Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Empowering Youth Through Summer Employment Act”.
Empowering Youth Through Summer Employment Act
A BILL
To amend the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to provide grants to States for summer employment programs for youth.
Sec. 2 Grants to States for summer employment programs for youth
Section 129 of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2854) is amended by adding at the end the following:
“(d) Grants to States for summer employment programs for youth
“(1) In general—Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, from the amount appropriated under paragraph (2), the Secretary shall award grants to States to provide assistance to local areas that have high concentrations of eligible youth to enable such local areas to carry out programs described in subsection (c)(1) that provide summer employment opportunities for eligible youth, which are directly linked to academic and occupational learning, as described in subsection (c)(2)(C), except that the only measure of performance used to assess such programs shall be the work readiness performance indicator described in section 136(b)(2)(A)(ii)(I).
“(2) Authorization of appropriations—There are authorized to be appropriated $100,000,000 to carry out this subsection for each of fiscal years 2015 through 2019.”