A bill to provide incentive for employers to hire service-connected disabled veterans and to improve adjustment assistance and job-training transition for injured and disabled veterans, and for other purposes.
Help Our Patriots Employment (HOPE) Act of 2006 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) include veterans entitled to compensation for a service-connected disability as targeted group members for purposes of the work opportunity tax credit; and (2) increase from $6,000 to $12,000 the amount of first-year wages eligible for the work opportunity tax credit in the case of a veteran with a service-connected disability.
Authorizes additional appropriations for FY2008 and FY2009 to operate the National Veterans' Employment and Training Services Institute.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
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