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HR 137 100th Congress House Labor and Employment Appropriations Counseling Department of Labor Economics and Public Finance Employee training Employment agencies Employment and training programs Federal-state relations Government trust funds Income tax Job hunting Manpower training programs Occupational retraining Relocation of employees Tax deductions Taxation Unemployed Unemployment Unemployment insurance

National Individual Training Account Act of 1987

Introduced: January 6, 1987 Introduced by: Durbin, Richard J. Democratic · Illinois See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 5 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 23, 1987
Referred to Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities.
Jan 15, 1987
Referred to Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation.
Jan 6, 1987
Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
Jan 6, 1987
Referred to House Committee on Education and Labor.
Jan 6, 1987
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

National Individual Training Account Act of 1987 - Title I: Individual Training Accounts - Establishes the national individual training account program to be administered by the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of the Treasury in cooperation with the States.

Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to enter into agreements whereby States or State unemployment compensation agencies shall: (1) issue and redeem vouchers to pay training and relocation expenses; (2) accept contributions from employees and employers for deposit into individual training accounts and distribute any amount in any such account at such times as any distribution is authorized; (3) provide individual counseling or job and training referral services to any participant in the program; and (4) cooperate with officers of the Federal Government or of any other State in carrying out this Act.

Directs the Secretary of Labor, upon the request of a State, to provide information and to detail, on a reimbursable basis, personnel to assist in establishing a State individual training account program.

Sets forth the duties of the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of the Treasury in administering the program established by this Act.

Sets forth provisions for distributions from individual training accounts.

Sets forth provisions for eligible training programs and for certification of such programs by the Secretary of Labor.

Sets forth provisions for qualified relocation expenses and for approval of such expenses by the Secretary of Labor.

Provides that individual training and related accounts are to be established as separate book accounts in the Unemployment Trust Fund.

Title II: Amendments to the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 Relating to Individual Training Accounts - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise provisions for approval of State unemployment compensation laws to require that a State have a State individual training account program which has been approved by the Secretary of Labor. Applies such requirement to certifications of such State laws for 1988 and subsequent years.

Revises Federal unemployment tax provisions to add requirements relating to State individual training account programs.

Revises provisions relating to itemized Federal income tax deductions for individuals and corporations to allow such deductions for employee or employer contributions to individual training accounts made after December 31, 1986.

Prohibits any reduction (through an additional credit allowance) in Federal unemployment tax in the case of any large employer which refuses to participate in the national individual training account program. Defines "large employer" as one which during the calendar year employed an average of not less than 25 employees. Makes such denial of reduction applicable to calendar years beginning after December 31, 1988. Appropriates to the Secretary of Labor, for the expense of administering the Federal-State employment service, for each fiscal year ending after January 1, 1988, an amount determined by the Secretary of the Treasury to be equivalent to an unspecified portion of the amounts received in the general fund in the Treasury which are attributable to the operation of such denial of reduction in the unemployment tax rate of such large employers who refuse to participate in the national individual training account program.

What's happening now February 23, 1987

Referred to Subcommittee on Employment Opportunities.

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