Consolidating Veteran Employment Services for Improved Performance Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill sets an October 1, 2027 transfer of major DOL veterans employment functions to VA, including job counseling, training and placement, federal employment services for veterans, USERRA enforcement, and homeless veterans reintegration. It creates a Deputy Under Secretary for Veterans Economic Opportunity and Transition at VA, consolidates Disabled Veterans Outreach Program and Local Veterans Employment Representative roles into state-employed veteran employment specialists, prioritizes disabled and disadvantaged veterans, and requires VA and DOL to report on personnel, assets, costs, savings, enforcement, agreements, and transition steps.
Who Benefits and How
Veterans seeking jobs, disabled veterans, homeless veterans, and employers trying to hire veterans benefit from a single VA-centered employment system, priority specialist services, outreach to employers, and job-search workshops aimed at people with service-connected or economic barriers.
Who Bears the Burden and How
VA leadership, DOL VETS staff, state workforce agencies, and veteran employment specialists must implement the transfer, revise agreements, move personnel and assets, comply with new VA policy direction, report costs and savings, and manage USERRA enforcement continuity.
Key Provisions
- Requires DOL veterans employment, USERRA, and homeless-veteran reintegration functions to move to VA beginning October 1, 2027.
- Creates a VA Deputy Under Secretary for Veterans Economic Opportunity and Transition.
- Modifies DVOP and LVER positions into state-employed veteran employment specialists with priority services for disabled and disadvantaged veterans.
- Requires VA and DOL to study and report transition costs, personnel, assets, enforcement, agreements, and savings.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Moves federal veterans employment, reemployment, and homeless-veteran reintegration programs from the Department of Labor to the Department of Veterans Affairs and restructures state-delivered employment specialists under VA policy control.
Key Policy Areas
Veterans, Labor, Government, State & Local Government
Primary Purpose
Moves federal veterans employment, reemployment, and homeless-veteran reintegration programs from the Department of Labor to the Department of Veterans Affairs and restructures state-delivered employment specialists under VA policy control.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Veterans seeking employment services
- Disabled veterans
- Homeless veterans
- Employers hiring veterans
Identified Costs
- Department of Veterans Affairs leadership
- Department of Labor VETS staff
- State workforce agencies
- Veteran employment specialists
- VA advisory committee on disabled veteran employment
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeCommittee Hearings Held
Mr. Hamadeh of Arizona introduced the following bill; which was …
Referred to the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, and in addition …
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Disabled veteran job applicants, Disabled veterans, Economically disadvantaged veterans
Congressional veterans affairs committees, Department of Veterans Affairs leadership, Department of Veterans Affairs transition planners
Positive-direction: Congressional veterans affairs committees
Negative-direction: Department of Veterans Affairs leadership, Department of Veterans Affairs transition planners, VA economic opportunity staff
Department of Labor VETS staff, Employers hiring veterans, Employers recruiting veterans
Positive-direction: Employers hiring veterans, Employers recruiting veterans
Negative-direction: Department of Labor VETS staff, Veteran employment specialists
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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