Hire Veterans Act of 2004

Hire Veterans Act of 2004 - Amends the Jobs for Veterans Act to: (1) extend through December 31, 2008, the operation of the President's National Hire Veterans Committee; (2) provide additional funding to cover such extension; and (3) extend required reports concerning Committee activities.

[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 419 Introduced in House (IH)]






109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 419

   To extend the operation of the President's National Hire Veterans 
                   Committee, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 26, 2005

 Mr. Simpson introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Veterans' Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
   To extend the operation of the President's National Hire Veterans 
                   Committee, 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. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Hire Veterans Act of 2004''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF OPERATION OF THE PRESIDENT'S NATIONAL HIRE 
              VETERANS COMMITTEE.

    (a) Three-Year Extension.--Subsection (f) of section 6 of the Jobs 
for Veterans Act (Public Law 107-288; 116 Stat. 2048) is amended by 
striking ``December 31, 2005'' and inserting ``December 31, 2008''.
    (b) Additional Funding.--Such section is further amended by adding 
at the end the following new subsection:
    ``(h) Funding for Fiscal Years 2006 Through 2008.--From amounts 
made available to the Secretary of Labor in each of fiscal years 2006, 
2007, and 2008 for the activities of disabled veterans' outreach 
program specialists appointed under section 4103A of title 38, United 
States Code, and local veterans' employment representatives assigned 
under section 4104 of such title, 0.5 percent of such amounts in each 
such fiscal year shall be made available to the Secretary to carry out 
this section.''.
    (c) Addtional Reports.--Subsection (e) of such section is amended 
by striking ``and 2005,'' and inserting ``2005, 2006, 2007, and 
2008,''.
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