§3211 Job Corps oversight and reporting

Summary

The Secretary must send financial reports about the Job Corps program to certain congressional committees. Reports must start every 6 months from July 22, 2014, for three years, then once a year for the next two years unless extra reports are needed. Each report must say how the Department is following the money-control steps recommended in the May 31, 2013 Inspector General report, explain any budget shortfalls and why they happened, and explain any contract spending that went over the agreed amounts. If a report finds a budget shortfall, the Secretary must, within 90 days, tell the committees how the shortfall will be fixed and then send extra 6-month reports until the shortfall is gone. Every five years after July 22, 2014, an outside reviewer must examine the Job Corps program and send the results to Congress. By December 1, 2014, the Secretary must also write and send rules for when and how a Job Corps center should be closed. “Applicable committees” means: the House Education and the Workforce Committee; the House Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education; the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee; and the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education.