Title: JOBS Act
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
Job Opportunity and Business Services Act or the JOBS Act
This bill requires grant recipients under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to include information on their advertising budgets in their reports to the Department of Labor. It also removes restrictions on lobbying activities under such Act and regulatory restrictions on advertising and public relations.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5880 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5880

To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to remove certain 
    restrictions on advertising and public relations, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 18, 2018

  Mr. Aguilar (for himself, Mr. Cardenas, and Ms. Wasserman Schultz) 
 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 remove certain 
    restrictions on advertising and public relations, 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 ``Job Opportunity and Business 
Services Act'' or the ``JOBS Act''.

SEC. 2. ADVERTISING AND PUBLIC RELATIONS.

    (a) Reports.--Section 185(d)(1) of the Workforce Innovation and 
Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3245(d)(1)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (D), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in subparagraph (E), by striking the period at the end 
        and inserting ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(F) the advertising budget and a description of 
                the advertising for which funds received under this 
                title were used.''.
    (b) Clarification on Advertising and Public Relations Costs.--
Section 195 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
3255) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(2)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``or'' at the 
                end;
                    (B) in subparagraph (C), by striking the period at 
                the end and inserting ``; or''; and
                    (C) by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(D) public relations and advertising costs for 
                program outreach or activities otherwise related to 
                carrying out the purposes of this Act under section 
                2.''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Removal of Certain Regulatory Restrictions.--None of the 
restrictions on advertising or public relations described in section 
200.421 of title 2, Code of Federal Regulations (or successor 
regulations), shall apply to this title.''.

SEC. 3. REGULATIONS.

    Not later than 90 days after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Labor shall issue regulations to place safeguards on funds 
received under title I of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act 
(29 U.S.C. 3111 et seq.) that may be used to advertise to the public to 
ensure that such funds are not used in a fraudulent manner or in any 
way misappropriated.
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