Conservation Jobs Act of 2022
This bill authorizes the Department of Labor or the Department of Agriculture to directly hire graduates of a Job Corps Campus or a Civilian Conservation Center who successfully completed a training program focusing on forestry, wildland firefighting, or other related field.
To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to provide direct 
    hire authority for Job Corps graduates, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Conservation Jobs Act of 2022''.

SEC. 2. DIRECT HIRE AUTHORITY.

    Section 147(d) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3197(d)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) Direct hire authority.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The Secretary of Labor or the 
                Secretary of Agriculture may appoint, without regard to 
                the provisions of subchapter I of chapter 33 of title 
                5, United States Code (other than sections 3303 and 
                3328 of such title), a covered graduate directly to any 
                position with the Department of Labor or the Forest 
                Service, as the case may be, for which the candidate 
                meets Office of Personnel Management qualification 
                standards.
                    ``(B) Covered job corps graduate.--In this 
                paragraph, the term `covered graduate' means a graduate 
                of a Job Corps Campus or a Civilian Conservation Center 
                who successfully completed a training program, 
                including in administration, human resources, business, 
                or quality assurance, that was focused on forestry, 
                wildland firefighting, or another topic relating to the 
                mission of the Department of Labor or the Forest 
                Service.''.
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Conservation Jobs Act of 2022
To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to provide direct hire authority for Job Corps graduates, and for other purposes.
Conservation Jobs Act of 2022
Rep. O'Halleran, Tom