[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3337 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3337

To require applications for a health profession opportunity grant under 
   section 2008 of the Social Security Act to contain evidence of in-
                    demand jobs or worker shortages.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             June 19, 2019

  Mr. Brendan F. Boyle of Pennsylvania introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To require applications for a health profession opportunity grant under 
   section 2008 of the Social Security Act to contain evidence of in-
                    demand jobs or worker shortages.

    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 ``Labor Market Response Act''.

SEC. 2. REQUIREMENT THAT APPLICATION CONTAIN EVIDENCE OF IN-DEMAND JOBS 
              OR WORKER SHORTAGES.

    Section 2008 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1397g) is 
amended by redesignating subsections (c) and (d) as subsections (d) and 
(e), respectively, and inserting after subsection (b) the following:
    ``(c) Application Requirement.--An application for a grant under 
this section shall contain a description of the availability and 
relevance of recent labor market information and other pertinent 
evidence of in-demand jobs or worker shortages.''.

SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendment made by this Act shall take effect on October 1, 
2019.
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