Building Youth Workforce Skills Act

Bill: 118-hr-5649
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. Moran, Nathaniel [R-TX-1]
Introduced: 2023-09-21
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Latest action: action_date: 2023-09-21
text: Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Summaries:

tv_txt: I 118th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 5649 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES September 21, 2023 Mr. Moran (for himself and Mr. Smucker ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce A BILL To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to authorize the use of individual training accounts for certain youth.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Building Youth Workforce Skills Act . 2. Youth workforce investment activities Section 129(c) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act ( 29 U.S.C. 3164(c) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (9) Individual training accounts Funds allocated pursuant to paragraph (1) to a local area may be used to pay, through an individual training account, an eligible provider of training services described in section 122(d) for training services described in section 134(c)(3) provided to an in-school youth who is not younger than age 16 and not older than age 21, or any out-of-school youth, in the same manner that an individual training account is used to pay an eligible provider of training services under section 134(c)(3)(F)(iii) for training services provided to an adult or dislocated worker. .