1.Pilot program on providing
veterans with access at One-Stop Centers to Internet websites to facilitate
online job searches
(a)Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of
this Act, the Secretary of Labor shall commence a pilot program to assess the
feasibility and advisability of providing veterans seeking employment with
access to computing facilities to facilitate the access of such veterans to
Internet websites that—
(1)match such
veterans with available jobs based on the skills the veterans acquired as
members of the Armed Forces; and
(2)allow employers
to post information about available jobs.
(b)The
pilot program required by subsection (a) shall be carried out during the
one-year period beginning on the date on which the Secretary commences the
pilot program.
(c)The
pilot program shall be carried out at such one-stop centers and such other
locations as the Secretary of Labor considers appropriate for purposes of the
pilot program.
(d)Assistance with
use of Internet websites
(1)Under the pilot program, the Secretary of Labor shall
provide each veteran using computing facilities made available under the pilot
program with assistance in using such facilities to find employment via
Internet websites described in subsection (a).
(2)Disabled
veterans' outreach program specialists and local veterans' employment
representativesEach State that employs a disabled veterans'
outreach program specialist under section 4103A of title 38, United States
Code, or a local veterans' employment representative under section 4104 of such
title shall make such employees available to the Secretary of Labor for
purposes of providing assistance under paragraph (1).
(e)Not
later than 455 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary
of Labor shall submit to the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs and the Committee
on Heath, Education, Labor, and Pensions of the Senate and the Committee on
Veterans’ Affairs and the Committee on Education and the Workforce of the House
of Representatives a report on the pilot program that includes the findings of
the Secretary with respect to the feasibility and advisability of providing
computing facilities as described in subsection (a) with assistance as
described in subsection (d) at all one-stop centers.
(f)Amounts
made available to the Secretary of Labor to make grants or contracts under
section 4102A(b)(5) of title 38, United States Code, shall be available to the
Secretary to carry out the pilot program required by subsection (a).
(g)In this section, the term one-stop center
means a center described in section 134(c) of the Workforce Investment Act of
1998 (29 U.S.C. 2864(c)).
2.Repeal of
requirement for annual report by Secretary of Veterans Affairs on use of
authorities to enhance retention of experienced nurses
(a)Section 7324 of title 38, United States Code, is hereby
repealed.
(b)The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 73 of
such title is amended by striking the item relating to section 7324.