To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to establish a fund to provide support services for individuals participating in certain training activities under such Act.
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Summary
What This Bill Does
Creates a competitive grant fund to provide support services for people participating in covered workforce training activities under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
Who Benefits and How
Local and State workforce boards and training participants could gain grant-funded support services such as groceries and after-hours childcare.
Who Bears the Burden and How
Federal funds would support the new grant program and workforce boards would need to apply for and administer the grants.
Key Provisions
- Creates a support-services training fund for participants in covered WIOA title I and title II training activities.
- Authorizes competitive grants to local or State workforce boards to provide specified support services.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Creates a competitive grant fund to provide support services for people participating in covered workforce training activities under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
Key Policy Areas
Labor, Government Operations
Primary Purpose
Creates a competitive grant fund to provide support services for people participating in covered workforce training activities under the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act.
Policy Domains
Main Provisions
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Workforce boards and training participants receiving grant-funded support services
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Federal funding resources and workforce boards administering the support-services grants
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
IntroducedMr. Smith of Washington introduced the following bill; which was …
Stakeholder Effects
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Local and State workforce boards receiving support-services grants, Training participants receiving groceries, childcare, and other support services
Federal funding resources supporting the grant fund
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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