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Union Calendar No. 368 
118TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6655 
[Report No. 118–444, Part I] 
To amend and reauthorize the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 7, 2023 
Ms. FOXX (for herself and Mr. SCOTT of Virginia) introduced the following 
bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and the Work-
force, and in addition to the Committee on Ways and Means, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
APRIL 5, 2024 
Additional sponsors: Mr. OWENS, Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania, Mr. 
ALLEN, Mr. SMUCKER, Mrs. MCCLAIN, Mr. WALBERG, Mr. MORAN, Mr. 
DESAULNIER, Mr. COURTNEY, Mrs. MCBATH, Mr. SABLAN, Mr. NOR-
CROSS, Ms. BONAMICI, Mr. ZINKE, Mr. LATURNER, Mrs. BICE, Mr. 
JOYCE of Pennsylvania, Mrs. HOUCHIN, Mr. EDWARDS, Mr. ROGERS of 
Kentucky, Mr. LAWLER, Mr. TAKANO, Ms. ADAMS, Ms. WILD, Mrs. 
HAYES, Ms. MANNING, Mr. MRVAN, and Ms. WILSON of Florida 
APRIL 5, 2024 
Reported from the Committee on Education and the Workforce with an 
amendment 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
APRIL 5, 2024 
Committee on Ways and Means discharged; committed to the Committee of 
the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed 
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[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on December 7, 2023] 
A BILL 
To amend and reauthorize the Workforce Innovation and 
Opportunity Act. 
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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; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘A 
Stronger Workforce for America Act’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Effective date; transition authority. 
TITLE I—WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES 
Subtitle A—General Provisions 
Sec. 101. Definitions. 
Sec. 102. Table of contents amendments. 
Subtitle B—System Alignment 
CHAPTER 1—STATE PROVISIONS 
Sec. 111. State workforce development board. 
Sec. 112. Unified State plan. 
CHAPTER 2—LOCAL PROVISIONS 
Sec. 115. Workforce development areas. 
Sec. 116. Local workforce development boards. 
Sec. 117. Local plan. 
CHAPTER 3—PERFORMANCE ACCOUNTABILITY 
Sec. 119. Performance accountability system. 
Subtitle C—Workforce Investment Activities and Providers 
CHAPTER 1—WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES AND PROVIDERS 
Sec. 121. Establishment of one-stop delivery systems. 
Sec. 122. Identification of eligible providers and programs of training services. 
CHAPTER 2—YOUTH WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES 
Sec. 131. Reservations for statewide activities. 
Sec. 132. Use of funds for youth workforce investment activities. 
CHAPTER 3—ADULT AND DISLOCATED WORKER EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING 
ACTIVITIES 
Sec. 141. State allotments. 
Sec. 142. Reservations for State activities; within State allocations. 
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Sec. 143. Use of funds for employment and training activities. 
CHAPTER 4—AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS 
Sec. 145. Authorization of appropriations. 
Subtitle D—Job Corps 
Sec. 151. Purposes. 
Sec. 152. Definitions. 
Sec. 153. Individuals eligible for the Job Corps. 
Sec. 154. Recruitment, screening, selection, and assignment of enrollees. 
Sec. 155. Job Corps Campuses. 
Sec. 156. Program activities. 
Sec. 157. Support. 
Sec. 158. Operations. 
Sec. 159. Standards of conduct. 
Sec. 160. Community participation. 
Sec. 161. Workforce councils. 
Sec. 162. Advisory committees. 
Sec. 163. Experimental projects and technical assistance. 
Sec. 164. Special provisions. 
Sec. 165. Management information. 
Sec. 166. Job Corps oversight and reporting. 
Sec. 167. Authorization of appropriations. 
Subtitle E—National Programs 
Sec. 171. Native American programs. 
Sec. 172. Migrant and seasonal farmworker programs. 
Sec. 173. Technical assistance. 
