[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1088 Referred in Senate (RFS)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1088


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              May 20, 2009

Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 AN ACT


 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for a one-year period 
for the training of new disabled veterans' outreach program specialists 
 and local veterans' employment representatives by National Veterans' 
              Employment and Training Services Institute.

    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 ``Mandatory Veteran Specialist 
Training Act of 2009''.

SEC. 2. ONE-YEAR PERIOD FOR TRAINING OF NEW DISABLED VETERANS' OUTREACH 
              PROGRAM SPECIALISTS AND LOCAL VETERANS' EMPLOYMENT 
              REPRESENTATIVES BY NATIONAL VETERANS' EMPLOYMENT AND 
              TRAINING SERVICES INSTITUTE.

    (a) One-Year Period.--Section 4102A(c)(8)(A) of title 38, United 
States Code is amended by striking ``three-year period'' and inserting 
``one-year period''.
    (b) Effective Date.--
            (1) Applicability to new employees.--The amendment made by 
        subsection (a) shall apply with respect to a State employee 
        assigned to perform the duties of a disabled veterans' outreach 
        program specialist or a local veterans' employment 
        representative under chapter 41 of such title who is so 
        assigned on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.
            (2) Applicability to previously-hired employees.--In the 
        case of such a State employee who is so assigned on or after 
        January 1, 2006, and before the date of the enactment of this 
        Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall require the State 
        to require, as a condition of a grant or contract under which 
        funds are made available to the State in order to carry out 
        section 4103A or 4104 of title 38, United States Code, each 
        such employee to satisfactorily complete the training described 
        in section 4102A(c)(8)(A) of such title by not later than the 
        date that is one year after the date of the enactment of this 
        Act.

            Passed the House of Representatives May 19, 2009.

            Attest:

                                            LORRAINE C. MILLER,

                                                                 Clerk.