241. Purpose.
Sec. 242. Establishment.
Sec. 243. Duties.
Sec. 244. Contribution of resources.
TITLE III—CONSOLIDATION OF FEDERAL WORKFORCE
PREPARATION AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMS
Subtitle A—Adult Education and Literacy State Block Grant Program
Sec. 301. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 302. Use of funds; local applications.
Sec. 303. Four-year State plan.
Sec. 304. Adult education repeal provisions; conforming amendments.
Sec. 305. Definitions.
Sec. 306. Literacy amendments.
Subtitle B—Vocational and Technical Education State Block Grant Program
Sec. 311. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 312. Title I amendments.
Sec. 313. State plan; funds.
Sec. 314. Mandatory programs.
Sec. 315. Mandatory Tech Prep education.
Sec. 316. Repeal of special programs.
Sec. 317. National programs.
Sec. 318. Definitions.
Subtitle C—State Vocational Rehabilitation Block Grant Program
Sec. 321. Consolidation of certain employment-related programs under Reha-
bilitation Act of 1973.
Subtitle D—Adult Employment and Training System
Sec. 331. Purposes.
Sec. 332. Combination of Federal funds by States and unified service areas.
CHAPTER 1—DISADVANTAGED ADULT EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING BLOCK
GRANT PROGRAM
Sec. 341. Allotment and allocation.
Sec. 342. Training and placement opportunities for older individuals.
Sec. 343. Conforming amendments.
CHAPTER 2—DISLOCATED WORKER EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING BLOCK
GRANT PROGRAM
Sec. 351. Additional retraining services.
Sec. 352. Special consideration for needs-related payments.
Sec. 353. Conforming amendments.
Sec. 354. Availability of funds from repealed provisions of law.
CHAPTER 3—VETERANS’ EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING BLOCK GRANT
PROGRAM
Sec. 361. Establishment of program.
Sec. 362. Transfer of funds.
Sec. 363. Transition.
Sec. 364. Repealers.
Sec. 365. Conforming amendments.
CHAPTER 4—JOB OPPORTUNITIES AND BASIC SKILLS ACT
Sec. 368. Authority over the job opportunities and basic skills training program
transferred to the Secretary of Labor.
Subtitle E—Youth Employment and Training Block Grant Program
Sec. 371. Statement of purpose.
Sec. 372. Allotment and allocation.
Sec. 373. Eligibility for services.
Sec. 374. Program design.
Sec. 375. Linkages.
Sec. 376. Conforming amendments.
Subtitle F—Native Americans’ Employment, Training, and Education Block
Grant Program
Sec. 381. Additional findings.
Sec. 382. Additional employment and services provider.
Sec. 383. Additional comprehensive plan requirements.
Sec. 384. Additional duties of native American employment and training coun-
cil.
Sec. 385. Transfer of funds.
Sec. 386. Repealers.
Sec. 387. Conforming amendments.
Subtitle G—Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers Employment, Training, and
Education Block Grant Program
Sec. 391. Additional program and activity requirement.
Sec. 392. Transfer of funds.
Sec. 393. Repealers.
Sec. 394. Conforming amendments.
TITLE IV—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Sec. 401. State workforce preparation and development coordination and inno-
vation grants under Job Training Partnership Act.
Sec. 402. Conforming amendment to Wagner-Peyser Act.
Sec. 403. Additional repeals.
TITLE V—EFFECTIVE DATES AND TRANSITION
Sec. 501. Effective dates.
Sec. 502. Transition provision.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that—
(1) one of our Nation’s greatest economic re-
sources is our workers, who are the most productive
in the world;
(2) due to emerging technologies in the work-
place, global competition, the restructuring of work
organizations, the emergence of quality managing,
the loss of many low-skilled jobs, and more frequent
job and career shifts, American workers will need to
enhance their skills now and on a continuing and
lifelong basis;
(3) because our education and training pro-
grams have been developed independently over many
years, there is no national strategy for a coherent,
well-coordinated workforce preparation and develop-
ment system;
(4) reports from the General Accounting Office
recently identified 154 different Federal programs,
totaling $24,000,000,000 administered by 14 dif-
ferent Federal agencies, which offer some form of
education, job training or employment assistance to
out-of-school youths and adults;
(5) these General Accounting Office reports le-
gitimately point to the many problems of duplication
and fragmentation that exist within the varied Fed-
eral workforce preparation and development pro-
grams;
(6) a major goal of any reform of the Federal
workforce preparation and development system must
be to eliminate unnecessary duplication and frag-
mentation in workforce preparation and development
programs, to ensure the highest quality of services
to the largest number of individuals;
(7) the focus of reform efforts should be to
streamline workforce preparation and development
programs at the Federal level and provide flexibility
needed by States and local communities to establish
and carry out effective and cohesive programs;
(8) while a major goal of this reform must be
to further consolidate similar programs, simply
blocking these programs together with no direction
for reform will not necessarily ensure a better sys-
tem;
(9) most of the pieces needed to develop a co-
herent workforce preparation and development sys-
tem exist at the Federal, State, and local levels, and
therefore massive new programs are not necessary;
(10) a strategic planning process is needed at
all levels of government to rationalize the use of re-
sources from numerous Federal education and train-
ing programs to ensure that each program contrib-
utes to a well-designed, high performance workforce
preparation and development system;
(11) many States and communities are experi-
menting with and designing workforce preparation
and development systems responsive to their needs,
and Federal efforts must enhance and encourage
their efforts, and not prescribe a single national so-
lution;
(12) the private sector must be viewed as a crit-
ical partner in the workforce preparation and devel-
opment system; and
(13) the public, which funds and uses workforce
preparation and development programs, should hold
the system accountable to high standards of per-
formance.
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act are—
(1) to eliminate duplication and fragmentation
in Federal education, job training, and employment
programs that serve out-of-school youths and adults,
through the consolidation of Federal workforce prep-
aration and development programs, thus resulting in
administrative savings, and providing States and
local communities with streamlined and more flexible
funding for the purpose of better assisting such
youths and adults;
(2) to establish a framework at the Federal,
State, and local levels to develop a strategic planning
process and a coordinated, coherent administrative
structure for programs that prepare youths and
adults for the workplace;
(3) to encourage States and local communities
to develop strategic, collaborative leadership in the
planning and administration of Federal workforce
preparation and development programs to ensure
that such programs are responsive to the needs of
individuals desiring such services, workers, the com-
munity, and business and industry, as well as result-
ing in the elimination of fragmentation and duplica-
tion between workforce preparation and development
programs;
(4) to provide States and communities in-
creased flexibility in the design of a comprehensive
workforce preparation and development system by
waiving legislated and regulatory mandates of indi-
vidual workforce preparation and development pro-
grams, thereby allowing State and local innovation
and experimentation;
(5) to encourage communities to establish com-
munity job resource centers to serve as easily acces-
sible and recognized single points of entry into the
local workforce preparation and development system
where youths and adults may receive information
and assistance about the local labor market and re-
lated career opportunities, and assistance in entering
the appropriate workforce preparation and develop-
ment program;
(6) to expand and improve the quality and effi-
ciency of services provided under workforce prepara-
tion and development programs, particularly for in-
dividuals eligible for services under such programs
who have significant barriers to employment;
(7) to hold workforce preparation and develop-
ment programs accountable for providing high qual-
ity services; and
(8) to improve access to information regarding
career opportunities, eligibility for services, program
availability, and program performance through ex-
pansion of State and local management information
systems and improved and compatible data collec-
tion.
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.
For purposes of this Act, the following definitions
apply:
(1) LOCAL BOARD.—The term ‘‘Local Board’’
means the Local Workforce Development Board es-
tablished in accordance with subtitle D of title II.
(2) 
SCHOOL-TO-WORK
TRANSITION
PRO-
GRAMS.—The term ‘‘school-to-work transition pro-
grams’’ means those programs which—
(A) provide integrated academic and occu-
pational learning, integrated school-based and
work-based learning, and establish linkages be-
tween secondary and postsecondary education;
(B) result in the achievement by students
of academic and occupational skills, workplace
readiness competencies, and experience in the
workplace; and
(C) include programs such as—
(i) youth apprenticeship programs;
(ii) technical preparation programs es-
tablished under the Carl D. Perkins Voca-
tional and Applied Technology Education
Act (20 U.S.C. 2301 et seq.);
(iii) school-to-work opportunities pro-
grams under the School-to-Work Opportu-
nities Act of 1994;
(iv) cooperative education programs;
(v) high school career academies; and
(vi) career awareness and exploration
programs.
(3) SERVICE
DELIVERY
AREA.—The term
‘‘service delivery area’’ means the area established
under section 101 of the Job Training Partnership
Act (29 U.S.C. 1511).
(4) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means any of
the several States, the District of Columbia, the
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Commonwealth
of the Northern Mariana Islands, American Samoa,
Guam, the Virgin Islands, the Federated States of
Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall Islands,
and Palau.
(5) STATE COUNCIL.—The term ‘‘State Coun-
cil’’ means the State human resource investment
council established in accordance with subtitle A of
title II.
(6) WORKFORCE PREPARATION AND DEVELOP-
MENT
PROGRAMS.—The term ‘‘workforce prepara-
tion and development programs’’ means programs
under any of the following provisions of law:
(A) The Carl D. Perkins Vocational and
Applied Technology Education Act (20 U.S.C.
2301 et seq.).
(B) The Job Training Partnership Act (29
U.S.C. 1501 et seq.).
(C) The Wagner-Peyser Act (29 U.S.C. 49
et seq.).
(D) The Job Opportunities and Basic
Skills Training Program authorized under part
F of title IV of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 681 et seq.).
(E) The Adult Education Act (20 U.S.C.
1201 et seq.).
(F) The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29
U.S.C. 701 et seq.).
(G) Chapter 2 of title II of the Trade Act
of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2271 et seq.).
(H) Section 6(d)(4) of the Food Stamp
Act of 1977.
(I) Veterans vocational training programs
authorized under chapter 106 of title 10, Unit-
ed States Code, and chapters 30, 31, 32, 35,
and 41 of title 38, United States Code.
(J) Federal school-to-work transition pro-
grams, including school-to-work opportunities
programs under the School-to-Work Opportuni-
ties Act of 1994.
(K) Title IV of the Higher Education Act
of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.).
(L) Chapter 1 of title I of the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20
U.S.C. 2701 et seq.).
(M) Other Federal employment, education,
or training programs, identified and determined
appropriate by the Federal Council.
TITLE I—FEDERAL
RESPONSIBILITIES
Subtitle 
A—Federal 
Workforce
Preparation and Development
Council
SEC. 101. ESTABLISHMENT.
There is established the Federal Workforce Prepara-
tion and Development Council (in this Act referred to as
the ‘‘Federal Council’’).
SEC. 102. MEMBERSHIP.
The Federal Council shall be composed of the follow-
ing members or their designees:
(1) The Secretary of Labor.
(2) The Secretary of Education.
(3) The Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices.
(4) The Secretary of Commerce.
(5) The Director of the Office of Management
and Budget.
(6) The heads of such other Federal agencies as
the President may designate.
SEC. 103. CO-CHAIRPERSONS.
The Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of
Education shall serve as co-chairpersons of the Federal
Council.
SEC. 104. DUTIES.
The Federal Council shall—
(1) based upon the recommendations of the Na-
tional Commission for Employment Policy, develop a
strategic plan to ensure that workforce preparation
and development programs contribute to a coherent
workforce preparation and development system in
the United States;
(2) based on the experience of States in using
waivers of Federal rules and regulations, make rec-
ommendations to appropriate Federal agencies relat-
ing to changes in such rules and regulations govern-
ing workforce preparation and development pro-
grams to ensure consistent interpretation, guidance,
and coordination of such programs across Federal
agencies;
(3) develop criteria for approving unified single
State plans containing waiver requests of Federal
rules, regulations, and provisions of law governing
workforce preparation and development programs;
(4) review and approve or disapprove such
State plans;
(5) provide grants and technical assistance to
States for the purpose of implementing such State
plans, as appropriate;
(6) evaluate the performance of States in imple-
menting unified single State plans and the results of
waivers of Federal rules, regulations, and provisions
of law governing workforce preparation and develop-
ment programs in meeting stated goals and objec-
tives contained in the State plans;
(7) develop recommendations for a common set
of core, competency-based outcome measurements
that can be used to determine individual and pro-
gram performance across workforce preparation and
development programs, and which, to the extent
practicable, should utilize educational competencies
and skill standards, and, at a minimum, should
measure—
(A) academic competency attainment and
gains of program participants;
(B) occupational competency attainment
and gains of program participants;
(C) employment or educational continu-
ation of program participants; and
(D) employment retention and earnings of
program participants;
(8) make recommendations to the Congress on
changes needed in Federal legislation to develop a
coherent workforce preparation and development
system in the United States, including specific rec-
ommendations for the elimination of fragmentation
and duplication among workforce preparation and
development programs and providing for the consoli-
dation of similar programs, where appropriate;
(9) make recommendations for the consolidation
of Federal administration of workforce preparation
and development programs, to the maximum extent
possible;
(10) make recommendations to appropriate
Federal agencies relating to development of regula-
tions to implement the amendments to the programs
described in title III;
(11) take steps to ensure the availability and
use of the most cost effective and uniform data col-
lection methods, including the utilization of unem-
ployment insurance wage records for the purpose of
obtaining employment and earnings data for post-
program follow-up of participants in Federal
workforce preparation and development programs;
and
(12) oversee the implementation and adminis-
tration of this Act.
SEC. 105. ADMINISTRATION.
The Federal Council is authorized—
(1) to prescribe such rules and regulations as
may be necessary for conducting the business of the
Federal Council; and
(2) to use the services, personnel, facilities, and
information of any Federal agency, State agency,
local agency, and private agency or organization,
with the consent of such agency.
SEC. 106. AGENCY CONTRIBUTIONS.
Upon request made by the co-chairpersons of the
Federal Council, each Federal agency (including the Na-
tional Occupational Information Coordinating Committee)
is authorized and directed to make its services, personnel,
facilities, and information available to the greatest prac-
ticable extent to the Federal Council for the purpose of
carrying out the duties specified in section 104.
SEC. 107. REPORT.
Not later than 2 years after the effective date of this
Act, the Federal Council shall submit to the President and
the Congress a report containing—
(1) an evaluation of the effectiveness of unified
single State plans relating to waivers of provisions of
law (and regulations under such provisions) under
workforce preparation and development programs,
including—
(A) the efficiency of services offered to in-
dividuals under such programs;
(B) the effectiveness of such programs in
meeting labor market needs and the needs of
businesses for a skilled workforce; and
(C) how individuals eligible for services
under such programs are impacted, especially
with regard to attainment of academic and oc-
cupational competencies and job retention;
(2) recommendations for a common perform-
ance measurement system that States and local sys-
tems may use in the development of integrated per-
formance measurement systems for all workforce
preparation and development systems; and
(3) recommendations for the further elimination
of fragmentation and duplication among workforce
preparation and development programs, including
recommendations for the further elimination or con-
solidation of duplicative programs where appro-
priate, and recommendations on the consolidation of
Federal administration of such programs.
Subtitle B—National Commission
for Employment Policy
SEC. 111. ADDITIONAL MEMBERSHIP REQUIREMENTS.
Section 472(a) of the Job Training Partnership Act
(29 U.S.C. 1772(a)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘(a) There is established’’ and
inserting ‘‘(a)(1) There is established’’;
(2) in the 3d sentence of paragraph (1) (as so
designated)—
(A) by striking ‘‘broadly’’; and
(B) by inserting ‘‘and industry’’ after
‘‘business’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
‘‘(2) In making appointments under paragraph (1),
the President shall—
‘‘(A) appoint members to the Commission who
are representative of both the political party of the
President and the opposite political party of the
President; and
‘‘(B) appoint a substantial number of members
from among representatives of business and indus-
try.’’.
SEC. 112. SELECTION OF CHAIRMAN.
Section 472(c)(1) of the Job Training Partnership
Act (29 U.S.C. 1772(c)(1)) is amended by adding at the
end the following new sentence: ‘‘The Chairman of the
Commission shall be selected by the President from among
members who are representatives of business, or from rep-
resentatives of business, trade, or professional associations
which represent the workforce preparation interests of
United States businesses.’’.
SEC. 113. FUNCTIONS OF COMMISSION.
Section 473 of the Job Training Partnership Act (29
U.S.C. 1773) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘SEC. 473. The Commission
shall’’ and inserting ‘‘SEC. 473. (a) The Commission
shall’’;
(2) in paragraph 10, by striking the ‘‘and’’ at
the end of such paragraph;
(3) in paragraph 11, by striking the period at
the end of such paragraph and inserting ‘‘; and’’;
(4) by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
‘‘(12) conduct a study of existing workforce prepara-
tion and development programs to develop recommenda-
tions for the President, the Congress, and the Federal
Workforce Preparation and Development Council (estab-
lished under section 101 of the Consolidated and Re-
formed Education, Employment, and Retraining Systems
Act) on—
‘‘(A) further elimination of fragmentation and
duplication among workforce preparation and devel-
opment programs, including recommendations for
the further consolidation and elimination of duplica-
tive programs, and recommendations on the consoli-
dation of the Federal administration of such pro-
grams;
‘‘(B) further reforms necessary for the develop-
ment of a comprehensive and coherent system of
workforce preparation and development in the Unit-
ed States, including recommendations on how to—
‘‘(i) tie together reform efforts in the ele-
mentary and secondary educational system,
workforce preparation and development pro-
grams, and postsecondary education programs
(including student financial aid programs) in
the development of a system of lifelong learning
in the United States;
‘‘(ii) improve performance of such pro-
grams;
‘‘(iii) expand services to eligible individuals
(as well as to the general public) under such
programs;
‘‘(iv) ensure that such programs are re-
sponsive to the changing skill needs of Amer-
ican businesses; and
‘‘(C) the development of consistent policies,
practices, and procedures to apply to the operation
of existing Federal workforce preparation and devel-
opment programs, including the development of—
‘‘(i) common terms, definitions, reporting
requirements, and core data elements in order
to create cross-program intake, eligibility, and
assessment procedures;
‘‘(ii) common performance standards, in-
cluding standards that focus on system-level
performance in addition to the outcomes of in-
dividual programs to enable policymakers to ex-
amine the collective effect of multiple workforce
preparation programs in achieving goals speci-
fied for particular populations; and
‘‘(iii) a system utilizing unemployment in-
surance wage records for development of a na-
tionally usable system for cross-program, cross-
agency evaluations of participant outcomes, in-
cluding job placement, job retention, and wages
received.’’; and
(5) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(b) For purposes of subsection (a), the term
‘workforce preparation and development programs’ has
the meaning given such term in section 3(6) of the Con-
solidated and Reformed Education, Employment, and Re-
training Systems Act’’.
