H.R. 663 — Introduced in House

I 115th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 663 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES January 24, 2017Mr. 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 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. 1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Assisting America’s Dislocated Miners Act of 2017. 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.