HR 3376 · 115th Congress 2017–2019, ended

Jobs Now Act of 2017

Introduced Jul 24, 2017 Originated House Sponsor Frederica S. Wilson D-FL

Latest action · Jul 24, 2017 Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

Progress

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IntroducedJul 24, 2017
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Jobs Now Act of 2017

This bill amends the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to direct the Department of Labor to carry out a two-year pilot program to award competitive grants to general local government units or community-based organizations to retain, employ, or train employees who provide a local government unit with a public service.

The bill prescribes required and authorized uses of grant fund and priorities for awarding and using grant funds, including:

encouraging grantees to use funds to retain, employ, or train veterans, individuals with disabilities, individuals who receive unemployment benefits, or dislocated workers; and
giving priority in awarding grants to local government units and their community-based organizations with high unemployment, foreclosure, and poverty rates.

Cosponsors 25

Members who signed on, in the order they did. All signed on Jul 24, 2017.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-NC	Alma S. Adams	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-IN	André Carson	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-MD	Anthony G. Brown	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-MS	Bennie G. Thompson	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-NJ	Bonnie Watson Coleman	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-LA	Cedric L. Richmond	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-IL	Danny K. Davis	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne, Jr.	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-MO	Emanuel Cleaver	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-NC	G. K. Butterfield	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-WI	Gwen Moore	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-NY	Hakeem S. Jeffries	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-SC	James E. Clyburn	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-GA	John Lewis	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-OH	Joyce Beatty	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-CA	Karen Bass	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-OH	Marcia L. Fudge	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-IL	Robin L. Kelly	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-VI	Stacey E. Plaskett	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-FL	Val Butler Demings	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay	Original	Jul 24, 2017
D-NY	Yvette D. Clarke	Original	Jul 24, 2017

Committees 1

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

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Education and Workforce Committee	Referred Jul 24, 2017

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jul 24, 2017Introduced in House
Jul 24, 2017Referred to the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.

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: Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution ____________________

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the Congressional Record, vol. 163, no. 124, July 24, 2017, page H6214.

Related bills 2

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

Bill	Title	Relationship	Latest action
HR 1635	Jobs Now Act of 2019	Reintroduced Bill	Mar 7, 2019
HR 3554	Jobs Now Act of 2015	Reintroduction of	Mar 23, 2016

Titles 2

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

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to create a pilot program to award grants to units of general local government and community-based organizations to create jobs, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Jobs Now Act of 2017

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Labor and Employment.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Jul 24, 2017Introduced in House

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