US Congress House Bill 5204 (Prior Session Legislation)

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May 27 2010 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Workforce Protections Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

21st Century Full Employment and Training Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish a Full Employment National Trust Fund. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on certain covered securities transactions, payable by trading facilities that deal in such transactions. Requires amounts collected to be deposited into the Fund for: (1) Employment Opportunity Grants to states, local governments, and Indian tribes for job creating activities in communities where the rate of unemployment is higher than a specified graduated percentage for a number years; and (2) the Secretary to fund Workforce Investment programs. Directs the Secretary to convene a national employment conference to bring together leaders of small and larger business, labor, government, and other parties to discuss employment, with particular attention to structural unemployment and the plight of disadvantaged youth.

21st Century Full Employment and Training Act

Rep Conyers, John, Jr.

Rep Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-05-27		Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
2010-05-07		Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
2010-05-04		Referred to House Ways and Means
2010-05-04		Referred to House Education and Labor
2010-05-04		Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Type	Source
Summary	http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d111:HN05204:@@@L&summ2=m&
Text	http://gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/BILLS-111hr5204ih/pdf/BILLS-111hr5204ih.pdf