Title: Missed Opportunities in Jobs Act
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
Missed Opportunities in Jobs Act
This bill directs the Department of Labor to submit to Congress an annual report on funds requested and awarded through YouthBuild programs. A YouthBuild program provides disadvantaged youth with opportunities for employment, education, leadership development, and training through the rehabilitation or construction of housing for homeless individuals and low-income families, and of public facilities.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4350 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4350

 To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to require the 
 Secretary of Labor to submit to Congress an annual report relating to 
the amount of funds requested and awarded through YouthBuild programs, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 9, 2017

Mr. Lewis of Georgia introduced the following bill; which was referred 
            to the Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to require the 
 Secretary of Labor to submit to Congress an annual report relating to 
the amount of funds requested and awarded through YouthBuild programs, 
                        and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Missed Opportunities in Jobs Act''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that there are at least 2.3 million low-income 
individuals age 16 to 24 in the United States who are neither in school 
nor employed.

SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that--
            (1) the United States should create meaningful employment 
        opportunities for the Nation's youth to learn practical and 
        meaningful skills because an investment in the Nation's youth 
        is an investment in the United States;
            (2) States should invest in the futures of at-risk youth 
        and others who may contribute to the United States economy 
        because doing so will decrease the unemployment rate; and
            (3) the Department of Labor Grant Programs such as 
        YouthBuild programs will provide critical resources necessary 
        to keep the Nation's youth involved in their communities.

SEC. 4. ANNUAL REPORT FOR YOUTHBUILD PROGRAM.

    Section 171(c) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3226(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph:
            ``(6) Report to congress.--Not later than January 31 of 
        each calendar year, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a 
        report on the results of YouthBuild programs authorized under 
        this subsection that shall include the following:
                    ``(A) The amount of funds, in aggregate, requested 
                by applicants.
                    ``(B) The amount of funds awarded, in aggregate, to 
                entities that receive grants under this subsection.
                    ``(C) The difference between the amount of funds 
                reported under subparagraph (A) and the amount of funds 
                reported under subparagraph (B).
                    ``(D) A calculation of how many more individuals 
                would have been provided opportunities for employment, 
                education, leadership development, and training through 
                YouthBuild programs or would have been provided with 
                housing or access to public facilities through 
                YouthBuild programs if each eligible entity who applied 
                for a grant under this subsection the previous calendar 
                year had received an award for the full amount of funds 
                requested in their respective applications.''.
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