HR 5155
114th Congress
House
Labor and Employment
Coal
Employment and training programs
Mining
Unemployment
Vocational and technical education
Assisting America's Dislocated Miners Act of 2016
Introduced: April 29, 2016
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Everywhere this bill has been
3 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Sep 19, 2016
Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Apr 29, 2016
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
Apr 29, 2016
Introduced in House
Plain-English summary
Assisting America's Dislocated Miners Act of 2016
This bill establishes within the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration a Dislocated Miners Assistance Program. The program shall contract with comprehensive career centers to:
- identify miners who have been dislocated from their employment in mining jobs across the United States;
- assess the skills, training, and education such miners need to find and hold new jobs;
- identify job training programs that would provide such training and education; and
- provide grants to eligible job training providers to recruit and train such miners and assist them in finding new employment.
A comprehensive career center or job training provider eligible to receive a grant under this bill shall be a nonprofit organization with demonstrated success in coordinating or providing necessary training and education to enable dislocated miners to acquire marketable skills to find and hold jobs in areas where they live.
What's happening now
Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Committees of jurisdiction
2
Cosponsors
1