Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act

Full title	To reform and strengthen the workforce investment system of the Nation to put Americans back to work and make the United States more competitive in the 21st century.
Introduced in	113th United States Congress
Introduced on	February 25, 2013
Sponsored by	Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC)
Citations
Public Law	Pub.L. 113–128
Effects and codifications
Act(s) affected	Workforce Investment Act of 1998, Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Wagner-Peyser Act, Food and Nutrition Act of 2008, Immigration and Nationality Act, and others.
Authorizations of appropriations	$72,552,997,531 for each of fiscal years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020
Legislative history
Introduced in the House as H.R. 803 by Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) on February 25, 2013 Passed the House on March 15, 2013 (Roll Call Vote 75: 215-202) Passed the Senate as the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act on June 25, 2014 (Roll Call Vote 214: 95-3) with amendment House agreed to Senate amendment on July 9, 2014 (Roll Call Vote 378: 415-6) Signed into law by President Barack Obama on July 22, 2014

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) is a United States public law that replaced the previous Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) as the primary federal workforce development legislation to bring about increased coordination among federal workforce development and related programs.

WIOA includes five titles:

Title I of WIOA authorizes programs to provide job search, education, and training activities for individuals seeking to gain or improve their employment prospects, and which establishes the One-Stop delivery system. In addition, Title I of WIOA establishes the governing structure and the performance accountability for all programs authorized under WIOA. Title I programs are administered by the US Department of Labor (DOL), primarily through its Employment and Training Administration (ETA).

Elements of WIOA that are collectively intended to comprise a "workforce development system" are:

Title II of WIOA is the Adult Education and Family Literacy Act (AEFLA). AEFLA supports educational services, primarily through grants to states, to help adults become literate in English and develop other basic skills necessary for employment and postsecondary education, and to become full partners in the education of their children.

Title III amends the Wagner-Peyser Act of 1933, which authorizes the Employment Service (ES), to make the ES an integral part of the One-Stop system amended by WIOA.

Title IV of WIOA amends the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and authorizes funding for vocational rehabilitation services for individuals with disabilities. Most programs under the Rehabilitation Act are related to the employment and independent living of individuals with disabilities.

WIOA continues the requirements of WIA for each state to establish a One-Stop delivery system to

Although the Employment Service (ES) is one of 19 required partners in the One-Stop delivery system, its central mission—to facilitate the match between individuals seeking work and employers seeking workers—makes it critical to the functioning of the workforce development system under WIOA.

Although the Employment Service (ES) is one of 19 required partners in the One-Stop delivery system, its central mission—to facilitate the match between individuals seeking work and employers seeking workers—makes it critical to the functioning of the workforce development system under WIOA. To this end, one of the key functions played by the ES is to deliver many of the "career services" established by WIOA. ES staff often are the first to assist individuals seeking employment assistance and refer individuals to other programs in the One-Stop system of partners.

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