BATTLE for Servicemembers Act

Bill: 115-s-2748
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH]
Introduced: 2018-04-25
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employment and training programs

Military personnel and dependents

Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
Latest action: action_date: 2018-08-01
text: Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Hearings held. Hearings printed: S.Hrg. 115-616.

Summaries:
action_date: 2018-04-25
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><b>Better Access to Technical Training, Learning, and Entrepreneurship for Servicemembers Act or the BATTLE for Servicemembers Act</b></p> <p>This bill directs the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security to waive additional training under the Transition Assistance Program (TAP) under certain circumstances. The TAP provides information and training to service members and their spouses to assist them in the transition to civilian life by pursuing additional education, finding a job in the public or private sector, or starting their own business. Under the bill, service members must participate in TAP training programs unless they choose to opt out of such programs.</p>

tv_txt: II 115th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2748 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES April 25, 2018 Mr. Brown (for himself, Mr. Rounds , and Mr. Coons ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs A BILL To amend title 10, United States Code, to require members of the Armed Forces to receive additional training under the Transition Assistance Program, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Better Access to Technical Training, Learning, and Entrepreneurship for Ser­vice­mem­bers Act or the BATTLE for Ser­vice­mem­bers Act . 2. Required training; waivers Section 1144(f) of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) in the heading, by striking Opportunities ; (2) in paragraph (1)— (A) by inserting and subject to paragraph (2) after section ; (B) by striking the Secretary of Defense and all that follows through shall permit ; and (C) by striking to elect to and inserting shall ; and (3) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following new paragraph: (2) The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall, under regulations such Secretaries shall prescribe, waive the additional training under paragraph (1) for: (A) Such groups or classifications of members as the Secretaries determine, after consultation with the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, for whom participation is not and would not be of assistance to such members based on the articulable justification of the Secretaries that there is extraordinarily high reason to believe the exempted members are unlikely to face major readjustment, health care, employment, or other challenges associated with transition to civilian life. (B) A member possessing specialized skills who, due to unavoidable circumstances, is needed to support the imminent deployment of a unit. (C) A member who elects in writing not to receive such additional training. .