Sec. 174. Evaluations and research. 
Sec. 175. National dislocated worker grants. 
Sec. 176. YouthBuild Program. 
Sec. 178. Reentry employment opportunities. 
Sec. 179. Strengthening community colleges grant program. 
Sec. 180. Authorization of appropriations. 
Subtitle F—Administration 
Sec. 191. Requirements and restrictions. 
Sec. 192. General waivers of statutory or regulatory requirements. 
Sec. 193. State innovation demonstration authority. 
TITLE II—ADULT EDUCATION AND LITERACY 
Sec. 201. Purpose. 
Sec. 202. Definitions. 
Sec. 203. Authorization of appropriations. 
Sec. 204. Special rule. 
Sec. 205. Performance accountability system. 
Sec. 206. Matching requirement. 
Sec. 207. State leadership activities. 
Sec. 208. Programs for corrections education and other institutionalized individ-
uals. 
Sec. 209. Grants and contracts for eligible providers. 
Sec. 210. Local application. 
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Sec. 211. Local administrative cost limits. 
Sec. 212. National leadership activities. 
Sec. 213. Integrated English literacy and civics education. 
TITLE III—AMENDMENTS TO OTHER LAWS 
Sec. 301. Amendments to the Wagner-Peyser Act. 
Sec. 302. Job training grants. 
Sec. 303. Access to National Directory of New Hires. 
SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE; TRANSITION AUTHORITY. 
(a) EFFECTIVE DATE.—This Act, and the amendments 
made by this Act, shall take effect on the first date of the 
first program year (as determined under the Workforce In-
novation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.)) 
that begins after the date of enactment of this Act. 
(b) TRANSITION AUTHORITY.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Labor and 
the Secretary of Education shall have the authority to 
take such steps as are necessary before the effective 
date of this Act to provide for the orderly implemen-
tation on such date of the amendments to the Work-
force Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
3101 et seq.) made by this Act. 
(2) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 503 of 
the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3343) is repealed (and by striking the item re-
lating to such section in the table of contents of such 
Act). 
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TITLE I—WORKFORCE 
DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES 
Subtitle A—General Provisions 
SEC. 101. DEFINITIONS. 
(a) FOUNDATIONAL SKILL NEEDS.—Section 3(5) of 
the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
3102(5)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(5) FOUNDATIONAL
SKILL
NEEDS.—The term 
‘foundational skill needs’ means, with respect to an 
individual who is a youth or adult, that the indi-
vidual— 
‘‘(A) has English reading, writing, or com-
puting skills at or below the 8th-grade level on 
a generally accepted standardized test; or 
‘‘(B) is unable to compute or solve problems, 
or read, write, or speak English, or does not pos-
sess digital literacy skills, at a level necessary to 
function on the job, in the individual’s family, 
or in society.’’. 
(b) EMPLOYER-DIRECTED SKILLS DEVELOPMENT.— 
Section 3(14) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 
Act (29 U.S.C. 3102(14)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(14) EMPLOYER-DIRECTED
SKILLS
DEVELOP-
MENT.—The term ‘employer-directed skills develop-
ment’ means a program— 
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‘‘(A) that is selected or designed to meet the 
specific skill demands of an employer (including 
a group of employers); 
‘‘(B) that is conducted pursuant to the 
terms and conditions established under an em-
ployer-directed skills agreement described in sec-
tion 134(c)(3)(I), including a commitment by 
the employer to employ an individual upon suc-
cessful completion of the program; and 
‘‘(C) for which the employer pays a portion 
of the cost of the program, as determined by the 
local board involved, which shall not be less 
than— 
‘‘(i) 10 percent of the cost, in the case 
of an employer with 50 or fewer employees; 
‘‘(ii) 25 percent of the cost, in the case 
of an employer with more than 50, but 
fewer than 100 employees; and 
‘‘(iii) 50 percent of the cost, in the case 
of an employer with 100 or more employ-
ees.’’. 