SEC. 114. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.
Section 475 of the Job Training Partnership Act (29
U.S.C. 1773) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘SEC. 475. The Commission
shall’’ and inserting ‘‘SEC. 475. (a) Except as pro-
vided in subsection (b), the Commission shall’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(b) Not later than 1 year after the date of the enact-
ment of this subsection, the Commission shall provide to
the President, the Congress, and the Federal Workforce
Preparation and Development Council established under
section 101 of the Consolidated and Reformed Education,
Employment, and Retraining Systems Act a report con-
taining the recommendations of the Commission developed
pursuant to section 473(12) (relating to workforce prepa-
ration and development programs).’’.
Subtitle C—Federal Waiver Author-
ity for Provisions of Workforce
Preparation and Development
Programs
SEC. 121. WAIVER AUTHORITY.
(a) STATE
PLANNING
AND
REPORTING
PROC-
ESSES.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
Federal Council, in accordance with the requirements of
this subtitle, may waive provisions of law (or regulations
under such provisions) relating to State planning and re-
porting processes under workforce preparation and devel-
opment programs contained in the unified single State
plan submitted under subtitle B of title II for the purpose
of consolidating such planning and reporting processes.
(b) OTHER PROVISIONS OF LAW.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, the Federal Council, in accordance
with the requirements of this subtitle, may waive
other provisions of law (or regulations under such
provisions) under workforce preparation and devel-
opment programs contained in the unified single
State plan submitted under subtitle B of title II that
would prevent the application of consistent practices
and procedures relating to—
(A) the use of common definitions and
terms;
(B) performance standards;
(C) collection of common participant and
program data;
(D) common cost categories and cost limi-
tations; and
(E) except as provided in subsection (c),
any other appropriate provisions or procedures,
as determined by the Federal Council.
(2) REQUIREMENT WITH RESPECT TO WAIVER
OF PERFORMANCE STANDARDS.—The Federal Coun-
cil may waive a provision of law (or a regulation
under such provision) referred to in subparagraph
(B) of paragraph (1) (relating to performance stand-
ards) under a workforce preparation and develop-
ment program only if the State seeking the waiver
provides for the establishment of a single, integrated
performance measurement system to be used across
all workforce preparation and development programs
in accordance with section 212(7).
(c) LIMITATIONS.—The Federal Council may not
grant waivers of provisions of law (or regulations under
such provisions) under workforce preparation and develop-
ment programs that would alter—
(1) the purposes or goals of such programs;
(2) the allocation of funds under such pro-
grams;
(3) any provision of law under such programs
relating to public health or safety, civil rights, pro-
tections granted under sections 503 and 504 of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 793 and
794), occupational safety and health, environmental
protection, displacement of current employees, or
fraud and abuse; and
(4) eligibility requirements under such pro-
grams, except that the Federal Council may grant a
waiver with respect to an eligibility requirement if
such waiver would provide for increased flexibility in
developing common definitions for individuals eligi-
ble for such programs.
(d) EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN PROGRAMS.—The Fed-
eral Council may not waive provisions of law or regulations
under—
(1) title IV of the Higher Education Act of
1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070 et seq.); and
(2) chapter 1 of title I of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 2701
et seq.).
SEC. 122. APPLICATION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—A State may, in accordance with
the requirements of this Act, submit to the Federal Coun-
cil an application in such form and containing such infor-
mation as the Federal Council may reasonably require for
the purpose of—
(1) waiving provisions of law or regulations
under workforce preparation and development pro-
grams conducted in such State for the 2-year period
beginning on the date such application is approved
by the Federal Council; and
(2) receiving grants and technical assistance
under subtitle D to carry out the activities described
in section 132.
(b) CONTENTS.—Such application shall contain—
(1) the unified single State plan developed
under subtitle B of title II containing the specific
provisions of law or regulations under the workforce
preparation and development programs for which the
State is seeking a waiver or waivers, including assur-
ances that such waiver or waivers will result in ex-
panded and improved services to and outcomes for
individuals eligible for assistance under such pro-
grams;
(2) assurances that the Governor of the State
has established unified service areas in the State in
accordance with subtitle C of title II;
(3) assurances that the State has established
local workforce development boards in accordance
with subtitle D of title II; and
(4) assurances that the State has established or
will provide for the establishment of community job
resource centers in accordance with subtitle E of
title II.
SEC. 123. REVIEW OF APPLICATION.
The Federal Council shall review each application
submitted by a State under section 122. In reviewing each
waiver request contained in each such application, the
Federal Council shall seek the input of the member of the
Council who has jurisdiction over the workforce prepara-
tion and development program to which such waiver re-
quest relates. In the case of a waiver request for a
workforce preparation and development program under
the jurisdiction of a Federal agency not represented on
the Federal Council, the Federal Council shall consult
with the head of such agency with respect to such waiver
request.
SEC. 124. APPROVAL AND DISAPPROVAL OF APPLICATION.
(a) TIMING.—The Federal Council shall review each
application submitted by a State in accordance with sec-
tion 122 promptly upon receipt and shall approve or dis-
approve such application not later than the end of the 30-
day period beginning on the date the Council receives such
application.
(b) APPROVAL.—The Federal Council may approve
an application and grant the waiver or waivers proposed
in such application (for the 2-year period beginning on the
date such application is approved by the Council), or pro-
vide a grant and technical assistance under subtitle D to
carry out the unified single State plan under subtitle B
of title II, as the case may be, if the State demonstrates
in the application that such waiver or waivers, or grant
and technical assistance, as the case may be, would
achieve coordination, expansion, and improvement in the
quality of services under workforce preparation and devel-
opment programs.
(c) DISAPPROVAL AND RESUBMISSION.—If the Fed-
eral Council determines the application is incomplete or
unsatisfactory, the Council shall, before the end of the
period referred to in subsection (a)—
(1) notify the State of the reasons for the fail-
ure to approve the application;
(2) notify the State that the application may be
resubmitted during the period referred to in para-
graph (3); and
(3) permit the State to resubmit a corrected or
amended application during the 30-day period begin-
ning on notification under this subsection.
(d) REVIEW OF RESUBMITTED APPLICATION.—The
Federal Council shall review and approve or disapprove
any application resubmitted under subsection (c) begin-
ning before the expiration of the 30-day period beginning
upon such resubmission.
SEC. 125. REVOCATION OF WAIVER.
If, after approving an application under section 124,
the Federal Council finds that the waiver or waivers ap-
proved under subsection (b) of such section do not achieve
coordination, expansion, and improvement in the quality
of services under the workforce preparation and develop-
ment programs to which such waiver or waivers relate, the
Federal Council may revoke the waiver or waivers in whole
or in part, effective at such time as the Council deems
appropriate.
SEC. 126. NOTIFICATION OF INSPECTOR GENERAL.
The Federal Council shall notify the inspector general
of any Federal agency which has jurisdiction over a
workforce preparation and development program for which
the Council has approved a waiver or waivers under
section 124(b).
Subtitle D—Implementation Grants
and Technical Assistance
SEC. 131. AUTHORITY.
The Federal Council is authorized to provide grants
and technical assistance to States that have in effect an
application approved pursuant to section 124 for the pur-
pose of carrying out the single State plan approved in such
application.
SEC. 132. USE OF AMOUNTS.
A State shall use amounts received from a grant
under section 131 for activities at both the State and local
levels to carry out the unified single State plan, including
activities that will promote leadership development, profes-
sional development, and cross-training of personnel from
the affected State and local agencies, team-building, stra-
tegic planning, development of new coordination strate-
gies, development of computerized management informa-
tion systems or labor market information systems, and de-
velopment and improvement of the system of community
job resource centers under subtitle E of title II.
SEC. 133. ALLOCATION REQUIREMENT.
A State shall provide at least 70 percent of amounts
received from a grant under section 131 to the Local
Boards in such State.
SEC. 134. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be appro-
priated $50,000,000 for fiscal year 1995, and such sums
as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 1996,
1997, 1998, and 1999, to provide implementation grants
and technical assistance to States under this subtitle.
(b) AVAILABILITY.—Amounts appropriated pursuant
to the authorization of appropriations under subsection (a)
are authorized to remain available until expended.
TITLE II—STATE
RESPONSIBILITIES
Subtitle A—State Human Resource
Investment Council
SEC. 201. ESTABLISHMENT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection
(b), any State that desires—
(1) to participate in the development of a State-
wide, comprehensive workforce preparation and de-
velopment system,
(2) to have a unified single State plan approved
under subtitle B,
(3) to receive a waiver of provisions of law or
regulations under workforce preparation and devel-
opment programs under title I, and
(4) to receive a grant and technical assistance
under subtitle D of title I,
shall establish a State human resource investment council
(in this Act referred to as the ‘‘State Council’’) in accord-
ance with title VII of the Job Training Partnership Act
(29 U.S.C. 1792 et seq.) to assist the Governor of such
State in developing a coordinated State strategy for
workforce preparation and development programs, includ-
ing programs for school-to-work transition and lifelong
learning.
(b) EXCEPTION.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of satisfying
the requirement of subsection (a) with respect to the
establishment of the State human resource invest-
ment council in accordance with title VII of the Job
Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1792 et seq.),
a State may establish such a council that is com-
posed of the following individuals:
(A) The head of each State agency respon-
sible 
for 
the 
administration 
of 
Federal
workforce preparation and development pro-
grams.
(B) The director of the State Occupational
Information Coordinating Committee.
(C) The head of the State agency respon-
sible for commerce and economic development.
(D) Representatives of both business and
industry (representing both small and large
business), including members of private indus-
try councils established in accordance with sec-
tion 102 of the Job Training Partnership Act
(29 U.S.C. 1512), selected from among a list of
nominees submitted by State and local business
organizations and trade associations.
(E) Representatives of employees, both or-
ganized and non-union. Representatives of orga-
nized labor shall be selected from among nomi-
nees submitted by State labor federations.
(F) Representatives of education, training,
and other workforce preparation and develop-
ment programs, including—
(i) representatives of local educational
agencies or associations;
(ii) representatives of postsecondary
educational institutions, including commu-
nity and technical colleges;
(iii) representatives of vocational edu-
cation institutions or programs;
(iv) individuals with knowledge of and
qualifications with respect to serving spe-
cial populations, including individuals with
disabilities; and
(v) representatives of local welfare
agencies.
(2) ADDITIONAL MEMBERS.—In addition to the
individuals referred to in paragraph (1), the State
Council may also include the following individuals:
(A) Members of State legislatures.
(B) Locally-elected officials.
(C) Representatives of community-based
organizations.
(D) Members of the general public.
(3) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT.—A substantial
number of members of the State Council shall con-
sist of representatives of business and industry
under paragraph (1)(D).
SEC. 202. CHAIRPERSON.
The State Council shall select a chairperson of the
State Council from among the members of the Council
who are representatives from business and industry.
SEC. 203. DUTIES.
The State Council shall—
(1) assess the needs of the State with regard
to—
(A) current and projected demand for
workers by occupation;
(B) skill levels of the workforce and the
needs of business for a skilled workforce;
(C) economic development needs of the
State; and
(D) the type and availability of workforce
preparation and development programs in the
State;
(2) develop a unified single State plan in ac-
cordance with subtitle B for workforce preparation
and development programs, which shall include the
assessment of needs required under paragraph (1);
(3) develop statewide guidelines for the estab-
lishment of Local Boards and community job re-
source centers, including criteria—
(A) to be used for the selection of members
of such Boards;
(B) to measure the effectiveness of such
Boards; and
(C) to be used by Local Boards in the se-
lection or establishment of community job re-
SEC. 204. ADMINISTRATION.
Each State Council may obtain the services of such
professional, technical, and clerical personnel as may be
necessary to carry out the duties specified in section 203.
Subtitle B—Unified Single State
Plan
SEC. 211. ESTABLISHMENT.
Any State that desires—
(1) to participate in the development of a State-
wide, comprehensive workforce preparation and de-
velopment system,
(2) to receive a waiver of provisions of law or
regulations under workforce preparation and devel-
opment programs under title I, and
(3) to receive a grant and technical assistance
under subtitle D of title I,
shall establish a unified single State plan for the purpose
of coordinating services under workforce preparation and
development programs. Such plan shall be developed by
the State Council, in consultation with the State education
agency and the State labor agency, and shall be approved
or disapproved by the Governor.
SEC. 212. CONTENTS.
Such unified single State plan shall contain the
following:
(1) Both short-term and long-term goals, and
related strategies, to ensure that workforce prepara-
tion and development programs contribute to a co-
herent workforce preparation and development sys-
tem in the State.
(2) An identification of the Federal workforce
preparation and development programs to be in-
cluded in the State’s overall workforce preparation
and development system.
(3) A description of the State planning, report-
ing, and data collection processes for workforce
preparation and development programs, including a
description of the waivers requested with respect to
such processes, which, at a minimum, shall include
programs under the provisions of law referred to in
subparagraphs (A) through (E) of section 5(7), for
the purpose of consolidating such planning, report-
ing, and data collection processes.
(4) A description of all other waivers requested
for provisions of law or regulations under workforce
preparation and development programs, which in-
cludes the rationale for such requests and assur-
ances that the receipt of such waivers will result in
improved quality and efficiency of such programs.
(5) A description of how individuals eligible for
services under workforce preparation and develop-
ment programs, especially individuals with signifi-
cant barriers to employment, will be served in the
State.
(6) The types of services to be provided under
such programs, including a description of how each
individual workforce preparation and development
program will support and contribute to the overall
mission of the system.
(7) The performance measurement system or
systems the State will use to determine the effective-
ness of such programs. States that elect to establish
a single, integrated performance measurement sys-
tem for all such programs, should, at a minimum,
include the following 4 outcome measurements:
(A) Academic competency attainment and
gains of program participants.
(B) Occupational competency attainment
and gains of program participants.
(C) Employment or educational continu-
ation of program participants.
(D) Employment retention and earnings of
program participants.
(8) A description of the State waivers available
to local programs.
SEC. 213. SENSE OF THE CONGRESS RELATING TO COST-EF-
FECTIVE METHODS FOR COLLECTING DATA
FOR 
POST-PROGRAM 
FOLLOW-UP 
OF
WORKFORCE PREPARATION AND DEVELOP-
MENT PARTICIPANTS.
It is the sense of the Congress that States and unified
service areas should utilize cost-effective methods for col-
lecting data for post-program follow-up of participants of
workforce preparation and development programs. Such
methods should include utilization of unemployment insur-
ance wage records to obtain employment and earnings
data for such participants.
SEC. 214. ANNUAL REPORTS.
Any State that desires to participate in the develop-
ment of a comprehensive workforce preparation and devel-
opment system, and to receive a waiver of provisions of
law (or regulations under such provisions) under
workforce development programs under title I, shall sub-
mit to the Federal Council an annual report which evalu-
ates the progress in achieving the goals stated in the uni-
fied single State plan.
Subtitle C—Unified Service Areas
SEC. 221. ESTABLISHMENT.
The Governor of any State that desires to have a uni-
fied single State plan approved under subtitle B, to receive
grants and technical assistance under subtitle D of title
I, and to receive a waiver of provisions of law (or regula-
tions under such provisions) under workforce preparation
and development programs under title I shall, based upon
the recommendations of the State Council, and in con-
sultation and cooperation with local communities, ensure
the establishment of unified service areas throughout each
such State in accordance with this subtitle for the purpose
of providing community-wide workforce preparation and
development services in such State.
SEC. 222. CRITERIA.
In establishing unified service areas under section
221, the Governor, in consultation with local commu-
nities—
(1) shall take into consideration existing labor
market areas, units of general local government,
service delivery areas established under section 101
of the Job Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C.
1511), and the distance travelled by individuals to
receive services;
(2) may merge existing service delivery areas;
(3) may not approve the establishment of any
unified service area that divides existing service de-
livery areas; and
(4) may not approve a total number of unified
service areas which is greater than the total number
of existing service delivery areas in that State.
Subtitle D—Local Workforce
Development Boards
SEC. 231. ESTABLISHMENT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Governor of any State that
desires to participate in the development of a workforce
preparation and development system, and receive a waiver
of provisions of law (or regulations under such provisions)
under workforce preparation and development programs
under title I, shall, in consultation with local communities,
ensure the establishment of a Local Workforce Develop-
ment Board (in this Act referred to as the ‘‘Local Board’’)
in each unified service area established under subtitle C.
(b) DESIGNATION OF EXISTING WORKFORCE POLICY
COUNCILS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The chief elected officials in
a unified service area may designate existing
workforce policy councils as the Local Board only if
such councils—
(A) satisfy the membership requirements
under section 232;
(B) satisfy the selection criteria established
by the State Council; and
(C) are capable of performing the duties
specified in section 234.
(2) APPROVAL
OR
DISAPPROVAL
BY
GOV-
ERNOR.—The Governor shall approve or disapprove
any designation of an existing workforce policy coun-
cil under paragraph (1).
SEC. 232. MEMBERSHIP.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Local Board shall consist
of—
(1) heads of local agencies responsible for pro-
grams under the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and
Applied Technology Education Act, the Job Training
Partnership Act, the Job Opportunities and Basic
Skills Training Program authorized under part F of
title IV of the Social Security Act, the Wagner-
Peyser Act, the Adult Education Act, and adminis-
trators of other workforce preparation and develop-
ment programs (as determined to be appropriate),
including the local program administrator respon-
sible for economic development in the unified service
area (consistent with the criteria established by the
State Council pursuant to section 203(3));
(2) representatives from business and industry,
including individuals serving on private industry
councils established under section 102 of the Job
Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1512) who are
owners of businesses, chief executives or chief oper-
ating officers of private businesses, and other busi-
ness executives with optimum policy-making author-
ity in local businesses, selected from among a list of
nominees submitted by local business organizations
and trade associations;
(3) representatives of employees, both organized
and non-union, with representatives of organized
labor selected from among nominees submitted by
local labor organizations;
(4) representatives of educational, social service,
and community-based organizations, including indi-
viduals nominated by regional or local educational
agencies or associations (including vocational edu-
cation), community and technical colleges, local
school boards, organizations representing individuals
with knowledge of and qualifications with respect to
serving individuals with disabilities, and local veter-
ans’ organizations;
(5) locally-elected officials; and
(6) such other individuals as determined appro-
priate by the chief elected officials in the unified
service area (consistent with the selection criteria es-
tablished by the State Council pursuant to section
203(3)).
(b) SELECTION PROCESS.—
(1) ONE UNIT OF GOVERNMENT.—In any case
in which there is only one unit of general local gov-
ernment in the unified service area, the chief elected
official of such unit shall appoint the members to
the Local Board in accordance with the criteria de-
veloped by the State Council pursuant to section
203(3).
(2) TWO OR MORE UNITS OF GOVERNMENT.—
In any case in which there are two or more units of
general local government in the unified service area,
the chief elected officials of such units shall appoint
the members to the Local Board in accordance with
an agreement entered into by such units and in ac-
cordance with the criteria developed by the State
Council pursuant to section 203(3).
(c) TERMS.—The members of the Local Board shall
be appointed for either fixed or staggered terms and may
serve until their successors are appointed, consistent with
criteria established by the State Council pursuant to sec-
tion 203(3).
(d) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT.—A majority of the
members of the Local Board shall consist of representa-
tives from business and industry under subsection (a)(2).
SEC. 233. CHAIRPERSON.
The Local Board shall select a chairperson of the
Local Board from among the members of the Board who
are representatives from business and industry under sub-
section (a)(2).
SEC. 234. DUTIES.
Each Local Board, in partnership with the unit or
units of general local government within the unified serv-
ice area, shall—
(1) develop an annual unified local plan, as re-
quired under section 235, and submit such plan to
the State Council for approval;
(2) coordinate workforce preparation and devel-
opment programs in the unified service area, which,
at a minimum, shall include programs under the
provisions of law referred to in subparagraphs (A)
through (E) of section 5(7);
(3) develop a strategy to measure the perform-
ance of programs and individual service providers in
the unified service area to determine if the goals in
the unified local plan are being achieved;
(4) establish a network of community job re-
source centers for the unified service area for the
purpose of providing a ‘‘one-stop shopping’’ point of
entry for individuals desiring to participate in
workforce preparation and development programs
and similar State programs;
(5) develop a process by which to select or es-
tablish community job resource centers which en-
sures that the most effective and efficient workforce
preparation and development service providers are
chosen, taking into account similar statewide criteria
established by the State Human Resource Invest-
ment Council pursuant to section 203;
(6) receive and use funds from a grant received
by the State under subtitle D of title I;
(7) promote the adoption of industry-recognized
skill standards by local business and industry and
education and training providers;
(8) submit requests for waivers of provisions of
law and regulations under workforce preparation
and development programs to the State Council;
(9) help develop, as part of the community job
resource center, information available and appro-
priate for public use on eligibility requirements, the
availability, and the effectiveness of workforce prepa-
ration and development programs in the unified
service area; and
(10) carry out such other duties as determined
to be appropriated by the State Council.
SEC. 235. UNIFIED LOCAL PLAN.
(a) IN GENERAL.—A Local Board that desires—
(1) to participate in the development of a com-
prehensive workforce preparation and development
system in its unified service area,
(2) to receive funds for implementation and
technical assistance as provided in subtitle D of title
I, and
(3) to benefit from the issuance of waivers (as
provided for in the State plan),
shall, in partnership with the unit or units of general local
government within the unified service area, submit an an-
nual unified local plan to the State Council for approval
by such Council.
(b) CONTENTS.— Such local plan shall be consistent
with the unified single State plan and shall include the
following:
(1) Short-term and long-term goals, and related
strategies, to ensure that workforce preparation and
development programs contribute to a coherent
workforce preparation and development system in
the unified service area.
(2) A description of the Federal, and where ap-
plicable, State programs to be included in the uni-
fied service area’s comprehensive workforce prepara-
tion and development system, including a description
of how funds used to carry out Federal workforce
preparation and development program funds in the
unified service area will be utilized.
(3) A description of requests for waivers of pro-
visions of law (or regulations under such provisions)
under Federal workforce preparation and develop-
ment programs, the rationale behind such waiver re-
quests, and assurances that the use of such waivers
will improve the quality and efficiency of the delivery
of services in the unified service area, as well as ex-
pand and improve such services to individuals eligi-
ble for services under such programs.
(4) A description of the role of the Local Board
in coordinating the efforts of individual workforce
preparation and development programs, and in fa-
cilitating an agreed upon identification of the roles
and responsibilities of individual programs in the
comprehensive workforce preparation and develop-
ment system.
(5) A description of strategies the Local Board
will undertake to fully involve local employers, and
other consumers, in the development of the
workforce preparation and development system, and
a description of how such system will be tied to both
short-term and long-term labor market and economic
development needs in the unified service area.
(6) A description of strategies the Local Board
will undertake to meet the needs of significant seg-
ments of the population, including the economically
disadvantaged, welfare recipients, at-risk youth, dis-
located workers, individuals with disabilities, and
other targeted populations with barriers to employ-
ment.
(7) A description of the performance measure-
ment system that the Local Board will utilize to de-
termine if the goals established in the unified local
plan are being achieved.
(8) A description of how community job re-
source centers are or will be established in the uni-
fied service area, including—
(A) a description of the criteria to be used
in the selection or establishment of community
job resource centers, which ensures that the
most effective and efficient workforce prepara-
tion and development service providers are cho-
sen, taking into account similar statewide cri-
teria established by the State Human Resource
Investment Council pursuant to section 203;
(B) a description of services to be offered
at such centers;
(C) an identification of the roles of individ-
ual workforce preparation and development pro-
grams in the operation of the centers; and
(D) a description of how the Local Board,
as provided under section 243(d) of this Act,
will expand services at such center to the gen-
eral public, including, where appropriate, a de-
scription of a fee for service structure to be im-
plemented by the Local Board.
(9) Such other information as requested by the
State Council.
SEC. 236. ANNUAL REPORTS.
Each Local Board shall submit to the State Council
an annual report that—
(1) evaluates the progress in achieving the goals
stated in the annual unified local plan developed and
submitted under section 235; and
(2) evaluates the effectiveness of coordinating
services under workforce preparation and develop-
ment programs.
Subtitle E—Community Job
Resource Centers
SEC. 241. PURPOSE.
The purpose of this subtitle is to encourage the estab-
lishment of a network of community job resource centers
in each unified service area to—
(1) improve access of individuals to workforce
preparation and development programs by creating
local common points of entry to such programs;
(2) better inform individuals regarding employ-
ment opportunities, local labor market conditions,
and on eligibility requirements, the availability, and
the performance of workforce preparation and devel-
opment programs; and
(3) encourage greater coordination and mini-
mize duplication of services among federally funded
workforce preparation and development programs.
SEC. 242. ESTABLISHMENT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Any State that desires to receive
a waiver of provisions of law or regulations under
workforce preparation and development programs under
title I shall ensure, to the extent practicable, that each
Local Board, in consultation with a broad range of appro-
priate organizations, designates or establishes a network
of community job resource centers in the unified service
area of such Board to be composed of the eligible entities
described in subsection (b).
(b) ELIGIBLE ENTITIES.—Any entity or consortium
of entities located in the unified service area may apply
to be designated as a community job resource center under
this section. Such entities may include community and
technical colleges, local educational agencies, administra-
tive entities under the Job Training Partnership Act, em-
ployment service offices, welfare offices, community-based
organizations, private non-profit and private for-profit en-
tities, and other interested organizations and entities of
demonstrated effectiveness.
SEC. 243. DUTIES.
(a) CORE SERVICES.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Each community job re-
source center established under section 242 shall
make available the following core services to inter-
ested individuals in the unified service area in which
such center is located:
(A) Outreach and intake services for
workforce preparation and development pro-
grams.
(B) A preliminary assessment of the skill
levels and service needs of each individual,
which may include such factors as basic skills,
occupational skills, career development skills,
prior work experience, employability, interests,
aptitudes, and supportive services.
(C) Information relating to local and
State, and if appropriate to regional or na-
tional, occupations in demand and skills re-
quirements for such occupations.
(D) Information relating to youth and
adult apprenticeship and other school-to-work
transition programs.
(E) Career counseling and career planning
based on a preliminary assessment of the indi-
vidual.
(F) Employability development services,
which may include assistance in the preparation
of a resume, job interview techniques, and work
deportment.
(G) Information relating to federally fund-
ed education and job training programs and
student aid programs, including the eligibility
requirements of and services provided by such
programs.
(H) Information relating to workforce
preparation and development programs avail-
able within the community.
(I) Information on how workforce prepara-
tion and development programs meet the per-
formance standards established by the State.
(J) A repository of information on indus-
try-recognized skill standards and assessments.
(K) Referral to agencies and programs
providing literacy services, workforce prepara-
tion and development, and supportive services.
(L) Worker profiling activities, which shall
identify those workers receiving unemployment
insurance benefits who are the most likely to be
long-term unemployed. Such activities shall be
conducted early in the process for claims of
such benefits and shall include referral of such
individuals to entities providing appropriate re-
training and adjustment services.
(M) Job listings for local labor market op-
portunities.
(2) PRIORITY.—In providing core services
under paragraph (1), each community job resource
center shall give priority to individuals who are eligi-
ble for services under any workforce preparation and
development program.
(b) ADDITIONAL SERVICES.—Each community job
resource center may provide the following additional serv-
ices to interested individuals in the unified service area
in which such center is located:
(1) Job search and job placement services.
(2) Any additional services with the concurrence
of the Local Board.
(c) SPECIALIZED EMPLOYER SERVICES.—Each com-
munity job resource center may provide customized
workforce development services to employers on a fee-for-
service basis.
(d) ALLOWABLE FEE-FOR-SERVICES.—Each commu-
nity job resource center may provide core services under
subsection (a), additional services under subsection (b), or
specialized employer services under subsection (c), to indi-
viduals who are not eligible under workforce preparation
and development programs and who are able to afford
such services on a reasonable fee-for-service basis to be
determined by the Local Board and approved by the State
Council.
(e) COMPUTERIZED INFORMATION MANAGEMENT.—
To the extent possible, the community job resource center
should utilize fully computerized information management
systems to facilitate access to labor market information,
program services, and information on program perform-
ance.
(f) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS.—In providing serv-
ices under subsections (a) through (e), each community
job resource center shall ensure that referrals of individ-
uals to education or training programs are not based on
any financial incentives related to placement of such indi-
viduals.
SEC. 244. CONTRIBUTION OF RESOURCES.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, adminis-
trators of local workforce preparation and development
programs may contribute staff and other resources for the
operation of community job resource centers that would
otherwise be used to perform similar services such as those
services described in section 243.
TITLE III—CONSOLIDATION OF
FEDERAL WORKFORCE PREP-
ARATION AND DEVELOPMENT
PROGRAMS
Subtitle A—Adult Education and
Literacy State Block Grant Pro-
gram
SEC. 301. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Section 313 of the Adult Education Act is amended
in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘such sums’’ the first place
it appears and all that follows through the end and insert-
ing the following:
‘‘$320,000,000 for fiscal years 1995 and 1996 to carry
out the provisions of this title of which—
‘‘(1) $305,000,000 shall be available to carry
out the State Block Grant program as authorized
under part B, State Adult Education and Literacy
Program, with not more than 20 percent of such
funds made available to fund State activities de-
scribed in section 322(b) of this Act; and
‘‘(2) $15,000,000 shall be available for pro-
grams authorized under part D, including the Na-
tional Institute for Literacy.’’.
SEC. 302. USE OF FUNDS; LOCAL APPLICATIONS.
Section 322(b) of the Adult Education Act is amend-
ed to read as follows:
‘‘(b) ADDITIONAL USES
OF FUNDS.—Grants to
States provided under this section may also be used for
correctional education programs, State literacy resource
centers, workplace literacy programs, English literacy pro-
grams, and for the training of literacy teachers and volun-
teers.’’.
SEC. 303. FOUR-YEAR STATE PLAN.
Section 342(c) of the Adult Education Act is amend-
ed—
(1) by striking paragraph 12 and inserting the
following:
‘‘(12) describe steps taken to utilize and train
volunteers in the provision of literacy services, espe-
cially adult volunteers and the elderly, to the extent
that such volunteers supplement and do not sup-
plant salaried employees;’’;
(2) by striking the period at the end of para-
graph (15) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(16) describe steps the State will take in the
continuation of programs for correctional education,
State literacy resource centers, workplace literacy
programs, and programs for the homeless.’’.
SEC. 304. ADULT EDUCATION REPEAL PROVISIONS; CON-
FORMING AMENDMENTS.
(a) GENERAL AMENDMENTS.—Sections 313(d), 326,
353, 356, and 382 of the Adult Education Act are re-
pealed.
(b) ADDITIONAL AMENDMENTS.—Part C of the
Adult Education Act is repealed.
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—(1) The heading of
part B is amended to read as follows:
‘‘PART B—STATE ADULT EDUCATION AND
LITERACY PROGRAMS’’
(2) The heading for part D of the Adult Education
Act is amended to read as follows:
‘‘PART D—NATIONAL ACTIVITIES’’.
SEC. 305. DEFINITIONS.
Section 312 of the Adult Education Act is amended
by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(16) The term ‘programs for correctional edu-
cation’ means programs for criminal offenders in
corrections institutions and for other institutional-
ized individuals which include academic programs
for basic education, special education, bilingual or
English as a second language, vocational training, li-
brary development, corrections education programs,
guidance and counseling, and other supportive serv-
ices for criminal offenders which may emphasize co-
ordination of educational services with educational
institutions, community-based organizations of de-
monstrative effectiveness, and the private sector, de-
signed to provide education and training.
‘‘(17) the term ‘State literacy resource centers’
means State or regional networks of centers de-
signed to enhance the coordination of literacy serv-
ices, enhance the capacity of State and local organi-
zations to provide literacy services through the diffu-
sion and adoption of state-of-the-art teaching meth-
ods and technologies, provide reciprocal linkages be-
tween the National Institute for Literacy and service
providers for the sharing of information, data, re-
search, and literacy resources, encourage govern-
ment and industry partnerships, provide training
and technical assistance to literacy instructors in
reading instruction and in use of state-of-the-art
methodologies, instructional materials, and tech-
nologies, and professional development.
‘‘(18) the term ‘workplace literacy programs’
means programs built upon partnerships between
State educational agencies, local educational agen-
cies, institutions of higher education, or schools (in-
cluding employment and training agencies or com-
munity based organizations) and business, industry,
labor organizations, or private industry councils in
which literacy skills needed for the workplace are
taught by providing literacy and basic skills services
and activities, providing adult secondary education
services and activities which may lead to the comple-
tion of a high school diploma or its equivalent, by
meeting the literacy needs of adults with limited
English proficiency, upgrading or updating basic
skills of adults in accordance with changes in work-
place requirements, technology, products, or proc-
esses, improving the competency of adult workers in
speaking, listening, reasoning, and problem solving,
or providing education counseling and other support-
ive services to adult workers while they participate
in such programs.’’.
SEC. 306. LITERACY AMENDMENTS.
(a) LITERACY FOR INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS.—
Title VI of the National Literacy Act (20 U.S.C. 1211–
2) is repealed.
(b) VISTA LITERACY CORPS.—Section 109 of the Do-
mestic Volunteer Service Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 4959)
is repealed.
(c) LITERACY INITIATIVES FOR ADULT HOMELESS
INDIVIDUALS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle A of title VII of the
Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (42
U.S.C. 11421 et seq.) is hereby repealed.
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of
contents of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless As-
sistance Act is amended by striking the items relat-
ing to subtitle A of title VII of such Act.
Subtitle B—Vocational and Tech-
nical 
Education 
State 
Block
Grant Program
SEC. 311. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Section 3 of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Ap-
plied Technology Education Act is amended to read as fol-
lows:
‘‘SEC. 3. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—There are authorized to be ap-
propriated $1,183,000,000 for each of the fiscal years
1995 and 1996 to carry out the provisions of this Act of
which—
‘‘(1) $1,150,000,000 shall be available to carry
out the State Block Grant program as authorized
under title II; and
‘‘(2) $33,000,000 shall be available to carry out
National Activities as authorized under title IV.
‘‘(b) TITLE I.—Of the amounts made available under
subsection (a)(1)—
‘‘(1) 1.5 percent shall be available to carry out
the provisions of section 401 of the Job Training
Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1671), relating to em-
ployment and training block grant programs for Na-
tive Americans; and
‘‘(2) .2 percent shall be available to carry out
the provisions of section 101A, relating to the terri-
tories.
