[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
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[H.R. 6829 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6829

    To amend the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to facilitate the 
                   placement of Job Corps graduates.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 1, 2008

  Mr. Shuler introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on 
   Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently 
   determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such 
 provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
    To amend the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to facilitate the 
                   placement of Job Corps graduates.

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

SECTION 1. ELIGIBILITY FOR CERTAIN PLACEMENTS.

    Section 149 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 
2889) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(e) Noncompetitive Appointments.--
            ``(1) In general.--Under such regulations as the Office of 
        Personnel Management shall prescribe, an Executive agency (as 
        defined by section 105 of title 5, United States Code) may make 
        a noncompetitive appointment leading to conversion to career or 
        career-conditional employment of any graduate, subject to 
        paragraph (2).
            ``(2) Limitations.--Eligibility for a noncompetitive 
        appointment under this subsection shall be available only--
                    ``(A) in the case of any individual who first meets 
                the definition of a graduate (as set forth in section 
                142(5)) on or after the first day of the 1-year period 
                ending on the date of the enactment of this subsection; 
                and
                    ``(B) for purposes of any appointment made within 
                the 1-year period beginning on the later of--
                            ``(i) the date as of which the individual 
                        (as described in subparagraph (A)) first meets 
                        the definition of a graduate; or
                            ``(ii) the date of the enactment of this 
                        subsection.''.
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