Department of Energy Experienced Worker Program Act

[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7743 Introduced in House (IH)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7743

  To direct the Secretary of Energy to establish the ``Department of 
                  Energy Experienced Worker Program''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 20, 2024

  Ms. DeGette (for herself and Mr. Fulcher) introduced the following 
    bill; which was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce

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                                 A BILL


 
  To direct the Secretary of Energy to establish the ``Department of 
                  Energy Experienced Worker Program''.

    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 ``Department of Energy Experienced 
Worker Program Act''.

SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY EXPERIENCED WORKER PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Energy shall establish an 
experienced worker program, to be known as the ``Department of Energy 
Experienced Worker Program'', for the purpose of awarding grants and 
entering into multiyear cooperative agreements to use the talents of 
individuals in the United States who are age 55 or older and are not 
employees of the Department of Energy to provide technical, 
professional, and administrative services to support the mission of the 
Department of Energy.
    (b) Grants and Cooperative Agreements.--
            (1) In general.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
        relating to Federal grants and cooperative agreements, in 
        carrying out the Department of Energy Experienced Worker 
        Program established under subsection (a), the Secretary of 
        Energy may make grants to, or enter into multiyear cooperative 
        agreements with, private national nonprofit organizations 
        eligible to receive grants under title V of the Older Americans 
        Act of 1965 (42 U.S.C. 3056 et seq.) to use the talents of 
        individuals in the United States who are age 55 or older and 
        are not employees of the Department of Energy to provide 
        technical, professional, and administrative services to support 
        the mission of the Department of Energy.
            (2) Requirements.--Prior to awarding a grant or entering 
        into a cooperative agreement under paragraph (1), the Secretary 
        of Energy shall ensure that the grant or cooperative agreement 
        would not--
                    (A) result in the displacement of individuals 
                currently employed by the Department of Energy, 
                including partial displacement through reduction of 
                non-overtime hours, wages, or employment benefits;
                    (B) result in the use of an individual under the 
                Department of Energy Experienced Worker Program for a 
                job or function in a case in which a Federal employee 
                is in a layoff status from the same or substantially 
                equivalent job within the Department;
                    (C) affect existing contracts for services; or
                    (D) result in the conversion of enrollees in the 
                Department of Energy Experienced Worker Program into 
                employees of the Department.
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