Title: VET Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Veterans Employment Training Act or the VET Act
This bill requires the Department of Labor to award grants to employers to enter into partnerships with community colleges to create programs for training veterans for new jobs with such employers.
A "new job" is defined as a job that:

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4286 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4286

   To direct the Secretary of Labor to carry out a grant program for 
 employers to develop and carry out job training programs for veterans.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            November 7, 2017

 Mr. Loebsack introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To direct the Secretary of Labor to carry out a grant program for 
 employers to develop and carry out job training programs for veterans.

    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 ``Veterans Employment Training Act'' 
or the ``VET Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANT PROGRAM FOR VETERANS.

    (a) Program Authorized.--The Secretary of Labor, in consultation 
with the Secretary of Education, shall award grants to employers to 
carry out the activities described in subsection (b).
    (b) Uses of Funds.--An employer that receives a grant under this 
section shall use the grant to enter into a partnership with a 
community college to create a job training program for the purpose of 
training veterans for new jobs with the employer.
    (c) Application.--To be eligible for a grant under this section, an 
employer shall submit to the Secretary of Labor an application at such 
time, in such manner, and containing such information as the Secretary 
may require, which shall include--
            (1) a description of the job training program that the 
        employer seeks to develop and carry out using the grant;
            (2) the community college with which the employer plans to 
        partner in developing and carrying out such job training 
        program; and
            (3) the number of new jobs the employer seeks to create as 
        a result of such job training program.
    (d) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) The term ``community college'' has the meaning given 
        the term ``junior or community college'' in section 312 of the 
        Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1058).
            (2) The term ``new job'', when used with respect to an 
        employer, means a job that--
                    (A) may include a new position within an existing 
                job category, and is not a job of a recalled worker, a 
                replacement job, or any other job that existed in the 
                employer's business within the one-year period 
                preceding the date of hire;
                    (B) is not a job that existed in a business 
                operation or substantially similar business operation 
                of the employer formerly located in another location 
                which was closed or substantially reduced by the 
                employer; and
                    (C) results in a net increase in employment for the 
                employer.
            (3) The term ``veteran'' has the meaning given such term in 
        section 101 of title 38, United States Code.
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