2017 US Code
Title 29 - Labor
Chapter 32 - Workforce Innovation and Opportunity
Subchapter I - Workforce Development Activities
Part C - Job Corps
Sec. 3191 - Purposes
| 29 U.S.C. § 3191 (2017) |
| §3191. Purposes |
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The purposes of this part are— (1) to maintain a national Job Corps program, carried out in partnership with States and communities, to— (A) assist eligible youth to connect to the labor force by providing them with intensive social, academic, career and technical education, and service-learning opportunities, in primarily residential centers, in order for such youth to obtain secondary school diplomas or recognized postsecondary credentials leading to— (i) successful careers, in in-demand industry sectors or occupations or the Armed Forces, that will result in economic self-sufficiency and opportunities for advancement; or (ii) enrollment in postsecondary education, including an apprenticeship program; and (B) support responsible citizenship; (2) to set forth standards and procedures for selecting individuals as enrollees in the Job Corps; (3) to authorize the establishment of Job Corps centers in which enrollees will participate in intensive programs of activities described in this part; and (4) to prescribe various other powers, duties, and responsibilities incident to the operation and continuing development of the Job Corps. |
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(Pub. L. 113–128, title I, §141, July 22, 2014, 128 Stat. 1537.) |
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EFFECTIVE DATE
Section effective on the first day of the first full program year after July 22, 2014 (July 1, 2015), see section 506 of Pub. L. 113–128, set out as a note under section 3101 of this title. |
| United States Code, 2012 Edition, Supplement 5, Title 29 - LABOR |
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| Title 29 - LABOR CHAPTER 32 - WORKFORCE INNOVATION AND OPPORTUNITY SUBCHAPTER I - WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES Part C - Job Corps Sec. 3191 - Purposes |
| section 3191 |
| 2017 |
| January 12, 2018 |
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| standard |
| 128 Stat. 1537 |
| Public Law 113-128 |