(c) DISLOCATED WORKER.—Section 3(15)(E)(ii) of 
the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
3102(15)(E)(ii)) is amended by striking ‘‘who meets the cri-
teria described in paragraph (16)(B)’’ and inserting ‘‘who 
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meets the criteria described in subparagraph (B) of the defi-
nition of the term ‘displaced homemaker’ in this section’’. 
(d) DISPLACED HOMEMAKER.—Section 3(16) of the 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
3102(16)) is amended, in the matter preceding subpara-
graph (A), by striking ‘‘family members’’ and inserting ‘‘a 
family member’’. 
(e) ELIGIBLE YOUTH.—Section 3(18) of the Workforce 
Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3102(18)) is 
amended by striking ‘‘out-of-school’’ and inserting ‘‘oppor-
tunity’’. 
(f) ENGLISH LEARNER.—Section 3 of the Workforce 
Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3102) is fur-
ther amended— 
(1) in paragraph (21)— 
(A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘LAN-
GUAGE’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘language’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (24)(I), by striking ‘‘lan-
guage’’. 
(g) JUSTICE-INVOLVED INDIVIDUAL.—Section 3 of the 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
3102) is further amended— 
(1) in paragraph (24), by amending subpara-
graph (F) to read as follows: 
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‘‘(F) Justice-involved individuals.’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (38)— 
(A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘OF-
FENDER’’ and inserting ‘‘JUSTICE-INVOLVED IN-
DIVIDUAL’’; and 
(B) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
(A), by striking ‘‘offender’’ and inserting ‘‘jus-
tice-involved individual’’. 
(h) OPPORTUNITY YOUTH.—Section 3(46) of the Work-
force Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3102(46)) 
is amended— 
(1) in the heading, by striking ‘‘OUT-OF- 
SCHOOL’’ and inserting ‘‘OPPORTUNITY’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘out-of-school’’ and inserting ‘‘op-
portunity’’. 
(i) PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE CONTRACT STRATEGY.— 
Section 3(47) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 
Act (29 U.S.C. 3102(47)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(47) PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE CONTRACT STRAT-
EGY.—The term ‘pay-for-performance contract strat-
egy’ means a specific type of performance-based ac-
quisition that uses pay-for-performance contracts in 
the provision of services described in paragraph (2) or 
(3) of section 134(c) or activities described in section 
129(c)(2), and includes— 
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‘‘(A) contracts, each of which— 
‘‘(i) shall specify a fixed amount that 
will be paid to an eligible service provider 
(which may include a local or national 
community-based organization or inter-
mediary, community college, or other pro-
vider) based on the achievement of specified 
levels of performance on the primary indi-
cators of performance described in section 
116(b)(2)(A) for target populations as iden-
tified by the local board (including individ-
uals with barriers to employment), within a 
defined timetable; 
‘‘(ii) may not be required by the Sec-
retary to be informed by a feasibility study; 
and 
‘‘(iii) may provide for bonus payments 
to such service provider to expand capacity 
to provide effective training; 
‘‘(B) a strategy for validating the achieve-
ment of the performance described in subpara-
graph (A); and 
‘‘(C) a description of how the State or local 
area will reallocate funds not paid to a provider 
because the achievement of the performance de-
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scribed in subparagraph (A) did not occur, for 
further activities related to such a procurement 
strategy, subject to section 189(g)(4).’’. 
