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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 4498 

To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to extend State 

plans and other plans from a 4-year period to a 5-year period, and 

for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 11, 2024 

Mr. MULLIN introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions 

A BILL 

To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act 

to extend State plans and other plans from a 4-year 

period to a 5-year period, and for other purposes. 

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 ‘‘WIOA Planning Ex5 tension Act’’. 

6 SEC. 2. STATE PLANS. 

7 Section 102 of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor8 tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3112) is amended— 


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1 (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘4-year’’ and 

2 inserting ‘‘5-year’’; and 

3 (2) in subsection (c)— 

4 (A) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ‘‘4- 

5 year period’’ and inserting ‘‘5-year period (or 4- 

6 year period, as the case may be)’’; and 

7 (B) in paragraph (3)(A), by striking ‘‘2- 

8 year period of any 4-year unified State plan’’ 

9 and inserting ‘‘2-year period of a 5-year unified 

10 State plan (or 2-year period of a 4-year unified 

11 State plan, as the case may be)’’. 

12 SEC. 3. LOCAL PLANS. 

13 Section 108(a) of the Workforce Innovation and Op14 portunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3123(a)) is amended— 

15 (1) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘4-year’’ 

16 and inserting ‘‘5-year’’; and 

17 (2) in the fourth sentence, by striking ‘‘2-year 

18 period of the 4-year local plan’’ and ‘‘2-year period 

19 of a 5-year local plan (or 2-year period of a 4-year 

20 local plan, as the case may be)’’. 

21 SEC. 4. PLAN FOR MIGRANT AND SEASONAL FARMWORKER 

22 PROGRAM. 

23 Section 167 of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor24 tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3222) is amended— 


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1 (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘4 years’’ and 

2 inserting ‘‘5 years’’; and 

3 (2) in subsection (c)(1), by striking ‘‘4-year’’ 

4 and inserting ‘‘5-year’’. 

5 SEC. 5. PROVISIONS RELATED TO PLAN LENGTH. 

6 (a) LOCAL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARDS.— 

7 Section 107(c) of such Act (29 U.S.C. 3122(c)) is amend8 ed— 

9 (1) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ‘‘once 

10 every 2 years’’ and inserting ‘‘during the first and 

11 during the third program year covered by the local 

12 plan’’; and 

13 (2) in paragraph (3)(B), by striking ‘‘for 2 con14 secutive program years’’ and inserting ‘‘for the first 

15 2 program years covered by the local plan or for the 

16 third, fourth, and fifth program years covered by the 

17 local plan’’. 

18 (b) PERFORMANCE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM.—Sec19 tion 116 of such Act (29 U.S.C. 3141) is amended— 

20 (1) in subsection (b)(3)(A)(iv)(II)— 

21 (A) by striking ‘‘(II)’’ and all that follows 

22 through ‘‘The State’’ and inserting the fol23 lowing: 

24 ‘‘(II) THIRD, FOURTH AND

25 FIFTH YEARS.—The State’’; and 


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1 (B) by striking ‘‘third and fourth program 

2 years’’ and inserting ‘‘third, fourth, and fifth 

3 program years’’; and 

4 (2) in subsection (d)— 

5 (A) in paragraph (2), in subparagraphs 

6 (D), (E), and (F), by striking ‘‘the 3 preceding 

7 program years’’ and inserting ‘‘the 4 preceding 

8 program years’’; and 

9 (B) in paragraph (4), in subparagraphs 

10 (C), (D), and (E), by striking ‘‘the 3 preceding 

11 program years’’ and inserting ‘‘the 4 preceding 

12 program years’’. 

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