To amend the Indian Employment, Training and Related Services Demonstration Act of 1992 to facilitate the ability of Indian tribes to integrate the employment, training, and related services from diverse Federal sources, and for other purposes.
Indian Employment, Training and Related Services Consolidation Act of 2016
(Sec. 2) This bill amends the Indian Employment, Training and Related Services Demonstration Act of 1992 to rename the Act to the Indian Employment, Training and Related Services Act of 1992 and to revise the program that provides for the integration of employment, training, and related services programs for Indian tribes.
(Sec. 6) The bill revises the types of programs that may be integrated.
(Sec. 8) The bill revises the process for: (1) federal agencies to grant or deny a tribe's request to waive statutory, regulatory, or administrative requirements to efficiently implement an integration plan; and (2) the Department of the Interior to approve or disapprove an integration plan. A tribe is granted certain hearing and appeal rights if Interior disapproves its plan.
(Sec. 10) Tribal authority to use funds to place participants in training positions with employers is revised.
(Sec. 13) The Bureau of Indian Affairs must receive and distribute funds for use in accordance with an approved integration plan.
(Sec. 14) Funds transferred to a tribe must be treated as non-federal funds for purposes of meeting matching requirements, except funds administered by the Department of Labor or the Department of Health and Human Services.
Civil liability limitations apply to approved integration plans.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs Discharged.
Committee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.
Ordered to be Reported (Amended) by Unanimous Consent.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 114-828, Part I.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Natural Resources. H. Rept. 114-828, Part I.
Referred jointly and sequentially to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce for a period ending not later than Dec. 8, 2016 for consideration of such provisions of the bill and amendment as fall within the jurisdiction of that committee pursuant to clause 1(e) of rule X.
Referred jointly and sequentially to the House Committee on Ways and Means for a period ending not later than Dec. 8, 2016 for consideration of such provisions of the bill and amendment as fall within the jurisdiction of that committee pursuant to clause 1(t) of rule X.
Committee on Education and the Workforce discharged.
Committee on Education and the Workforce discharged.
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Committee on Ways and Means discharged.
Committee on Ways and Means discharged.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 662.
Mr. Young (AK) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H7292-7297)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 329.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote.(text: CR H7292-7295)
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H7292-7295)
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate.