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116TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 5206 

To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to establish a 

fund to provide support services for individuals participating in certain 

training activities under such Act. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

NOVEMBER 20, 2019 

Mr. SMITH of Washington introduced the following bill; which was referred to 

the Committee on Education and Labor 

A BILL 

To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act 

to establish a fund to provide support services for individuals participating in certain training activities under 

such Act. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Empowering Individ5 uals to Succeed Through Education and Workforce Train6 ing Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. SUPPORTIVE SERVICES TRAINING FUND. 

2 Subtitle D of chapter 4 of the Workforce Innovation 

3 and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3206) is amended— 

4 (1) by redesignating section 172 as section 173; 

5 and 

6 (2) by adding after section 171 the following 

7 new section: 

8 ‘‘SEC. 172. SUPPORTIVE SERVICES TRAINING FUND. 

9 ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF A SUPPORTIVE SERVICES

10 TRAINING FUND.—From the amounts appropriated to 

11 carry out this section, the Secretary shall award competi12 tive grants to local boards, a consortium of local boards, 

13 or a State board acting on behalf of or in partnership with 

14 a consortium of local boards to provide support services 

15 for individuals participating in training activities covered 

16 under section 134(c)(3) of title I and section 231 of title 

17 II of this Act. 

18 ‘‘(b) APPLICATION.—To receive a grant under this 

19 subsection a local board shall submit to the Secretary an 

20 application describing how the local board (or State board) 

21 plans to partner with other organizations, including the 

22 State agency responsible for administering the State pro23 gram for temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) 

24 funded under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act 

25 and the supplemental nutrition assistance program under 

26 the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012 et 


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1 seq.), to provide specific support services, and in such 

2 manner, at such time, and containing such information as 

3 the Secretary may require. 

4 ‘‘(c) USE OF FUNDS.— 

5 ‘‘(1) PARTICIPANT ELIGIBILITY.—Individuals 

6 participating in training services covered under sec7 tion 134(c)(3) of title I or section 231 of title II of 

8 this Act are eligible to receive support services pro9 vided under this section. 

10 ‘‘(2) QUALIFIED SUPPORT SERVICES.—Support 

11 services to be provided under this section are those 

12 described in section 3(59) of the this Act, or other 

13 support services not covered under such section that 

14 a grantee identifies as important for an individual to 

15 successfully complete training services covered under 

16 this section. 

17 ‘‘(d) AMOUNT.—The amount of an individual grant 

18 awarded under this section shall not exceed more than 

19 $2,000,000 per year. 

20 ‘‘(e) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

21 are authorized to be appropriated to carry out this section 

22 such sums as may be necessary.’’. 

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