Workforce Recovery and Resilience Act

This bill changes the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to address how substance use disorders affect jobs and workers. The Secretary of Labor would review and share information each year with states and local areas on practices for dealing with the economic and workforce effects of high rates of substance use disorders, including how to apply for related funding. The bill also allows national dislocated worker grants to fund employment and training activities tied to preventing and treating substance use disorders, such as addiction treatment, mental health treatment, and pain management, in areas where demand for these activities is higher than state and local resources can meet. People eligible for training under these grants would include dislocated workers, long-term unemployed people, people unemployed or underemployed because of widespread substance use in their area, and people working or seeking work in related health care jobs.

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Sponsors

• David McCormick Republican sponsor
• 2 cosponsors