(j) RAPID RESPONSE ACTIVITY.—Section 3(51) of the 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
3102(51)) is amended— 
(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), 
by inserting ‘‘, through a rapid response unit’’ after 
‘‘designated by a State’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (B), by inserting before the 
semicolon at the end the following: ‘‘, including indi-
vidual training accounts for eligible dislocated work-
ers under section 414(c) of the American Competitive-
ness and Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 (29 
U.S.C. 3224a)’’; 
(3) in subparagraph (D), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
(4) by redesignating subparagraph (E) as sub-
paragraph (F); 
(5) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the fol-
lowing new subparagraph: 
‘‘(E) assistance in identifying employees eli-
gible for assistance, including workers who work 
a majority of their time off-site or remotely;’’; 
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(6) in subparagraph (F), as so redesignated, by 
striking the period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; 
and 
(7) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(G) business engagement or layoff aversion 
strategies and other activities designed to prevent 
or minimize the duration of unemployment, such 
as— 
‘‘(i) connecting employers to short-term 
compensation or other programs designed to 
prevent layoffs; 
‘‘(ii) conducting employee skill assess-
ment and matching programs to different 
occupations; 
‘‘(iii) establishing incumbent worker 
training or other upskilling approaches, in-
cluding incumbent worker upskilling ac-
counts described in section 134(d)(4)(E); 
‘‘(iv) facilitating business support ac-
tivities, such as connecting employers to 
programs that offer access to credit, finan-
cial support, and business consulting; and 
‘‘(v) partnering or contracting with 
business-focused 
organizations 
to 
assess 
risks to companies, and to propose, imple-
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ment, and measure the impact of strategies 
and services to address such risks.’’. 
(k) VOCATIONAL REHABILITATION PROGRAM.—Section 
3(64) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (20 
U.S.C. 3102(64)) is amended by striking ‘‘under a provi-
sion covered under paragraph (13)(D)’’ and inserting 
‘‘under a provision covered under subparagraph (D) of the 
definition of the term ‘core program provision’ under this 
section’’. 
(l) NEW DEFINITIONS.—Section 3 of the Workforce In-
novation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3102) is further 
amended— 
(1) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(72) CO-ENROLLMENT.—The term ‘co-enroll-
ment’ means simultaneous enrollment in more than 
one of the programs or activities carried out by a one- 
stop partner in section 121(b)(1)(B). 
‘‘(73) DIGITAL
LITERACY
SKILLS.—The term 
‘digital literacy skills’ has the meaning given the term 
in section 203. 
‘‘(74) EVIDENCE-BASED.—The term ‘evidence- 
based’, when used with respect to an activity, service, 
strategy, or intervention, means an activity, service, 
strategy, or intervention that— 
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‘‘(A) demonstrates a statistically significant 
effect on improving participant outcomes or 
other relevant outcomes based on— 
‘‘(i) strong evidence from at least 1 
well-designed and well-implemented experi-
mental study; 
‘‘(ii) moderate evidence from at least 1 
well-designed and well-implemented quasi- 
experimental study; or 
‘‘(iii) promising evidence from at least 
1 well-designed and well-implemented cor-
relational study with statistical controls for 
selection bias; or 
‘‘(B)(i) demonstrates a rationale based on 
high-quality research findings or positive evalua-
tion that such activity, strategy, or intervention 
is likely to improve student outcomes or other 
relevant outcomes; and 
‘‘(ii) includes ongoing efforts to examine the 
effects of such activity, service, strategy, or inter-
vention. 
‘‘(75) LABOR ORGANIZATION.—The term ‘labor 
organization’ has the meaning given the term in sec-
tion 2(5) of the National Labor Relations Act (29 
U.S.C. 152(5)). 
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‘‘(76) WORK-BASED LEARNING.—The term ‘work- 
based learning’ has the meaning given the term in 
section 3 of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical 
Education Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. 2302).’’; and 
(2) by reordering paragraphs (1) through (71), 
as amended by this section, and the paragraphs 
added by paragraph (1) of this subsection in alpha-
betical order, and renumbering such paragraphs as so 
reordered. 
SEC. 102. TABLE OF CONTENTS AMENDMENTS. 
The table of contents in section 1(b) of the Workforce 
Innovation and Opportunity Act is amended— 
(1) by redesignating the item relating to section 
172 as section 174; 
(2) by inserting after the item relating to section 
171, the following: 
‘‘Sec. 172. Reentry employment opportunities. 
