Building Youth Workforce Skills Act

This bill expands existing workforce training funding to include youth. It allows states to use federal funds through "individual training accounts" to pay for job training programs for two groups: in-school youth aged 16-21 and out-of-school youth. The key mechanism simply extends the current process used for adults and dislocated workers to cover these youth populations under the same rules. It directly affects young people seeking job skills who are either still enrolled in school or not in school but looking for work. The change modifies how existing Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act funds can be applied, without creating new programs or altering eligibility criteria.