29 U.S.C. § 3223 — Technical assistance

(a)(1) The Secretary must ensure that the Department can provide, coordinate, and support appropriate training, technical assistance, staff development, and other activities, including (A) copying programs shown to work, for States and localities; (B) training rapid-response staff; (C) training other staff of subchapter fund recipients, including local and State board staff; (D) training State and local board members; (E) help developing and using integrated technology-based intake and case-management systems for programs under this Act and one-stop partners, including standard technical requirements and interfaces States can use with their existing systems to make shared registration easier; (F) accounting and program-operations help for States and localities when it does not replace State help; (G) peer review under this subchapter; and (H) especially, help States transition to this Act.
(2)(A) To provide this help for a State or recipient under section 3221 or 3222, the Secretary may, after consulting it, make grants or enter contracts or cooperative agreements.
(B) A grant or contract over $100,000 to an entity other than a State or local government unit must be competitively awarded.
(b)(1) From money available under section 3172(a)(2)(A), the Secretary must reserve no more than 5 percent for technical assistance to States that fail the primary employment-and-training performance measures in section 3141(b)(2)(A)(i) for dislocated workers. The Secretary may use it for other States, local areas, and entities serving dislocated workers to improve that assistance continuously.
(2) Reserved money may train staff, including rapid-response specialists. Training must include proven methods for promoting, creating, and helping labor-management committees. The Department’s Employment and Training Administration must administer these projects.
(c) The Secretary must (1) create a system for States to share promising and proven workforce-practice information; (2) evaluate and distribute that information and identify knowledge gaps; and (3) commission research under section 3224(b) to address identified gaps.