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2 oned not more than one year, or both.

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"(b) Whoever, by threat or procuring dismissal of any

person from employment or of refusal to employ or refusal to

renew a contract of employment in connection with a grant 6 or contract of assistance under the Comprehensive Employ7 ment and Training Act of 1973, induces any persons to give 8 up any money or thing of any value to any person (includ9 ing such grantee agency) shall be fined not more than 10 $1,000, or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.'. "(b) The analysis of chapter 31 is amended by adding

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"665. Theft or embezzlement from employment and training funds: improper inducement.'

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AND TRAINING SERVICES

"Part A-Financial Assistance Provisions

"PURPOSE OF PROGRAM

"SEC. 201. It is the purpose of this title to establish 18 programs to provide comprehensive employment and train19 ing services throughout the Nation. Such programs shall 20 include the development and creation of training, upgrading, 21 retraining, education, and other services needed to enable 22 individuals to secure and retain employment at their maxi23 mum capacities so as to increase their earned incomes.

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"ALLOCATION OF FUNDS

"SEC. 202. (a) (1) Eighty-five per centum of the

3 amount available for this title in any fiscal year shall be

4 allocated as follows:

"(A) 50 per centum of the amount allocated under

this subsection shall be allocated to each State on the basis of the sums received by the State under this title

in the prior fiscal year compared to the sums received by all States under this title in that year; (except that, for fiscal year 1979, the term 'under this title' shall mean 'under title I of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act of 1973 prior to the effective date of the Comprehensive Employment and Training Amendments of 1978');

"(B) 37 per centum of the amount allocated under this subsection shall be allocated to each State on the basis of the relative number of unemployed persons with

in the State as compared to the number in all States;

"(C) 12 per centum of the amount allocated under this subsection shall be allocated to each State

on the basis of the relative number of adults in families with an annual income below the low-income level with

in the State compared to the total number in all States;

"(D) Not less than $2,000,000 shall be allocated

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among Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, the

Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and the Northern

Marianas in accordance with their respective needs.

"(2) The sum allocated to each State shall be allocated

5 by the Secretary among prime sponsors within the State on 6 an equitable basis based upon the factors set forth in para7 graph (1).

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"(b) Five per centum of the funds available for this 9 title shall be allocated among prime sponsors in the manner 10 provided under section 202 (a) (2) to be used only for 11 supplemental vocational education assistance under section 12 204.

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"(c) One per centum of the amount allocated under 14 this title shall be available to the Secretary to be allocated 15 in the same manner as provided under subsection (a) to 16 States for the costs of the State employment and training 17 council incurred in carrying out the provisions of section 18 110 except that no State shall receive an allocation of less 19 than $50,000. If any State does not need the amount al20 located under this subsection for any fiscal year, that amount 21 shall be available for the Governor's coordination and special 22 services under section 105.

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"(d) Four per centum of the amounts available for this 24 title shall be available to each Governor in the same propor25 tion as that State's allocation under subsection (a) for the 26 Governor's coordination and special services under section

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1 105, and, where deemed necessary by the Governor, for

2 additional support of State employment and training coun3 cils.

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"(e) The remainder of the funds shall be available in 5 the Secretary's discretion to be distributed among prime sponsors (or where a prime sponsor's comprehensive em7 ployment and training plan has not been approved, an area 8 served by the Secretary under the authority in section 102). 9 The Secretary shall first utilize such funds to assure that 10 each prime sponsor is provided with an amount for any 11 fiscal year equal to 90 percent of the funds allocated to the 12 prime sponsor under subsection (a) (2) of this section for 13 the preceding fiscal year. In utilizing such funds, the Secre14 tary shall provide continued support for concentrated em15 ployment program grantees serving rural areas having high 16 levels of unemployment, shall take into account the need 17 for continued funding of programs of demonstrated effec18 tiveness, and shall use such funds to encourage, after con19 sultation with and receiving recommendations from the 20 Governor of the appropriate State, voluntary consortia 21 (formed under section 101 (a) (3)) where the Secretary 22 determines, pursuant to regulations, that such consortia 23 demonstrate advantages in delivering employment and train24 ing services to substantial portions of functioning labor 25 market areas.

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i "(f) As soon as practicable after funds are appropriated 2 to carry out this Act for any fiscal year, the Secretary shall 3 publish in the Federal Register the allocations made pursuant 4 to this section.

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"(g) Prime sponsors are authorized to use funds allo6 cated under this title to support prime sponsor planning 7 councils pursuant to section 109.

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"CONDITIONS FOR RECEIPT OF FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

"SEC. 203. (a) The Secretary shall not provide finan10 cial assistance for any fiscal year to a prime sponsor unless 11 the prime sponsor submits a satisfactory comprehensive 12 employment and training plan pursuant to section 103.

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"SUPPLEMENTAL VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ASSISTANCE

"SEC. 204. (a) From the funds available for this sec18 tion, the Secretary shall provide financial assistance to prime 19 sponsors to provide needed vocational education services in 20 their areas. Such services shall be provided pursuant to 21 agreements between the prime sponsor and the State voca22 tional education board, or where such agreements cannot be 23 reached, and, with the concurrence of the Governor, with 24 alternative deliverers of vocational education services.

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