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H.R. 663: Assisting America's Dislocated Miners Act of 2017

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H.R. 663: Assisting America's Dislocated Miners Act of 2017

115th Congress · introduced 2017-01-24 · Labor and Employment · Latest: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1188)

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  1. Where it came from: introduced 2017-01-24 · official record
  2. Who proposed it: Rep. Jenkins, Evan H. [R-WV-3] · what a sponsor is
  3. What happened next: no floor votes in our records yet. Why?
  4. Where it stands now: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H1188) Not final yet: this can still change. We check for updates every day.
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Official title

Assisting America's Dislocated Miners Act of 2017

Plain summary

Assisting America's Dislocated Miners Act of 2017 This bill establishes within the Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration a Dislocated Miners Assistance Program. The program shall contract with comprehensive career centers to: identify miners who have been dislocated from their employment in mining jobs across the United States; assess the skills, training, and education such miners need to find and hold new jobs; identify job training programs that would provide such training and education; and provide grants to eligible job training providers to recruit and train such miners and assist them in finding new employment. A comprehensive career center or job training provider eligible to receive a grant under this bill shall be a nonprofit organization with demonstrated success in coordinating or providing necessary training and education to enable dislocated miners to acquire marketable skills to find and hold jobs in areas where they live.

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Official text

Assisting America's Dislocated Miners Act of 2017

Source: Congressional Research Service summary (Introduced in House)

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Officials and money

Sponsor: Rep. Jenkins, Evan H. [R-WV-3] · 3 cosponsors

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Peter Welch (D-VT)

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Sources

Record fed-us-cong115-hr663 · catalog fed-us-congress-bills-cong115 · updated 2026-11-15 by psicol fed-bills-cong115