118 S4497 IS: Building Youth Workforce Skills Act U.S. Senate 2024-06-11 text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain.

II118th CONGRESS2d SessionS. 4497IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATESJune 11, 2024Mr. Cassidy introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and PensionsA BILLTo amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to authorize the use of individual training accounts for certain youth.

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the Building Youth Workforce Skills Act.

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Youth workforce investment activities

Section 129(c) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3164(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following: (9)

Individual training accounts

Funds allocated as described in paragraph (1) to a local area may be used to pay, through an individual training account, an eligible provider of training services described in section 122(d)(1) for training services described in section 134(c)(3) provided to an in-school youth who is not younger than age 16 and not older than age 21, or any out-of-school youth, in the same manner that an individual training account is used to pay an eligible provider of training services under section 134(c)(3)(F)(iii) for training services provided to an adult or dislocated worker..