3.0.0 882 2023-01-11T13:24:59Z 2023-01-11T13:24:59Z Senate S S 2013-05-07 113 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2013-05-07T20:29:12Z WILL Act 113 113 HR 2013-04-23 Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training. Related bill CRS 2013-05-07 sshr00 Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. IntroReferral 2013-05-07 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S3165) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2013-05-07 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress R000122 Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI] John Reed D RI F. N C000567 Sen. Cochran, Thad [R-MS] Thad Cochran R MS 2013-05-07 True Labor and Employment Adult education and literacy Computers and information technology Employment and training programs Libraries and archives State and local government operations Unemployment Labor and Employment 00 2013-05-07 Introduced in Senate 2013-06-18T21:00:55Z Workforce Investments through Local Libraries Act or WILL Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to define "digital literacy skills" to mean the skills associated with using technology to enable users to find, evaluate, organize, create, and communicate information.

Revises requirements for member composition of state and local workforce investment boards to include heads of public libraries.

Requires state workforce investment plans to include a description of the procedures states will take to assure coordination of and avoid duplication among employment and training activities, and adult education and literacy activities, provided by public libraries. Requires local workforce investment plans similarly to describe how local boards will coordinate investment activities carried out in the local area with such activities provided by public libraries.

Allows a human resource program operated by a one-stop partner to include programs of employment and training activities, and adult education and literacy activities, provided by public libraries. Revises state allotment eligibility requirements to allow public libraries located in local areas to operate as one-stop centers to provide such activities.

Allows public libraries, among other appropriate entities, to contract with the one-stop delivery system to deliver intensive services for employment and training for adults and dislocated workers supported by workforce investment funds.

Includes development of digital literacy skills among the intensive short-term prevocational services of a one-stop delivery system.

Allows demonstration and pilot, multiservice, research, and multistate projects of the Department of Labor for providing employment opportunities and training services to individuals to include the establishment of employment resource centers in public libraries to provide unemployed and underemployed individuals access to workforce investment services related to such opportunities and services.

Directs the Secretary of Labor to collaborate on initiatives, materials, or technology to support workforce development activities with the heads of relevant federal departments and agencies, including the Secretary of Education, the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), the Secretary of Agriculture (USDA), the Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), or their designees.

Amends the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act to require an eligible provider receiving a grant or contract to develop, implement, and improve adult education and literacy activities to use the grant or contract to establish or operate one or more programs to promote digital literacy skills.

]]> WILL Act Display Title WILL Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to integrate public libraries into State and local workforce investment boards, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced WILL Act Short Titles as Introduced Workforce Investments through Local Libraries Act Introduced in Senate 2013-05-07T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-113s882is/xml/BILLS-113s882is.xml 2013-05-07 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.