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[CITE: 38USC4100]

 
                      TITLE 38--VETERANS' BENEFITS
 
               PART III--READJUSTMENT AND RELATED BENEFITS
 
CHAPTER 41--JOB COUNSELING, TRAINING, AND PLACEMENT SERVICE FOR VETERANS
 
Sec. 4100. Findings

    The Congress makes the following findings:
        (1) As long as unemployment and underemployment continue as 
    serious problems among disabled veterans and Vietnam-era veterans, 
    alleviating unemployment and underemployment among such veterans is 
    a national responsibility.
        (2) Because of the special nature of employment and training 
    needs of such veterans and the national responsibility to meet those 
    needs, policies and programs to increase opportunities for such 
    veterans to obtain employment, job training, counseling, and job 
    placement services and assistance in securing advancement in 
    employment should be effectively and vigorously implemented by the 
    Secretary of Labor and such implementation should be accomplished 
    through the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Veterans' Employment 
    and Training.

(Added Pub. L. 97-306, title III, Sec. 301(a), Oct. 14, 1982, 96 Stat. 
1436, Sec. 2000; amended Pub. L. 100-323, Sec. 15(b)(1), May 20, 1988, 
102 Stat. 574; renumbered Sec. 4100, Pub. L. 102-83, Sec. 5(a), Aug. 6, 
1991, 105 Stat. 406.)


                               Amendments

    1991--Pub. L. 102-83 renumbered section 2000 of this title as this 
section.
    1988--Par. (2). Pub. L. 100-323, Sec. 15(b)(1), inserted ``and 
Training'' after ``for Veterans' Employment''.


    Pilot Program To Furnish Employment and Training Information and 
    Services to Members of Armed Forces Separating From Armed Forces

    Pub. L. 101-237, title IV, Sec. 408, Dec. 18, 1989, 103 Stat. 2083, 
as amended by Pub. L. 104-66, title I, Sec. 1101, Dec. 21, 1995, 109 
Stat. 722, provided that:
    ``(a) Requirement for Program.--During the three-year period 
beginning on January 1, 1990, the Secretary of Labor (hereafter in this 
section referred to as the `Secretary'), in conjunction with the 
Secretary of Veterans Affairs and the Secretary of Defense, shall 
conduct a pilot program to furnish employment and training information 
and services to members of the Armed Forces within 180 days before such 
members are separated from the Armed Forces.
    ``(b) Areas To Be Covered by the Program.--The Secretary shall 
conduct the pilot program in at least five, but not more than ten, 
geographically dispersed States in which the Secretary determines that 
employment and training services to eligible veterans will not be unduly 
limited by the provision of such services to members of the Armed Forces 
under the pilot program.
    ``(c) Utilization of Specific Personnel.--The Secretary shall 
utilize disabled veterans' outreach program specialists or local 
veterans' employment representatives to the maximum extent feasible to 
furnish employment and training information and services under the pilot 
program.''
