H.R. 6819 115th Congress House

HELP Act

Official title: To establish a worker adjustment assistance program to provide assistance and job retraining for workers who have lost their jobs due to unplanned closures of … Show full official titleShow less

Official title: To establish a worker adjustment assistance program to provide assistance and job retraining for workers who have lost their jobs due to unplanned closures of coal and coal dependent industries, and for other purposes.

Introduced: September 13, 2018 See on congress.gov

Labor and Employment Administrative remediesAdvisory bodiesCoalCongressional oversight

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Sep 13, 2018

Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, 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.

Sep 13, 2018

Introduced in House

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Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Healthy Employee Loss Prevention Act of 2018 or the HELP Act

This bill establishes (1) a worker adjustment assistance program (including a Transition Adjustment Assistance Fund) to provide assistance and job retraining for workers who have lost their jobs due to unplanned closures of coal and coal dependent industries, and (2) a Critical Employment Advisory Commission.

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