Job Training Partnership Act Amendments of 1986

(Senate agreed to House amendment with an amendment) Job Training Partnership Act Amendments of 1986 - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (the Act) to permit local governments to jointly apply for designation as a service delivery area (SDA) to serve one or more labor market areas (rather than a single labor market area). Adds to purposes for which State education grants may be used the provision of: (1) literacy training to youth and adults; (2) dropout prevention and reenrollment services to youth; and (3) a State-wide school-to-work transition program. Requires that specified portions of such funds be used for such purposes. Authorizes the President to make annual awards for outstanding business involvement in job training partnership programs, as well as awards for model programs which demonstrate effectiveness in addressing the job training needs of groups of individuals with multiple barriers to employment. Establishes an intrastate hold harmless allocation requirement. Allows Governors or service delivery areas to use incentive grant funds to develop and implement a data collection system to track the post-program experience of participants. Defines "eligible youth," for purposes of authorizing job training services to disadvantaged youth under the Act, to include 14- and 15-year old individuals. Requires SDAs to: (1) assess the reading and mathematics skill levels of eligible participants in summer youth employment and training programs; (2) expend funds for basic and remedial education as described in the job training plan; and (3) establish written program goals and objectives to evaluate the effectiveness of summer youth employment and training programs. Permits summer youth programs to be offered in school vacation periods during nonsummer months under specified conditions. Prohibits requiring State matching grants under criteria for receipt of grants from the Secretary of Labor's discretionary funds. Includes under the definition of dislocated workers individuals who were self-employed (including farmers) and who are unemployed as a result of general economic conditions in the community in which they reside or because of natural disaster. Directs the Secretary to establish categories of self-employed individuals and of economic conditions and natural disasters. Prohibits State and local taxation of Job Corps operations. Authorizes the Secretary, from funds available for national activities under the Act, to provide financial assistance for pilot projects to train individuals threatened with the loss of their jobs due to technological changes, international economic policies, or general economic conditions. Directs the Secretary to include under national activities projects designed to serve populations with multiple barriers to employment, such as individuals listed under specified provisions of the Act and individuals not otherwise targeted for assistance under the Act, with special consideration for displaced homemakers and the handicapped. Adds a definition of displaced homemaker to the Act. Sets forth amendments relating to veterans. Includes disabled veterans groups under the definition of community based organizations. Adds definitions of recently separated veteran and Vietnam era veteran. Adds Vietnam era veteran to language requiring the Secretary to prescribe performance standards for national programs. Includes disabled veterans under a waiver of a 30 percent cost limitation for individuals requiring substantial additive support services. Includes Veterans Administration programs among those job training programs which Governors are authorized to coordinate. Includes veterans organizations among the service providers with which Governors are authorized to contract. Directs the Secretary of Labor, within 12 months after the enactment of this Act, to report to the Congress on the dislocation of farmers and ranchers resulting from farm and ranch failures. Requires such report to use various data sources and to examine the feasibility of establishing a national statistical data collection program for permanently dislocated farmers and ranchers.

(Measure passed House, amended, in lieu of H.R. 5185) Job Training Partnership Amendments of 1986 - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (the Act) to revise the definition of "economically disadvantaged" to base determinations under such definition on total family income over a 12-month, rather than six-month, period prior to application. Revises the designation of service delivery areas on the basis of their serving a substantial part of one or more labor market areas. Adds to purposes for which State education grants may be used the provision of: (1) literacy training to youth and adults; (2) dropout prevention and reenrollment services to youth; and (3) a State-wide school-to-work transition program. Requires that specified portions of such funds be used for such purposes. Establishes an intrastate hold harmless allocation requirement. Allows service delivery areas to use specified funds for summer youth remedial education programs. Allows Governors or service delivery areas to use incentive grant funds to develop and implement a data collection system to track the post-program experience of participants. Permits summer youth programs to be offered in school vacation periods during nonsummer months under specified conditions. Prohibits requiring State matching grants under criteria for receipt of grants from the Secretary of Labor's discretionary funds. Includes under the definition of dislocated workers individuals who were self-employed (including farmers) and who are unemployed as a result of general economic conditions in the community in which they reside or because of natural disaster. Directs the Secretary to establishs categories of self-employed individuals and of economic conditions and natural disasters. Prohibits State and local taxation of Job Corps operations. Directs the Secretary to take into account both urban and rural areas developing an annual statistical measure of labor market related economic hardship. Directs the Secretary to develop a means by which statistical data relating to permanent dislocation of farmers and ranchers due to farm and ranch failures can be collected and to collect such data. Directs the Secretary to publish an annual report based on such data. Requires the report to include a comparison with data used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics and an analysis of whether farmers and ranchers are being adequately counted in such employment statistics.

