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Union Calendar No. 500 
114TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 2952 
[Report No. 114–648] 
To provide payments to States for increasing the employment, job retention, 
and earnings of former TANF recipients. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 7, 2015 
Mr. BOUSTANY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means 
JUNE 28, 2016 
Reported with amendments, committed to the Committee of the Whole House 
on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on July 7, 2015] 
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A BILL 
To provide payments to States for increasing the employ-
ment, job retention, and earnings of former TANF re-
cipients. 
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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 ‘‘Improving Employment 
Outcomes of TANF Recipients Act’’. 
SEC. 2. IMPROVING ECONOMIC MOBILITY OF TANF RECIPI-
ENTS. 
Section 403(a)(4) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
603(a)(4)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(4) IMPROVING ECONOMIC MOBILITY OF TANF 
RECIPIENTS.— 
‘‘(A) MEASURING STATE PERFORMANCE.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Each State, in con-
sultation with the Secretary, shall collect 
and report information necessary to meas-
ure the level of performance of the State for 
each indicator described in clause (ii), for 
fiscal year 2018 and each fiscal year there-
after, and the Secretary shall use the infor-
mation collected for fiscal year 2018 to es-
tablish the baseline level of performance of 
each State for each such indicator. 
‘‘(ii) INDICATORS.—The indicators de-
scribed in this clause, for a fiscal year, are 
the following: 
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‘‘(I) The employment percentage 
for the fiscal year, which is equal to— 
‘‘(aa) the number of families 
receiving assistance under the 
State program funded under this 
part or any other State program 
funded with qualified State ex-
penditures (as defined in section 
409(a)(7)(B)(ii)) who, during a 
quarter in the fiscal year, exited 
from the program, and who, dur-
ing the 2nd quarter after the exit, 
include an adult in unsubsidized 
employment; divided by 
‘‘(bb) the number of families 
who received assistance from the 
program in the exit quarter re-
ferred to in subclause (aa). 
‘‘(II) The retention percentage for 
the fiscal year, which is equal to— 
‘‘(aa) the number of families 
receiving assistance from the State 
program funded under this part 
or any other State program fund-
ed with qualified State expendi-
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tures 
(as 
defined 
in 
section 
409(a)(7)(B)(ii)) who, during a 
quarter in the fiscal year, exited 
from the program, and who, dur-
ing the 4th quarter after the exit, 
include an adult in unsubsidized 
employment; divided by 
‘‘(bb) the number of families 
who received assistance under the 
program in the exit quarter re-
ferred to in subclause (aa). 
‘‘(III) The advancement measure 
for the fiscal year, which is equal to 
the median earnings of the adults re-
ceiving assistance under the State pro-
gram funded under this part or any 
other State program funded with 
qualified State expenditures (as de-
fined in section 409(a)(7)(B)(ii)) who, 
during a quarter in the fiscal year, 
exited from the program, and who dur-
ing the 2nd quarter after the exit, are 
in unsubsidized employment. 
‘‘(iii) AGREEMENT ON REQUISITE PER-
FORMANCE LEVEL FOR EACH INDICATOR.— 
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formance for a fiscal year and a State to re-
flect the actual economic conditions and 
characteristics of participants during that 
fiscal year in the State. 
‘‘(v) 
STATISTICAL
ADJUSTMENT 
MODEL.—The Secretary shall use an objec-
tive statistical model to make adjustments 
to the requisite levels of performance for ac-
tual economic conditions and characteristics 
of participants, and shall consult with the 
Secretary of Labor to develop a model that 
is the same as or similar to the model de-
scribed in section 116(b)(3)(viii) of the 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act 
(29 U.S.C. 3141). 
‘‘(B) REPORT ON STATE PERFORMANCE.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Not later than Oc-
tober 1, 2017, the Secretary shall develop a 
template which each State shall use to re-
port on outcomes achieved 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)). 
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