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[H.R. 3949 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.3949

                     One Hundred Fifteenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE FIRST SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,
          the third day of January, two thousand and seventeen


                                 An Act


 
To amend title 38, United States Code, to provide for the designation of 
  State approving agencies for multi-State apprenticeship programs for 
  purposes of the educational assistance programs of the Department of 
                            Veterans Affairs.

    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 ``Veterans Apprenticeship and Labor 
Opportunity Reform Act'' or the ``VALOR Act''.
SEC. 2. DESIGNATION OF STATE APPROVING AGENCIES FOR MULTI-STATE 
APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS.
    Paragraph (1) of subsection (c) of section 3672 of title 38, United 
States Code, is amended to read as follows:
    ``(1)(A) The State approving agency for a multi-State 
apprenticeship program is--
        ``(i) for purposes of approval of the program, the State 
    approving agency for the State in which the headquarters of the 
    apprenticeship program is located; and
        ``(ii) for all other purposes, the State approving agency for 
    the State in which the apprenticeship program takes place.
    ``(B) In this paragraph, the term `multi-State apprenticeship 
program' means a non-Federal apprenticeship program operating in more 
than one State that meets the minimum national program standards, as 
developed by the Department of Labor.''.
SEC. 3. ELIMINATION OF CERTAIN CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT FOR ASSISTANCE 
FOR APPRENTICESHIP AND OTHER ON-JOB TRAINING.
    Section 3680(c) of title 38, United States Code, is amended by 
striking ``shall have received--'' and all that follows through 
``person's certificate,'' and inserting ``receives from the training 
establishment a certification''.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.