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113TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3617 
To authorize a national grant program for on-the-job training. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 21, 2013 
Mr. SCHNEIDER (for himself and Mr. MCKINLEY) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To authorize a national grant program for on-the-job 
training. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Learning, Educating, 
Achieving, and Retraining for the Nation Act’’ or the 
‘‘LEARN Act’’. 
SEC. 2. ON-THE-JOB TRAINING. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subtitle D of title I of the Work-
force Investment Act of 1998 is amended by inserting 
after section 173A (29 U.S.C. 2918a) the following: 
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‘‘SEC. 173B. ON-THE-JOB TRAINING. 
‘‘(a) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘feder-
ally recognized tribal organization’ means an entity de-
scribed in section 166(c)(1). 
‘‘(b) GRANTS.—From the amount made available 
under subsection (h), and subject to subsection (d)— 
‘‘(1) the Secretary shall make grants on a dis-
cretionary basis to States, local boards, and federally 
recognized tribal organizations, for adult on-the-job 
training, or dislocated worker on-the-job training, 
carried out under section 134 and for State func-
tions described in subsection (f); and 
‘‘(2) using an amount that is not more than 10 
percent of the funds made available under subsection 
(h), the Secretary shall make grants to States, local 
boards, and federally recognized tribal organizations 
for developing on-the-job training programs, includ-
ing providing capacity building activities for local 
staff who will be engaged in the development of the 
programs, in consultation with the Secretary. 
‘‘(c) APPLICATION.—To be eligible to receive a grant 
under subsection (b), a State, local board, or federally rec-
ognized tribal organization shall submit an application to 
the Secretary at such time, in such manner, and con-
taining such information as the Secretary may require. In 
preparing such an application for a grant under subsection 
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(b)(1), a local board shall consult with the corresponding 
State. 
‘‘(d) REIMBURSEMENT OF WAGE RATES.—Notwith-
standing the limitation in section 101(31)(B), in making 
the grants described in subsection (b)(1) the Secretary 
may allow for higher levels of reimbursement of wage rates 
the Secretary determines are appropriate based on factors 
such as— 
‘‘(1) employer size, in order to facilitate the 
participation of small- and medium-sized employers; 
‘‘(2) target populations, in order to enhance job 
creation for persons with barriers to employment; 
and 
‘‘(3) the number of employees that will partici-
pate in the on-the-job training, the wage and benefit 
levels of the employees (before the training and an-
ticipated on completion of the training), the relation-
ship of the training to the competitiveness of the 
employer and employees, and the existence of other 
employer-provided training and advancement oppor-
tunities. 
‘‘(e) ADMINISTRATION
BY SECRETARY.—The Sec-
retary may use an amount that is not more than 1 percent 
of the funds made available under subsection (h) for the 
administration, management, and oversight of the pro-
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grams, activities, and grants, funded under subsection (b), 
including the evaluation of, and dissemination of informa-
tion on lessons learned through, the use of such funds. 
‘‘(f) STATE OVERSIGHT AND MONITORING.—A local 
board that receives a grant under subsection (b)(1) and 
is located in a State, shall provide not less than 5 percent 
of the grant funds to the State for State functions de-
scribed in sections 136(f), 184, and 185. 
‘‘(g) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-
tion shall be construed to affect the manner in which sub-
title B is implemented, for activities funded through 
amounts appropriated under section 137. 
‘‘(h) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 
is authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 
such sums as may be necessary for fiscal year 2015 and 
each subsequent fiscal year.’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents in 
section 1(b) of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 is 
amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
173A the following: 
‘‘Sec. 173B. On-the-job training.’’. 
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