Empowering Youth Through Summer Employment Act

Empowering Youth Through Summer Employment Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to direct the Secretary of Labor to award grants to states to help local areas with high concentrations of eligible youth to carry out summer employment programs to provide those youth with summer employment opportunities directly linked to academic and occupational learning.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4087 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4087

  To amend the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to provide grants to 
            States for summer employment programs for youth.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 25, 2014

  Mr. Kildee introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                Committee on Education and the Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To amend the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to provide grants to 
            States for summer employment programs for youth.

    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 ``Empowering Youth Through Summer 
Employment Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS TO STATES FOR SUMMER EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH.

    Section 129 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 
2854) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(d) Grants to States for Summer Employment Programs for Youth.--
            ``(1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of 
        this Act, from the amount appropriated under paragraph (2), the 
        Secretary shall award grants to States to provide assistance to 
        local areas that have high concentrations of eligible youth to 
        enable such local areas to carry out programs described in 
        subsection (c)(1) that provide summer employment opportunities 
        for eligible youth, which are directly linked to academic and 
        occupational learning, as described in subsection (c)(2)(C), 
        except that the only measure of performance used to assess such 
        programs shall be the work readiness performance indicator 
        described in section 136(b)(2)(A)(ii)(I).
            ``(2) Authorization of appropriations.--There are 
        authorized to be appropriated $100,000,000 to carry out this 
        subsection for each of fiscal years 2015 through 2019.''.
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