I 119THCONGRESS 1 STSESSION H. R. 2380 To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to authorize the use of individual training accounts for certain youth. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MARCH26, 2025 Mr. M ORAN(for himself and Mr. SMUCKER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce A BILL To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to authorize the use of individual training accounts for certain youth. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Building Youth Work-4 force Skills Act’’. 5 SEC. 2. YOUTH WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES. 6 Section 129(c) of the Workforce Innovation and Op-7 portunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3164(c)) is amended by adding 8 at the end the following: 9 VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:22 Apr 01, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\H2380.IH H2380 ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS 2 •HR 2380 IH ‘‘(9) INDIVIDUAL TRAINING ACCOUNTS .—Funds 1 allocated pursuant to paragraph (1) to a local area 2 may be used to pay, through an individual training 3 account, an eligible provider of training services de-4 scribed in section 122(d) for training services de-5 scribed in section 134(c)(3) provided to an in-school 6 youth who is not younger than age 16 and not older 7 than age 21, or any out-of-school youth, in the same 8 manner that an individual training account is used 9 to pay an eligible provider of training services under 10 section 134(c)(3)(F)(iii) for training services pro-11 vided to an adult or dislocated worker.’’. 12 Æ VerDate Sep 11 2014 00:22 Apr 01, 2025 Jkt 059200 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6301 E:\BILLS\H2380.IH H2380 ssavage on LAPJG3WLY3PROD with BILLS