(Measure passed Senate, amended) Job Training Partnership Act Amendments of 1986 - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (the Act) to make individuals who are at least 55 years old and who are economically disadvantaged or have a low income eligible for training programs for older individuals. Authorizes the President to make annual awards for outstanding business involvement in job training partnership programs, as well as awards for model programs which demonstrate effectiveness in addressing the job training needs of groups of individuals with multiple barriers to employment. Limits the amount of a within-State allocation to a service delivery area to no more than 90 percent of the average amount which such service delivery area received for the previous three years. Provides for reallocations among service delivery areas not affected by such adjustments and for certain recalculations to determine the hold harmless for the program year beginning July 1, 1986. Authorizes a Governor to use excess amounts of program performance incentive grants for technical assistance to any service delivery area in a State. Defines "eligible youth," for purposes of authorizing job training services to disadvantaged youth under the Act, to include 14- and 15-year old individuals. Requires service delivery areas to use 25 percent of Summer Youth Employment program funds for remedial education programs during the period FY 1987 through 1990. Directs the Secretary of Labor to: (1) develop during such four-year period performance standards relating to education for Summer Youth Employment programs; and (2) establish and apply such standards after September 30, 1990. Includes self-employed individuals who are unemployed because of general economic conditions or natural disasters in the community as a group of dislocated workers which a State may establish procedures to identify. Authorizes a State to assist eligible dislocated workers who work outside the State but who are in a labor market area a part of which is located within the State. Directs the Secretary to improve the coordination between training programs authorized by the Act and the Job Corps program, including appropriate cross-referral of applicants. Sets forth amendments relating to veterans. Includes disabled veterans groups under the definition of community based organizations. Adds definitions of recently separated veteran and Vietnam era veteran. Adds Vietnam era veteran to language requiring the Secretary to prescribe performance standards for national programs. Includes disabled veterans under a waiver of a 30 percent cost limitation for individuals requiring substantial additive support services. Includes Veterans Administration programs among those job training programs which Governors are authorized to coordinate. Includes veterans organizations among the service providers with which Governors are authorized to contract. Authorizes the Secretary, from funds available for national activities under the Act, to provide financial assistance for pilot projects to train individuals threatened with the loss of their jobs due to technological changes, international economic policies, or general economic conditions. Directs the Secretary to include under national activities projects designed to serve populations with multiple barriers to employment, such as individuals listed under specified provisions of the Act and individuals not otherwise targeted for assistance under the Act, with special consideration for displaced homemakers and the handicapped. Adds a definition of displaced homemaker to the Act.

