Job Corps Nationwide Act
This bill broadens the definition of state, for purposes of the Job Corps program, to include American Samoa, Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Palau. Job Corps is a national program that operates with state and local partners to provide education and training, primarily in a residential setting, for low-income youths.
To amend the definition of State to include outlying areas for purposes 
                       of the Job Corps program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Job Corps Nationwide Act''.

SEC. 2. JOB CORPS DEFINITIONS.

    Section 142 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3192) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(11) State.--The term `State' has the meaning given the 
        term in section 3, except that such term also includes outlying 
        areas (as defined in section 3).''.
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Job Corps Nationwide Act
To amend the definition of State to include outlying areas for purposes of the Job Corps program.
Job Corps Nationwide Act
Del. Sablan, Gregorio Kilili Camacho