To amend the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to provide grants to States for on-the-job training programs for adults in economically disadvantaged areas.
Economic Recovery On-the-Job Training Act of 2013 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to require the Secretary of Labor to make discretionary grants to state and local boards for adult on-the-job training or dislocated worker on-the-job training programs within economically disadvantaged areas and extremely economically disadvantaged areas. Requires the Secretary to ensure that state and local boards within extremely economically disadvantaged areas receive 25% more authorized grant funds than those within economically disadvantaged areas.
Defines "economically disadvantaged area" to mean any area for which there is a single five-digit postal zip code, and which includes any portion of a census tract where the median annual household income is less than $40,000 per year. Defines "extremely economically disadvantaged area" similarly, except for a median annual household income of less than $32,000 per year.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
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