SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
The Congress finds the following:
(1) According to a 1991 survey conducted by
the American Association of School Administrators,
74 percent of all public school buildings in the Unit-
ed States need to be replaced.
(2) Almost 1⁄3 of such buildings were built prior
to World War II.
(3) It is estimated that 1 of every 4 public
school buildings in the United States is in inad-
equate condition, and of such buildings, 61 percent
need maintenance or major repairs, 43 percent are
obsolete, 42 percent contain environmental hazards,
25 percent are overcrowded, and 13 percent are
structurally unsound.
(4) According to the 1992 Current Population
Survey conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics,
unemployment in the construction industry is at 13
percent for skilled workers and 22.9 percent for
laborers.
SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF GRANT PROGRAM.
(a) GRANTS TO STATES.—The Secretary of Labor
shall provide grants to States for the purpose of establish-
ing and carrying out programs that provide payments for
labor and related costs associated with the repair and re-
habilitation of elementary school and secondary school fa-
cilities located in such States.
(b) GRANTS TO INDIAN TRIBES.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not less than 5 percent of
amounts appropriated to carry out this Act for each
fiscal year shall be used by the Secretary to provide
grants to Indian tribes for the purpose of establish-
ing and carrying out programs that provide pay-
ments for labor and related costs associated with the
repair and rehabilitation of Indian tribal school
facilities under the jurisdiction of such tribes.
(2) RULE
OF
CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing con-
tained in paragraph (1) shall be construed to relieve
the Secretary of the Interior of the responsibility to
provide adequate and equitable funding under the
Snyder Act (25 U.S.C. 13) for the operations and
maintenance of Indian tribal school facilities.
SEC. 4. APPLICATION.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may not provide a
grant under section 3 to a State or Indian tribe unless
the State or Indian tribe, as the case may be, submits
to the Secretary an application in such form and contain-
ing such information as the Secretary may require.
(b) ASSURANCES.—Such application shall include as-
surances the State or Indian tribe, as the case may be,
will use Federal funds received from a grant under section
3 to supplement and not supplant non-Federal funds that
would otherwise be available for activities funded under
such section.
SEC. 5. USE OF AMOUNTS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may not provide a
grant under section 3 to a State or Indian tribe unless
the State or Indian tribe, as the case may be, agrees that
it will use all amounts received from such grant to estab-
lish a program to provide wages and related employment
benefits to individuals for the purpose of employing such
individuals to repair and rehabilitate elementary school
and secondary school facilities, or Indian tribal school
facilities, as the case may be.
(b) OTHER REQUIREMENTS.—
(1) PRIORITY TO UNEMPLOYED INDIVIDUALS.—
In selecting individuals for a program established
under subsection (a), a State or Indian tribe shall
give priority to individuals who are unemployed, par-
ticularly to those individuals who have been unem-
ployed for the longest periods of time.
(2) COORDINATION WITH APPROPRIATE ENTI-
TIES.—In carrying out a program established under
subsection (a), a State shall coordinate the activities
of such program with appropriate entities located in
such State, including appropriate private industry
councils (described in section 102 of the Job Train-
ing Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1512), units of gen-
eral local government, nonprofit private organiza-
tions, and local educational agencies.
SEC. 6. LABOR STANDARDS.
(a) NONDISCRIMINATION.—No individual shall be ex-
cluded from participation in, denied the benefits of, sub-
jected to discrimination under, or denied employment in
the administration of or in connection with any program
described in section 5(a) because of race, color, religion,
sex, national origin, age, disability, or political affiliation
or belief.
(b) DAVIS-BACON REQUIREMENTS.—
(1) PREVAILING WAGES REQUIRED.—All labor-
ers and mechanics employed by contractors or sub-
contractors in any construction, alteration, or repair,
including painting and decorating, of projects, build-
ings, and works which are federally assisted under
this Act, shall be paid wages at rates not less than
those prevailing on similar construction in the local-
ity as determined by the Secretary in accordance
with the Act of March 3, 1931 (commonly known as
the Davis-Bacon Act), as amended (40 U.S.C. 276a–
276a–5). The Secretary shall have, with respect to
such labor standards, the authority and functions
set forth in Reorganization Plan Numbered 14 of
1950 (15 FR 3176; 64 Stat. 1267) and section 2 of
the Act of June 1, 1934, as amended (48 Stat. 948,
as amended; 40 U.S.C. 276(c)).
(2) FUNDING REQUIRED.—Such rates are not
required to be paid to participants under this Act
unless they are employed in connection with projects
funded by this Act in whole or in part, exclusive of
wages and benefits, or projects covered by any other
statute requiring the payment of such Davis-Bacon
Act wage rates.
SEC. 7. REPORTS.
The Secretary may not provide a grant under section
3 to a State or Indian tribe unless the State or Indian
tribe, as the case may be, agrees that it will submit, for
any fiscal year in which it receives a grant under such
section, a report to the Secretary describing the use of
such grant and any other information the Secretary deter-
mines to be appropriate.
SEC. 8. SELECTION.
(a) AMOUNT OF GRANT.—The annual amount of a
grant provided under section 3 to a State or Indian tribe,
as the case may be, shall not exceed 10 percent of amounts
appropriated for a fiscal year to carry out this Act.
(b) PRIORITY.—In providing grants under section 3,
the Secretary shall give priority to those States having the
most elementary school and secondary school facilities that
are in need of repair and that are located in areas of high
unemployment.
SEC. 9. DEFINITIONS.
For the purposes of this Act, the following definitions
apply:
(1) ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.—The term ‘‘elemen-
tary school’’ has the meaning given such term in
section 1471(8) of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 2891(8)).
(2) INDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘‘Indian tribe’’
means any Indian tribe, band, nation, or other orga-
nized group or community, including any Alaska Na-
tive village or regional corporation as defined in or
established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims
Settlement Act, which is recognized as eligible for
the special programs and services provided by the
United States to Indians because of their status as
Indians.
(3) LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY.—The term
‘‘local educational agency’’ has the meaning given
such term in section 1471(12) of the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
2891(12)).
(4) SECONDARY SCHOOL.—The term ‘‘second-
ary school’’ has the meaning given such term in sec-
tion 1471(21) of the Elementary and Secondary
Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 2891(21)).
(5) SECRETARY.—The term ‘‘Secretary’’ means
the Secretary of Labor.
(6) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means each of
the several States, the District of Columbia, the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands,
the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, American
Samoa, Guam, the Virgin Islands, the Republic of
the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micro-
nesia, and Palau.
(7) STATE EDUCATIONAL AGENCY.—The term
‘‘State educational agency’’ has the meaning given
such term in section 1471(23) of the Elementary
and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C.
2891(23)).
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