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HR 3838 112th Congress House Transportation and Public Works Employment and training programs Navigation, waterways, harbors Temporary and part-time employment Transportation employees Transportation programs funding Youth employment and child labor

Port Opportunity Reinvestment and Training Act

Introduced: January 27, 2012 See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 4 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jan 30, 2012
Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.
Jan 27, 2012
Referred to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure.
Jan 27, 2012
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E81)
Jan 27, 2012
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Port Opportunity Reinvestment and Training Act - Directs the Secretary of Transportation (DOT) to award renewable one-year grants to ports to provide summer jobs to high school students who live within each port's Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA).

Requires the Secretary, when considering grant applications and amounts, to favor ports located in cities with high unemployment rates and also consider each port's cargo volume and the size of its MSA.

Allows ports to use the grants to provide job training to such students, provided no more than 15% of the students' time is spent training and they are compensated at their normal pay rate while training.

What's happening now January 30, 2012

Referred to the Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation.

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