Assisting America's Dislocated Miners Act of 2017

Assisting America's Dislocated Miners Act of 2017

This bill establishes within the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration a Dislocated Miners Assistance Program. The program shall contract with comprehensive career centers to:

• identify miners who have been dislocated from their employment in mining jobs across the United States;
• assess the skills, training, and education such miners need to find and hold new jobs;
• identify job training programs that would provide such training and education; and
• provide grants to eligible job training providers to recruit and train such miners and assist them in finding new employment.

A comprehensive career center or job training provider eligible to receive a grant under this bill shall be a nonprofit organization with demonstrated success in coordinating or providing necessary training and education to enable dislocated miners to acquire marketable skills to find and hold jobs in areas where they live.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 663 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 663

 To establish a grant program to assist dislocated miners in receiving 
additional training and education to enable them to find and secure new 
                                 jobs.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 24, 2017

  Mr. Jenkins of West Virginia (for himself, Mr. Michael F. Doyle of 
Pennsylvania, Mr. Welch, and Mr. Ryan of Ohio) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the 
                               Workforce

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                                 A BILL


 
 To establish a grant program to assist dislocated miners in receiving 
additional training and education to enable them to find and secure new 
                                 jobs.

    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 ``Assisting America's Dislocated 
Miners Act of 2017''.

SEC. 2. MULTISTATE DISLOCATED MINERS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

    (a) Establishment.--There is established within the Employment and 
Training Administration of the Department of Labor a Dislocated Miners 
Assistance Program that shall contract with comprehensive career 
centers to--
            (1) identify miners who have been dislocated from their 
        employment in mining jobs across the United States;
            (2) assess the needed skills, training, and education of 
        such miners to enable them to find and hold new jobs;
            (3) identify job training programs that would provide such 
        training and education; and
            (4) provide grants to eligible job training providers, 
        pursuant to subsection (b), to recruit and train such miners 
        and assist them in finding new employment.
    (b) Job Training Grants for Dislocated Workers.--
            (1) In general.--From amounts appropriated pursuant to 
        paragraph (3), the Secretary of Labor shall award grants to 
        eligible job training providers and comprehensive career 
        centers to recruit and train dislocated miners and assist them 
        in finding new employment.
            (2) Eligible comprehensive career centers and job training 
        providers.--A comprehensive career center or job training 
        provider eligible to receive a grant under this Act shall be a 
        nonprofit organization with demonstrated success coordinating 
        or providing necessary training and education to workers 
        dislocated from the mining industry, to enable such workers to 
        acquire marketable skills to find and hold jobs in the 
        workforce in areas where such miners and their families live.
            (3) Authorization of appropriations.--There is authorized 
        to be appropriated to the Secretary of Labor for each of fiscal 
        years 2017 through 2021, $20,000,000 to award grants pursuant 
        to this Act.
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