Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Training Act

Bill: 113-hr-1000
Sponsor: Rep. Conyers, John, Jr. [D-MI-13]
Introduced: 2013-03-06 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration
Employment and training programs
Employment discrimination and employee rights
Financial services and investments
Government information and archives
Government trust funds
Labor standards
Labor-management relations
Licensing and registrations
Minority and disadvantaged businesses
Sales and excise taxes
Securities
Unemployment
Wages and earnings
Youth employment and child labor

Summary:
action_date: 2013-03-06
text: 
Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment and Training Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a Full Employment National Trust Fund with two separate accounts for: (1) Employment Opportunity Grants to states, local governments, and Indian tribes for job-creating activities in communities whose economy is not at a level of full employment; and (2) Workforce Investment programs.
 
Establishes arbitration procedures for resolution of disputes for grant recipients. Requires the Secretary of Labor to post a whistleblower hotline on the Department of Labor's website for the public to report noncompliance with the Act's requirements.
 
Directs the Secretary to convene a national employment conference to bring together leaders of small, medium, and large businesses, labor, government, and other parties to discuss employment, with particular attention to structural unemployment and the plight of disadvantaged youth.
 
Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to revise member composition requirements for state and local workforce investment boards to include at least 25% of the chief executive officers of minority-serving, community-based organizations.
 
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on certain covered securities transactions, payable by trading facilities or purchasers that deal in such transactions.
 
Requires a transferor with respect to any outbound securities transaction to deduct and withhold a tax equal to the tax imposed on covered securities transactions.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2013-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
action_date: 2013-03-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-03-06
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2013-03-06
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2013-03-06
text: Introduced in House