[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4608 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4608

To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to authorize the 
         use of individual training accounts for certain youth.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             June 20, 2024

 Mr. Hickenlooper introduced the following bill; which was read twice 
and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to authorize the 
         use of individual training accounts for certain youth.

    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 ``Building Youth Workforce Skills 
Act''.

SEC. 2. YOUTH WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES.

    Section 129(c) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3164(c)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(9) Individual training accounts.--Funds allocated as 
        described in paragraph (1) to a local area may be used to pay, 
        through an individual training account, an eligible provider of 
        training services described in section 122(d)(1) for training 
        services described in section 134(c)(3) provided to an in-
        school youth who is not younger than age 16 and not older than 
        age 21, or any out-of-school youth, in the same manner that an 
        individual training account is used to pay an eligible provider 
        of training services under subparagraphs (F)(iii) and (G) of 
        section 134(c)(3) for training services provided to an adult or 
        dislocated worker.''.
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