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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION H. R. 7679 

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 

MARCH 13, 2024 

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

the Committee on Education and the Workforce 

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. SUPPORT SERVICES TRAINING FUND. 

2 Subtitle D of title I of the Workforce Innovation and 

3 Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3221 et seq.) 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. SUPPORT SERVICES TRAINING FUND. 

9 ‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT OF SPECIFIED SUPPORT

10 SERVICES TRAINING FUND.—From the amounts appro11 priated to carry out this section, the Secretary shall award 

12 competitive grants to qualified applicants to provide speci13 fied support services for individuals participating in train14 ing activities covered under section 134(c)(3) of title I and 

15 section 231 of title II of this Act. 

16 ‘‘(b) QUALIFIED APPLICANT.—For purposes of this 

17 section, the term ‘qualified applicant’ means a local board, 

18 a consortium of local boards, or a State board acting on 

19 behalf of or in partnership with a consortium of local 

20 boards. 

21 ‘‘(c) APPLICATION.—To receive a grant under sub22 section (a), a qualified applicant shall submit to the Sec23 retary an application in such manner, at such time, and 

24 containing such information as the Secretary may require, 

25 including a description of how such qualified applicant 

26 plans to partner with other organizations, including the 


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1 State agency responsible for administering the State pro2 gram for temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) 

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

4 and the supplemental nutrition assistance program under 

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

6 seq.), to provide specified support services. 

7 ‘‘(d) USE OF FUNDS.— 

8 ‘‘(1) ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANT.—Individuals par9 ticipating in training services covered under section 

10 134(c)(3) of title I or section 231 of title II of this 

11 Act are eligible to receive specified support services 

12 provided under this section. 

13 ‘‘(2) SPECIFIED SUPPORT SERVICES.—The 

14 qualified support services to be provided by a grant15 ee under this section include— 

16 ‘‘(A) supportive services described in sec17 tion 3(59), and 

18 ‘‘(B) such other services or funding not de19 scribed in such section as a grantee identifies as 

20 important for an individual to successfully com21 plete training services covered under this sec22 tion, including funding for, or the provision of, 

23 groceries and after-hours childcare. 


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1 ‘‘(e) INDIVIDUAL GRANT AMOUNTS.—The amount of 

2 an individual grant awarded under this section shall not 

3 exceed more than $2,000,000 per year.’’. 

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