‘‘Sec. 173. Strengthening community colleges workforce development grants pro-
gram.’’; and 
(3) by striking the item relating to section 190 
and inserting the following: 
‘‘Sec. 190. State innovation demonstration authority.’’. 
Subtitle B—System Alignment 
CHAPTER 1—STATE PROVISIONS 
SEC. 111. STATE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARD. 
Section 101(b)(1)(C)(ii)(IV) of the Workforce Innova-
tion 
and 
Opportunity 
Act 
(29 
U.S.C. 
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3112(b)(1)(C)(ii)(IV)) is amended by striking ‘‘out-of-school 
youth’’ and inserting ‘‘opportunity youth’’. 
SEC. 112. UNIFIED STATE PLAN. 
Section 102 of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3112) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by redesignating subparagraphs (C) 
through (E) as subparagraphs (D) through 
(F), respectively; 
(ii) by inserting the following after 
subparagraph (B): 
‘‘(C) a description of— 
‘‘(i) how the State will use real-time 
labor market information to continually as-
sess the economic conditions and workforce 
trends described in subparagraphs (A) and 
(B); and 
‘‘(ii) how the State will communicate 
changes in such conditions or trends to the 
workforce system in the State;’’; 
(iii) in subparagraph (D), as so redes-
ignated, by inserting ‘‘the extent to which 
such activities are evidence-based,’’ after ‘‘of 
such activities,’’; 
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(iv) in subparagraph (E), as so redes-
ignated, by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(v) in subparagraph (F), as so redesig-
nated, by striking the period at the end and 
inserting a semicolon; and 
(vi) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(G) a description of any activities the 
State is conducting to expand economic oppor-
tunity for individuals and reduce barriers to 
labor market entry by— 
‘‘(i) developing, in cooperation with 
employers, education and training pro-
viders, and other stakeholders, statewide 
skills-based initiatives that promote the use 
of demonstrated skills and competencies as 
an alternative to the exclusive use of degree 
attainment as a requirement for employ-
ment or advancement in a career; and 
‘‘(ii) evaluating the existing occupa-
tional licensing policies in the State and 
identifying potential changes to recommend 
to the appropriate State entity to— 
‘‘(I) remove or streamline licens-
ing requirements, as appropriate; and 
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‘‘(II) improve the reciprocity of li-
censing, including through partici-
pating in interstate licensing com-
pacts; and 
‘‘(H) an analysis of the opportunity youth 
population in the State, including the estimated 
number of opportunity youth and any gaps in 
services provided to such population by other ex-
isting workforce development activities, as iden-
tified under subparagraph (D).’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘including a description’’ and inserting 
‘‘which may include a description’’; 
(ii) in subparagraph (C)— 
(I) in clause (ii)(I), by inserting 
‘‘utilizing a continuous quality im-
provement approach,’’ after ‘‘year,’’ 
(II) in clause (vi), by inserting 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(III) in clause (vii), by striking ‘‘; 
and’’ and inserting a period; and 
(IV) by striking clause (viii); 
(iii) in subparagraph (D)(i)(II), by 
striking ‘‘any’’; and 
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(iv) in subparagraph (E)— 
(I) in clause (viii)(II), by insert-
ing ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(II) in clause (ix), by striking ‘‘; 
and’’ at the end and inserting a pe-
riod; and 
(III) by striking clause (x); and 
(2) in subsection (c)(3)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking 
‘‘shall’’ the second place it appears and inserting 
‘‘may’’; and 
(B) in subparagraph (B)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘required’’; and 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘, except that commu-
nicating changes in economic conditions 
and workforce trends to the workforce sys-
tem in the State as described in subsection 
(b)(1)(C) shall not be considered modifica-
tions subject to approval under this para-
graph’’ before the period at the end. 
CHAPTER 2—LOCAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 115. WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT AREAS. 
