HIRE at HOME Act

Helping Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Return to Employment at Home Act or HIRE at HOME Act - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), as a condition of a grant or contract to a state for certain veterans' employment and training programs, to require the state to demonstrate the consideration of any military training received by a veteran when approving or denying a commercial driver's license or a certification to be a nursing assistant or certified nursing assistant, a registered nurse, or an emergency medical technician.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4115 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4115

 To amend title 38, United States Code, to require, as a condition on 
  the receipt by a State of certain funds for veterans employment and 
 training, that the State ensures that training received by a veteran 
 while on active duty is taken into consideration in granting certain 
       State certifications or licenses, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           February 29, 2012

  Mr. Stivers (for himself and Mr. Walz of Minnesota) introduced the 
   following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Veterans' 
                                Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend title 38, United States Code, to require, as a condition on 
  the receipt by a State of certain funds for veterans employment and 
 training, that the State ensures that training received by a veteran 
 while on active duty is taken into consideration in granting certain 
       State certifications or licenses, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Helping Iraq and Afghanistan 
Veterans Return to Employment at Home Act'' or the ``HIRE at HOME 
Act''.

SEC. 2. STATE CONSIDERATION OF MILITARY TRAINING IN GRANTING CERTAIN 
              STATE CERTIFICATIONS AND LICENSES AS A CONDITION ON THE 
              RECEIPT OF FUNDS FOR VETERANS EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING.

    (a) In General.--Section 4102A of title 38, United States Code, is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(9)(A) As a condition of a grant or contract under which funds 
are made available to a State in order to carry out section 4103A or 
4104 of this title for any program year, the Secretary shall require 
the State to demonstrate that when the State approves or denies a 
certification or license described in subsection (b) for a veteran the 
State takes into consideration any training received by the veteran 
while serving on active duty in the Armed Forces.
    ``(B) A certification or license described in this subparagraph is 
any of the following:
            ``(i) A certification to be a State tested nursing 
        assistant or a certified nursing assistant.
            ``(ii) A certification to be a registered nurse.
            ``(iii) A certification to be an emergency medical 
        technician.
            ``(iv) A commercial driver's license.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to a program year beginning on or after the date of 
the enactment of this Act.
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