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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| SENATE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY KITCHEN, COSTA, SCHWANK, WASHINGTON, HUGHES, TARTAGLIONE, LEACH, FERLO, BOSCOLA, WILLIAMS, GORDNER, STACK, FARNESE, SOLOBAY, BREWSTER, FONTANA, RAFFERTY, BLAKE, KASUNIC, DINNIMAN, YUDICHAK AND WOZNIAK, JANUARY 9, 2012 |
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| REFERRED TO ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, JANUARY 9, 2012 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Establishing the Youth Job Program and providing for job |
2 | training and career experience to unemployed youths. |
3 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
4 | hereby enacts as follows: |
5 | Section 1. Short title. |
6 | This act shall be known and may be cited as the Youth Job |
7 | Program Act. |
8 | Section 2. Definitions. |
9 | The following words and phrases when used in this act shall |
10 | have the meanings given to them in this section unless the |
11 | context clearly indicates otherwise: |
12 | "Department." The Department of Conservation and Natural |
13 | Resources of the Commonwealth. |
14 | "Local government." A municipality as defined in 1 Pa.C.S. § |
15 | 1991 (relating to definitions). |
16 | "Program." The Youth Job Program established under section |
17 | 3. |
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1 | "Qualified youth." An individual between 16 and 21 years of |
2 | age who is unemployed or who has never been employed. |
3 | "TANF." The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program |
4 | under the Social Security Act (49 Stat. 620, 42 U.S.C. § 301 et |
5 | seq.). |
6 | Section 3. Youth Job Program. |
7 | (a) Establishment.--The Youth Job Program is established |
8 | within the department. |
9 | (b) Purpose.--The purpose of the program is to provide |
10 | valuable job training and career experience to unemployed youths |
11 | throughout this Commonwealth by providing summer employment |
12 | opportunities at State and local parks and recreation facilities |
13 | to qualified youths. Employment opportunities shall be offered |
14 | either through the department or through local governments that |
15 | receive grant funding under this act. |
16 | (c) Program requirements.--The following shall apply: |
17 | (1) Qualified youth may be employed by the department or |
18 | the local government at an hourly rate of $10 per hour. The |
19 | receipt of a salary or other benefits by the qualified youth |
20 | under this program shall not be used in calculating income |
21 | for purposes of determining eligibility for TANF benefits by |
22 | the qualified youth's parents or legal guardians. |
23 | (2) Qualified youth employed by the department or a |
24 | local government under this program shall be limited to a |
25 | maximum of 25 employment hours per week. |
26 | (3) The period of employment offered to a qualified |
27 | youth by the department or a local government under this |
28 | program shall not exceed ten weeks. |
29 | Section 4. Powers and duties of department. |
30 | The department shall have the following powers and duties: |
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1 | (1) To employ qualified youth with the department for |
2 | purposes of carrying out the provisions of this act. |
3 | (2) To establish application procedures for local |
4 | governments to apply for grants to carry out the purposes of |
5 | this act. |
6 | (3) To establish a procedure for awarding grants to |
7 | local government, except that no grant may be awarded to a |
8 | local government whose proposed program does not comply with |
9 | section 3(c). |
10 | Section 5. Funding. |
11 | The sum of $25,000,000 is transfered from the Oil and Gas |
12 | Lease Fund to the department for the purposes of this act. |
13 | Section 20. Effective date. |
14 | This act shall take effect immediately. |
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