§3211 Job Corps Oversight and Reporting

Summary

Requires the Secretary to send regular financial reports about the Job Corps program to certain Congressional committees. Each report must say how the Department has acted on the oversight steps recommended in the May 31, 2013 Office of Inspector General report about stronger controls over Job Corps funds, list any budget shortfalls for the covered period and why they happened, and explain any contract spending that went over the contract amount. Reports must be sent every six months starting July 22, 2014 for three years, then once a year for two years unless more reports are needed. If a report finds a budget shortfall, the Secretary must, within 90 days, explain how the shortfall will be fixed and keep sending six-month reports until there is no shortfall. Every five years after July 22, 2014 the Secretary must order an outside review of the Job Corps covering the areas listed in section 3224(a)(2)(A)–(G) and send the results to the House Education and the Workforce Committee and the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee. By December 1, 2014 the Secretary must create written rules for when and how to close a Job Corps center and give those rules to the applicable committees. Applicable committees are the House Committee on Education and the Workforce; the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies; the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions; and the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies.