HR 1941 · 112th Congress 2011–2013, ended

Hiring Heroes Act of 2011

Introduced May 23, 2011 Originated House Sponsor Sanford D. Bishop, Jr. D-GA

Latest action · Jul 15, 2011 Committee Hearings Held.

Progress

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IntroducedMay 23, 2011
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Hiring Heroes Act of 2011- Amends the Wounded Warriors Act to extend until January 1, 2015, the authority of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA) to provide the same rehabilitation and vocational benefits to members of the Armed Forces with severe injuries or illnesses as are provided to veterans.

Expands the authority of the VA Secretary to make payments to employers to provide on-job training to veterans to include veterans who have not been rehabilitated to the point of employability.

Entitles certain veterans with service-connected disabilities who have exhausted their rights to unemployment benefits to participation in an additional VA rehabilitation program. Limits the duration of such a program to 24 months. Makes the 12-year period of eligibility for a VA rehabilitation program inapplicable under such an additional program.

Instructs the VA Secretary to follow-up on the employment status of veterans who participate in a VA rehabilitation program.

Requires (current law encourages) participation by eligible members in the Transitional Assistance Program (TAP) of the Department of Defense (DOD). Requires (under current law, authorizes) the provision of preseparation counseling to members whose discharge or release is anticipated.

Instructs the Secretary of Labor to follow-up on the employment status of members who complete their participation in the TAP.

Directs the VA Secretary to award grants to up to three nonprofit organizations under a collaborative veterans' training, mentoring, and placement program for eligible veterans seeking employment.

Requires participants in the TAP to receive individualized assessments of civilian positions for which they may be qualified based on a joint DOD, VA, and Department of Labor study of the equivalencies between military skills and civilian employment requirements.

Authorizes the appointment of an honorably discharged member of the uniformed services to a position in the civil service, without regard to specified civil service examination, certification, and appointment provisions, if otherwise qualified.

Requires executive agencies to establish programs to provide employment assistance to members who are being separated from active duty.

Directs the Secretary of Labor to carry out an outreach program to provide employment assistance to certain veterans who have been receiving assistance under the Unemployment Compensation for Ex-servicemembers program.

Authorizes a pilot program to assess the feasibility of providing work experience to certain members of the Armed Forces who are on terminal leave.

Requires (under current law, authorizes) a VA demonstration project on the credentialing and licensing of veterans.

