To amend the Wagner-Peyser Act to include American Samoa in the employment services provided under that Act, and for other purposes.

Bill: 113-hr-4311
Sponsor: full_name: Del. Faleomavaega, Eni F. H. [D-AS-At Large]
Introduced: 2014-03-26
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: American Samoa

Employment and training programs
Latest action: action_date: 2014-06-13
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-03-26
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p>Amends the Wagner-Peyser Act to include American Samoa in the Department of Labor's program of providing public employment services through a one-stop services delivery system.</p> <p>Directs the Secretary of Labor to allot to American Samoa an amount equal to the allotment percentage Guam received for employment services under the Act in FY1983.</p>

tv_txt: I 113th CONGRESS 2d Session H. R. 4311 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES March 26, 2014 Mr. Faleomavaega introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To amend the Wagner-Peyser Act to include American Samoa in the employment services provided under that Act, and for other purposes.

1. Inclusion of American Samoa in the Wagner-Peyser Act The Wagner-Peyser Act is amended— (1) in section 2(5) ( 29 U.S.C. 49a(5) ), by inserting American Samoa, after Guam, ; (2) in section 5(b)(1) ( 29 U.S.C. 49d(b)(1) ), by inserting and American Samoa after Guam ; and (3) in section 6(a) ( 29 U.S.C. 49e(a) )— (A) by striking allot to Guam and inserting “allot to— (1) Guam ; (B) by striking the period at the end and inserting a semicolon; and (C) by adding at the end the following: (2) American Samoa an amount which, in relation to the total amount available for the fiscal year, is equal to the allotment percentage that Guam received of amounts available under this Act in fiscal year 1983 .