S. 3273: Youth Summer Jobs Act of 2012
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S. 3273: Youth Summer Jobs Act of 2012
112th Congress · introduced 2012-06-07 · Labor and Employment · Latest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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- Where it came from: introduced 2012-06-07 · official record
- Who proposed it: Sen. Brown, Scott P. [R-MA] · what a sponsor is
- What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
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Official title
Youth Summer Jobs Act of 2012
Plain summary
Youth Summer Jobs Act of 2012 - Establishes in the Treasury the Youth Summer Employment Success Fund, consisting of $2 billion of discretionary federal funds permanently rescinded in this Act. Rescinds permanently $15 billion in unobligated discretionary federal funds for each of FY2012 and FY2013. Requires the Secretary of Labor to make certain Fund allocations to states with approved modification plans, qualifying outlying areas (U.S. Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the Republic of Palau), and Native American, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian program grantees to provide summer employment opportunities youth aged 16-24. Subjects activities funded under this Act to federal labor standards and nondiscrimination requirements.
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Official text
Youth Summer Jobs Act of 2012
Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
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Sponsor: Sen. Brown, Scott P. [R-MA] · 0 cosponsors
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Sources
- Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in Senate)
- Congress.gov
- Data: GovInfo BILLSTATUS bulk data (Library of Congress), BILLSTATUS-112s3273.xml <https://www.govinfo.gov/bulkdata/BILLSTATUS/112/s>
Record fed-us-cong112-s3273 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong112 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong112