Title 29 › Chapter CHAPTER 32— - WORKFORCE INNOVATION AND OPPORTUNITY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES › Part Part B— - Workforce Investment Activities and Providers › Subpart subpart 1— - workforce investment activities and providers › § 3151
Local workforce boards must, with the local chief elected official, make a written agreement (a memorandum of understanding), pick or certify the one-stop center operators by competition, and watch over how the one-stop system works. Agencies that run the many federal job, training, education, and related programs (13 categories listed in the law, including Wagner‑Peyser, adult education and literacy, vocational rehabilitation, Older Americans Act Title V, Perkins postsecondary career and technical education, Trade Act services, veterans programs, HUD employment programs, State unemployment programs, and some education and Social Security programs) must give access to their services through the one-stop system, use part of their funds to support the system (including infrastructure costs), join the local MOU, take part in running the system, and have representation on the State board. The MOU must say what services will be offered, how costs and infrastructure will be paid (including cash and in-kind contributions), how people will be referred among partners, how services will meet the needs of workers, youth, and people with barriers to employment (including disabilities), how long the MOU lasts and how to change it, and it must be reviewed at least once every 3 years. One-stop operators can be public, private, or nonprofit groups or consortia (including at least three partners); most regular K–12 schools cannot be operators except some nontraditional or area career and technical schools. Operators must disclose conflicts of interest, not discourage serving people needing longer-term help, and follow federal rules on profits. Every local area that gets funds must have a one-stop delivery system that offers career services, access to training and other partner programs, and Wagner‑Peyser job services. Each local area must have at least one physical one-stop center. The system can also use affiliated sites and electronic access points and may have special centers for groups like dislocated workers or youth. Employment service offices must be colocated with one-stop centers. A common one-stop identifier (like a logo) had to be created by the Secretary by the start of the second full program year after July 22, 2014. The State board must set objective rules and assess centers at least every 3 years for effectiveness and accessibility; centers that meet the standards can get infrastructure funding. Local boards, chief elected officials, and one-stop partners should agree on how to pay infrastructure costs. If they cannot reach agreement, the State funding method applies, and if no local agreement is reached for a program year beginning July 1, 2016, the State method must be used for that year and any later year without agreement. Partner contributions for infrastructure must come from administration funds and are limited: no more than 3 percent of a program’s Federal funds for certain programs (subparts 2 or 3 and Wagner‑Peyser) and no more than 1.5 percent for other partner programs, with a phased increase for the vocational rehabilitation program of 0.75 percent (second full program year after July 22, 2014), 1.0 percent (third), 1.25 percent (fourth), and 1.5 percent (fifth and later). “Costs of infrastructure” means the nonpersonnel costs needed to run a one-stop center, such as rent, utilities, maintenance, equipment, assistive technology, and technology for access. Partners must also provide other agreed operating costs and career services or noncash resources as set out in the MOU, with the State board giving guidance.
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29 U.S.C. § 3151
Title 29 — Labor
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Apr 6, 2026
Release point: 119-73