Mobilizing Opportunities for Veterans Employment Act of 2011

Mobilizing Opportunities for Veterans Employment Act of 2011 - Requires recipients of federal assistance for federal-aid highway projects and capital public transportation projects to give preference to the hiring of veterans with the requisite skills and abilities to perform construction work on such projects. Exempts from these requirements federal-aid highway projects on Indian reservation roads in which preference in the hiring of Indians living on or near a reservation on such projects is authorized.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3473 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3473

  To provide employment opportunities for veterans in transportation 
             construction projects, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 18, 2011

 Mr. Rahall (for himself and Mr. Petri) introduced the following bill; 
       which was referred to the Committee on Transportation and 
                             Infrastructure

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide employment opportunities for veterans in transportation 
             construction projects, 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 ``Mobilizing Opportunities for 
Veterans Employment Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. VETERANS PREFERENCE IN HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION.

    Section 114 of title 23, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(d) Veterans Employment.--Recipients of Federal financial 
assistance under this chapter shall ensure that contractors working on 
a project funded using such assistance give a hiring preference to 
veterans, as defined in section 2108 of title 5, who have the requisite 
skills and abilities to perform the construction work required under 
the contract. This subsection shall not apply to projects subject to 
section 140(d) of this title.''.

SEC. 3. VETERANS PREFERENCE IN TRANSIT CONSTRUCTION.

    Section 5325 of title 49, United States Code, is amended by adding 
at the end the following:
    ``(k) Veterans Employment.--Recipients and subrecipients of Federal 
financial assistance under this chapter shall ensure that contractors 
working on a capital project funded using such assistance give a hiring 
preference to veterans, as defined in section 2108 of title 5, who have 
the requisite skills and abilities to perform the construction work 
required under the contract.''.
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