[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4850 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4850

To amend the definition of State to include outlying areas for purposes 
                       of the Job Corps program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 29, 2021

     Mr. Sablan (for himself, Mrs. Radewagen, and Mr. San Nicolas) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                          Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the definition of State to include outlying areas for purposes 
                       of the Job Corps program.

    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 ``Job Corps Nationwide Act''.

SEC. 2. JOB CORPS DEFINITIONS.

    Section 142 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3192) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(11) State.--The term `State' has the meaning given the 
        term in section 3, except that such term also includes outlying 
        areas (as defined in section 3).''.
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