3.0.0 2403 2023-01-11T13:26:19Z 2023-01-11T13:26:19Z Senate S S 2014-05-22 113 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2014-05-22T21:45:18Z 2014-05-22 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2014-05-22 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress W000805 Sen. Warner, Mark R. [D-VA] Mark Warner D VA R. N P000590 Sen. Pryor, Mark L. [D-AR] Mark Pryor D AR Lunsford 2014-05-22 True B001265 Sen. Begich, Mark [D-AK] Mark Begich D AK 2014-05-22 True Labor and Employment Employment and training programs Higher education State and local government operations Labor and Employment 00 2014-05-22 Introduced in Senate 2014-07-24T21:34:14Z Leverage Prior Skills Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require a governor, in establishing a procedure for local workforce investment boards in the state in determining the initial eligibility of a provider to receive funds for a program of training services, to require the applicant proposing a program that leads to a recognized postsecondary credential to include in the application information on the quality of the services that lead to that credential.

Requires a state to use federal funds reserved to carry out statewide employment and training activities (other than certain statewide rapid response activities) to identify and implement a process by which local boards will contract with providers of training services, or identify eligible providers of training services, only if the providers involved agree to:

  • use direct assessments to assess the prior learning of the participants in noncredit employment and training programs; and
  • take that prior learning into account when determining whether a participant has earned credit hours or made progress toward earning a degree from an institution of higher education, or has earned or made progress towards earning a recognized postsecondary credential.
]]> Leverage Prior Skills Act Display Title Leverage Prior Skills Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to ensure that programs of training services under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 make better use of participants' prior learning so as to better assist the participants in obtaining degrees and other recognized postsecondary credentials, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Leverage Prior Skills Act Introduced in Senate 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s2403is/xml/BILLS-113s2403is.xml 2014-05-22 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. 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.