IIB 111th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 1088 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 20, 2009 Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs 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.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Mandatory Veteran Specialist Training Act of 2009.

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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. Lorraine C. Miller, Clerk.