Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act

Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act

Long 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.
Announced in	the 113th United States Congress
Sponsored by	Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC)
Citations
Public law	Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 113–128 (text) (PDF)
Codification
Acts 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	$3.3 billion for fiscal year 2017[1]
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.

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.