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103D CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2788
To amend the Job Training Partnership Act to provide for the establishment
of standards to ensure long-term economic self-sufficiency for participants
in adult training programs carried out under part A of title II of
that Act, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 28, 1993
Ms. WOOLSEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Education and Labor
A BILL
To amend the Job Training Partnership Act to provide for
the establishment of standards to ensure long-term eco-
nomic self-sufficiency for participants in adult training
programs carried out under part A of title II of that
Act, and for other purposes.
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 ‘‘Self-Sufficiency Stand-
ard Act’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.
(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that—
(1) the principle objective of programs under
part A of title II of the Job Training Partnership
Act (29 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) is to move economically
disadvantaged adults into permanent, unsubsidized
employment that pays a wage that enables such
adults to achieve long-term economic self-sufficiency
for themselves and their dependents;
(2) current measures of success of such pro-
grams do not accurately assess the degree to which
participants achieve long-term economic self-suffi-
ciency;
(3) in order to ensure that such programs re-
sult in long-term economic self-sufficiency for par-
ticipants, performance standards must focus both on
the wage and benefits a participant receives relative
to the participant’s family size and needs, and on
the duration and stability of the participant’s em-
ployment; and
(4) the wage and benefits needed to achieve
long-term economic self-sufficiency will vary by fam-
ily size and local market conditions governing prices
of essential goods and services.
(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this Act are—
(1) to provide for the establishment and use of
local economic self-sufficiency standards tables to ac-
curately measure the effectiveness of adult training
programs carried out under part A of title II of the
Job Training Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1601 et
seq.); and
(2) to provide grants to States to develop dem-
onstration and exemplary programs to increase the
number of participants under such programs who
are trained and placed in jobs that yield long-term
economic self-sufficiency using the local economic
self-sufficiency standards tables.
SEC. 3. DEFINITION OF ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY.
Section 4 of the Job Training Partnership Act (29
U.S.C. 1503) is amended by adding at the end the follow-
ing new paragraph:
‘‘(41) The term ‘economic self-sufficiency’
means the ability of an individual to meet the follow-
ing basic needs for the individual and such individ-
ual’s family:
‘‘(A) Housing.
‘‘(B) Child care.
‘‘(C) Adult dependent care.
‘‘(D) Food.
‘‘(E) Transportation.
‘‘(F) Health care.
‘‘(G) Work-related expenses.’’.
SEC. 4. ESTABLISHMENT OF ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY
STANDARDS 
FOR 
ADULT 
TRAINING 
PRO-
GRAMS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 106(b) of such Act (29
U.S.C. 1516(b)) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new paragraph:
‘‘(9) ECONOMIC SELF-SUFFICIENCY STANDARDS
FOR ADULT PROGRAMS.—
‘‘(A) FORMULA DEVELOPED BY THE SEC-
RETARY.—(i)(I) Not later than 6 months after
the date of the enactment of this paragraph,
the Secretary shall develop and publish in the
Federal Register a proposed formula which
measures the minimum amount of wages and
employment benefits that a participant enrolled
in a program under part A of title II should re-
ceive after termination from such program to
ensure the long-term economic self-sufficiency
of such participant.
‘‘(II) The Secretary shall provide for public
review and comment of the proposed formula
described in subclause (I) within the 60-day pe-
riod beginning on the date such formula is pub-
lished in the Federal Register. Not later than
4 months after the end of such 60-day period,
the Secretary shall develop and publish in the
Federal Register a final formula.
‘‘(ii) The Secretary shall base the formula
described in clause (i) on appropriate factors,
which shall include—
‘‘(I) the participant’s family size and
composition, including the number and age
of dependent adults and children;
‘‘(II) 100 percent of the average hous-
ing costs, which shall be based on the fair
market rental in effect for the market area
in which the participant resides, as estab-
lished by the Secretary of Housing and
Urban Development pursuant to section
8(c) of the United States Housing Act of
1937;
‘‘(III) 100 percent of the average
child care costs (differentiated by the age
of each child), which may be based on the
actual cost of such care established under
section 402(g)(1)(C)(i)(I) the Social Secu-
rity Act or the applicable local market rate
established under clause (ii) of such sec-
tion;