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Improving emerging technology opportunities for veterans

Title II: Education and Economic Opportunity

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The section expands a veterans' education program to include emerging technologies like artificial intelligence and semiconductor manufacturing alongside high technology fields. It also requires public reporting of employment rates for program graduates 180 days after completion, excluding jobs with the education provider, and calls for ongoing collection of participant feedback to improve the program.

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(a) Inclusion of emerging technologies in high technology program

(1) In general

Section 3699C of title 38, United States Code, is amended—

(A)

in the section heading by striking High technology and inserting High technology and emerging technology ;

(B)

by striking high technology and inserting high technology or emerging technology each place such term appears; and

(C)

in subsection (c)(4) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:

(E)

Such criteria shall also identify which technologies of critical importance, such as artificial intelligence and semiconductor manufacturing, shall be treated as emerging technologies for purposes of this section.

(2) Clerical amendment

The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 36 of such title is amended by striking the item relating to section 3699C and inserting the following new item:

(3) Conforming amendments

Section 3680A of title 38, United States Code, is amended in subsections (a)(4)(B) and (d)(8) by striking high technology each place such term appears and inserting high technology or emerging technology .

(b) Employment rate calculation for VET-TEC high technology and emerging technology program

Section 3699C of title 38, United States Code, is amended—

(1)

in subsection (f)—

(A)

in the matter preceding paragraph (1) by inserting after House of Representatives the following: , and make available to the public, ; and

(B)

in paragraph (3) by adding at the end the following: Such rate shall be calculated as a fraction, the denominator of which is the number of covered individuals who completed such a program during such year and the numerator of which is the number of individuals counted in the denominator who are employed on the date that is 180 days after the date on which the individual completed the program, and expressed as a percentage. Notwithstanding the previous sentence, the numerator shall not count a case in which the individual is employed by the same organization that was the provider of the individual’s program of education or a case in which the individual is employed, by a parent or affiliate of such organization, as an instructor for a substantially similar program of education. To the maximum extent practicable, the Secretary shall also report the rates of full-time employment, part-time employment, and self-employment. ; and

(2)

in subsection (g) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:

(3)

The Secretary on an ongoing basis shall solicit, collect, and analyze feedback about the program from covered individuals who participate in the program and from the GI Bill School Feedback Tool. The Secretary shall use such feedback to evaluate and improve the implementation of the program.