Cosponsors 70

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from May 23, 2011 to Nov 16, 2011; 4 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Bob Filner	Original	May 23, 2011
R-FL	C. W. Bill Young	Original	May 23, 2011
D-CA	Jerry McNerney	Original	May 23, 2011
D-WA	Norman D. Dicks	Original	May 23, 2011
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		May 24, 2011
D-HI	Mazie K. Hirono		May 24, 2011
R-MD	Roscoe G. Bartlett		May 24, 2011
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee		May 24, 2011
D-NY	Steve Israel		May 24, 2011
D-OH	Tim Ryan		May 24, 2011
R-FL	Allen B. West		May 25, 2011
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		May 25, 2011
D-PA	Mark S. Critz		May 25, 2011
D-WI	Ron Kind		May 25, 2011
D-WA	Adam Smith		May 26, 2011
D-TX	Al Green		May 26, 2011
D-NM	Ben Ray Luján		May 26, 2011
D-FL	Corrine Brown		May 26, 2011
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee		May 26, 2011
D-FL	Debbie Wasserman Schultz		May 26, 2011
R-IL	Donald A. Manzullo		May 26, 2011
D-MA	Edward J. Markey		May 26, 2011
D-NC	Heath Shuler		May 26, 2011
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.		May 26, 2011
R-GA	Lynn A. Westmoreland		May 26, 2011
D-GU	Madeleine Z. Bordallo		May 26, 2011
D-NM	Martin Heinrich		May 26, 2011
D-IN	Peter J. Visclosky		May 26, 2011
D-NV	Shelley Berkley		May 26, 2011
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		May 31, 2011
D-CA	Laura Richardson		May 31, 2011
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		May 31, 2011
D-AL	Terri A. Sewell		May 31, 2011
D-FL	Theodore E. Deutch		May 31, 2011
D-GA	Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.		Jun 1, 2011
D-CA	John Garamendi		Jun 1, 2011
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud		Jun 1, 2011
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II		Jun 1, 2011
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Jun 1, 2011
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Jun 1, 2011
R-VA	Robert J. Wittman		Jun 1, 2011
D-CA	Sam Farr		Jun 1, 2011
R-PA	Todd Russell Platts		Jun 1, 2011
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Jun 2, 2011
D-MA	James P. McGovern		Jun 2, 2011
D-CA	Lois Capps		Jun 2, 2011
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey		Jun 2, 2011
D-NC	Mike McIntyre		Jun 2, 2011
D-OK	Dan Boren		Jun 14, 2011
D-TX	Gene Green		Jun 14, 2011
D-NC	Larry Kissell		Jun 14, 2011
D-MI	Sander M. Levin		Jun 14, 2011
R-PA	Tim Murphy		Jun 22, 2011
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Jul 11, 2011
D-TX	Silvestre Reyes		Jul 14, 2011
D-VA	Gerald E. Connolly		Jul 19, 2011
D-WA	Jim McDermott		Jul 19, 2011
R-OH	Michael R. Turner		Aug 5, 2011
D-AR	Mike Ross		Aug 5, 2011
D-VA	James P. Moran		Sep 7, 2011
D-WA	Jay Inslee		Sep 7, 2011
D-NY	Joseph Crowley		Sep 7, 2011
D-IA	Leonard L. Boswell		Sep 7, 2011
D-NY	Gary L. Ackerman		Sep 12, 2011
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Sep 12, 2011
D-TX	Charles A. Gonzalez		Sep 14, 2011
D-IL	Daniel Lipinski		Sep 14, 2011
D-OH	Betty Sutton		Oct 5, 2011
D-CT	Joe Courtney		Nov 16, 2011
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin		Nov 16, 2011

Committees 3

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Veterans' Affairs Committee	Referred May 23, 2011Hearings Jul 15, 2011
	Economic Opportunity Subcommittee	Referred Jun 24, 2011
House	Armed Services Committee	Referred May 23, 2011
	Military Personnel Subcommittee	Referred Jun 24, 2011
House	Oversight and Government Reform Committee	Referred May 23, 2011
	Information Technology Subcommittee	Referred Jun 20, 2011Markup Jun 20, 2011

Actions 7

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jul 15, 2011Committee Hearings Held.
Jun 24, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
Jun 24, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
Jun 20, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, U.S. Postal Service, and Labor Policy .
Jun 20, 2011Subcommittee Consideration and Mark-up Session Held.

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In the Congressional Record 1

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
House	Debate and remarks H6686	Bob Filner D-CA, Jeff Miller R-FL	Oct 11, 2011

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Provide for the common defense and general welfare under Article I, Section 8, Clause 1; Raise and support Armies, under Article I, Section 8, Clause 12; Provide and maintain a Navy, under Article I, Section 8, Clause 13; Make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces, under Article I, Section 8, Clause 14; Provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, under Article I, Section 8, Clause 16; and, Make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, under Article I, Section 8, Clause 18.

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H3343.

Printed hearings 2

Hearings whose printed record names this bill, newest first: hearings on it, and wider hearings where it came up.

Number	Hearing	Committee	Held
Serial No. 112-51	JOINT HEARING TO RECEIVE LEGISLATIVE PRESENTATION OF VETERANS SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS122 pages	Veterans' Affairs Committee	Mar 22, 2012
Serial No. 112-24	LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON H.R. 2433, H.R. 1941, AND H.R. 16977 pages	Veterans' Affairs Committee	Jul 15, 2011

Related bills 2

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
S 951	Hiring Heroes Act of 2011	Identical bill	Jul 18, 2011
HR 4088	Capital Expansion Act	Related bill	Feb 24, 2012

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To improve the provision of Federal transition, rehabilitation, vocational, and unemployment benefits to members of the Armed Forces and veterans, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Hiring Heroes Act of 2011

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

May 23, 2011Introduced in House

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