Help Hire Our Heroes Act

Bill: 116-hr-445
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Brownley, Julia [D-CA-26]
Introduced: 2019-01-10
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Employment and training programs

Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation

Vocational and technical education
Latest action: action_date: 2019-02-01
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.

Summaries:
action_date: 2019-01-10
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><strong>Help Hire Our Heroes Act</strong></p> <p>This bill restores the veterans retraining assistance program, which expired in March 2014. Under the bill, the program offers assistance for eligible veterans to pursue a program of education on a full-time basis. Assistance is only available for training that is offered by a community college or technical school, leads to an associate degree or certificate, and is designed to provide training for a high-demand occupation.</p>

tv_txt: I 116th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 445 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 10, 2019 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.