Bill Text: OR HJM11 | 2011 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Urging Congress to allow apprenticeship training and on-the-job training as benefit in Post 9/11 GI Bill.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-3)

Status: (Failed) 2011-06-30 - In committee upon adjournment. [HJM11 Detail]

Download: Oregon-2011-HJM11-Introduced.html

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     76th OREGON LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY--2011 Regular Session

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                     House Joint Memorial 11

Sponsored by Representatives BARNHART, ESQUIVEL; Representatives
  BARKER, BOONE, DEMBROW, FREEMAN, MATTHEWS, NATHANSON
  (Presession filed.)

                             SUMMARY

The following summary is not prepared by the sponsors of the
measure and is not a part of the body thereof subject to
consideration by the Legislative Assembly. It is an editor's
brief statement of the essential features of the measure as
introduced.

  Urges Congress to allow apprenticeship training and on-the-job
training as benefit in Post 9/11 GI Bill.

                         JOINT MEMORIAL
To the President of the United States and the Senate and the
  House of Representatives of the United States of America, in
  Congress assembled:
  We, your memorialists, the Seventy-sixth Legislative Assembly
of the State of Oregon, in legislative session assembled,
respectfully represent as follows:
  Whereas the Congress passed and the President signed the Post
9/11 GI Bill, the most comprehensive veteran education benefit
package since the original GI Bill in 1944; and
  Whereas the United States Department of Veterans Affairs has
implemented the Post 9/11 GI Bill and hundreds of thousands of
veterans across the nation, including Oregon, are taking
advantage of this benefit; and
  Whereas many veterans have chosen to return to college under
the Post 9/11 GI Bill due to lack of jobs in Oregon, where
veteran unemployment and underemployment is estimated at 35
percent; and
  Whereas the intent of the Post 9/11 GI Bill is to provide
educational opportunities for veterans that will help them
transition from the military to the job market; and
  Whereas many veterans are seeking careers in the so-called '
trades' and other traditional blue-collar jobs; and
  Whereas the Post 9/11 GI Bill, unlike all other VA educational
benefits, does not explicitly include apprenticeship training and
on-the-job training in the benefit, both of which are vital
components of this education; and
  Whereas apprenticeship training and on-the-job training are the
key for veterans seeking to enter the job market in the trades
and other blue-collar positions; now, therefore,
Be It Resolved by the Legislative Assembly of the State of
  Oregon:
  (1) The Congress of the United States is respectfully urged to
amend the Post 9/11 GI Bill to explicitly allow apprenticeship
training and on-the-job training, including tuition, housing

allowance and books and materials stipend through the duration of
the apprenticeship or on-the-job training program.
  (2) A copy of this memorial shall be sent to the President of
the United States, to the Senate Majority Leader, to the Speaker
of the House of Representatives and to each member of the Oregon
Congressional Delegation.
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