A bill to amend title 38, United States Code, to establish an employment and job training program exclusively for certain veterans, and for other purposes.
Veterans' Employment and Training Act of 1982 - Directs the Secretary of Labor, through the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment, to establish a program providing job counseling, training, and placement services for disabled, Vietnam-era and other eligible veterans through grants to State agencies and private, nonprofit organizations. Encourages such agencies to make cooperative arrangements with industry.
Directs the Secretary to coordinate this program with other veterans' job training programs and to determine the effectiveness of an agency in providing services under this program. Permits the Secretary to furnish technical assistance as necessary.
Directs the Secretary to report annually to the Veterans' Affairs Committees of Congress on the conduct of this program.
Directs the Secretary of Labor to: (1) make a separate budget statement on the costs of this program; (2) distribute disabled veterans' outreach program specialists among States based on regional differences in employment problems; and (3) promulgate regulations as necessary.
Authorizes appropriations for FY 1983 and succeeding fiscal years.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Veterans.
Committee on Veterans requested executive comment from VA; OMB.
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