‘‘(c) NATIONAL PROGRAMS.—For each fiscal year,
the amounts made available pursuant to subsection (a)(2)
shall be available to carry out the provisions of title IV,
relating to national programs, except that, not more than
$350,000 shall be available to carry out the provisions of
part D of title IV, relating to the National Council on Vo-
cational Education.’’.
SEC. 312. TITLE I AMENDMENTS.
(a) ALLOTMENTS.—Section 101(a) of the Carl D.
Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act
is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘remaining’’
and all that follows through the end of such para-
graph and inserting the following:
made available under section 3(a)(1), the Secretary shall
reserve—
‘‘(A) 1.5 percent for the purpose of carrying
out the provisions of section 401 of the Job Training
Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1671), relating to em-
ployment and training block grant programs for Na-
tive Americans; and
‘‘(B) . 2 percent for the purpose of carrying out
section 101A.’’;
(2) in clause (i) of paragraph (3)(A), by strik-
ing ‘‘or part B of title III’’;
(3) in clause (ii) of paragraph (3)(A), by strik-
ing ‘‘or part B of title III’’;
(4) in clause (i) of paragraph (3)(B), by strik-
ing ‘‘or part A, B, C, D, or E of title III’’; and
(5) in clause (ii) of paragraph (3)(B), by strik-
ing ‘‘or part A, B, C, D, or E of title III’’.
(b) WITHIN STATE ALLOCATION.—Section 102 of
the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology
Education Act is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)—
(A) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘10.5
percent’’ and all that follows and inserting ‘‘not
more than 20 percent of the allotment shall be
made available for State programs and activi-
ties described in section 201 and subpart B of
title II;’’;
(B) by striking paragraph (3);
(C) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘of
which’’ and all that follows through the end and
inserting in lieu thereof the following:
‘‘of which such amounts may be used for the
costs of—
‘‘(A) developing the State plan;
‘‘(B) reviewing local applications;
‘‘(C) monitoring and evaluating program
effectiveness;
‘‘(D) providing technical assistance; and
‘‘(E) assuring compliance with all applica-
ble Federal laws, including required services
and activities for individuals who are members
of special populations.;’’; and
(D) by striking paragraph (5); and
(2) in subsection (c), by striking paragraphs (1)
through (3).
(c) ADMINISTRATION.—Subsection (b) of section 111
of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology
Education Act is repealed.
(d) STATE COUNCIL AUTHORIZATION.—Subsection
(f)(1) of section 112 of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational
and Applied Technology Education Act is repealed.
SEC. 313. STATE PLAN; FUNDS.
(a) STATE PLAN REQUIREMENTS.—Section 113 of
the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology
Education Act is amended—
(1) in paragraph (22), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the
end;
(2) in paragraph (23), by striking the period
and inserting ‘‘; and’’;
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(24) describe the extent to which programs for
single parents, displaced homemakers, and single
pregnant women, and sex equity programs are pro-
vided under the State Vocational Education Block
Grant.
‘‘(25) describe the extent to which programs for
tech prep are provided under the State Vocational
Block grant.’’.
(b) AUTHORIZED ACTIVITIES UNDER STATE PRO-
GRAMS.—Section 201(c) of Carl D. Perkins Vocational
and Applied Technology Education Act is amended—
(1) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the
end of such paragraph;
(2) in paragraph (5), by striking the period at
the end and inserting a semi-colon; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new
paragraphs:
‘‘(6) business-labor-education partnerships;
‘‘(7) corrections education; and
‘‘(8) support for consumer and homemaking
education programs.’’.
(c) USES OF FUNDS.—Section 235(c)(2) of the Carl
D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education
Act is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (D) by inserting ‘‘, includ-
ing comprehensive career guidance and counseling
programs’’ after ‘‘counseling’’;
(2) in subparagraph (N) by striking the period
at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(O) Consumer and Homemaking Education.’’.
SEC. 314. MANDATORY PROGRAMS.
(a) SINGLE PARENTS, DISPLACED HOMEMAKERS,
SINGLE PREGNANT WOMEN.—Subsection (a) of section
221 of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Tech-
nology Education Act is amended by striking ‘‘the
amount’’ and all that follows through ‘‘only to’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘funds received under this Act to—’’.
(b) SEX EQUITY.—Section 222 of the Carl D. Per-
kins Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act is
amended—
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘Except as’’
and all that follows through ‘‘only for’’ and inserting
‘‘shall use funds received under this Act to—’’.
(2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘The’’ and all
that follows through ‘‘the administrator’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘The State agency responsible for the adminis-
tration or the supervision of the State Vocational
Educational program under section 111(a)(1)’’.
(c) CRIMINAL OFFENDERS.—Section 225 of the Carl
D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Education
Act is repealed.
SEC. 315. MANDATORY TECH PREP EDUCATION.
Section 233 of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and
Applied Technology Education Act is amended to read as
follows:
‘‘SEC. 233. TECH-PREP EDUCATION.
(a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—The State Board, in
accordance with the provisions of this part which are not
inconsistent with this paragraph, shall award grants for
tech-prep education programs to consortia of—
‘‘(1) local educational agencies, intermediate
educational agencies or area vocational education
schools serving secondary school students, or second-
ary schools funded by the Bureau of Indian Affairs;
and
‘‘(2)(A) nonprofit institutions of higher edu-
cation which offer a 2-year associate degree pro-
gram, a 2-year certificate program, and which are
qualified as institutions of higher education pursu-
ant to section 481(a) of the Higher Education Act
of 1965, including institutions receiving assistance
under the Tribally Controlled Community College
Assistance Act of 1978, or a 2-year apprenticeship
program that follows secondary instruction, if such
nonprofit institutions of higher education are not
prohibited from receiving assistance under part B of
the Higher Education Act of 1965 pursuant to the
provisions of section 435(a)(3) of such Act; or
‘‘(B) proprietary institutions of higher edu-
cation which offer a 2-year associate degree program
and which are qualified as institutions of higher edu-
cation pursuant to section 481(a) of the Higher
Education Act of 1965 if such proprietary institu-
tions of higher education are not subject to a default
management plan required by the Secretary.
(b) TECH-PREP EDUCATION PROGRAMS.—
‘‘(1) GENERAL AUTHORITY.—Each grant recipi-
ent shall use amounts provided under the grant to
develop and operate a 4-year tech-prep education
program.
‘‘(2) CONTENTS OF PROGRAM.—Any such pro-
gram shall—
‘‘(A) be carried out under an articulation
agreement between the participants in the con-
sortium;
‘‘(B) consist of the 2 or 4 years of second-
ary school preceding graduation and 2 years of
higher education, or an apprenticeship program
of at least 2 years following secondary instruc-
tion, with a common core of required pro-
ficiency in mathematics, science, communica-
tions, and technologies designed to lead to an
associate degree or certificate in a specific ca-
reer field;
‘‘(C) include the development of tech-prep
education program curricula appropriate to the
needs of the consortium participants;
‘‘(D) include in-service training for teach-
ers that—
‘‘(i) is designed to train teachers to
effectively implement tech-prep education
curricula;
‘‘(ii) provides for joint training for
teachers from all participants in the con-
sortium; and
‘‘(iii) may provide such training in
weekend, evening, and summer sessions,
institutes or workshops;
‘‘(E) include training programs for coun-
selors designed to enable counselors to more ef-
fectively—
‘‘(i) recruit students for tech-prep
education programs;
‘‘(ii) ensure that such students suc-
cessfully complete such programs; and
‘‘(iii) ensure that such students are
placed in appropriate employment;
‘‘(F) provide equal access to the full range
of technical preparation programs to individuals
who are members of special populations, includ-
ing the development of tech-prep education pro-
gram services appropriate to the needs of such
individuals; and
‘‘(G) provide for preparatory services
which assist all participants in such programs.
‘‘(3) ADDITIONAL
AUTHORIZED
ACTIVITIES.—
Each such program may—
‘‘(A) provide for the acquisition of tech-
prep education program equipment; and
‘‘(B) as part of the program’s planning ac-
tivities, acquire technical assistance from State
or local entities that have successfully designed,
established and operated tech-prep programs.
‘‘(c) APPLICATIONS.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Each consortium that de-
sires to receive a grant under this part shall submit
an application to the State Board, at such time and
in such manner as the State Board shall prescribe.
‘‘(2) THREE-YEAR
PLAN.—Each application
submitted under this section shall contain a 3-year
plan for the development and implementation of ac-
tivities under this part.
‘‘(3) APPROVAL.—The State Board shall ap-
prove applications based on their potential to create
an effective tech-prep education program as provided
for in subsection (b).
‘‘(4) SPECIAL
CONSIDERATION.—The State
Board shall give special consideration to applications
which—
‘‘(A) provide for effective employment
placement activities or transfer of students to
4-year baccalaureate degree programs;
‘‘(B) are developed in consultation with
business, industry, labor unions, and institu-
tions of higher education that award bacca-
laureate degrees; and
‘‘(C) address effectively the issues of drop-
out prevention and re-entry and the needs of
minority youths, youths of limited English pro-
ficiency, youths with disabilities, and disadvan-
taged youths.
‘‘(5) EQUITABLE
DISTRIBUTION
OF
ASSIST-
ANCE.—In making grants under this title, the State
Board shall ensure an equitable distribution of as-
sistance between urban and rural consortium partici-
pants.
‘‘(6) NOTICE.—The Secretary shall notify the
State educational agency, the State agency for high-
er education, and the State council on vocational
education of any State or the State Human Invest-
ment Council, where established, each time a consor-
tium located in such State is selected to receive a
grant under this title.
‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section:
‘‘(1) The term ‘‘articulation agreement’’ means
a commitment to a program designed to provide stu-
dents with a nonduplicative sequence of progressive
achievement leading to competencies in a tech-prep
education program.
‘‘(2) The term ‘‘community college’’—
‘‘(A) has the meaning provided in section
1201(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965
for an institution which provides not less than
a 2-year program which is acceptable for full
credit toward a bachelor’s degree; and
‘‘(B) includes tribally controlled commu-
nity colleges.
‘‘(3) The term ‘‘tech-prep education program’’
means a combined secondary and postsecondary pro-
gram which—
‘‘(A) leads to an associate degree or 2-year
certificate;
‘‘(B) provides technical preparation in at
least 1 field of engineering technology, applied
science, mechanical, industrial, or practical art
or trade, or agriculture, health, or business;
‘‘(C) builds student competence in mathe-
matics, science, and communications (including
through applied academics) through a sequen-
tial course of study; and
‘‘(D) leads to placement in employment.
‘‘(4) The terms ‘‘institution of higher edu-
cation’’ and ‘‘higher education’’ include institutions
offering apprenticeship programs of at least 2 years
beyond the completion of secondary school.’’.
SEC. 316. REPEAL OF SPECIAL PROGRAMS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Title III of the Carl D. Perkins
Vocational and Applied Technology Education Act is here-
by repealed.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—The table of con-
tents of such Act is amended by striking the items relating
to title III.
SEC. 317. NATIONAL PROGRAMS.
(a) DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS.—Part B of title IV
of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology
Education Act is amended to read as follows:
‘‘PART B—DEMONSTRATION PROGRAMS.
‘‘SEC. 411. GENERAL AUTHORITY.
‘‘From the amounts made available under section 101
of this Act in each fiscal year, the Secretary is authorized
to make demonstration grants to improve vocational edu-
cation training programs under this Act.’’.
(b) BILINGUAL VOCATIONAL TRAINING.—Part E of
title IV of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied
Technology Education Act is repealed.
SEC. 318. DEFINITIONS.
Section 521 of the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and
Applied Technology Education Act is amended—
(1) in paragraph (31), by inserting ‘‘displaced
homemakers, 
single 
parents, 
single 
pregnant
women,’’ after ‘‘sex bias,’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(44) The term ‘Business-Labor-Education
Partnership Programs’ means programs that are
conducted through partnerships of an area voca-
tional education schools, a State agency, a local edu-
cational agency, a secondary school funded by the
Bureau of Indian Affairs, and institutions of higher
education, a State corrections educational agency, or
an adult learning center, and business, industry,
labor organizations, or apprenticeship programs to
carry out business-labor-education partnership train-
ing programs which may provide apprenticeships
and internships in industry, provide new equipment,
provide teacher internships or teacher training,
bring representatives of business and organized
labor into the classroom, that increase the access to
and quality of programs for individuals who are
members of special populations, strengthen coordina-
tion between vocational education programs and the
labor and skill needs of business and industry, that
address the economic development needs of the area
served, provide training and career counseling that
will enable workers to retain their jobs, provide
training and career counseling that will enable work-
ers to upgrade their jobs, and address the needs of
new and emerging industry, particularly in high
technology fields.
‘‘(44) The term ‘Consumer and Homemaking
Education Programs’, means programs that include
instructional programs, services, and activities that
prepare youth and adults for the occupation of
homemaking, and instruction in the areas of food
and nutrition, individual family health, consumer
education, family living and parenthood education,
child development and guidance, housing, home
management (including resource management), and
clothing and textiles.
‘‘(45) the term ‘corrections education’ means
vocational education programs for juvenile and adult
criminal offenders that are run by correctional agen-
cies, including correctional institutions, and that give
special consideration to the provision of services to
offenders who are completing their sentences and
preparing for release, for programs in correctional
institutions that do not have such programs, and
that provide vocational education for women who are
incarcerated.
‘‘(46) The term ‘tech-prep education program’
means a combined secondary and postsecondary pro-
gram which—
‘‘(A) leads to an associate degree or 2-year
certificate;
‘‘(B) provides technical preparation in at
least 1 field of engineering technology, applied
science, mechanical, industrial, or practical art
or trade, or agriculture, health, or business;
‘‘(C) builds student competence in mathe-
matics, science, and communications (including
through applied academics) through a sequen-
tial course of study; and
‘‘(D) leads to placement in employment.’’.
Subtitle C—State Vocational Reha-
bilitation Block Grant Program
SEC. 321. CONSOLIDATION OF CERTAIN EMPLOYMENT-RE-
LATED PROGRAMS UNDER REHABILITATION
ACT OF 1973.
(a) SUPPORTED EMPLOYMENT
FOR INDIVIDUALS
WITH MOST SEVERE DISABILITIES.—Section 101(a) of
the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 721(a)) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (5), by amending subpara-
graph (B) to read as follows:
‘‘(B) provide satisfactory assurances to the Commis-
sioner that the State has studied and considered a broad
variety of means for providing services to individuals with
the most severe disabilities, including the provision of serv-
ices leading to supported employment; and’’; and
(2) by amending paragraph (25) to read as fol-
lows:
‘‘(25) provide assurances satisfactory to the Sec-
retary that the State has an acceptable plan for developing
a collaborative program with appropriate entities to pro-
vide supported employment services for individuals with
the most severe disabilities who require supported employ-
ment services to enter or retain competitive employment;’’.
(b) SPECIAL RECREATION ACTIVITIES AND SERV-
ICES.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 101(a)(12) of the
Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 721(a)(12))
is amended—
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking
‘‘and’’ after the semicolon at the end;
(B) in subparagraph (B), by adding ‘‘and’’
after the semicolon at the end; and
(C) by adding at the end the following sub-
paragraph:
‘‘(C) provide for entering into agreements with the
operators of community rehabilitation programs or to
make awards of grants or contracts to nonprofit private
organizations, for the provision of special recreation activi-
ties and services, that are, whenever possible, provided in
settings with peers who are not individuals with disabil-
ities;’’.
(2) SCOPE
OF
SERVICES.—Section 103(a) of
the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 723(a))
is amended—
(A) in paragraph (15), by striking ‘‘and’’
after the semicolon at the end;
(B) in paragraph (16), by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(C) by adding at the end the following
paragraph:
‘‘(17) special recreation activities and serv-
ices.’’.
(c) PROJECTS WITH INDUSTRY.—Section 101(a) of
the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 721(a)) is
amended—
(1) in paragraph (35), by striking ‘‘and’’ after
the semicolon at the end;
(2) in paragraph (36), by striking the period at
the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following para-
graph:
‘‘(37) provide satisfactory assurances to the Commis-
sioner that the State has awarded grants to individual em-
ployers, community rehabilitation program providers,
labor unions, trade associations, Indian tribes, tribal orga-
nizations, designated States units, and other entities that
are jointly financed to create and expand job and career
opportunities for individuals with disabilities, which pro-
vide training in realistic work settings, job placements, de-
velopment and modification of jobs and career opportuni-
ties, and distribution of rehabilitation technology, includ-
ing necessary support services.’’.
(d) DEFINITIONS.—Section 7 of the Rehabilitation
Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 706) is amended by adding at
the end the following paragraph:
‘‘(36) The term ‘special recreation activities and serv-
ices’ means activities and services that provide individuals
with disabilities with recreational activities and related ex-
periences to aid in the employment, mobility, socialization,
independence, and community integration of such individ-
uals. These may include, but are not limited to, vocational
skills development, leisure education, leisure networking,
leisure resource development, physical education and
sports, scouting and camping, 4-H activities, music, danc-
ing, handicrafts, art, and homemaking.’’.
(e) RESERVATION
FOR NATIVE AMERICANS’ EM-
PLOYMENT
AND TRAINING BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM
UNDER
JOB
TRAINING
PARTNERSHIP
ACT.—Section
110(d)(1) of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C.
730(d)(1)) is amended by striking ‘‘part D of this title’’
and inserting ‘‘section 401 of the Job Training Partner-
ship Act (29 U.S.C. 1671)’’.
(f) CONFORMING PROVISIONS.—
(1) REPEALS.—The Rehabilitation Act of 1973
(29 U.S.C. 701 et seq.) is amended by striking the
following provisions:
(A) Subsection (c) of section 311.
(B) Section 316.
(C) Parts B and C of title VI.
(2) FUNDING.—Section 100(b)(1) of the Reha-
bilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 720(b)(1)) is
amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘(For
fiscal year 1995, in determining the amount to be
appropriated under the preceding sentence, the
amount appropriated for fiscal year 1994 under this
subsection is deemed to be the sum of the aggregate
amount appropriated for carrying out section 311(c),
section 316, and parts B and C of title VI and the
amount actually appropriated under this subsection
for fiscal year 1994.)’’.
(3) REDESIGNATIONS; CROSS-REFERENCES.—
The Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 701 et
seq.) is amended—
(A) in section 101(a)(5)(A), by striking
‘‘including individuals served under part C of
title VI of this Act’’;
(B) in section 310, by striking ‘‘sections
311(d), 311(e), 312, and 316’’ and inserting
‘‘sections 311(c), 311(d), and 312’’;
(C) in section 311, by redesignating sub-
sections (d) through (f) as subsections (c)
through (e), respectively;
(D) in title VI, by redesignating part D as
part B; and
(E) in section 802(j)—
(i) in paragraph (1), by striking
‘‘Consistent with’’ and all that follows
through ‘‘the Commissioner may’’ and in-
serting ‘‘The Commissioner may’’; and
(ii) in paragraph (3)(B), by striking
clause (ii) and redesignating clauses (iii)
through (vi) as clauses (ii) through (v), re-
spectively.
Subtitle D—Adult Employment and
Training System
SEC. 331. PURPOSES.
The purposes of this subtitle are—
(1) to reduce fragmentation and duplication of
programs which currently serve adult education,
training, and employment needs;
(2) while maintaining the most basic targeting
of resources to serve populations determined to be
most in need of services, including the disadvan-
taged, dislocated workers, welfare recipients, and
veterans, to streamline the administration of train-
ing programs serving adults, and provide additional
flexibility for States and local service delivery areas
in the delivery of these services; and
(3) while services may continue to be provided
through existing service structures under this sub-
title, to encourage the delivery of services through
the establishment of one-stop career centers as es-
tablished under title II.
SEC. 332. COMBINATION OF FEDERAL FUNDS BY STATES
AND UNIFIED SERVICE AREAS.
(a) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this section are—
(1) to expedite the integration of activities of
the individual programs described in this subtitle;
(2) to maximize the effective use of resources;
and
(3) to increase flexibility in the development
and implementation of programs serving the employ-
ment and training needs of adults, including consoli-
dation of planning, data collection, and reporting re-
quirements for such programs.
(b) COMBINATION OF FUNDS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other
provision of law (except section 121(c) of this Act),
a State or eligible unified service area that receives
funds under 1 or more of the programs described in
this subtitle or under the Wagner-Peyser Act (29
U.S.C. 49 et seq.) may combine such funds to carry
out activities necessary to develop and implement an
integrated adult employment and training system.
(2) TIME LIMIT.—A State or eligible unified
service area may combine funds under paragraph (1)
for a period not to exceed 2 consecutive years, ex-
cept that the Secretary of Labor may extend such
period if the Secretary determines that such exten-
sion would further the purposes of this Act.
(c) SINGLE APPLICATION
AND STATE PLAN.—A
State seeking to combine funds under this section shall—
(1) submit a single application containing a
State plan for the combination of funds for pro-
grams described in this subtitle to the Secretary of
Labor; and
(2) include in such plan the following—
(A) a description of the funds the State or
unified service area proposes to combine in ac-
cordance with this section;
(B) the activities to be carried out with
such funds;
(C) the specific outcomes expected of par-
ticipants in adult employment and training pro-
grams;
(D) evidence of support for the waiver re-
quest by the State agencies or officials with ju-
risdiction over the funds that would be com-
bined; and
(E) such other information as the Sec-
retary may require.
(d) ELIGIBLE UNIFIED SERVICE AREA.—A unified
service area shall be eligible to combine funds in accord-
ance with this section if such area—
(1) has adopted a one-stop delivery system in
accordance with title II of this Act for the purpose
of carrying out programs described in this subtitle;
and
(2) has received the approval of the State to
combine such funds, and such combination is con-
sistent with a State plan described in subsection (c)
that has been approved by the Secretary of Labor.
CHAPTER 1—DISADVANTAGED ADULT EM-
PLOYMENT 
AND 
TRAINING 
BLOCK
GRANT PROGRAM
SEC. 341. ALLOTMENT AND ALLOCATION.
(a) STATE RESERVATION.—Section 202(a)(2) of the
Job Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1602(a)(2)) is
amended—
(1) in the 1st sentence, by striking ‘‘77 per-
cent’’ and inserting ‘‘88 percent’’; and
(2) in the 3d sentence, by striking ‘‘23 percent’’
and inserting ‘‘12 percent’’.
(b) LIMITATION.—Section 202(b)(2)(B) of such Act
(29 U.S.C. 1602(b)(2)(B)) is amended by striking ‘‘No
service delivery area’’ and inserting ‘‘Except with respect
to the 1st fiscal year beginning after the date of the enact-
ment of the Consolidated and Reformed Education, Em-
ployment, and Retraining Systems Act, no service delivery
area’’.
(c) STATE ACTIVITIES.—Section 202(c) of such Act
(29 U.S.C. 1602(c)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)—
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph
(A), by striking ‘‘Of the remaining 23 percent’’
and inserting ‘‘Of the remaining 12 percent’’;
and
(B) by striking subparagraphs (B) through
(D) and inserting the following new subpara-
graphs:
‘‘(B) 5 percent of the funds available for
such allotment under this part shall be allotted
to States in accordance with paragraph (2) to
carry out section 123; and
‘‘(C) 2 percent of the funds available for
such allotment under this part shall be allotted
to the States in accordance with paragraph
(3).’’; and
(2) in paragraph (3)(A), by striking ‘‘up to 33
percent of the amount allotted under paragraph
(1)(B)’’ and inserting ‘‘the amount allotted under
paragraph (1)(C)’’.
SEC. 342. TRAINING AND PLACEMENT OPPORTUNITIES FOR
OLDER INDIVIDUALS.
Section 204(a)(2) of the Job Training Partnership
Act (29 U.S.C. 1604(a)(2)) is amended by adding at the
end the following new subparagraph:
‘‘(C) TRAINING AND PLACEMENT OPPOR-
TUNITIES FOR OLDER INDIVIDUALS.—
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—To the extent
practicable, each service delivery area shall
ensure the equitable provision of training
and placement opportunities for older indi-
viduals in private sector jobs.
‘‘(ii) OLDER INDIVIDUAL DEFINED.—
For purposes of this subparagraph, the
term ‘older individual’ means an individual
who has attained the age of 55.’’.
SEC. 343. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
(a) JOB TRAINING PARTNERSHIP ACT.—
(1) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—
Section 3(a)(1) of the Job Training Partnership Act
(29 U.S.C. 1502(a)(1)) is amended to read as fol-
lows:
‘‘SEC. 3. (a)(1) There are authorized to be appro-
priated to carry out part A of title II $1,000,000,000 for
fiscal year 1995 and such sums as may be necessary for
each succeeding fiscal year.’’.
(2) REPEALERS.—The following provisions of
such Act are hereby repealed:
(A) Paragraph (7) of section 106(b) (29
U.S.C. 1516(b)(7)).
(B) Subsection (d) of section 204 (29
U.S.C. 1604(d)).
(3) TITLE II HEADING.—Part A of title II of
such Act is amended by striking the heading of such
part and inserting the following new heading:
‘‘PART A—DISADVANTAGED ADULT EMPLOYMENT AND
TRAINING BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM’’.
(4) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of con-
tents of such Act is amended by striking the item
relating to part A of title II and inserting the follow-
ing new item:
‘‘Part A—Disadvantaged Adult Employment and Training Block Grant
Program’’.
(5) CROSS-REFERENCES.—Such Act (29 U.S.C.
1501 et seq.) is amended—
(A) in section 106(g), by striking ‘‘section
204(d)’’;
(B) by striking subsection (d) of section
109;
(C) in the matter preceding paragraph (1)
of section 203(b), strike ‘‘section 204(d)’’ and
insert ‘‘section 204(a)(2)(C)’’; and
(D) in the 1st sentence of section 203(c),
strike ‘‘section 204(d)’’ and insert ‘‘section
204(a)(2)(C)’’.
(b) STEWART B. MCKINNEY HOMELESS ASSISTANCE
ACT.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle C of title VII of the
Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (42
U.S.C 11441 et seq.), except section 738, is hereby
repealed.
(2) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of con-
tents of such Act is amended by striking the items
relating to sections 731 through 737 and sections
739 through 741.
CHAPTER 2—DISLOCATED WORKER EM-
PLOYMENT 
AND 
TRAINING 
BLOCK
GRANT PROGRAM
SEC. 351. ADDITIONAL RETRAINING SERVICES.
Section 314(d)(1) of the Job Training Partnership
Act (29 U.S.C. 1661c(d)(1)) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (H), by striking the ‘‘and’’
at the end of such subparagraph;
(2) by redesignating subparagraph (I) as sub-
paragraph (J); and
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (H) the fol-
lowing new subparagraph:
‘‘(I) skills upgrading, if such upgrading is
to replace or update obsolete skills of individ-
uals with marketable skills, without which re-
employment in a high demand occupation or in-
dustry would be unlikely; and’’.
SEC. 352. SPECIAL CONSIDERATION FOR NEEDS-RELATED
PAYMENTS.
Section 314(e) of the Job Training Partnership Act
(29 U.S.C. 1661c(e)) is amended by adding at the end
the following new paragraph:
‘‘(3) In determining eligibility for needs-related pay-
ments, special consideration shall be given to eligible dis-
located workers who are dislocated due to policies of the
Federal Government, including—
‘‘(A) Federal trade policy, in particular the
North American Free-Trade Agreement; or
‘‘(B) reductions in expenditures by the United
States for defense or by closures of United States
military facilities.’’.
SEC. 353. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section
3(b) of the Job Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C.
1502(b)) is amended—
(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by
striking ‘‘(other than section 326 thereof)’’; and
(2) 
in 
paragraph 
(1), 
by 
striking
‘‘$980,000,000 for fiscal year 1989’’ and inserting
‘‘$1,392,000,000 for fiscal year 1995’’.
(b) REPEALERS.—The following provisions of law are
hereby repealed:
(1) Section 325 of the Job Training Partner-
ship Act (29 U.S.C. 1662d) (relating to the defense
conversion adjustment program).
(2) Section 325A of such Act (29 U.S.C.
1662d–1) (relating to the defense diversification pro-
gram).
(3) Section 326 of such Act (29 U.S.C. 1662e)
(relating to the clean air employment transition as-
sistance program).
(4) Chapter 2 of title II of the Trade Act of
1974 (19 U.S.C. 2271 and following) and the items
relating to such chapter in the table of contents of
such Act.
(c) HEADING.—Title III of the Job Training Part-
nership Act (29 U.S.C. 1651 et seq.) is amended by strik-
ing the heading of such title and inserting the following
new heading:
‘‘TITLE III—DISLOCATED WORK-
ER EMPLOYMENT AND TRAIN-
ING 
BLOCK 
GRANT 
PRO-
GRAM’’.
(d) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of
the Job Training Partnership Act is amended—
(1) by striking the items relating to sections
325, 325A, and 326; and
(2) by striking the item relating to title III and
inserting the following new item:
‘‘TITLE III—DISLOCATED WORKER EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING
BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM’’.
(e) CROSS-REFERENCES.—Section 3(b) of the Job
Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1502(b)) is amended
by striking ‘‘(other than section 326 thereof)’’.
(f) OTHER CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—
(1) Section 284(a) of the Trade Act of 1974
(19 U.S.C. 2395(a)) is amended by striking ‘‘A
worker’’ and all that follows through ‘‘section 250(c)
of this title, a’’ and inserting ‘‘A’’.
(2) Section 285(c) of such Act (19 U.S.C. 2221
note) is amended—
(A) in paragraph (1) by striking ‘‘(1)’’ and
all that follows through ‘‘chapter 3,’’ and in-
serting ‘‘No technical assistance may be pro-
vided under chapter 3’’; and
(B) by striking paragraph (2).
(3) Section 286(d) of such Act (19 U.S.C.
2396(d)) is amended—
(A) in paragraph (1)(B)(i) by striking
‘‘chapters 2 and 3’’ and inserting ‘‘chapter 3’’;
and
(B) in paragraph (3)—
(i) by striking ‘‘chapters 2 and 3’’
each place it appears and inserting ‘‘chap-
ter 3’’;
(ii) by striking ‘‘2 or’’ each place it
appears;
(iii) in subparagraph (A) by striking
‘‘—
‘‘(i) the amounts’’
and all that follows through ‘‘chapter 3,’’
and inserting ‘‘the assistance provided
under chapter 3,’’;
(iv) by striking ‘‘workers and’’;
(v) by striking subparagraph (B) and
redesignating subparagraphs (C) and (D)
as subparagraphs (B) and (C), respec-
tively; and
(vi) in subparagraph (C) (as so redes-
ignated), by striking ‘‘subparagraph (C)’’
and inserting ‘‘subparagraph (B)’’.
(4) 
Section 
287(b)(1)(B)(i) 
(19 
U.S.C.
2397(b)(1)(B)(i)) is amended by striking ‘‘chapters
2 and 3’’ and inserting ‘‘chapter 3’’.
SEC. 354. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS FROM REPEALED PRO-
VISIONS OF LAW.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any
amounts appropriated to carry out the following provisions
of law which are not obligated or expended on or after
the end of the first fiscal year beginning after the date
of enactment of this part shall be made available to carry
out title III of the Job Training Partnership Act (29
U.S.C. 1651 et seq.):
(1) Section 325 of the Job Training Partner-
ship Act (29 U.S.C. 1662d) (relating to the defense
conversion adjustment program).
(2) Section 325A of such Act (29 U.S.C.
1662d-1) (relating to the defense diversification pro-
gram).
(3) Section 326 of such Act (29 U.S.C. 1662e)
(relating to the clean air employment transition as-
sistance program).
(4) Chapter 2 of title II of Trade Act of 1974
(19 U.S.C. 2271 and following).
CHAPTER 3—VETERANS’ EMPLOYMENT
AND TRAINING BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM
SEC. 361. ESTABLISHMENT OF PROGRAM.
Part C of title IV of the Job Training Partnership
Act (29 U.S.C. 1721) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘PART C—VETERANS’ EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING
BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM
‘‘SEC. 441. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.
‘‘(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that—
‘‘(1) programs to serve our Nation’s veterans
are fragmented at the Federal level to a degree
which makes it confusing for veterans to understand
what services are available and which services they
are eligible for; and
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‘‘(2) the additional administrative cost for run-
ning this fragmented and uncoordinated system
takes funds directly away from the veterans who
need this assistance the most.
‘‘(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this part are—
‘‘(1) to streamline the current system of pro-
grams that serve our Nation’s veterans while also
ensuring that States and local areas receive the ap-
propriate level of funding necessary to assist the
number of veterans, including disabled and homeless
veterans, which reside within each State;
‘‘(2) to provide flexibility to States and local
communities to use their share of funds in ways
which to best serve veterans and for the purpose of
targeting these funds more effectively to those veter-
ans most in need through utilization of new and ex-
isting structures such as one-stop centers to provide
these services; and
‘‘(3) to improve such services and to provide
more veterans with such services.
‘‘SEC. 442. DEFINITIONS.
‘‘For the purposes of this part, the following defini-
tions apply:
‘‘(1) ELIGIBLE
VETERAN.—The term ‘eligible
veteran’ means a person who served on active duty
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for a period of more than 180 days and was dis-
charged or released therefrom with other than a dis-
honorable discharge.
‘‘(2) DISABLED VETERAN.—The term ‘disabled
veteran’ means—
‘‘(A) a veteran who is entitled to com-
pensation (or who but for the receipt of military
retired pay would be entitled to compensation)
under laws administered by the Secretary; or
‘‘(B) was discharged or released from ac-
tive duty because of a service-connected disabil-
ity.
‘‘(3) HOMELESS VETERAN.—The term ‘home-
less veteran’ means a veteran who is homeless.
‘‘(4) ELIGIBLE
PERSON.—The term ‘eligible
person’ means—
‘‘(A) the spouse of any person who died of
a service-connected disability;
‘‘(B) the spouse of any member of the
Armed Forces serving on active duty who, at
the time of application for assistance under this
part, is listed, pursuant to section 556 of title
37, United States Code, in one or more of the
following categories and has been so listed for
a total of more than 90 days—
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‘‘(i) missing in action;
‘‘(ii) captured in line of duty by a hos-
tile force; or
‘‘(iii) forcibly detained or interned in
line of duty by a foreign government or
power; or
‘‘(C) the spouse of any person who, as de-
termined by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs
under laws administered by the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs, has a total disability perma-
nent in nature resulting from a service-con-
nected disability or the spouse of a veteran who
died while a disability so evaluated was in exist-
ence.
‘‘(5) STATE.—The term ‘State’ does not include
any of the territories.
‘‘(6) TERRITORY.—The term ‘territory’ means
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Common-
wealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, American
Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, the Federated
States of Micronesia, the Republic of the Marshall
Islands, and Palau.
‘‘(7) 
OTHER
TERMS.—The 
terms 
‘Armed
Forces’, ‘active duty’, ‘service-connected’, ‘spouse’,
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and ‘veteran’ have the same meaning given such
terms in section 101 of title 38, United States Code.
‘‘SEC. 443. ACTIVITIES AND ADMINISTRATION.
‘‘(a) AUTHORIZATION.—The Secretary shall conduct
in accordance with this part, directly or through grants
or contracts, activities to meet the employment and train-
ing needs of eligible veterans, disabled veterans, homeless
veterans, and eligible persons.
