Veteran Technology Employment Success Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Veteran Technology Employment Success Act requires VA to make VET-TEC program outcome information public and defines the reported employment rate. The denominator is every covered individual who completed a qualifying high-technology program during the year. The numerator is the subset employed 180 days after completion.
VA may not count as a successful placement a graduate employed by the same organization that provided the education, or by that organization's parent or affiliate, as an instructor for a substantially similar program. To the maximum extent practicable, VA must separately report full-time employment, part-time employment, and self-employment rates.
VA must also continuously solicit, collect, and analyze feedback from participating covered individuals and from the GI Bill School Feedback Tool. The agency must use that feedback to evaluate and improve implementation.
The bill changes measurement, publication, and feedback requirements. It does not alter training-benefit amounts, guarantee employment, or automatically disqualify a provider based on a particular rate.
Who Benefits and How
Veterans choosing technology programs gain a public, consistently calculated 180-day employment measure and more detail about job type. Prospective students can distinguish genuine outside employment from a provider hiring its own graduates to teach similar courses. VA program managers and congressional overseers gain cleaner performance evidence. Providers producing durable outside placements gain reputational value, and participant feedback can improve program design.
Who Bears the Burden and How
VA must track completers for 180 days, classify employment status, identify provider affiliates, publish rates, collect feedback, and analyze it continuously. Training providers must support accurate outcome records and face scrutiny when graduates are unemployed or work only as affiliated instructors. Participants may receive additional follow-up requests. Providers relying on instructional hires lose those placements from the numerator.
Key Provisions
- Requires public availability of VET-TEC employment outcomes.
- Establishes a denominator based on annual program completers.
- Defines successful employment at 180 days after completion.
- Excludes substantially similar instructional jobs with the provider or affiliate.
- Requires separate job-type rates when practicable.
- Requires ongoing participant-feedback collection.
- Uses the GI Bill School Feedback Tool as a source.
- Directs VA to use feedback to improve implementation.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Standardizes and publicly discloses the VET-TEC high-technology program's 180-day employment rate, excludes provider-affiliated instructional placements from successful outcomes, adds available full-time, part-time, and self-employment rates, and requires ongoing participant-feedback collection for program improvement.
Key Policy Areas
Veterans Employment Training, VET-TEC Program Oversight, Education Outcome Reporting, GI Bill Feedback, Technology Workforce Development
Primary Purpose
Standardizes and publicly discloses the VET-TEC high-technology program's 180-day employment rate, excludes provider-affiliated instructional placements from successful outcomes, adds available full-time, part-time, and self-employment rates, and requires ongoing participant-feedback collection for program improvement.
Policy Domains
Section 2 VET-TEC employment-rate and feedback requirements
Identified Gains
- Veterans comparing VET-TEC providers
- Prospective students reviewing employment rates
- VA officials evaluating training performance
- Congressional veterans-program overseers
- Providers producing independent job placements
- Participants submitting program feedback
Identified Costs
- VA employment-outcome reporting staff
- VET-TEC providers supplying placement records
- Providers relying on affiliated instructor hires
- VA analysts reviewing participant feedback
- Participants receiving employment follow-up
- Provider affiliates subject to placement checks
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
Referred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Introduced in House
Mr. Walkinshaw (for himself and Mr. McGarvey) introduced the following …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Prospective students reviewing employment rates, Provider affiliates subject to placement checks, Providers producing independent job placements
Positive-direction: Prospective students reviewing employment rates, Providers producing independent job placements
Negative-direction: Provider affiliates subject to placement checks, Providers relying on affiliated instructor hires, VET-TEC providers supplying placement records
Congressional veterans-program overseers, VA analysts reviewing participant feedback, VA employment-outcome reporting staff
Positive-direction: Congressional veterans-program overseers, VA officials evaluating training performance
Negative-direction: VA analysts reviewing participant feedback, VA employment-outcome reporting staff
Participants receiving employment follow-up, Participants submitting program feedback, Veterans comparing VET-TEC providers
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "provider"
- → VET-TEC high-technology education provider
- "participant"
- → Covered individual completing a VET-TEC program
- "public_user"
- → Prospective veteran student
- "administrator"
- → Secretary of Veterans Affairs
Note: {'scope_ids': ['vet_tec_outcome_measurement'], 'description': 'The bill standardizes reporting and feedback but does not guarantee a job, change VET-TEC benefit amounts, require every employment-status breakdown when impracticable, or automatically sanction a provider for a low rate.'}
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
The percentage of annual completers employed 180 days after completion, excluding specified provider-affiliated instructional placements.
Ongoing participant input and information from the GI Bill School Feedback Tool used to evaluate implementation.
Employment by the education provider or its parent or affiliate as an instructor for a substantially similar program.
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