Directs the Secretary of Labor to commence a one-year pilot program to assess the feasibility and advisability of providing veterans seeking employment with access to computing facilities in order to facilitate their access to websites that: (1) match such veterans with available jobs based on skills acquired as members of the Armed Forces, and (2) allow employers to post information about available jobs. Requires the Secretary to provide such veterans with assistance in using such facilities.
Repeals a required annual report from the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) on the use of authorities for retaining experienced nurses in the Veterans Health Administration.
[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6401 Introduced in House (IH)]
112th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 6401
To require the Secretary of Labor to carry out a pilot program on
providing veterans with access at One-Stop Centers to Internet websites
to facilitate online job searches, and for other purposes.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 13, 2012
Mr. Meehan (for himself, Mr. Loebsack, Mr. Bucshon, and Mr. Bilirakis)
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on
Veterans' Affairs
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A BILL
To require the Secretary of Labor to carry out a pilot program on
providing veterans with access at One-Stop Centers to Internet websites
to facilitate online job searches, 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. PILOT PROGRAM ON PROVIDING VETERANS WITH ACCESS AT ONE-STOP
CENTERS TO INTERNET WEBSITES TO FACILITATE ONLINE JOB
SEARCHES.
(a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Labor shall commence a pilot
program to assess the feasibility and advisability of providing
veterans seeking employment with access to computing facilities to
facilitate the access of such veterans to Internet websites that--
(1) match such veterans with available jobs based on the
skills the veterans acquired as members of the Armed Forces;
and
(2) allow employers to post information about available
jobs.
(b) Duration.--The pilot program required by subsection (a) shall
be carried out during the one-year period beginning on the date on
which the Secretary commences the pilot program.
(c) Locations.--The pilot program shall be carried out at such one-
stop centers and such other locations as the Secretary of Labor
considers appropriate for purposes of the pilot program.
(d) Assistance With Use of Internet Websites.--
(1) In general.--Under the pilot program, the Secretary of
Labor shall provide each veteran using computing facilities
made available under the pilot program with assistance in using
such facilities to find employment via Internet websites
described in subsection (a).
(2) Disabled veterans' outreach program specialists and
local veterans' employment representatives.--Each State that
employs a disabled veterans' outreach program specialist under
section 4103A of title 38, United States Code, or a local
veterans' employment representative under section 4104 of such
title shall make such employees available to the Secretary of
Labor for purposes of providing assistance under paragraph (1).
(e) Report.--Not later than 455 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Labor shall submit to the
Committee on Veterans' Affairs and the Committee on Health, Education,
Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and the Committee on Veterans'
Affairs and the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House
of Representatives a report on the pilot program that includes the
findings of the Secretary with respect to the feasibility and
advisability of providing computing facilities as described in
subsection (a) with assistance as described in subsection (d) at all
one-stop centers.
(f) Funding.--Amounts made available to the Secretary of Labor to
make grants or contracts under section 4102A(b)(5) of title 38, United
States Code, shall be available to the Secretary to carry out the pilot
program required by subsection (a).
(g) One-Stop Center Defined.--In this section, the term ``one-stop
center'' means a center described in section 134(c) of the Workforce
Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2864(c)).
SEC. 2. REPEAL OF REQUIREMENT FOR ANNUAL REPORT BY SECRETARY OF
VETERANS AFFAIRS ON USE OF AUTHORITIES TO ENHANCE
RETENTION OF EXPERIENCED NURSES.
(a) In General.--Section 7324 of title 38, United States Code, is
hereby repealed.
(b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the beginning of
chapter 73 of such title is amended by striking the item relating to
section 7324.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
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