‘‘(b) ADMINISTRATION RESPONSIBILITY.—The Sec-
retary shall conduct activities supported under this part
through the Assistant Secretary for Veterans’ Employ-
ment. In carrying out responsibilities under this part, the
Assistant Secretary for Veterans’ Employment shall—
‘‘(1) be responsible for the awarding of grants,
entering into contracts, and the distribution of funds
under this part and for the establishment of appro-
priate fiscal controls, accountability, and program-
performance standards for grant recipients under
this part; and
‘‘(2) consult with the Secretary of Veterans Af-
fairs and take steps to ensure that activities sup-
ported under this part are coordinated, to the maxi-
mum extent feasible, with related programs and ac-
tivities conducted under title 38, United States
Code.
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‘‘SEC. 444. ALLOTMENT OF FUNDS.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—From the funds made available
for any fiscal year to carry out this part, the Secretary
shall allot amounts as follows:
‘‘(1) TERRITORIES.—Among the territories, .25
percent.
‘‘(2) INDIAN
TRIBES.—Among the Indian
tribes, 1.5 percent to carry out this part in accord-
ance with section 401.
‘‘(3) STATES.—
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Subject to subpara-
graphs (B) and (C), the remainder of such
funds shall be allotted among the States on the
basis of the following factors:
‘‘(i) The relative number of veterans
residing in the State as compared to the
total number of veterans in all States.
‘‘(ii) The relative number of disabled
veterans residing in the State as compared
to the total number of disabled veterans in
all States.
‘‘(iii) The relative number of homeless
veterans residing in the State as compared
to the total number of homeless veterans
in all States.
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‘‘(B) MINIMUM
ALLOCATION.—No State,
to the extent which it may be determined, shall
receive less than 90 percent of total funds re-
ceived under this part for the fiscal year preced-
ing the fiscal year for which the determination
is made.
‘‘(C) MAXIMUM
ALLOCATION.—Beginning
in the second year after funds are first made
available under this part, no State, to the ex-
tent which it may be determined, shall receive
more than 130 percent of total funds received
under this part for the fiscal year preceding the
fiscal year for which the determination is made.
‘‘(b) WITHIN STATE DISTRIBUTION.—The Governor
of a State shall allocate not less than 90 percent of the
amount allotted to the State under this part to unified
service areas, as established under subtitle C of title II
of the Consolidated and Reformed Education, Employ-
ment, and Retraining Systems Act (or to service delivery
areas until such time as such unified service areas are es-
tablished) for services authorized in this part, based on
an allocation formula prescribed by the Governor. Such
formula may be amended by the Governor not more than
once for each program year. Such formula shall utilize the
most appropriate information available to the Governor to
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distribute amounts to address the needs of the veteran
population of the State, including the special needs of both
homeless and disabled veterans.
‘‘(c) ELIGIBLE GRANTEES.—Funds allocated in a
unified service area or in a service delivery area, as the
case may be, shall be expended by eligible service providers
referred to in subsection (d), as determined by—
‘‘(1) local workforce development boards estab-
lished under section 231 of the Consolidated and Re-
formed Education, Employment, and Retraining
Systems Act, in consultation with local veterans’ or-
ganizations; or
‘‘(2) in areas where such boards have not yet
been established, the private industry council—
‘‘(A) in conjunction with the local employ-
ment service and the chief elected official or of-
ficials for the service delivery area (designated
under this Act); and
‘‘(B) in consultation with local veterans’
organizations.
‘‘(d) ELIGIBLE
SERVICE
PROVIDERS.—Activities
supported under this part may be conducted through pub-
lic agencies, including the employment service or commu-
nity job resource centers established under title II of the
Consolidated and Reformed Education, Employment, and
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Retraining Systems Act, and private nonprofit or private
for profit organizations who have an understanding of the
unemployment problems and needs of eligible veterans,
disabled veterans, homeless veterans and eligible persons,
familiarity with the area to be served, and the capability
to administer effectively a program of employment and
training assistance for such eligible individuals.
‘‘SEC. 445. USE OF FUNDS.
‘‘Activities supported under this part shall include the
following:
‘‘(1) Services to expedite the reintegration of
homeless veterans into the labor force.
‘‘(2) Services which actively promote the devel-
opment and establishment of employment, training,
and other related opportunities for veterans with
service-connected disabilities.
‘‘(3) The appointment and support of full-time
local veterans’ representatives and disabled veteran
program specialists in each unified service area or
service delivery area receiving funds under section
444(b). Such representatives and specialists shall
have expertise in the areas for which they are re-
sponsible or shall be qualified veterans in the case
of local veterans’ representatives or qualified dis-
abled veterans in the case of disabled veteran pro-
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gram specialists. In unified service areas where com-
munity job resource centers have been established,
at least one such center shall be designated as spe-
cializing in serving the needs of veterans and shall
include a representative who shall be responsible for
the following:
‘‘(A) Functionally supervise the provision
of services to eligible veterans and eligible per-
sons by the local service providers.
‘‘(B) Maintain regular contact with com-
munity leaders, employers, labor unions, train-
ing programs, and veterans’ organizations for
the purpose of keeping them advised of eligible
veterans, disabled veterans, and eligible persons
available for employment and training, and
keeping eligible veterans, disabled veterans, and
eligible persons advised of opportunities for em-
ployment and training.
‘‘(C) Provide directly, or facilitate the pro-
vision of, labor exchange services by local em-
ployment service staff to eligible veterans, dis-
abled veterans, and eligible persons, including
intake and assessment, counseling, testing, job-
search assistance, and referral and placement.
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‘‘(D) Encourage employers and labor
unions to employ eligible veterans, disabled vet-
erans, and eligible persons and conduct on-the-
job training and apprenticeship programs for
such veterans and persons.
‘‘(E) Promote and monitor the participa-
tion of veterans in federally-funded employment
and training programs.
‘‘(F) Monitor the listing of jobs and subse-
quent referrals of qualified veterans, as re-
quired by section 4212 of title 38, United
States Code (relating to veterans’ employment
emphasis under Federal contracts).
‘‘(G) Work closely with appropriate De-
partment of Veterans Affairs personnel engaged
in providing counseling or rehabilitation services
and cooperate with employers in identifying dis-
abled veterans who have completed or are par-
ticipating in a vocational rehabilitation training
program and who are in need of employment.
‘‘(H) Refer eligible veterans, disabled vet-
erans, and eligible persons to training, support-
ive services, vocational education, vocational re-
habilitation, and educational opportunities, as
appropriate.
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‘‘(I) Assist, through automated data proc-
essing, in securing and maintaining current in-
formation regarding available employment and
training opportunities.
‘‘(J) Cooperate with the staff of programs
operated under section 1712A of title 38, Unit-
ed States Code, in identifying and assisting vet-
erans who have readjustment problems and who
may need services available at community job
resource centers established under title II of the
Consolidated and Reformed Education, Employ-
ment, and Retraining Systems Act and at local
employment service offices.
‘‘(K) When requested by a Federal or
State agency, a private employer, or a service-
connected disabled veteran, assist such agency,
employer, or veteran in identifying and acquir-
ing prosthetic and sensory aids and devices
needed to enhance the employability of disabled
veterans.
‘‘(4) Activities to enhance services provided by
other providers of employment and training services
funded by Federal, State, or local government.
‘‘(5) Activities to provide employment and
training services, including on-the-job training, to
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such veterans not adequately provided by other pub-
lic employment and training services providers.
‘‘(6) Outreach and public information activities
to develop and promote maximum job and job train-
ing opportunities for such veterans and to inform
such veterans about employment, job training, on-
the-job training and educational opportunities under
this Act, under title 38, United States Code, and
under other provisions of the law.’’.
SEC. 362. TRANSFER OF FUNDS.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any
amounts appropriated to carry out the following provisions
of law which are not obligated or expended on or after
the end of the first fiscal year beginning after the date
of enactment of this part shall be made available to carry
out part C of title IV of the Job Training Partnership
Act (29 U.S.C. 1721):
(1) Section 4103A of title 38, United States
Code, relating to disabled veterans outreach pro-
gram.
(2) Section 4104 of title 38, United States
Code, relating to local veterans employment rep-
resentatives.
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(3) Section 738 of Public Law 100–77 (42
U.S.C. 11448), relating to homeless veterans’
reintegration projects.
(4) That portion of chapter 31 of title 38, Unit-
ed States Code, relating to vocational rehabilitation
program.
(5) Chapter 41 of title 38, United States Code,
relating to job counseling, training, and placement
service for veterans.
(6) Service Members Occupational Conversion
and Training Act of 1992 (10 U.S.C 1143 note).
SEC. 363. TRANSITION.
The Secretary of Labor, through the Assistant Sec-
retary of Veterans Employment and Training and in co-
operation with the Secretary of Defense, shall provide for
the orderly implementation of part C of title IV of the
Job Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1721), as added
by section 361 of this Act.
SEC. 364. REPEALERS.
Effective on the date that is the first day of the sec-
ond fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of
this Act, the following provisions of law are repealed:
(1) Sections 3116 and 3117 of title 38, United
States Code.
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(2) Sections 4103A, 4104, and 4104A of title
38, United States Code.
(3) Section 738 of Public Law 100–77 (42
U.S.C. 11448).
(4) the Service Members Occupational Conver-
sion and Training Act of 1992 (10 U.S.C 1143
note).
SEC. 365. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
(a) JOB TRAINING PARTNERSHIP ACT.—
(1) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—
Section 3(c) of such Act is amended by adding at
the end the following new paragraph:
‘‘(6) In addition to amounts reserved under para-
graph (2)(B)(i) for a fiscal year to carry out part C of
title IV, there are authorized to be appropriated
$172,380,000 for fiscal year 1995 and each succeeding
fiscal year.’’.
(2) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of con-
tents of the Job Training Partnership Act is amend-
ed by amending the items relating to part C of title
IV to read as follows:
‘‘PART C—VETERANS’ EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING BLOCK GRANT
PROGRAM
‘‘Sec. 441. Findings and purposes.
‘‘Sec. 442. Definitions.
‘‘Sec. 443. Activities and administration.
‘‘Sec. 444. Allotment of funds.
‘‘Sec. 445. Use of funds.’’.
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(b) TITLE 38, UNITED STATES CODE.—(1) The table
of sections for chapter 31 of title 38, United States Code,
is amended by striking the items relating to sections 3116
and 3117.
(2) The table of sections for chapter 41 of title 38,
United States Code, is amended by striking the items re-
lating to sections 4103A and 4104.
(c) CROSS REFERENCES.—(1) Section 3106(e) of
title 38, United States Code, is amended by striking
‘‘3117’’ and inserting ‘‘part C of title IV of the Job Train-
ing Partnership Act’’.
(2) Section 3672(d) of title 38, United States Code,
is amended by striking ‘‘section 4103A of this title’’ and
inserting ‘‘part C of title IV of the Job Training Partner-
ship Act’’.
(3) Section 4102 of title 38, United States Code, is
amended by inserting before the period at the end the fol-
lowing: ‘‘, including Part C of title IV of the Job Training
Partnership Act’’.
(4) Section 4102A of title 38, United States Code,
is amended—
(A) in subsection (b)(5)—
(i) by striking ‘‘section 4103A(a)(1) of this
title’’ and inserting ‘‘part C of title IV of the
Job Training Partnership Act’’; and
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(ii) by striking ‘‘section 4104(b) of this
title’’ and inserting ‘‘part C of title IV of the
Job Training Partnership Act’’;
(B) in subsection (b)(7), by striking ‘‘sections
4103A(a)(1) and 4104(a)(4), respectively, of this
title’’ and inserting ‘‘part C of title IV of the Job
Training Partnership Act’’; and
(C) by striking out subsection (c).
(5) Section 4106(a) of title 38, United States Code,
is amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘paragraph (5) of section
4102A(b) of this title’’ and inserting ‘‘part C of title
IV of the Job Training Partnership Act’’;
(B) by striking ‘‘appointed under section 4103A
of this title’’ and inserting ‘‘part C of title IV of the
Job Training Partnership Act’’; and
(C) by striking ‘‘section 4104 of this title’’ and
inserting ‘‘part C of title IV of the Job Training
Partnership Act’’.
(6) Section 4107(c)(5) of title 38, United States
Code, is amended by striking ‘‘sections 4103A and 4104
of this title’’ and inserting ‘‘part C of title IV of the Job
Training Partnership Act’’.
(7) Section 739 of Public Law 100–77 (42 U.S.C.
11449) is amended—
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(A) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘, of which
$2,200,000 shall be available only to carry out sec-
tion 738’’ each place it appears; and
(B) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘other than
section 738 and for the program under section 738’’.
CHAPTER 4—JOB OPPORTUNITIES AND
BASIC SKILLS ACT
SEC. 368. AUTHORITY OVER THE JOB OPPORTUNITIES AND
BASIC SKILLS TRAINING PROGRAM TRANS-
FERRED TO THE SECRETARY OF LABOR.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 481 of the Social Security
Act (42 U.S.C. 681) is amended by adding at the end the
following:
‘‘(c) SECRETARY DEFINED.—As used in this part,
the term ‘Secretary’ means the Secretary of Labor, in con-
sultation with the Secretary of Health and Human Serv-
ices.’’.
(b) PAYMENTS TO STATES.—Section 403(l) of such
Act (42 U.S.C. 603(l)) is amended by adding at the end
the following:
‘‘(5) As used in this subsection, the term ‘Secretary’
means the Secretary of Labor, in consultation with the
Secretary of Health and Human Services.’’.
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS AND REPEALS.—
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(1) Section 403(l)(3) of such Act (42 U.S.C.
603(l)(3)) is amended—
(A) in subparagraph (B)(iii), by striking
the 2nd sentence; and
(B) by amending subparagraph (D) to
read as follows:
‘‘(D) For purposes of this paragraph, an individual
shall be considered a participant in the program under
part F if the individual is a participant (as defined in sec-
tion 4(37) of the Job Training Partnership Act) in a pro-
gram authorized by such Act.’’.
(2) Section 482(a)(1) of such Act (42 U.S.C.
682(a)(1)) is amended by striking subparagraph
(C).
(3) Section 482(a)(2) of such Act (42 U.S.C.
682(a)(2)) is amended by striking ‘‘agency’’ and all
that follows through ‘‘402’’ and inserting ‘‘may de-
termine which State agency’’.
(4) Section 483 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 683) is
hereby repealed.
(5) Section 484(d)(1) of such Act (42 U.S.C.
684(d)(1)) is amended by striking ‘‘and Labor’’.
(6) Section 484 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 684) is
amended by striking subsection (f).
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(7) Section 486(d) of such Act (42 U.S.C.
686(d)) is amended—
(A) by striking ‘‘of Health and Human
Services, in consultation with the Secretary of
Labor,’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘of Health and Human
Services’’ the 2nd place such term appears.
(8) Section 487 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 687) is
hereby repealed.
(d) PERFORMANCE STANDARDS.—
(1) DEVELOPMENT.—Not later than 6 months
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-
retary of Labor shall—
(A) in consultation with the Secretary of
Health and Human Services, representatives of
organizations representing Governors, State and
local program administrators, educators, State
Human Resource Investment Councils, commu-
nity-based organizations, recipients, and other
interested persons, develop performance stand-
ards with respect to the programs established
pursuant to part F of title IV of the Social Se-
curity Act that—
(i) are based, in part, on the results
of the studies conducted under section
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203(c) of the Family Support Act of 1988,
and the initial State evaluations (if any)
performed under section 486 of the Social
Security Act; and
(ii) are consistent with the perform-
ance standards established under section
106(b) of the Job Training Partnership
Act, taking into account the increased dif-
ficulty in serving participants in the pro-
grams established under such part F;
(B) implement performance standards with
respect to specific measurements of outcomes,
which shall be based on the degree of success
which may reasonably be expected of States in
helping individuals to increase earnings, achieve
self-sufficiency, and reduce welfare dependency,
and shall not be measured solely by levels of ac-
tivity or participation;
(C) establish criteria to determine if per-
formance standards are being met; and
(D) establish a process to correct failure to
meet performance standards through such
means as the imposition of reorganization plans
and, in the case of failure to meet such stand-
ards for 2 consecutive years, the selection of al-
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ternative entities to administer programs estab-
lished pursuant to part F of title IV of the So-
cial Security Act.
(2) USE OF STATE INFORMATION.—The Sec-
retary of Labor may collect information from the
States to assist in the development of performance
standards under paragraph (1), and shall include in
the regulations established pursuant to subsection
(f)(1)(A)(i) uniform reporting requirements under
which States must periodically furnish information
and data, including information and data (for each
activity authorized under programs established
under part F of title IV of the Social Security Act)
on the average monthly number of families assisted,
the types of such families, the amounts spent per
family, the length of their participation, and such
other matters as the Secretary may determine.
(3) PERIODIC
REVIEW.—The Secretary of
Labor shall periodically review, and (to the extent
necessary) modify performance standards developed
under paragraph (1).
(4) MEASUREMENT OF STATE PROGRESS AND
PROVISION OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Sec-
retary of Labor shall develop and implement a sys-
tem for measuring State progress, providing tech-
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nical assistance to enable States to meet perform-
ance standards, and modifying the Federal matching
rate to reflect the relative effectiveness of the var-
ious States in carrying out the program under part
F of title IV of the Social Security Act.
(e) REGULATIONS.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Labor shall
issue proposed regulations for the implementation of
the amendments made by this section, including reg-
ulations that—
(A) coordinate the administration, at the
Federal, State, and local levels, of the programs
established under this part, with the adminis-
tration, at each such level, of the programs es-
tablished under the Job Training Partnership
Act, by providing for—
(i) the establishment and operation of
a common management information sys-
tem—
(I) in accordance with an ad-
vance 
automated 
data 
processing
planning document that meets the re-
quirements set forth in the lettered
subparagraphs of section 402(e)(1) of
the Social Security Act; and
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(II) that meets the requirements
of section 165 of the Job Training
Partnership Act;
(ii) the use of the same cost categories
and definitions as are used under section
108 of the Job Training Partnership Act;
and
(iii) each hour of participation in a
program under the Job Training Partner-
ship Act in a State to be considered an
hour of participation in the program of the
State under part F of title IV of the Social
Security Act;
(B) establish incentives for the States to
establish systems under which local programs
established under such part F are administered
through community job resource centers estab-
lished pursuant to section 242 of this Act; and
(C) authorize the local workforce develop-
ment boards established under section 231 of
this Act, or in areas where such boards have
not yet been established, the private industry
Councils established under section 102 of the
Job Training Partnership Act, to oversee the
programs under this part.
