---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 U.S.C. § 2713"
title: "14"
title_heading: "Coast Guard"
number: "2713"
heading: "Employment assistance"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/14/2713"
units:
  - "Subtitle II — Personnel"
  - "Chapter 27 — Pay, Allowances, Awards, and Other Rights and Benefits"
  - "Subchapter I — Personnel Rights and Benefits"
---

# §2713. Employment assistance

- (a) **In General.—** In order to improve the accuracy and completeness of a certification or verification of job skills and experience required by [section 1143(a)(1) of title 10](/usc/10/1143.md?p=a-1), the Secretary shall—
  - (1) establish a database to record all training performed by members of the Coast Guard that may have application to employment in the civilian sector; and
  - (2) make unclassified information regarding such information available to States and other potential employers referred to in [section 1143(c) of title 10](/usc/10/1143.md?p=c) so that States and other potential employers may allow military training to satisfy licensing or certification requirements to engage in a civilian profession.
- (b) **Form of Certification or Verification.—** The Secretary shall ensure that a certification or verification of job skills and experience required by [section 1143(a)(1) of title 10](/usc/10/1143.md?p=a-1) is rendered in such a way that States and other potential employers can confirm the accuracy and authenticity of the certification or verification.
- (c) **Requests by States.—** A State may request that the Secretary confirm the accuracy and authenticity of a certification or verification of job skills and experience provided under [section 1143(c) of title 10](/usc/10/1143.md?p=c).

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 116–283, div. G, title LVXXXII [LXXXII], § 8206(a), Jan. 1, 2021, 134 Stat. 4649.)