Veteran Employment Transition Act
Latest action · Nov 16, 2015 Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJun 23, 2015
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Veteran Employment Transition Act
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) revise the definition of "qualified veteran" for purposes of the work opportunity tax credit to include recently discharged veterans, and (2) make permanent the work opportunity tax credit for qualified veterans.
Requires the Department of Defense (DOD) and the National Guard to inform military personnel who are discharged or released from active duty of the work opportunity tax credit and provide them with documentation relating to eligibility for and use of such credit.
Requires DOD and the Departments of Labor and Veterans Affairs to enter into an agreement to govern the coordination of veteran job training services. Requires the Departments of Labor and Veterans Affairs to prepare reports on the veteran job training programs of their respective departments.
Amends the DOD pilot program for assessing the feasibility and advisability of permitting enlisted personnel to obtain civilian credentialing or licensing for skills required for military occupational specialties to require the designation as military occupational specialties of the MOS 31B Military Police, MOS 15Q AC-Air Traffic Controller, and the MOS 12M Fire Protection, in addition to not fewer than three and not more than five additional military occupational specialties.
Amends the Small Business Act to direct the head of each executive department to submit an annual report to the Small Business Administration containing the percentage of the total value of all prime contracts awarded by the executive department during the preceding one-year period to small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans.
Cosponsors 18
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jun 23, 2015 to Mar 21, 2016; 13 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| D-FL | Alcee L. Hastings | Original | Jun 23, 2015 |
| D-MN | Betty McCollum | Original | Jun 23, 2015 |
| D-IL | Bobby L. Rush | Original | Jun 23, 2015 |
| D-NE | Brad Ashford | Original | Jun 23, 2015 |
| D-MD | Chris Van Hollen | Original | Jun 23, 2015 |
| D-WA | Denny Heck | Original | Jun 23, 2015 |
| D-WA | Derek Kilmer | Original | Jun 23, 2015 |
| D-DC | Eleanor Holmes Norton | Original | Jun 23, 2015 |
| D-CA | Janice Hahn | Original | Jun 23, 2015 |
| D-CA | Karen Bass | Original | Jun 23, 2015 |
| D-FL | Lois Frankel | Original | Jun 23, 2015 |
| D-CA | Mark Takano | Original | Jun 23, 2015 |
| R-NC | Walter B. Jones | Original | Jun 23, 2015 |
| D-MA | Niki Tsongas | Jul 10, 2015 | |
| D-NY | Nita M. Lowey | Jul 10, 2015 | |
| D-CA | Eric Swalwell | Sep 16, 2015 | |
| D-CA | Judy Chu | Sep 16, 2015 | |
| D-WI | Ron Kind | Mar 21, 2016 |
Committees 5
Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.
| Chamber | Committee | What it did |
|---|---|---|
| House | Ways and Means Committee | Referred Jun 23, 2015 |
| House | Armed Services Committee | Referred Jun 23, 2015 |
| Military Personnel Subcommittee | Referred Aug 13, 2015 | |
| House | Small Business Committee | Referred Jun 23, 2015 |
| House | Education and Workforce Committee | Referred Jun 23, 2015 |
| Higher Education and Workforce Development Subcommittee | Referred Nov 16, 2015 | |
| House | Veterans' Affairs Committee | Referred Jun 23, 2015 |
| Economic Opportunity Subcommittee | Referred Jul 2, 2015 |
Actions 5
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Nov 16, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Higher Education and Workforce Training.
- Aug 13, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Military Personnel.
- Jul 2, 2015Referred to the Subcommittee on Economic Opportunity.
- Jun 23, 2015Introduced in House
- Jun 23, 2015Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services, Small Business, Education and the Workforce, and Veterans' Affairs, 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.
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
The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 161, no. 101, June 23, 2015, page H4593.
Titles 2
Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.
- Official Title as Introduced
- To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to extend the work opportunity credit to certain recently discharged veterans, to improve the coordination of veteran job training services between the Department of Labor, the Department of Veteran Affairs, and the Department of Defense, to require transparency for Executive departments in meeting the Government-wide goals for contracting with small business concerns owned and controlled by service-disabled veterans, and for other purposes.
- Short Titles as Introduced
- Veteran Employment Transition Act
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Taxation.
- Congressional oversight
- Disability and paralysis
- Employment and training programs
- Government information and archives
- Income tax credits
- Performance measurement
- Personnel records
- Public contracts and procurement
- Small business
- Tax administration and collection, taxpayers
- Taxation
- Veterans' education, employment, rehabilitation
- Wages and earnings
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Jun 23, 2015Introduced in House
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov; cost estimates are the Congressional Budget Office's, and the hearings are the printed hearings GovInfo publishes, which can appear months after the hearing.
