3.0.0 3368 2020-02-10T17:02:02Z 2020-02-10T17:02:02Z Senate S S 2008-07-30 110 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-07-30T21:30:54Z 2008-07-30 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7786-7789) IntroReferral 2008-07-30 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S7786) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2008-07-30 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH N S000663 Sen. Snowe, Olympia J. [R-ME] Olympia Snowe R ME J. 2008-07-30 True M001111 Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA] Patty Murray D WA 2008-09-26 False Labor and Employment Adult education Aid to dependent children Career education Cash welfare block grants Crime and Law Enforcement Data banks Economic development Economics and Public Finance Education Elementary and secondary education Employee training Families Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Grants-in-aid Higher education Job creation Literacy programs Prison labor Rehabilitation of criminals Science, Technology, Communications Secondary education Social Welfare Wages Labor and Employment 00 2008-07-30 Introduced in Senate 2008-11-25T21:14:58Z Strengthening Employment Clusters to Organize Regional Success Act of 2008 or the SECTORS Act of 2008 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require the Secretary of Labor to award competitive industry or sector partnership grants to eligible entities to develop strategies that: (1) encourage growth and competitiveness through work with high road employers within a targeted industry cluster; (2) help workers move toward economic self-sufficiency and ensure that they have access to supportive services; (3) address the needs of firms with limited human resources or in-house training capacity, including small- and medium-sized firms; and (4) coordinate with entities that carry out state and local workforce investment, economic development, and education activities.

Requires federal agency coordination with the Secretary in carrying out such program.

]]> Strengthening Employment Clusters to Organize Regional Success Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced Strengthening Employment Clusters to Organize Regional Success Act of 2008 Short Titles as Introduced SECTORS Act of 2008 Official Title as Introduced A bill to promote industry growth and competitiveness and to improve worker training, retention, and advancement, and for other purposes. Display Title Strengthening Employment Clusters to Organize Regional Success Act of 2008 Introduced in Senate 2008-07-30T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s3368is/xml/BILLS-110s3368is.xml 2008-07-30 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. (text of measure as introduced: CR S7786-7789) text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.