(Reported to Senate from the Committee on Labor and Human Resources with amendment, S. Rept. 99-317) Job Training Partnership Act Amendments of 1986 - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (the Act) to make individuals who are at least 55 years old and who are economically disadvantaged or have a low income eligible for training programs for older individuals. Authorizes the President to make annual awards for outstanding business involvement in job training partnership programs, as well as awards for model programs which demonstrate effectiveness in addressing the job training needs of groups of individuals with multiple barriers to employment. Limits the amount of a within-State allocation to a service delivery area to no more than 90 percent of the average amount which such service delivery area received for the previous three years. Provides for reallocations among service delivery areas not affected by such adjustments and for certain recalculations to determine the hold harmless for the program year beginning July 1, 1986. Authorizes a Governor to use excess amounts of program performance incentive grants for technical assistance to any service delivery area in a State. Defines "eligible youth," for purposes of authorizing job training services to disadvantaged youth under the Act, to include 14- and 15-year old individuals. Requires service delivery areas to use 25 percent of Summer Youth Employment program funds for remedial education programs during the period FY 1987 through 1990. Directs the Secretary of Labor to: (1) develop during such four-year period performance standards relating to education for Summer Youth Employment programs; and (2) establish and apply such standards after September 30, 1990. Includes self-employed individuals who are unemployed because of general economic conditions or natural disasters in the community as a group of dislocated workers which a State may establish procedures to identify. Authorizes a State to assist eligible dislocated workers who work outside the State but who are in a labor market area a part of which is located within the State. Directs the Secretary to improve the coordination between training programs authorized by the Act and the Job Corps program, including appropriate cross-referral of applicants. Sets forth amendments relating to veterans. Includes disabled veterans groups under the definition of community based organizations. Adds definitions of recently separated veteran and Vietnam era veteran. Adds Vietnam era veteran to language requiring the Secretary to prescribe performance standards for national programs. Includes disabled veterans under a waiver of a 30 percent cost limitation for individuals requiring substantial additive support services. Includes Veterans Administration programs among those job training programs which Governors are authorized to coordinate. Includes veterans organizations among the service providers with which Governors are authorized to contract. Authorizes the Secretary, from funds available for national activities under the Act, to provide financial assistance for pilot projects to train individuals threatened with the loss of their jobs due to technological changes, international economic policies, or general economic conditions. Directs the Secretary to include under national activities projects designed to serve populations with multiple barriers to employment, such as individuals listed under specified provisions of the Act and individuals not otherwise targeted for assistance under the Act, with special consideration for displaced homemakers and the handicapped. Adds a definition of displaced homemaker to the Act.

Job Training Partnership Act Amendments of 1986 - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (the Act) to require the Secretary of Labor to issue youth competency standards and standards measuring the long-term impact of program participation or to report to the Congress why such standards have not been issued. Requires any performance standards issued under the Act to include factors recognizing that certain characteristics of program participants justify additional costs or lower performance. Makes individuals who are at least 55 years old and have a low income eligible for training programs for older individuals. Makes requirements for certain cost limitations inapplicable to incentive grants under certain provisions for within-State allocations. Authorizes a Governor to: (1) suspend financial assistance to a service delivery area where there is a substantial violation in such service delivery area of the provisions of the Act; and (2) reallocate such suspended funds to other service delivery areas in such State. Authorizes a Governor to decide, upon the request of a private industry council, disputed questions of law in the administration of funds. Requires the State, if the Governor makes such decisions, to be responsible for any required repayment. Authorizes the President to make annual awards for outstanding business involvement in job training partnership programs. Limits the amount of a within-State allocation to a service delivery area to no more than 90 percent of the average amount which such service delivery area received for the previous three years. Provides for reallocations among service delivery areas not affected by such adjustments and for certain recalculations to determine the hold harmless for FY 1987. Authorizes a Governor to use excess amounts of program performance incentive grants for technical assistance to any service delivery area in a State. Defines "eligible youth" for purposes of authorizing job training services to disadvantaged youth under the Act. Requires a report to the Congress on implementing a requirement that a specified percentage of authorized funds be spent on such eligible youths during a certain transition period. Authorizes the payment of youth incentive awards for attendance or for other achievements as a possible service which may be funded under the Act. Authorizes summer youth employment and training program funds to be used for tryout employment. Requires summer youth employment and training programs to include an education component for youth who do not meet certain minimum education standards. Includes self-employed individuals who are unemployed because of general economic conditions or natural disasters in the community as a group of dislocated workers which a State may establish procedures to identify. Authorizes a State to assist eligible dislocated workers who work outside the State but who are in a labor market area a part of which is located within the State. Authorizes the Secretary to establish experimental programs designed to improve the coordination between training programs authorized by the Act and the Job Corps program.