Job Corps and Skilled Defense Workforce Act

This bill directs the Secretary of Defense to connect the Job Corps job-training program with companies that build and supply equipment for the military. People who cannot enlist in the military due to certain eligibility rules would be told about Job Corps training for skilled industrial jobs, including near shipyards. The Defense Department would support Job Corps with funding for curricula, equipment, and facilities, and Job Corps would be added to a shipbuilding workforce incentive program. The bill also lets Job Corps centers accept grants, gives center operators authority to hire staff and make partnerships without prior approval, and applies the existing Job Corps enrollment rule for veterans to service members preparing to leave the military.

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Sponsors

• Joe Courtney Democrat sponsor
• 19 cosponsors