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(2) DEADLINE
FOR
ISSUANCE
OF
PROPOSED
REGULATIONS.—Not later than 6 months after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of
Labor shall issue proposed regulations with respect
to the matters described in paragraph (1).
(3) DEADLINE FOR ISSUANCE OF FINAL REGU-
LATIONS.—Not later than 9 months after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Labor
shall issue final regulations with respect to the mat-
ters described in paragraph (1).
Subtitle E—Youth Employment and
Training Block Grant Program
SEC. 371. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE.
Section 261 of the Job Training Partnership Act (29
U.S.C. 1641 et seq.) is amended by inserting before the
period at the end the following: ‘‘, through the provision
of a comprehensive range of integrated education, train-
ing, employment, and social services to disadvantaged and
at risk youth who are not currently served or are under-
served by existing Federal education and training pro-
grams, particularly in areas of high poverty (both urban
and rural) and in areas of high crime’’.
SEC. 372. ALLOTMENT AND ALLOCATION.
(a) TERRITORIES.—Section 262(a)(1) of the Job
Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1642(a)(1)) is
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amended by striking ‘‘section 3(a)(1)’’ and inserting ‘‘sec-
tion 3(a)(2)’’.
(b) STATE RESERVATION.—Section 262(a)(2) of
such Act (29 U.S.C. 1642(a)(2)) is amended—
(1) in the 1st sentence, by striking ‘‘82 per-
cent’’ and inserting ‘‘88 percent’’; and
(2) in the 3d sentence, by striking ‘‘18 percent’’
and inserting ‘‘12 percent’’.
(c) LIMITATION.—Section 262(b)(2)(B) of such Act
(29 U.S.C. 1642(b)(2)(B)) is amended by striking ‘‘No
service delivery area’’ and inserting ‘‘Except with respect
to the 1st fiscal year beginning after the date of the enact-
ment of the Consolidated and Reformed Education, Em-
ployment, and Retraining Systems Act, no service delivery
area’’.
(d) STATE ACTIVITIES.—Section 262(c)(1) of such
Act (29 U.S.C. 1642(c)(1)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (1)—
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph
(A), by striking ‘‘Of the remaining 18 percent’’
and inserting ‘‘Of the remaining 12 percent’’;
(B) by striking subparagraphs (B) and (C)
and inserting the following new subparagraphs:
‘‘(B) 5 percent of the funds available for
such allotment under this part shall be allotted
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to States in accordance with paragraph (2) to
carry out section 123; and
‘‘(C) 2 percent of the funds available for
such allotment under this part shall be allotted
to States in accordance with paragraph (3).’’;
and
(2) in paragraph (3)(A), by striking ‘‘up to 33
percent of the amount allotted under paragraph
(1)(B)’’ and inserting ‘‘the amount allotted under
paragraph (1)(C)’’.
(e) DEFINITIONS AND RULE.—Section 262(d)(1)(A)
of such Act (29 U.S.C. 1642(d)(1)(A)) is amended by
striking ‘‘age 16 through 21’’ and inserting ‘‘age 14
through 21’’.
SEC. 373. ELIGIBILITY FOR SERVICES.
Section 263(a)(1) of the Job Training Partnership
Act (29 U.S.C. 1643(a)(1)) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(1) is age 14 through 21; and’’.
SEC. 374. PROGRAM DESIGN.
(a) AUTHORIZED SERVICES.—Section 264(c)(2) of
the Job Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1644(c)(2))
is amended—
(1) 
by 
redesignating 
subparagraphs 
(B)
through (D) as subparagraphs (C) through (E), re-
spectively; and
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(2) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the fol-
lowing new subparagraph:
‘‘(B) aggressive outreach and recruitment
efforts to encourage participation by disadvan-
taged youths who are currently unserved or un-
derserved by education and training programs,
including targeted measures specifically de-
signed to enlist the participation of youths, par-
ticularly males under the jurisdiction of the
child welfare, juvenile justice, and criminal jus-
tice systems, and teenaged parents;’’.
(b) 
ADDITIONAL
REQUIREMENTS.—Section
264(d)(1) of such Act (29 U.S.C. 1644(d)(1)) is amended
to read as follows:
‘‘(1) STRATEGIES
AND
SERVICE
REQUIRE-
MENTS.—In developing service strategies and de-
signing services for the programs under this part,
the service delivery area and workforce development
board established under title II of the Consolidated
and Reformed Education, Employment, and Retrain-
ing Systems Act (or the private industry council if
such board is not yet established) shall make every
effort to—
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‘‘(A) utilize exemplary program strategies
and practices that are based on comprehensive
and integrated service delivery;
‘‘(B) provide innovative approaches to
serving the hardest-to-serve youths in the com-
munity; and
‘‘(C) establish programs that have the
demonstrated support of the community, as well
as programs that make use of the resources, ex-
pertise and commitment of programs under this
Act, of institutions of higher education, edu-
cation agencies, and vocational and technical
schools and institutions, community-based orga-
nizations, local employers and business organi-
zations, and others with expertise and commit-
ment to meeting the needs of at-risk youths.’’.
(c) SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING
ACTIVITIES.—Section 264 of such Act (29 U.S.C. 1644)
is amended—
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘The pro-
grams under this part’’ and inserting ‘‘Except as
provided in subsection (e), the programs under this
part’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
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‘‘(e) SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING
ACTIVITIES.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (9),
funds available under this part may be used for
summer youth employment and training activities,
including—
‘‘(A) basic and remedial education, aca-
demic enrichment institutional and on-the-job
training, work experience programs (including
work experience programs with private sector
employers), youth corps programs, employment
counseling, occupational training, preparation
for work, outreach and enrollment activities,
employability assessment, job referral and
placement, job search assistance and job club
activities, activities under programs described in
section 265(b), and any other employment or
job training activity designed to give employ-
ment to eligible individuals or prepare the indi-
viduals for, and place the individuals in, em-
ployment; and
‘‘(B) supportive services necessary to en-
able such individuals to participate in the pro-
gram.
‘‘(2) BASIC AND REMEDIAL EDUCATION.—
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‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—A service delivery area
shall expend funds (available under this Act or
otherwise available to the service delivery area)
for basic and remedial education and training
as described in the job training plan under sec-
tion 104.
‘‘(B) EDUCATION OR TRAINING.—The edu-
cation and training authorized by subparagraph
(A) may be provided by—
‘‘(i) the year-round program;
‘‘(ii) the Job Corps;
‘‘(iii) the JOBS program;
‘‘(iv) youth corps programs;
‘‘(v) alternative or secondary schools;
or
‘‘(vi) other education and training
programs.
‘‘(3) ASSESSMENT AND SERVICE STRATEGY.—
‘‘(A) ASSESSMENT.—
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—Except as pro-
vided in clause (ii), the programs under
this subsection shall include an objective
assessment of the basic skills and support-
ive services needs of each participant,
which may include a review of occupational
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skills, prior work experience, employability,
interests, and aptitudes.
‘‘(ii) RECENT
ASSESSMENT.—A new
assessment, or a factor of such assessment,
of a participant is not required if the pro-
gram determines it is appropriate to use a
recent assessment of the participant con-
ducted pursuant to another education or
training program (such as the JOBS pro-
gram or a regular high school academic
program).
‘‘(B) SERVICE STRATEGY.—
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—Except as pro-
vided in clause (ii), the programs under
this subsection shall include a service
strategy for participants, which may iden-
tify achievement objectives, appropriate
employment goals, and appropriate services
for participants, taking into account the
assessments conducted under subpara-
graph (A).
‘‘(ii) RECENT SERVICE STRATEGY.—A
new service strategy for a participant is
not required if the program determines it
is appropriate to use a recent service strat-
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egy developed for the participant under an-
other education or training program (such
as the JOBS program or a regular high
school academic program).
‘‘(C) 
BASIC
EDUCATION
AND
PREEMPLOYMENT
TRAINING.—The programs
under this subsection shall provide, either di-
rectly or through arrangements with other pro-
grams, each of the following services to a par-
ticipant where the assessment and the service
strategy indicate such services are appropriate:
‘‘(i) Basic and Remedial Education.
‘‘(ii) Preemployment and Work Matu-
rity Skills Training.
‘‘(D) INTEGRATION OF WORK AND LEARN-
ING.—
‘‘(i) WORK EXPERIENCE.—Work expe-
rience provided under this subsection, to
the extent feasible, shall include contextual
learning opportunities which integrate the
development of general competencies with
the development of academic skills.
‘‘(ii) CLASSROOM
TRAINING.—Class-
room training provided under this sub-
section shall, to the extent feasible, include
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opportunities to apply knowledge and skills
relating to academic subjects to the world
of work.
‘‘(4) FOLLOWUP
SERVICES.—Service delivery
areas shall make followup services available for par-
ticipants if the service strategy indicates such serv-
ices are appropriate.
‘‘(5) EDUCATIONAL LINKAGES.—In conducting
the program assisted under this subsection, service
delivery areas shall establish linkages with the ap-
propriate educational agencies responsible for service
to participants. Such linkages shall include arrange-
ments to ensure that there is a regular exchange of
information relating to the progress, problems and
needs of participants, including the results of assess-
ments of the skill levels of participants.
‘‘(6) USE DURING SUMMER MONTHS OR EQUIV-
ALENT VACATION PERIOD.—
‘‘(A) SUMMER MONTHS.—Except as pro-
vided in subparagraph (B), programs under this
subsection shall be conducted during the sum-
mer months.
‘‘(B) VACATION PERIOD.—A service deliv-
ery area may, within the jurisdiction of any
local educational agency that operates schools
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on a year-round, full-time basis, offer the pro-
grams under this subsection to participants
during a vacation period treated as the equiva-
lent of a summer vacation.
‘‘(7) ELIGIBILITY.—An individual shall be eligi-
ble to participate in the program assisted under this
subsection if such individual—
‘‘(A) is age 14 through 21; and
‘‘(B)(i) is economically disadvantaged; or
‘‘(ii) has been determined to meet the eligi-
bility requirements for free meals under the Na-
tional School Lunch Act (42 U.S.C. 1751 et
seq.) during the most recent school year.
‘‘(8) PROHIBITION
ON
PRIVATE
ACTIONS.—
Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to es-
tablish a right for a participant to bring an action
to obtain services described in the assessment or
service strategy developed under paragraph (3).
‘‘(9) A service delivery area may use not more
than 30 percent of the funds provided under this
part for a fiscal year for costs associated with sum-
mer youth employment and training activities under
this subsection, except that costs associated with the
provision of basic and remedial education services
which are attributable to individuals who are partici-
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pating in programs under this part on a year-round
basis shall not count toward such 30 percent limita-
tion.’’.
SEC. 375. LINKAGES.
Section 265(b) of the Job Training Partnership Act
(29 U.S.C. 1645(b)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (9), by striking ‘‘and’’ and the
end of such paragraph;
(2) by redesignating paragraph (10) as para-
graph (11); and
(3) by inserting after paragraph (9) the follow-
ing new paragraph:
‘‘(10) the School-to-Work Opportunities Act of
1994; and’’.
SEC. 376. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—
(1) PART C OF TITLE II.—Section 3(a)(2) of
the Job Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C.
1502(a)(2)) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(2) There are authorized to be appropriated to carry
out part C of title II $1,572,000,000 for fiscal year 1995
and such sums as may be necessary for each succeeding
fiscal year.’’.
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(2) PART H OF TITLE IV.—Section 3(c) of such
Act (29 U.S.C. 1502(c)) is amended by striking
paragraph (3) of such section.
(b) REPEALERS.—The following provisions of such
Act are hereby repealed:
(1) Part B of title II (29 U.S.C. 1630 et seq.).
(2) Part H of title IV (29 U.S.C. 1782 et seq.).
(c) TITLE II HEADING.—Part C of title II of such
Act is amended by striking the heading of such part and
inserting the following new heading:
‘‘PART C—DISADVANTAGED YOUTH EMPLOYMENT AND
TRAINING BLOCK GRANT PROGRAM’’.
(d) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of
such Act is amended—
(1) by striking the item relating to part C of
title II and inserting the following new item:
‘‘Part C—Disadvantaged Youth Employment and Training Block Grant
Program’’; and
(2) by striking the items relating to part H of
title IV.
(e) CROSS-REFERENCES.—Such Act (29 U.S.C. 1501
et seq.) is amended—
(1) in section 4(37), by striking ‘‘and followup
services authorized under section 253(d)’’;
(2) in section 4(39), by striking ‘‘and followup
services authorized under section 253(d)’’; and
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(3) in section 108(a)(6), by striking ‘‘, 256,’’.
Subtitle F—Native Americans’ Em-
ployment, Training, and Edu-
cation Block Grant Program
SEC. 381. ADDITIONAL FINDINGS.
Section 401(a) of the Job Training Partnership Act
(29 U.S.C. 1671(a)) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (2), by striking the ‘‘and’’ at
the end of such paragraph;
(2) in paragraph (3), by striking the period at
the end and inserting a semi-colon; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new
paragraphs: ‘‘(4) although programs have been es-
tablished by the Federal Government to address
these problems, such programs have been developed
independently of one another, resulting in numerous
small programs only able to ‘go half way’ due to
such barriers as overly prescriptive regulations, un-
necessary administrative and paperwork require-
ments, insufficient funds, and conflicting definitions
among programs; and (5) demonstration projects
have shown the value of providing funds for these
programs in a more flexible fashion allowing for
more effective and efficient use of these funds.’’.
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SEC. 382. ADDITIONAL EMPLOYMENT AND SERVICES PRO-
VIDER.
Section 401(c)(1)(A) of the Job Training Partnership
Act (29 U.S.C. 1671(c)(1)(A)) is amended in the 1st sen-
tence by inserting ‘‘and tribally controlled postsecondary
vocational institutions,’’ after ‘‘Alaska Native Claims Set-
tlement Act,’’.
SEC. 383. ADDITIONAL COMPREHENSIVE PLAN REQUIRE-
MENTS.
Section 401(c)(1)(A) of the Job Training Partnership
Act (29 U.S.C. 1671(c)(1)(A)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘(A) In carrying out’’ and in-
serting ‘‘(A)(i) In carrying out’’;
(2) in the 2d sentence of clause (i) (as des-
ignated by paragraph (1)), by striking ‘‘tribe, band,
or group’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘tribe,
band, group, or institution’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following new
clause:
‘‘(ii) The comprehensive plan referred to in clause (i)
shall include the following information:
‘‘(I) An overview of the strategy to administer
the comprehensive employment and training pro-
gram.
‘‘(II) A labor market analysis of the area being
served under the program.
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‘‘(III) An overview of the services to be pro-
vided under the program, including assurances that
the program will provide opportunities for—
‘‘(aa) 
literacy 
education 
and 
general
equivalency degree programs for qualifying
adults;
‘‘(bb) training in vocational education;
‘‘(cc) vocational rehabilitation;
‘‘(dd) training and employment services for
individuals receiving benefits or services under
any Federal or federally assisted program which
provides benefits or services based, in whole or
in part, on need; and
‘‘(ee) summer jobs for youths.
‘‘(IV) The performance goals required to be es-
tablished pursuant to subsection (h)(2).
‘‘(V) A description of the individuals, if any,
who will receive priority for services under the pro-
gram.
‘‘(VI) A description of how the program will be
coordinated with other similar programs, including
grant programs, within the same service delivery
area.
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‘‘(VII) Evidence that the tribe, band, group, or
institution has managerial, technical, or administra-
tive staff with the ability to—
‘‘(aa) properly administer the program and
funds under the program; and
‘‘(bb) comply with the provisions of this
Act and regulations promulgated under this
Act.’’.
SEC. 384. ADDITIONAL DUTIES OF NATIVE AMERICAN EM-
PLOYMENT, 
TRAINING, 
AND 
EDUCATION
COUNCIL.
Section 401(k)(6) of the Job Training Partnership
Act (29 U.S.C. 1671(k)(6)) is amended—
(1) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ‘‘, the
Secretary of Education, and the Secretary of the In-
terior’’ after ‘‘advise the Secretary’’; and
(2) in subparagraph (G), by striking ‘‘their ad-
ministration and effectiveness’’ and inserting ‘‘the
administration and effectiveness of such programs,
including recommendations for the consolidation of
other Native American employment and training
programs into programs established and carried out
pursuant to this section’’.
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SEC. 385. TRANSFER OF FUNDS.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any
amounts appropriated to carry out the following provisions
of law which are not obligated or expended on or after
the end of the first fiscal year beginning after the date
of enactment of this subtitle shall be made available to
carry out section 401 of the Job Training Partnership Act
(29 U.S.C. 1671):
(1) Section 5330 of the Indian Education Act
of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2631).
(2) The Indian Employment, Training and Re-
lated Services Act of 1992 (25 U.S.C. 3401 et seq.).
(3) Subsection (i) of section 482 of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 682(i)).
(4) Section 103 of the Carl D. Perkins Voca-
tional and Applied Technology Education Act (20
U.S.C. 2313).
(5) Part D of title I of the Rehabilitation Act
of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 750).
SEC. 386. REPEALERS.
Effective on the date that is the first day of the sec-
ond fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of
this Act, the following provisions of law are repealed:
(1) Section 5330 of the Indian Education Act
of 1988 (25 U.S.C. 2631).
