all entities involved could independently, or jointly, 
increase funding under such projects. 
(2) Decrease the overall Federal, State, local, or 
Tribal government funding for antipoverty programs 
spent by participating pilot communities and agen-
cies, although all entities involved may independ-
ently, or jointly, increase funding. 
(3) Lengthen the amount of time or increase 
the requirements necessary to receive any govern-
ment benefits, or in any way make it more difficult 
to obtain any form of government assistance. 
(4) Limit the legal rights of anyone in the tar-
get populations to receive government or nonprofit 
assistance. 
(5) Decrease overall public sector employment 
in any eligible pilot community, but public employees 
could be transferred at similar or higher salaries and 
pay grades from positions that oversee paperwork to 
positions that provide direct services to the public, 
assuming such transfers do not violate collective bar-
raging agreements or their other rights as public 
employees. 
(6) Decrease or increase work requirements for 
existing government programs. 
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(7) Reduce program integrity measures or in-
crease the possibility of fraud in any government 
program. 
(8) Track or monitor the physical location or 
immigration status of immigrants, be used for any 
immigration enforcement activity against any indi-
viduals, or be used to provide any data whatsoever 
to agencies involved in immigration enforcement ac-
tivities or policy. 
(9) Enable any pilot entity or contractor, sub-
contractor, or partner of any pilot entity to share or 
sell client or household data obtained through those 
projects. 
(10) Eliminate the existing ability of applicants 
to apply for, recertify, or manage government bene-
fits by physically visiting a government office. 
SEC. 9. ANNUAL REPORTS TO CONGRESS. 
(a) REPORT.—Not later than September 30 of each 
of fiscal years 2021 through 2027, the Secretaries shall 
submit to Congress a report on the results of pilot projects 
carried out under this Act. 
(b) CONTENTS OF REPORT.—The report should in-
clude detailed data on the extent to which the pilot makes 
it easier, quicker, and less costly for low-income Americans 
to access a variety of benefits, the extent to which the pilot 
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will save administrative funds over the long-run, the extent 
to which the accuracy and integrity of the benefits pro-
grams included are maintained or improved, and the ex-
tent to which low-income households are able to more eas-
ily obtain free or low-cost banking services. 
SEC. 10. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS; TECH-
NICAL ASSISTANCE AUTHORIZED. 
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 
authorized to be appropriated to carry out this Act for 
each of the fiscal years 2021 through 2026— 
(1) $10,000,000 to the Secretary of Housing 
and Urban Development, of which $500,000 shall be 
used internally by the Department of Housing and 
Urban Development for staff and other expenses to 
plan, award, and oversee pilot projects under this 
Act and $9,500,000 shall be available for grants 
under section 6, 
(2) $10,000,000 to the Secretary of Agri-
culture, of which $500,000 shall be used internally 
by Department of Agriculture for staff and other ex-
penses to plan, award, and oversee pilot projects 
under this Act and $9,500,000 shall be available for 
grants under section 6, and 
(3) $15,000,000 to the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services, of which $500,000 shall be used 
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internally by the Department of Health and Human 
Services for staff and other expenses to plan, award, 
and oversee pilot projects under this Act and 
$9,500,000 shall be available for grants under sec-
tion 6, and 5,000,000 shall be available for contracts 
under section 7. 
(b) TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE
AUTHORIZED.—The 
Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Secretary 
of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban De-
velopment, the Secretary of Veterans of Affairs, the Sec-
retary of the Interior, the Secretary of Labor, the Com-
missioner of the Internal Revenue Service, the Chief Exec-
utive Officer of the Corporation for National and Commu-
nity Service, the Administrator of the Small Business Ad-
ministration, the Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget, the Office of Science and Technology, the 
Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 
and the Domestic Policy Council may— 
(1) provide technical assistance, 
(2) solicit voluntary, nonmonetary assistance 
from universities, credit unions, and private sector 
technology companies, banks, and financial institu-
tions, and 
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(3) inform eligible entities of the applicable 
Federal, State, local, or Tribal statutory and regu-
latory authorities, including waiver authorities, 
to advance the objectives of the pilot projects carried out 
under this Act. 
(c) PERSISTENT POVERTY COUNTIES.— 
(1) 
ALLOCATION
REQUIREMENT.—Of 
the 
amount appropriated to carry out this Act, at least 
10 percent shall be allocated to provide assistance in 
persistent poverty counties. 
(2) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, 
the term ‘‘persistent poverty counties’’ means any 
county that has had 20 percent or more of its popu-
lation living in poverty over the past 30 years, as 
measured by the 1990, 2000, and 2010 decennial 
censuses. 
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