Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Accelerating Individuals 
into the Workforce Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS TO SUPPORT SUB-
SIDIZED EMPLOYMENT FOR TANF RECIPI-
ENTS TO ENTER THE WORKFORCE. 
Section 403 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 603) 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(c) SUBSIDIZED
EMPLOYMENT
DEMONSTRATION 
PROJECTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Secretary shall make 
grants to States to conduct demonstration projects, at 
least one of which shall fund programs that offer ap-
prenticeships registered under the Act of August 16, 
1937 (commonly known as the ‘National Apprentice-
ship Act’; 50 Stat. 664, chapter 663; 29 U.S.C. 50 et 
seq.), designed to implement and evaluate strategies 
that provide wage subsidies to enable low-income in-
dividuals to enter into and retain employment. 
‘‘(2) APPLICATION
REQUIREMENTS.—The Sec-
retary shall require each State that applies for a 
grant under this subsection to do the following: 
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‘‘(A) Describe how wage subsidies will be 
provided (such as whether paid directly to the 
employer or the individual), the duration of the 
subsidies, the amount of the subsidies, the struc-
ture of the subsidies, and how employers will be 
recruited to participate in the subsidized em-
ployment program. 
‘‘(B) Describe how the State expects those 
participating in subsidized employment to be 
able to retain employment after the subsidy ends. 
‘‘(C) Describe how the State will coordinate 
subsidized employment funded under this sub-
section with other efforts to help low-income in-
dividuals enter work as conducted by the State. 
‘‘(3) USE OF FUNDS.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—A State to which a 
grant is made under this subsection may use the 
grant to subsidize the wages of an eligible recipi-
ent for a period not exceeding 12 months, and 
only to the extent that the total of the funds paid 
under this project and any other Federal funds 
so used with respect to the recipient does not ex-
ceed 50 percent of the amount of the wages re-
ceived by the recipient during the period. 
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‘‘(B) ELIGIBLE RECIPIENT.—For purposes 
of subparagraph (A), an eligible recipient is— 
‘‘(i)(I) a recipient of assistance under 
the State program funded under this part 
or any other State program funded with 
qualified State expenditures (as defined in 
section 409(a)(7)(B)(i)); or 
‘‘(II) a noncustodial parent of a minor 
child who is receiving assistance referred to 
in subclause (I); 
‘‘(ii) who, at the time the subsidy be-
gins, is unemployed; and 
‘‘(iii) whose income, at that time, is 
less than 200 percent of the poverty line (as 
defined by the Office of Management and 
Budget, and revised annually in accordance 
with section 673(2) of the Omnibus Budget 
Reconciliation Act of 1981 (42 U.S.C. 
9902(2))). 
‘‘(4) LIMITATIONS.— 
‘‘(A) NONDISPLACEMENT.—A State to which 
a grant is made under this subsection shall en-
sure that no participant in a subsidized job pro-
gram funded in whole or in part under this sub-
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section is employed or assigned to a job under 
the program— 
‘‘(i) when any other individual is on 
layoff from the same or any substantially 
equivalent job; or 
‘‘(ii) if the employer has terminated 
the employment of any regular employee or 
otherwise caused an involuntary reduction 
of its workforce in order to fill the vacancy 
so created with an adult described in para-
graph (1). 
‘‘(B) GRIEVANCE
PROCEDURE.—A State 
with a program funded under this subsection 
shall establish and maintain a grievance proce-
dure for resolving complaints of alleged viola-
tions of subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(C) NO
PREEMPTION.—Nothing in this 
paragraph shall preempt or supersede any provi-
sion of State or local law that provides greater 
protection for employees from displacement. 
‘‘(5) REPORTS.—As a condition of receiving 
funds under this subsection for a fiscal year, a State 
shall submit to the Secretary, within 6 months after 
the end of the fiscal year, a report that— 
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‘‘(A) specifies, for each month of the fiscal 
year, the number of individuals whose employ-
ment is subsidized with these funds; 
‘‘(B) describes the structure of the State ac-
tivities to use the funds to subsidize employment, 
including the amount and duration of the sub-
sidies provided; 
‘‘(C) specifies the percentage of eligible re-
cipients who received a subsidy who are in un-
subsidized employment during the second quarter 
after the subsidy ended; 
‘‘(D) specifies the percentage of eligible re-
cipients who received a subsidy who are in un-
subsidized employment during the fourth quarter 
after the subsidy ended; and 
‘‘(E) specifies the median earnings of eligi-
ble recipients who received a subsidy who are in 
unsubsidized employment during the second 
quarter after the subsidy ended. 
‘‘(6) EVALUATION.—The Secretary, in consulta-
tion with each State conducting a demonstration 
project, shall conduct a high-quality evaluation of the 
demonstration project, and may reserve funds made 
available under this subsection to conduct the evalua-
tion in accordance with the following: 
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‘‘(A) 
EVALUATOR
QUALIFICATIONS.—The 
Secretary may not enter into a contract with an 
evaluator unless the evaluator has demonstrated 
experience in conducting rigorous evaluations of 
program effectiveness including, where available 
and appropriate, well-implemented randomized 
controlled trials. 
‘‘(B) METHODOLOGIES TO BE USED.—The 
evaluation of a demonstration project shall use 
experimental designs using random assignment 
or other reliable, evidence-based research meth-
odologies that allow for the strongest possible 
causal inferences when random assignment is 
not feasible. 
‘‘(C) PUBLIC DISCLOSURE.—The Secretary 
shall publish the results of the evaluation on the 
website of the Department of Health and Human 
Services in a location easily accessible by the 
public. 
‘‘(7) RECOMMENDATIONS
TO
CONGRESS.—The 
Secretary shall submit recommendations to the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means of the House of Represent-
atives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate on 
how to increase the employment, retention, and ad-
vancement of individuals currently or formerly receiv-
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Union Calendar No. 126 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 2842 
[Report No. 115–185] 
A BILL 
To provide for the conduct of demonstration 
projects to test the effectiveness of subsidized 
employment for TANF recipients. 
JUNE 20, 2017 
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Com-
mittee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, 
and ordered to be printed 
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