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HR 1534 115th Congress House Labor and Employment Employment and training programs Industrial facilities Internet and video services Internet, web applications, social media Manufacturing Telecommunication rates and fees Unemployment

21st Century Worker Opportunity Act

Introduced: March 15, 2017 Introduced by: Dingell, Debbie Democratic · Michigan See on congress.gov
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Mar 17, 2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.
Mar 15, 2017
Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Mar 15, 2017
Introduced in House
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

21st Century Worker Opportunity Act

This bill requires the National Telecommunications and Information Administration to implement a program that provides displaced workers with a subsidy or coupon for a lump sum payment of $500 that may only be applied towards: (1) broadband Internet access service, or (2) remote job training in a profession not likely to be automated in the next 20 years.

A "displaced worker" is defined as an individual who, due to automation of machinery that replaces human labor, has been terminated or laid off from employment or who has received a notice of termination or layoff from employment.

To be eligible for the program, a displaced worker who has been laid off or terminated must submit a certification from an employer that the worker was employed in the manufacturing sector and was laid off or terminated due to the automation of the position of the worker.

What's happening now March 17, 2017

Referred to the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology.

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