29 U.S.C. § 1506
Section 1506 · Transferred
This is the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Act)
Amended 1 time on record
Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Linda Kesting v. James Kesting (2016)
Most recently applied in Unum Life Insurance Company of America v. LuAnn Allard and Tiffany Allard (March 2023)
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year.Markers show enactment, consequential amendments, and circuit splits over this section — watch for a citation surge after a change or a disagreement. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
The Secretary of Labor shall provide for grants to States to provide educational assistance and training for United States workers. The Secretary shall consult with the Secretary of Education in making grants under this section.
Within the purposes described in subsection (a) of this section, funds in the account used under this section shall be allocated among the States based on a formula, established jointly by the Secretaries of Labor and Education, that takes into consideration—
(1) the location of foreign workers admitted into the United States,
(2) the location of individuals in the United States requiring and desiring the educational assistance and training for which the funds can be applied, and
(3) the location of unemployed and underemployed United States workers.
(1) Within the purposes and allocations established under this section, disbursements shall be made to the States, in accordance with grant applications submitted to and approved jointly by the Secretaries of Labor and Education, to be applied in a manner consistent with the guidelines established by such Secretaries in consultation with the States. In applying such grants, the States shall consider providing funding to joint labor-management trust funds and other such non-profit organizations which have demonstrated capability and experience in directly training and educating workers.
(2) Not more than 5 percent of the funds disbursed to any State under this section may be used for administrative expenses.
The Secretaries shall provide that not more than 2 percent of the amount of funds disbursed to States under this section may be used by the Federal Government in the administration of this section.
The Secretary of Labor shall report annually to the Congress on the grants to States provided under this section.
In this section, the term “State” has the meaning given such term in section 1101(a)(36) of title 8.
Editorial notes U.S. Code · Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Codification
Section was enacted as part of the Immigration Act of 1990, and not as part of the Job Training Partnership Act which comprises this chapter.