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(2) The Indian Employment, Training and Re-
lated Services Act of 1992 (25 U.S.C. 3401 et seq.).
(3) Subsection (i) of section 482 of the Social
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 682(i)).
(4) Section 103 of the Carl D. Perkins Voca-
tional and Applied Technology Education Act (20
U.S.C. 2313).
(5) Part D of title I of the Rehabilitation Act
of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 750).
SEC. 387. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
(a) JOB TRAINING PARTNERSHIP ACT.—
(1) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—
Section 3(c) of such Act (as amended by section
365(a)(1)) is further amended by adding at the end
the following new paragraph:
‘‘(7) In addition to amounts reserved under para-
graph (2)(A)(i), section 444(a)(2), section 3(b)(1) of the
Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology Edu-
cation Act (20 U.S.C. 2302(b)(1)), and section 110(d) of
the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (29 U.S.C. 730(d)) for a
fiscal year to carry out section 401, there are authorized
to be appropriated $54,600,000 for fiscal year 1995 and
each succeeding fiscal year.’’.
(2) HEADINGS.—
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(A) PART A HEADING.—Part A of title IV
of such Act (29 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.) is amend-
ed in the heading of such part by striking
‘‘PROGRAMS’’ and inserting ‘‘BLOCK GRANT
PROGRAMS’’.
(B) SECTION 401 HEADING.—Section 401
of such Act (29 U.S.C. 1671) is amended in the
heading of such section by striking ‘‘PRO-
GRAMS’’ and inserting ‘‘BLOCK
GRANT
PRO-
GRAM’’.
(b) CARL D. PERKINS VOCATIONAL AND APPLIED
TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION ACT.—The table of contents of
the Carl D. Perkins Vocational and Applied Technology
Education Act (20 U.S.C. 2301 note) is amended by strik-
ing the item relating to section 103.
(c) REHABILITATION ACT OF 1973.—
(1) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of con-
tents of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is amended
by striking the items relating to part D of title I.
(2) OTHER
REFERENCE.—Section 101(a)(20)
of such Act (29 U.S.C 721(a)(20)) is amended by
striking ‘‘, except as otherwise provided in section
130,’’.
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Subtitle G—Migrant and Seasonal
Farmworkers 
Employment,
Training, and Education Block
Grant Program
SEC. 391. ADDITIONAL PROGRAM AND ACTIVITY REQUIRE-
MENT.
Section 402(c)(3) of the Job Training Partner-
ship Act (29 U.S.C. 1672(c)(3)) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following new sentence: ‘‘Such
programs and activities shall be designed to help mi-
grant and seasonal farmworkers complete a second-
ary education and begin and successfully complete
the 1st year of a postsecondary education.’’.
SEC. 392. TRANSFER OF FUNDS.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any
amounts appropriated to carry out the following provisions
of law which are not obligated or expended on or after
the end of the first fiscal year beginning after the date
of enactment of this subtitle shall be made available to
carry out section 402 of the Job Training Partnership Act
(29 U.S.C. 1672):
(1) Subpart 5 of part A of title IV of the High-
er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070d-2)
(2) Section 381 of the Adult Education Act.
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SEC. 393. REPEALERS.
Effective on the date that is the first day of the sec-
ond fiscal year beginning after the date of enactment of
this Act, the following provisions of law are repealed:
(1) Subpart 5 of part A of title IV of the High-
er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070d-2)
(2) Section 381 of the Adult Education Act.
SEC. 394. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—Section
3(c) of the Job Training Partnership Act (as amended by
sections 365(a)(1) and 386(a)(1)) is further amended by
adding at the end the following new paragraph:
‘‘(8) In addition to amounts reserved under para-
graph (2)(A)(ii) for a fiscal year to carry out section 402,
there are authorized to be appropriated $10,400,000 for
fiscal year 1995 and each succeeding fiscal year.’’.
(b) HEADING.—Section 402 of such Act (29 U.S.C.
1671) is amended in the heading of such section by strik-
ing ‘‘PROGRAMS’’ and inserting ‘‘BLOCK
GRANT
PRO-
GRAM’’.
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TITLE IV—MISCELLANEOUS
PROVISIONS
SEC. 401. STATE WORKFORCE PREPARATION AND DEVEL-
OPMENT COORDINATION AND INNOVATION
GRANTS UNDER JOB TRAINING PARTNER-
SHIP ACT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 123 of the Job Training
Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1533) is amended to read as
follows:
‘‘SEC. 123. STATE WORKFORCE PREPARATION AND DEVEL-
OPMENT COORDINATION AND INNOVATION
GRANTS.
‘‘(a) ALLOTMENT.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall allot to
the Governor sums made available to carry out this
section 
under 
sections 
202(c)(1)(C) 
and
262(c)(1)(C) to pay for the Federal share of carry-
ing out the projects described in paragraph (2). The
Governor, in collaboration with the State education
agency, and the State agencies responsible for em-
ployment and training, vocational and adult edu-
cation, the JOBS program, and economic develop-
ment, shall establish requirements governing the use
and distribution of funds under this section, based
on recommendations of the State human resource in-
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vestment council (where established) as provided
under subsection (c).
‘‘(2) PROJECTS.—Funds allotted under para-
graph (1) shall be used for statewide projects utiliz-
ing model strategies for development of comprehen-
sive and fully integrated workforce preparation and
development programs for youths and adults at risk
of chronic unemployment or welfare dependency.
Such funds may be used to pay for the Federal
share of carrying out such projects, in accordance
with agreements under subsection (b), that—
‘‘(A) 
provide 
school-to-work 
transition
services of demonstrated effectiveness, in con-
junction with those activities provided under the
School-to-Work Opportunities Act of 1994, that
increase the rate of graduation from high
school, or completion of the recognized equiva-
lent thereof of at-risk and disadvantaged
youths, including services that increase the rate
at which school dropouts return to regular or
alternative schooling and obtain a high school
degree or its equivalent, a certificate of mastery
in a skill or occupation, and result in entry into
postsecondary education or training, or entry
into a high-skill, high-wage occupation;
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‘‘(B) provide literacy and lifelong learning
opportunities and services of demonstrated ef-
fectiveness, in conjunction with activities pro-
vided under the Adult Education Act that—
‘‘(i) enhance the knowledge and skills
of educationally and economically dis-
advantaged individuals; and
‘‘(ii) result in increasing the employ-
ment and earnings of such individuals;
‘‘(C) provide statewide coordinated ap-
proaches, including model programs, to train,
place, and retain women in nontraditional em-
ployment;
‘‘(D) provide statewide coordinated and in-
novative approaches to further integration and
improvement of Federal, State, and local
workforce preparation and development pro-
grams, consistent (where applicable) with re-
forms established pursuant to the Goals 2000:
Education America Act, the School-to-Work
Opportunities Act of 1994, the Consolidated
and Reformed Education, Employment, and Re-
training Systems Act, Federal or State welfare
reform 
initiatives, 
and 
other 
reforms 
of
workforce preparation and development pro-
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grams, as described in the Governor’s plan re-
quirements under subsection (c), with the goal
of leveraging other Federal, State, and local
community 
resources 
to 
address 
the
multifaceted problems of at-risk youths and
adults, and to encourage institutional change in
the development of comprehensive and inte-
grated education, training, employment, and so-
cial strategies for youths and adults at risk of
chronic unemployment and welfare dependency,
especially in high poverty and high crime areas;
and
‘‘(E)(i) facilitate coordination of education
and training services for eligible participants in
projects 
described 
in 
subparagraphs 
(A)
through (D); and
‘‘(ii) support activities pertaining to a
State human resources investment council that
meets the requirements of subtitle A of title II
of the Consolidated and Reformed Education,
Employment, and Retraining Systems Act.
‘‘(3) FEDERAL SHARE.—The Federal share of the
cost of carrying out the projects described in paragraph
(2) shall be 50 percent.
‘‘(b) AGREEMENTS REQUIRED.—
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‘‘(1) PARTIES TO AGREEMENTS.—In order to
receive funding for a project at the State or local
level, the projects described in subsection (a)(2) shall
be conducted within a State in accordance with
agreements that—
‘‘(A) reflect the goals and services to be
provided by each individual project, as required
under subsection (c);
‘‘(B) are developed collaboratively between
the Governor, and the relevant State agencies
or officials (including the State educational
agency where appropriate) for those projects
within their jurisdiction, the State human re-
source investment council (where established),
the appropriate administrative entities in serv-
ice delivery areas in the State, and other enti-
ties, such as other State agencies, local edu-
cational agencies, and alternative service provid-
ers; and
‘‘(C) demonstrate the commitment to inte-
gration and coordination of service delivery of
the relevant entities listed in subparagraph (B).
‘‘(2) CONTENTS OF AGREEMENTS.—
‘‘(A) CONTRIBUTION.—The agreements de-
scribed in paragraph (1) shall provide for the
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contribution by the State, from funds other
than the funds made available under this Act,
of a total amount equal to the funds allotted
under this section.
‘‘(B) DIRECT
COST
OF
SERVICES.—Such
amount may include the direct cost of employ-
ment or training services—
‘‘(i) provided by State or local pro-
grams or agencies; or
‘‘(ii) provided by other Federal pro-
grams or agencies in accordance with ap-
plicable Federal law.
‘‘(c) GOVERNOR’S PLAN REQUIREMENTS.—Based
upon recommendations of the State human resource in-
vestment council (where established), the Governor and
the relevant State agencies or officials (including the State
educational agency, where appropriate) for those projects
within their jurisdiction shall collaboratively submit for in-
clusion in the Governor’s coordination and special services
plan, a description of—
‘‘(1) the goals to be achieved and services to be
provided by the school-to-work transition programs
specified in subsection (a)(2)(A) that will receive the
assistance and that are consistent with the goals es-
tablished pursuant to the School-to-Work Opportuni-
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ties Act of 1994, which at a minimum shall include
information regarding—
‘‘(A) the activities and services that will re-
sult in increasing the number of at-risk and dis-
advantaged youths participating in school-to-
work opportunities programs and staying in or
returning to school and graduating from high
school or the equivalent;
‘‘(B) the major components of the school-
to-work programs to be conducted under this
project, which shall supplement and be consist-
ent with school-to-work opportunities programs
established under the School-to-Work Opportu-
nities Act of 1994;
‘‘(C) the opportunities that will be made
available for at-risk and disadvantaged youths
to obtain career path employment and post-
secondary education that would have otherwise
been unavailable;
‘‘(D) the integration to be achieved in the
delivery of services between State and local edu-
cational agencies, service delivery areas, local
partnerships as established under the School-to-
Work Opportunities Act of 1994, and alter-
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native service providers, such as community-
based and nonprofit organizations; and
‘‘(E) the linkages that will be established
to avoid duplication and enhance the delivery of
services with programs under—
‘‘(i) title II and part B of title IV;
‘‘(ii) the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act (20 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.);
‘‘(iii) the Carl D. Perkins Vocational
and Applied Technology Education Act (20
U.S.C. 2301 et seq.);
‘‘(iv) the Individuals with Disabilities
Education Act (20 U.S.C. 1400 et seq.);
‘‘(v) the Adult Education Act (20
U.S.C. 1201 et seq.);
‘‘(vi) the JOBS program;
‘‘(vii) the Goals 2000: Educate Amer-
ica Act;
‘‘(viii) the School-to-Work Opportuni-
ties Act of 1994; and
‘‘(ix) the National and Community
Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12501 et
seq.);
‘‘(2) the goals to be achieved and services to be
provided by the literacy and lifelong learning pro-
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grams specified in subsection (a)(2)(B) that will re-
ceive the assistance, which description shall at a
minimum include information regarding—
‘‘(A) the activities and services that will in-
crease the knowledge and skills of educationally
and economically disadvantaged individuals, and
result in increased employment and earnings
for such individuals;
‘‘(B) the integration to be achieved be-
tween projects assisted under this section and
the 4-year State plan (and related needs assess-
ment carried out for the plan) developed in ac-
cordance with section 342 of the Adult Edu-
cation Act (20 U.S.C. 1206a);
‘‘(C) the variety of settings, including
workplace settings, in which literacy training
and learning opportunities will be provided; and
‘‘(D) the linkages that will be established
to avoid duplication and enhance the delivery of
services with programs under—
‘‘(i) titles II and III;
‘‘(ii) the Adult Education Act (20
U.S.C. 1201 et seq.);
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‘‘(iii) the Carl D. Perkins Vocational
and Applied Technology Education Act (20
U.S.C. 2301 et seq.);
‘‘(iv) the Rehabilitation Act of 1973
(29 U.S.C. 701 et seq.);
‘‘(v) the JOBS program;
‘‘(vii) the National Literacy Act of
1991 (P.L. 102–73); and
‘‘(viii) the National and Community
Service Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12501 et
seq.);
‘‘(3) the goals to be achieved and services to be
provided by the nontraditional employment for
women programs specified in subsection (a)(2)(C)
that will receive the assistance;
‘‘(4) the goals to be achieved and services to be
provided under projects specified in subsection
(a)(2)(D) to provide statewide coordinated and inno-
vative approaches to further integration and im-
provement of Federal, State, and local workforce
preparation and development programs, which at a
minimum shall include a description of—
‘‘(A) how such efforts will be coordinated
with reforms established pursuant to the Goals
2000: Education America Act, the School-to-
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Work Opportunities Act of 1994, the Consoli-
dated and Reformed Education, Employment,
and Retraining Systems Act, Federal or State
welfare reform initiatives, and other reforms of
workforce preparation and development pro-
grams;
‘‘(B) how such projects will leverage other
Federal, State, and local community resources
to address the multifaceted problems of at-risk
youths and adults, and encourage institutional
change in the development of comprehensive
and integrated education, training, employment,
and social strategies for youths and adults at
risk of chronic unemployment and welfare de-
pendency, especially in areas of high poverty
(including both urban and rural areas) and in
areas of high crime; and
‘‘(C) how successful strategies resulting
from such projects can be replicated throughout
the State where appropriate.
‘‘(d) LIMITATIONS ON EXPENDITURES.—
‘‘(1) ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED INDIVID-
UALS.—Not less than 75 percent of the funds allo-
cated for projects under subparagraphs (A) through
(D) of subsection (a)(2) shall be expended for
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projects for economically disadvantaged individuals
who experience barriers to employment.
‘‘(2) PRIORITY
FOR
FUNDING.—Priority shall
be given to projects designed to serve individuals
with the greatest barriers to employment in a service
delivery area or within a State, particularly projects
in high poverty areas (including both urban and
rural areas) and in areas of high crime through com-
prehensive, integrated, and innovative service strate-
gies.
‘‘(3) COORDINATION OF SERVICES.—Not more
than 20 percent of the funds allocated under this
section may be expended to pay for the Federal
share of projects described in subsection (a)(2)(E)
at the State and local levels.
‘‘(e) REPORTS AND RECORDS.—
‘‘(1) REPORTS BY GOVERNORS.—The Governor
shall prepare reports on the projects funded under
this section, including such information as the Sec-
retary may require to determine the extent to which
the projects supported under this section result in
achieving the goals specified in paragraphs (1)
through (4) of subsection (c). The Governor shall
submit the reports to the Secretary at such intervals
as shall be determined by the Secretary.
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‘‘(2) RECORDS
AND
REPORTS
OF
RECIPI-
ENTS.—Each direct or indirect recipient of funds
under this section shall keep records that are suffi-
cient to permit the preparation of reports. Each re-
cipient shall submit such reports to the Secretary, at
such intervals as shall be determined by the Sec-
retary.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—
(d) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of
such Act is amended by striking the item relating to sec-
tion 123 and inserting the following new item:
‘‘Sec. 123. State workforce preparation and development coordination and
innovation grants.’’.
SEC. 402. CONFORMING AMENDMENT TO WAGNER-PEYSER
ACT.
Section 7 of the Wagner-Peyser Act (29 U.S.C. 49f)
is amended by adding at the end the following new sub-
section:
‘‘(e) The local employment service office shall partici-
pate in the operation of the community job resource cen-
ters established under subtitle E of title II of the Consoli-
dated and Reformed Education, Employment, and Re-
training Systems Act based on the plan developed by the
Local Board under such Act. Local employment service
offices may apply to be designated as a community job
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resource center in accordance with section 242 of such
Act.’’.
SEC. 403. ADDITIONAL REPEALS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The following provisions of law
are hereby repealed:
(1) Section 6(d)(4) of the Food Stamp Act of
1977 (7 U.S.C. 2015(d)(4)).
(2) Section 204 of the Immigration Reform and
Control Act of 1986 (8 U.S.C. 1255a note).
(3) Title VII of the Domestic Volunteer Service
Act of 1973 (42 U.S.C. 5091 et seq.).
(4) Subpart F of part IV of subchapter A of
chapter 1 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
(5) Subpart 4 of part A of title IV of the High-
er Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1070c et seq.).
(6) Section 211 of the Appalachian Regional
Development Act of 1965.
TITLE V—EFFECTIVE DATES
AND TRANSITION
SEC. 501. EFFECTIVE DATES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in subsection
(b), this Act and the amendments made by this Act shall
take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.
(b) EXCEPTIONS.—
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(1) TITLE III.—Title III and the amendments
made by such title shall take effect on July 1, 1995.
(2) TITLE IV.—
(A) SECTION 401.—Section 401 and the
amendments made by such section shall take ef-
fect on July 1, 1995.
(B) SECTION 403.—
(i) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided
in clause (ii), section 403 and the amend-
ments made by such section shall take ef-
fect on October 1, 1994.
(ii) 
EXCEPTION.—The 
amendment
made by paragraph (5) of section 403 shall
take effect on July 1, 1995.
SEC. 502. TRANSITION PROVISION.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Federal Council shall establish such
rules and procedures as may be necessary to provide for
an orderly transition to and implementation of the require-
ments established under this Act and the amendments
made by this Act.
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