[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 777 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 777

To amend the Job Training Partnership Act and the Workforce Investment 
  Act of 1998 to require that a minimum percentage of participants in 
   summer youth employment programs carried out under those Acts are 
                students who have high attendance rates.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 23, 1999

  Mr. Fattah (for himself, Mr. Sandlin, and Mr. Vento) introduced the 
 following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and 
                             the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Job Training Partnership Act and the Workforce Investment 
  Act of 1998 to require that a minimum percentage of participants in 
   summer youth employment programs carried out under those Acts are 
                students who have high attendance rates.

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

SECTION 1. REQUIREMENT THAT MINIMUM PERCENTAGE OF PARTICIPANTS IN 
              SUMMER YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS UNDER THE JOB TRAINING 
              PARTNERSHIP ACT AND THE WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACT OF 1998 
              ARE STUDENTS WITH HIGH ATTENDANCE RATES.

    (a) Amendments to Job Training Partnership Act.--
            (1) In general.--Section 254 of the Job Training 
        Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1633) is amended by adding at the 
        end the following:
    ``(e) Requirement That Minimum Percentage of Participants Are 
Students With High Attendance Rates.--Not less than 90 percent of the 
participants in the program under this part in each service delivery 
area shall be individuals who are students and who have a 90 percent or 
higher school attendance rate, as determined by the applicable 
school.''.
            (2) Conforming amendment.--Section 254 of the Job Training 
        Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1633), as amended by paragraph (1), 
        is further amended by redesignating the second subsection (c) 
        (as added by section 1016(a)(2)(C) of the Goals 2000: Educate 
        America Act) as subsection (d).
    (b) Amendment to Workforce Investment Act of 1998.--Section 129(c) 
of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 is amended by adding at the end 
the following:
            ``(9) Requirement that minimum percentage of participants 
        in summer employment programs are students with high attendance 
        rates.--Not less than 90 percent of the participants in a 
        summer employment program carried out under this chapter in 
        each local area shall be individuals who are students and who 
        have a 90 percent or higher school attendance rate, as 
        determined by the applicable school.''.
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