SUPPORTING KNOWLEDGE AND INVESTING IN LIFELONG SKILLS (SKILLS) ACT

Amendments

Enact (H.R. 803), S3972, S3975, S3979, S3991, S4006, S4086, S4087, S4088 [25JN], H5887 [9JY]

Lists

Organizations supporting H.R. 803, provisions, S3966 [25JN]

Remarks in House

Business and industry: promote industry growth and competitiveness and improve worker training, retention, and advancement, H5967 [9JY]

Congress: importance of bipartisanship, H6752 [24JY]

Correctional institutions: expand education and job training activities for incarcerated individuals, H5967 [9JY]

Dept. of Labor: strengthen the U.S. workforce investment system through innovation in, and alignment and improvement of, employment, training, and education programs, H5963 [9JY]

Economy: increase business engagement and improve training opportunities for occupations in-demand in order to get Americans back to work, H5966 [9JY]

Education: increase access to adult education to provide for economic growth, H5964 [9JY]

Employment: importance of manufacturing jobs and Make It in America agenda, H5965 [9JY]

——— increase flexibility of States and local workforce boards to support local job training programs that demonstrate success, H5967 [9JY]

——— promote economic self-sufficiency of low-income women through increased participation in high-wage, high-demand occupations, H5966 [9JY]

Enact (H.R. 803), H5 [7JA], H30 [8JA], H151, H152 [10JA], H166 [13JA], H1254 [27JA], H1683 [6FE], H2086, H2087 [28FE], H2472 [14MR], H2567 [24MR], H2840 [2AP]

——— Senate amendments, H5862 [8JY], H5881, H5882, H5883, H5884, H5885, H5886, H5887–H5971 [9JY], H6041 [10JY], H6361 [17JY], H6673, H6678 [23JY], H7054, H7109, H7114, H7115 [30JY], E1137 [10JY], E1146 [11JY]

Religious Freedom Restoration Act: application relative to religious hiring by religious organizations, H5971 [9JY]

Workforce Investment Act: integrate public libraries into State and local workforce investment boards, H5968 [9JY]

Remarks in Senate

Business and industry: promote industry growth and competitiveness and improve worker training, retention, and advancement, S3970 [25JN]

Dept. of Labor: reduce Office of the Secretary funding if independent evaluations of certain job training programs are not submitted in a timely fashion, S3979, S3980 [25JN]

——— strengthen the workforce development system through innovation in, and alignment and improvement of, employment, training, and education programs and promote economic growth, S3965–S3971 [25JN]

Employment: reform Federal job training programs, S3968 [25JN]

——— require States to implement corrective actions after one year for workforce investment board training programs and one-stop providers that fail to meet established performance accountability standards, S3975 [25JN]

Enact (H.R. 803), S192 [9JA], S344, S351 [15JA], S2412 [28AP], S3215–S3217 [21MY], S3903 [24JN], S3949, S3964–S3991 [25JN], S4124–S4126 [26JN], S4409 [10JY], S4668, S4669, S4685 [22JY], S4723 [23JY], S4981 [28JY], S5304 [31JY]

——— unanimous-consent agreement, S3884 [19JN], S3947 [24JN], S3950 [25JN]

Senate: tribute to Senators who worked on H.R. 803, provisions, S3974 [25JN]

——— tribute to staff who worked on H.R. 803, provisions, S3975 [25JN]

Statements

Provisions: Several Members of Congress (excerpt), H5969–H5971 [9JY]

——— Several Senators and Representatives, S3982–S3990 [25JN]

Texts of

H.R. 803, provisions, H5887–H5962 [9JY]

Tributes

Harkin, Senator, S3973 [25JN]