Displaced Homemakers Self-Sufficiency Assistance Act

Summary

Displaced Homemakers Employment Training and Self-Sufficiency Act - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) to add a new title VII, Displaced Homemakers. Directs the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary to allot funds to States annually for services for displaced homemakers. Requires that such funds supplement and not supplant other Federal, State and local public funds for such services. Reserves specified portions of such funds for: (1) discretionary funds for technical assistance, bonus grants, and additional service assistance; and (2) national data collection and related activities. Makes eligible for such bonus grants States that demonstrate an increase in State funding and services directed to displaced homemakers. Sets forth requirements for State plans, performance standards, and State administration. Requires each State Governor to designate a State displaced homemaker administrator, if one does not already exist, and a State displaced homemaker advisory council, to administer the program. Requires the State administrator to direct funds to local service providers, evaluate area service providers' meeting the needs of displaced homemakers, and perform other specified functions in cooperation with the State council. Requires the State council to assist in formulating, implementing, and coordinating the State plan, and to provide technical assistance to the State administrator and area service providers in program design and services improvement. Set forth requirements relating to council membership and meetings. Sets forth various services for which funds may be used under this Act for education, training, and supportive, coordination, linkage, and referral services for displaced homemakers. Required that specified portions of each State's allotment be allocated for: (1) State and local information gathering; (2) assistance or expansion of administration and delivery of services; (3) State administrative expenses, including those of the State administrator's office and the State council; (4) support service assistance to individuals; (5) linkages between public entities and local service providers; and (6) awards to local service providers, based on successful completion of training and paid employment placement of individuals. Requires no State matching funds for qualification for title VII assistance. Allows States to use title VII allotted funds to qualify for State matching funds required by other Federal, state, and local programs which serve displaced homemakers. Directs State administrators to select service providers that demonstrate ability to deliver effectively training, education, and supportive services to displaced homemakers, giving priority in assigning individual to those providers experienced in providing such services, giving special consideration to directing funds to providers which are community-based organizations, and giving priority to providers demonstrating coordination and referral abilities. Directs the Secretary to implement a uniform data collection system to assist displaced homemaker services. Directs the Secretary to report biennially, with recommendations, to the Congress on progress in providing training and other work-related services to displaced homemakers, with each State's recommendations for legislation. Directs the Secretary, through grants and contracts, and with guidance from the Women's Bureau, to: (1) conduct research into the economic conditions of the labor markets associated with displaced homemakers; (2) provide technical assistance to States and interested parties; and (3) serve as a national clearinghouse to disseminate materials and information from exemplary programs. Makes displaced homemakers receiving title VII assistance ineligible for assistance under title III (Employment and Training Assistance for Dislocated Workers) of the JTPA in any fiscal year in which the appropriation for title VII equals or exceeds a specified amount; but provides that they shall not be excluded from participation under title II (Training services for the Disadvantaged) of JTPA. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and succeeding fiscal years for such new title VII Displaced Homemakers program under JTPA, as established by this Act.

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• Received in Senate (text)

  Received in Senate · EN

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• Introduced in House (text)

  Introduced in House · EN

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• Enrolled Bill (text)

  Enrolled Bill · EN

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• Engrossed in House (text)

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• Engrossed Amendment Senate (text)

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• Public Law (PDF)

  Public Law · EN · 16 November 1990

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 20 October 1990

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 1 August 1989

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