[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 127 (Thursday, July 27, 2017)]
[Senate]
[Pages S4603-S4604]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 723. Mr. BENNET submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill H.R. 2810, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2018 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:


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       On page 190 between lines 22 and 23, insert the following:
       (6) A mechanism (to be know as ``Clean Energy-Ready Vets'') 
     to provide workforce training, in coordination the Secretary 
     of Energy, junior or community colleges (as defined in 
     section 312(f) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 
     1058(f))) in the vicinity of such location, private industry, 
     and nonprofit organizations, for members of the Armed Forces 
     participating in the pilot program to transition to jobs in 
     the clean energy industry, including in the cyber and grid 
     security, natural gas, solar, wind, geothermal fields. In 
     carrying out the mechanism, the Secretary of Defense shall--
       (A) coordinate with the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to 
     consider opportunities to--
       (i) streamline the approval of appropriate workforce 
     training programs for which members participating in the 
     pilot program and following their transition to civilian life 
     may use veterans educational assistance; and
       (ii) enhance distance learning in connection with such 
     workforce training using such assistance;
       (B) enhance the process, in coordination with power 
     companies, by which members of the Armed Forces participating 
     in the pilot program who serve or have served in system 
     administrator positions, information technology positions, 
     and other relevant cybersecurity duties and positions in the 
     Armed Forces may transition to civilian careers in electric 
     grid security;
       (C) consider opportunities for the use of veterans 
     educational assistance for on-the-job working training 
     activities under the pilot program that are conducted outside 
     the military installation concerned; and
       (D) ensure that members of the Armed Forces are provided 
     information at appropriate times and locations regarding 
     eligibility to participate in similar energy and grid 
     security workforce training programs, including through the 
     Transition Assistance Program (TAP) of the Department of 
     Defense.
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