[Congressional Bills 104th Congress]
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[S. 90 Introduced in Senate (IS)]







104th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 90

To amend the Job Training Partnership Act to improve the employment and 
  training assistance programs for dislocated workers, and for other 
                               purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            January 4, 1995

 Mr. Hatfield introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
         referred to the Committee on Labor and Human Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Job Training Partnership Act to improve the employment and 
  training assistance programs for dislocated workers, and for other 
                               purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Worker Retraining Flexibility Act of 
1995''.

SEC. 2. RETRAINING SERVICES.

    Section 315(a)(2) of the Job Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 
1661d(a)(2)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``(2)'' and inserting ``(2)(A)''; and
            (2) by striking the last 2 sentences and inserting the 
        following new subparagraph:
    ``(B)(i) The Governor may grant the waiver, in whole or in part, if 
the substate grantee demonstrates that the waiver--
            ``(I) is appropriate due to the availability of low-cost 
        retraining services;
            ``(II) is necessary to facilitate the provision of needs-
        related payments to accompany long-term training; or
            ``(III) is necessary to facilitate the provision of 
        appropriate basic readjustment services.
    ``(ii) The Governor shall prescribe criteria for the demonstration 
required by clause (i).''.

SEC. 3. NEEDS-RELATED PAYMENTS AND OTHER SUPPORTIVE SERVICES.

    Section 315 of the Job Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1661d) 
is amended--
            (1) by striking subsection (b); and
            (2) by redesignating subsections (c), (d), and (e) as 
        subsections (b), (c), and (d).

SEC. 4. NEEDS-RELATED PAYMENTS FOR FEDERAL DELIVERY OF DISLOCATED 
              WORKER SERVICES.

    Section 323 of the Job Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1662b) 
is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(e) Needs-Related Payments.--In making funds available from the 
amounts reserved for this part under section 302(a)(2) to carry out 
programs and activities, the Secretary may make funds available for 
needs-related payments described in section 314(e). The Secretary may 
make such a payment to a participant in such a program or activity who, 
in lieu of meeting the requirements relating to enrollment in training 
specified in the last sentence of section 314(e)(1), is enrolled in 
training by the end of the sixth week after the Secretary makes the 
funds available for the program or activity.''.

SEC. 5. NORTHWEST ECONOMIC ADJUSTMENT INITIATIVE.

    Section 323 of the Job Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1662b) 
(as amended by section 4) is further amended by adding at the end the 
following new subsection:
    ``(f) Northwest Economic Adjustment Initiative.--From the amount 
reserved for this part under section 302(a)(2) for each of fiscal years 
1996 and 1997, the Secretary shall expend, on the basis of need as 
demonstrated by a State, not less than $12,000,000 to carry out the 
retraining of eligible dislocated workers, as described in the 
Interagency Memorandum of Understanding for Economic Adjustment and 
Community Assistance (relating to the Northwest Economic Adjustment 
Initiative).''.
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