Number: RL32778
Title: Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA): Reauthorization of Job Training Programs in the 109th Congress
Authors: Blake Alan Naughton and Ann Lordeman, Domestic Social Policy Division 
Abstract: The 109th Congress adjourned sine die without reaching agreement on a bill that would have reauthorized and amended the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (P.L. 105-220). On June 29, 2006, the Senate incorporated S. 1021, the Workforce Investment Act Amendments of 2005, as amended, into H.R. 27 and passed its version of H.R. 27. The bill was reported by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on September 7, 2005 (S.Rept. 109-134). On March 2, 2005, the House passed H.R. 27, the Job Training Improvement Act of 2005, its version of WIA amendments. This bill was reported by the Committee on Education and the Workforce on February 25, 2005 (H.Rept. 109-9).
Pages: 13
Date: January 9, 2007