[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1936 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1936

 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, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            October 5, 2017

Mr. Cotton (for himself and Mr. Tillis) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 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, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. DESIGNATION OF STATE APPROVING AGENCIES FOR MULTI-STATE 
              APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAMS.

    Subsection (c)(1) of section 3672 of title 38, United States Code, 
is amended by striking ``(1) In the case'' and all that follows through 
``of all such programs.'' and inserting the following: ``(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.''.
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