Help Hire Our Heroes Act

Bill: 115-hr-106
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2017-01-03
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employment and training programs

Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Vocational and technical education
Latest action: action_date: 2017-01-19
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.

Summaries:
action_date: 2017-01-03
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Help Hire Our Heroes Act</strong></p> <p>This bill amends the VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011 to make the veterans retraining assistance program permanent.</p>

tv_txt: I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 106 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 3, 2017 Ms. Brownley of California introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs A BILL To amend the VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011 to make permanent the Veterans Retraining Assistance Program, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Help Hire Our Heroes Act . 2. Veterans Retraining Assistance Program (a) Permanent program Section 211 of the VOW to Hire Heroes Act of 2011 ( Public Law 112–56 ; 38 U.S.C. 4100 note) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)(2)(B), by striking the period beginning October 1, 2012, and ending March 31, 2014 and inserting each subsequent fiscal year that the program is carried out ; and (2) by striking subsection (k). (b) Conforming amendments Such section is further amended— (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking Not later than July 1, 2012, the and inserting The ; (2) in subsection (b), by striking Except as provided by subsection (k), each and inserting Each ; (3) in subsection (e)(1)(G), by striking by not later than October 1, 2013, ; (4) by striking subsection (i); and (5) by redesignating subsections (j) and (l) as subsections (i) and (j), respectively.