http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/index.asphttp://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll048.xmllooks like a pretty much party-line split
what have the Republicans done now? what does this do?
another New Deal law they don't like ...
passage repealed the Wagner-Peyser Act of JUNE 6, 1933
http://www.floridajobs.org/pdg/wagner-peyser/default.htmSUMMARY AS OF:
1/4/2005--Introduced.
Job Training Improvement Act of 2005 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) to revise requirements and reauthorize appropriations for: (1) WIA title I, workforce investment systems for job training and employment services; and (2) WIA title II, adult basic skills and family literacy education programs (renamed as the Adult Basic Skills and Family Literacy Education Act).
Directs the Secretary of Labor to implement a national demonstration project on personal reemployment accounts (PRAs), through competitive project grants to States or local boards or consortia to provide PRAs to eligible individuals who are likely to exhaust their unemployment compensation.
Revises and reauthorizes workforce investment systems with respect to: (1) State and local planning, allocation, work force investment board membership, and performance accountability; (2) one-stop centers; (3) consolidated funding for adult program activities, including job training, dislocated worker retraining, the employment service system, and reemployment grants; (4) training programs for both out-of-school and in-school youth, including challenge grants; and (5) national job training programs, including the Job Corps and programs for Native Americans, migrant and seasonal farmworkers, and veterans.
Exempts religious organizations, with respect to their employment of individuals of a particular religion, from WIA nondiscrimination requirements.
Repeals Wagner-Peyser Act provisions relating to the U.S. Employment Service.
Revises requirements and reauthorizes appropriations for: (1) vocational rehabilitation services under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; and (2) the Helen Keller National Center Act.