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.

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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