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<meta><dc:title>115 HR 3949 ENR: To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the designation of State approving agencies for multi-State apprenticeship programs for purposes of the educational assistance programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs.</dc:title>
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<preface><dc:type>H. R.</dc:type><docNumber>3949</docNumber>

<congress style="-uslm-lc:I665502" value="115">One Hundred Fifteenth Congress of the United States of America</congress><session style="-uslm-lc:I665503" value="1">A T T  H  E F  I  R  S  T S  E  S  S  I  O  N</session>
<enrolledDateline style="-uslm-lc:I665504">Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday, the third day of January, two thousand and seventeen</enrolledDateline>
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<docTitle class="centered fontsize18" style="-uslm-lc:I665505">An Act</docTitle>
<officialTitle class="centered fontsize8" style="-uslm-lc:I665511">To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the designation of State approving agencies for multi-State apprenticeship programs for purposes of the educational assistance programs of the Department of Veterans Affairs.<?GPOvSpace 08?></officialTitle>
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<enactingFormula style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa­tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,</enactingFormula>
<section id="d59431e62" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/3949/s1" style="-uslm-lc:I650146"><num value="1">SECTION 1. </num><heading>SHORT TITLE.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  This Act may be cited as the “<shortTitle role="act">Veterans Apprenticeship and Labor Opportunity Reform Act</shortTitle>” or the “<shortTitle role="act">VALOR Act</shortTitle>”.</content></section>
<section id="d59431e75" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/3949/s2" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num value="2">SEC. 2. </num><heading>DESIGNATION OF STATE APPROVING AGENCIES FOR MULTI-STATE APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS.</heading><content class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  Paragraph (1) of subsection (c) of <ref href="/us/usc/t38/s3672">section 3672 of title 38, United States Code</ref>, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> to read as follows:<quotedContent><paragraph class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="1">“(1)</num><subparagraph class="inline"><num value="A">(A) </num><chapeau>The State approving agency for a multi-State apprenticeship program is—</chapeau><clause class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="i">“(i) </num><content>for purposes of approval of the program, the State approving agency for the State in which the headquarters of the apprenticeship program is located; and</content></clause><clause class="indentUp1 firstIndent1 fontsize10" style="-uslm-lc:I650122"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="ii">“(ii) </num><content>for all other purposes, the State approving agency for the State in which the apprenticeship program takes place.</content></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph class="indentUp0 firstIndent1 fontsize10" role="definitions" style="-uslm-lc:I650120"><num style="-uslm-lc:emspace2" value="B">“(B) </num><content>In this paragraph, the term ‘<term>multi-State apprenticeship program</term>’ means a non-Federal apprenticeship program operating in more than one State that meets the minimum national program standards, as developed by the Department of Labor.”</content></subparagraph></paragraph></quotedContent>.</content></section>
<section id="d59431e110" identifier="/us/bill/115/hr/3949/s3" role="instruction" style="-uslm-lc:I650141"><num value="3">SEC. 3. </num><heading>ELIMINATION OF CERTAIN CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT FOR ASSISTANCE FOR APPRENTICESHIP AND OTHER ON-JOB TRAINING.</heading><content style="-uslm-lc:I650120">  <ref href="/us/usc/t38/s3680/c">Section 3680(c) of title 38, United States Code</ref>, <amendingAction type="amend">is amended</amendingAction> by <amendingAction type="delete">striking</amendingAction> “<quotedText>shall have received—</quotedText>” and all that follows through “<quotedText>person’s certificate,</quotedText>” and <amendingAction type="insert">inserting</amendingAction> “<quotedText>receives from the training establishment a certification</quotedText>”.</content></section>
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<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Speaker of the House of Representatives.</role></signature>
<signature><role style="-uslm-lc:I650114">Vice President of the United States and  President of the Senate.</role></signature>
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