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Iowa State University, Department of Agricultural Education, report
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MANPOWER ACT OF 1969

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1969

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,

SELECT SUBCOMMITTEE ON LABOR

OF THE COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND LABOR,

Washington, D.C.

The select subcommittee met at 10 a.m., pursuant to call, in room 2175, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Dominick V. Daniels (chairman of the select subcommittee) presiding.

Present: Representatives Daniels, O'Hara, Hawkins, Ford, Green, Burton, Ayres, Quie, Esch, Steiger, and Collins.

Also present: Representatives Pucinski, Reid, Ashbrook, Dellenback, Landgrebe, and Ruth.

Staff members present: Dan Krivit, counsel for the subcommittee; and Marty LaVor, minority legislative assistant; Loretta Bowen, clerk; and Sue Nelson, research assistant.

[H.R. 10908, 91st Cong., first sess.]

A BILL To develop and strengthen a symstematic National, State, and local manpower policy and provide for a comprehensive delivery of manpower services

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Comprehensive Manpower Act of 1969."

FINDINGS AND STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

SEC. 2. In recognition of the unmet needs of the unemployed and underemplored, the Congress finds that it is essential to the welfare of all Americans that concerted action be taken by National, State, and local governments to more fectively and economically utilize State and Federal funds for manpower training, work experience, job placement, and other services. Further, that it is essential to (1) establish explicit priorities for the allocation of these funds to insure that they are used to reach and assist those in greatest need of manXwer services; (2) to establish clear cut goals for the total system of manpower training, work experience, placement, and other services to maximize the effectiveness of the system in assisting individuals to find and maintain gainful mployment; (3) to enlist the full support of private industry in securing jobs for enrollees of manpower programs; (4) to link together and coordinate the forts of Federal, State, and local public and private agencies involved in performing manpower services; (5) to facilitate a smoother transition for students aving the Nation's educational institutions and entering the world of work; 15 to develop new approaches for improved services and changes in tradital organizational patterns used to assist economically disadvantaged and iniently trained individuals; and (7) to coordinate the Nation's manpower eds and services as closely as possible with economic development, transportaon planning, new residential housing, and other factors related to the development of new job opportunities.

AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 3. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary for taking grants under this Act the sum of $2,000,000,000 for the fiscal year 1971,

$2,300,000,000 for the fiscal year 1972, $2,500,000,000 for fiscal year 1973, and $3,000,000,000 for the fiscal year 1974. For the fiscal year 1975, and each succeeding fiscal year there is authorized to be appropriated only such sums as the Congress may hereafter authorize by law.

USE OF FUNDS

SEC. 4. From the sums appropriated for making grants under this Act for a fiscal year, the Secretary shall reserve 30 per centum for making grants authorized under section 12. The remainder of such sums shall be used by him to make grants to assist States to carry out comprehensive manpower plans as hereinafter provided.

ALLOTMENTS TO STATES

SEC. 5. (a) The Secretary shall allot among the States the funds remaining after he has made the reservation required by section 4 in accordance with uniform standards, and in arriving at such standards, he shall consider only the following factors:

(1) the proportion which the manpower allotment of a State during the preceding fiscal year bears to the total manpower allotments of all States during the preceding fiscal year;

(2) the proportion which the nonagricultural labor force of a State bears to the total nonagricultural labor force of the United States;

(3) the proportion which the unemployed within a State bears to the total number of unemployed in the United States; and

(4) the proportion which the population, age fourteen through seventeen years, in a State bears to the total population, age fourteen through seventeen years, in the United States. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the allotment for the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands shall be $150,000, and none of the remaining States shall be allotted less than $1,000,000.

(b) The amount of any State's allotment under subsection (a) for any fiscal year which the Secretary determines will not be required for such year shall, if section 10 does not provide for its expenditure, be available for reallotment from time to time, on such dates during such year as the Secretary may fix, to other States in such amounts as the Secretary shall determine.

DEVELOPMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE MANPOWER PLANS

SEC. 6. The Secretary shall enter into an agreement with the Governor of each State under which a planning group will develop a comprehensive manpower plan for the State. Such planning group shall consist of the appropriate State agencies, including the State education agency and the State employment service, and representatives of labor, management, private agencies active in the manpower field, and the public, appointed by the Governor. Each such agreement shall

(1) require each comprehensive manpower plan to set forth a long-range program plan (or, as is appropriate, a supplement to, or revision of, a previously submitted long-range program plan) for programs to be carried on with assistance under this Act, which program plan extends over three years beginning with the fiscal year for which the comprehensive manpower plan is submitted, describes the present and projected needs for programs provided for in this Act, and sets forth the long-range program objectives: (2) require each comprehensive manpower plan to set forth an annual program plan, which describes the content of, and allocation of Federal funds to, programs, services, and activities to be carried out under the plan during the year for which Federal funds are sought, and indicates how and to what extent such programs, services, and activities will carry out the program objectives set forth in the long-range program plan;

(3) require (A) that institutional training be, where possible, arranged or provided through State education or training agencies and that such training and on-the-job training provided for under the plan be of high quality and be so constituted as to duration and content as to meet the special needs of trainees, (B) that adequate and safe facilities, and adequate personnel and records of attendance and progress be provided, and (C) that is the case of on-the-job training, each trainee's program involve reasonable progression and reasonable compensation considering such factors as industry, geographical region, and trainee proficiency;

(4) require each comprehensive manpower plan to give special emphasis to the employment and training needs of persons who are from poverty families using as an index of poverty the minimum income per household of a given size, composition, and farm or nonfarm status, as set forth by the Social Security Administration;

(5) set forth priorities in terms of target groups, and varieties of programs established by the Secretary in light of national needs;

(6) set forth a program for providing placement services which will utilize the facilities and services of the State employment services as well as facilities and services from other sources, and which will make effective placement services available, not only to persons who have completed training under a comprehensive manpower plan, but also to other categories of persons;

(7) require that personal and educational and vocational counseling, testing, and evaluation be utilized to assure that each individual served will be provided appropriate services, and that followup services be provided to insure that training is effectively utilized by the trainee;

(8) establish the criteria to be used in fixing training and other allowances and compensation for services;

(9) establish the criteria to be used in fixing the payments to be made to employers participating in on-the-job training and similar programs;

(10) require the utilization to the maximum extent feasible of public and private profit and nonprofit agencies and organizations, and of all the State and local agencies and organizations, which are capable of contributing to the program, with priority given to skills centers and other education and training programs operated or arranged through State and local educational agencies; and

(11) require the establishment and operation of a data system which will provide, in readily accessible form, statistical information sufficient to enable the administrators of the plan to evaluate the effectiveness of programs carried on under the plan and to determine means of improving their effectiveness.

COMPREHENSIVE MANPOWER PLANS

SEC. 7. (a) Any State which disires to receive a grant from funds allotted it under section 5 shall submit through the Governor thereof to the Secretary a comprehensive manpower plan developed pursuant to an agreement entered into under section 6, but no such plan shall be submitted until a public hearing has been held on the plan. The comprehensive manpower plan of a State must(1) provide that responsibility for carrying out the plan is placed in the Governor of the State;

(2) provide for as varied and extensive manpower programs (and related activities) and work experience programs as is consistent with the needs and resources of the State and with the amount of Federal assistance being provided;

(3) set forth the method of administration and the organizational structure to be used in carrying out the plan;

(4) meet the guidelines and standards prescribed by the Secretary under section 6;

(5) provide for coordination of the programs carried on by the State with those carried on by any metropolitan area any part of which lies within the State;

(6) take into consideration manpower programs carried on under title I of the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966, the Appalachian Regional Development Act of 1965, the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965, or any other Federal or State law;

(7) set forth such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of, and accounting for, Federal funds paid to the State or metropolitan area (including any such funds paid by either of them to any other public or private agency) under this Act; and

(8) provide for making such reports, in such form and containing such nformation, as the Secretary may reasonably require to carry out his functions under this Act, and for keeping such records and for affording such access thereto as the Secretary may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports.

(b) The comprehensive manpower training plan of a State may include any (or all) of the following types of programs, services, or activities:

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