To amend title 10, United States Code, to require that certain members of the Armed Forces receive employment assistance, job training assistance, and other transitional services provided by the Secretary of Labor before separating from active duty service.

Modifies the requirement that the Secretary of Labor provide employment assistance, job training assistance, and other transitional services to members of the Armed Forces who are being separated from active duty (and the member's spouse).

Directs the Secretary concerned (the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs), where such services are available on a routine basis, to require such members to receive them if they have been deployed for 180 days or more.

[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1851 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1851

To amend title 10, United States Code, to require that certain members 
    of the Armed Forces receive employment assistance, job training 
 assistance, and other transitional services provided by the Secretary 
          of Labor before separating from active duty service.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 1, 2009

     Ms. Herseth Sandlin (for herself and Mr. Donnelly of Indiana) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to require that certain members 
    of the Armed Forces receive employment assistance, job training 
 assistance, and other transitional services provided by the Secretary 
          of Labor before separating from active duty service.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. REQUIREMENT THAT EACH MEMBER OF THE ARMED FORCES RECEIVE 
              EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE, JOB TRAINING ASSISTANCE, AND OTHER 
              TRANSITIONAL SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE SECRETARY OF LABOR.

    (a) Requirement.--Subsection (a)(1) of section 1144 of title 10, 
United States Code, is amended by striking ``Such services shall be 
provided to a member'' and inserting ``Where such services are 
available on a routine basis, the Secretary concerned shall require 
each member who has been deployed for 180 days or more to receive such 
services''.
    (b) Conforming Amendment.--Such section is further amended by 
striking subsection (c).
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsections (a) and (b) 
shall apply with respect to a member of the Armed Forces whose 
discharge or release from active duty service is anticipated on or 
after the date of the enactment of this Act.
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