I 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 27 
To enhance the workforce investment system of the Nation by strengthening 
one-stop career centers, providing for more effective governance arrange-
ments, promoting access to a more comprehensive array of employment, 
training, and related services, establishing a targeted approach to serving 
youth, and improving performance accountability, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 4, 2005 
Mr. MCKEON (for himself, Mr. BOEHNER, Mr. TIBERI, Mr. PORTER, and Mr. 
KLINE) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Education and the Workforce 
A BILL 
To enhance the workforce investment system of the Nation 
by strengthening one-stop career centers, providing for 
more effective governance arrangements, promoting ac-
cess to a more comprehensive array of employment, 
training, and related services, establishing a targeted ap-
proach to serving youth, and improving performance ac-
countability, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Job Training Improve-
ment Act of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
Sec. 1. Short title. 
Sec. 2. Table of contents. 
Sec. 3. References. 
TITLE I—AMENDMENTS TO TITLE I OF THE WORKFORCE 
INVESTMENT ACT OF 1998 
Sec. 101. Definitions. 
Sec. 102. Purpose. 
Sec. 103. State workforce investment boards. 
Sec. 104. State plan. 
Sec. 105. Local workforce investment areas. 
Sec. 106. Local workforce investment boards. 
Sec. 107. Local plan. 
Sec. 108. Establishment of one-stop delivery systems. 
Sec. 109. Eligible providers of training services. 
Sec. 110. Eligible providers of youth activities. 
Sec. 111. Youth Activities. 
Sec. 112. Comprehensive programs for adults. 
Sec. 113. Performance accountability system. 
Sec. 114. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 115. Job corps. 
Sec. 116. Native American programs. 
Sec. 117. Migrant and seasonal farmworker programs. 
Sec. 118. Veterans’ workforce investment programs. 
Sec. 119. Youth challenge grants. 
Sec. 120. Technical assistance. 
Sec. 121. Demonstration, pilot, multiservice, research and multi-State projects. 
Sec. 122. Community-based job training. 
Sec. 123. Personal Reemployment Accounts. 
Sec. 124. National dislocated worker grants. 
Sec. 125. Authorization of appropriations for national activities. 
Sec. 126. Requirements and restrictions. 
Sec. 127. Nondiscrimination. 
Sec. 128. Administrative provisions. 
Sec. 129. General program requirements. 
TITLE II—ADULT EDUCATION 
PART A—ADULT BASIC SKILLS AND FAMILY LITERACY EDUCATION 
Sec. 201. Table of contents. 
Sec. 202. Amendment. 
PART B—GENERAL PROVISIONS 
Sec. 211. Transition.
TITLE III—AMENDMENTS TO THE WAGNER-PEYSER ACT 
Sec. 301. Amendments to the Wagner-Peyser Act. 
TITLE IV—AMENDMENTS TO THE REHABILITATION ACT OF 1973 
Sec. 401. Findings. 
Sec. 402. Rehabilitation services administration. 
Sec. 403. Director. 
Sec. 404. Definitions. 
Sec. 405. State plan. 
Sec. 406. Scope of services. 
Sec. 407. Standards and indicators. 
Sec. 408. Reservation for expanded transition services. 
Sec. 409. Chairperson. 
Sec. 410. Authorizations of appropriations. 
Sec. 411. Conforming amendment. 
Sec. 412. Helen Keller National Center Act. 
TITLE V—TRANSITION AND EFFECTIVE DATE 
Sec. 501. Transition provisions. 
Sec. 502. Effective date. 
SEC. 3. REFERENCES. 
Except as otherwise expressly provided, wherever in 
this Act an amendment or repeal is expressed in terms 
of an amendment to, or repeal of, a section or other provi-
sion, the amendment or repeal shall be considered to be 
made to a section or other provision of the Workforce In-
vestment Act of 1998 (20 U.S.C. 9201 et seq.). 
TITLE 
I—AMENDMENTS 
TO 
TITLE I OF THE WORKFORCE 
INVESTMENT ACT OF 1998 
SEC. 101. DEFINITIONS. 
Section 101 (29 U.S.C. 2801) is amended— 
(1) by striking paragraph (13) and redesig-
nating paragraphs (1) through (12) as paragraphs 
(2) through (13) respectively;
(2) by inserting after ‘‘In this title:’’ the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(1) ACCRUED EXPENDITURES.—The term ‘ac-
crued expenditures’ means charges incurred by re-
cipients of funds under this title for a given period 
requiring the provision of funds for goods or other 
tangible property received; services performed by 
employees, contractors, subgrantees, and other pay-
ees; and other amounts becoming owed under pro-
grams assisted under this title for which no current 
services or performance is required, such as annu-
ities, insurance claims, and other benefit pay-
ments.’’; 
(3) in paragraph (5) (as so redesignated), by 
inserting ‘‘(or such other level as the Governor may 
establish)’’ after ‘‘8th grade level’’; 
(4) in paragraph (9) (as so redesignated)— 
(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; 
(B) in subparagraph (C)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘not less than 50 per-
cent of the cost of the training’’ and in-
serting ‘‘a significant portion of the cost of 
training, as determined by the local 
board’’; and
(ii) by striking the period and insert-
ing ‘‘; and’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(D) for customized training with an em-
ployer in multiple local areas in the State, a 
significant portion of the cost of the training, 
as determined by the Governor.’’; 
(5) in paragraph 10(A)(ii)(II) (as so redesig-
nated) by striking ‘‘section 134(c)’’ and inserting 
‘‘section 121(e)’’; 
(6) in paragraph (13)(A) (as so redesignated) 
by striking ‘‘section 122(e)(3)’’ and inserting ‘‘sec-
tion 122’’. 
(7) by striking paragraph (24) and redesig-
nating paragraphs (25) through (32) as paragraphs 
(24) through (31), respectively; 
(8) in paragraph (24) (as so redesignated)— 
(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘higher of—’’ and all that follows through 
‘‘such subparagraph’’ and inserting ‘‘poverty 
line for an equivalent period;’’; and 
(B) by redesignating subparagraphs (D) 
through (F) as subparagraph (E) through (G), 
respectively, and inserting after subparagraph 
(C) the following: