Title 29LaborRelease 119-73

§3202 Standards of conduct

Title 29 › Chapter CHAPTER 32— - WORKFORCE INNOVATION AND OPPORTUNITY › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER I— - WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES › Part Part C— - Job Corps › § 3202

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary must create rules of conduct for Job Corps centers, and center directors must enforce them. Directors can discipline enrollees who break the rules. A director must dismiss an enrollee if keeping them would make it hard to enforce the rules, threaten the safety of staff, students, or the local community, or reduce other enrollees’ chances. The Secretary must set a zero‑tolerance rule for violence, drug use/sale/possession, alcohol abuse, and other illegal or disruptive acts, and must require drug testing of all enrollees under the procedures set out by the Secretary under section 3195(a) of this title. Disciplinary decisions must be able to be appealed quickly under procedures the Secretary creates. Controlled substance — meaning given in section 802 of title 21. Zero‑tolerance rule — means automatic removal after the director finds the enrollee committed the act.

Full Legal Text

Title 29, §3202

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(a)The Secretary shall provide, and directors of Job Corps centers shall stringently enforce, standards of conduct within the centers. Such standards of conduct shall include provisions forbidding the actions described in subsection (b)(2)(A).
(b)(1)To promote the proper behavioral standards in the Job Corps, the directors of Job Corps centers shall have the authority to take appropriate disciplinary measures against enrollees if such a director determines that an enrollee has committed a violation of the standards of conduct. The director shall dismiss the enrollee from the Job Corps if the director determines that the retention of the enrollee in the Job Corps will jeopardize the enforcement of such standards, threaten the safety of staff, students, or the local community, or diminish the opportunities of other enrollees.
(2)(A)The Secretary shall adopt guidelines establishing a zero tolerance policy for an act of violence, for use, sale, or possession of a controlled substance, for abuse of alcohol, or for other illegal or disruptive activity.
(B)The Secretary shall require drug testing of all enrollees for controlled substances in accordance with procedures prescribed by the Secretary under section 3195(a) of this title.
(C)In this paragraph:
(i)The term “controlled substance” has the meaning given the term in section 802 of title 21.
(ii)The term “zero tolerance policy” means a policy under which an enrollee shall be automatically dismissed from the Job Corps after a determination by the director that the enrollee has carried out an action described in subparagraph (A).
(c)A disciplinary measure taken by a director under this section shall be subject to expeditious appeal in accordance with procedures established by the Secretary.

Legislative History

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Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective on the first day of the first full program year after
July 22, 2014 (
July 1, 2015), see section 506 of Pub. L. 113–128, set out as a note under section 3101 of this title.

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Citation

29 U.S.C. § 3202

Title 29Labor

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73