(a) REGIONS.—Section 106(a) of the Workforce Inno-
vation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3121(a)) is amend-
ed by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(3) REVIEW.—Before the second full program 
year after the date of enactment of the A Stronger 
Workforce for America Act, in order for a State to re-
ceive an allotment under section 127(b) or 132(b) and 
as part of the process for developing the State plan, 
a State shall— 
‘‘(A) review each region in the State identi-
fied under this subsection (as such subsection 
was in effect on the day before the date of enact-
ment of the A Stronger Workforce for America 
Act); and 
‘‘(B) after consultation with the local boards 
and chief elected officials in the local areas and 
consistent with the considerations described in 
subsection (b)(1)(B)— 
‘‘(i) revise such region and any other 
region impacted by such revision; or 
‘‘(ii) make a determination to main-
tain such region with no revision.’’. 
(b) LOCAL AREAS.—Section 106(b) of the Workforce 
Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3121(b)) is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘and 
consistent with paragraphs (2) and (3),’’; and 
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(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘(ex-
cept for those local areas described in paragraphs 
(2) and (3))’’; and 
(2) by striking paragraphs (2) through (7), and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(2) CONTINUATION PERIOD.—Subject to para-
graph (5), in order to receive an allotment under sec-
tion 127(b) or 132(b), the Governor shall maintain 
the designations of local areas in the State under this 
subsection (as in effect on the day before the date of 
enactment of the A Stronger Workforce for America 
Act) until the end of the third full program year after 
the date of enactment of the A Stronger Workforce for 
America Act. 
‘‘(3) INITIAL ALIGNMENT REVIEW.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Prior to the third full 
program year after the date of enactment of the 
A Stronger Workforce for America Act, the Gov-
ernor shall— 
‘‘(i) review the designations of local 
areas in the State (as in effect on the day 
before the date of enactment of the A 
Stronger Workforce for America Act); and 
‘‘(ii) based on the considerations de-
scribed in paragraph (1)(B), issue proposed 
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redesignations of local areas in the State 
through the process described in paragraph 
(1)(A), which shall— 
‘‘(I) include an explanation of the 
strategic goals and objectives that the 
State intends to achieve through such 
redesignations; and 
‘‘(II) be subject to the approval of 
the local boards in the State in accord-
ance with the process described in sub-
paragraph (C). 
‘‘(B) DESIGNATION
OF
LOCAL
AREAS.—A 
redesignation of local areas in a State that is 
approved by a majority of the local boards in the 
State through the process described in subpara-
graph (C) shall take effect on the first day of the 
4th full program year after the date of enactment 
of the A Stronger Workforce for America Act. 
‘‘(C) PROCESS
TO
REACH
MAJORITY
AP-
PROVAL.—To approve a designation of local 
areas in the State, the local boards in the State 
shall comply with the following: 
‘‘(i) INITIAL VOTE.—Not later than 60 
days after the Governor issues proposed re-
designations under subparagraph (A), the 
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chairperson of each local board shall review 
the proposed redesignations and submit a 
vote on behalf of such local board to the 
Governor either approving or rejecting the 
proposed redesignations. 
‘‘(ii) RESULTS OF INITIAL VOTE.—If a 
majority of the local boards in the State 
vote under clause (i)— 
‘‘(I) to approve such proposed re-
designations, such redesignations shall 
take effect in accordance with subpara-
graph (B); or 
‘‘(II) to disapprove such proposed 
redesignations, the chairpersons of the 
local boards in the State shall comply 
with the requirements of clause (iii). 
‘‘(iii) ALTERNATE REDESIGNATIONS.— 
In the case of the disapproval described in 
clause (ii)(II), not later than 60 days after 
initial votes were submitted under clause 
(i), the chairpersons of the local boards in 
the State shall— 
‘‘(I) select 2 alternate redesigna-
tions of local areas— 
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‘‘(aa) one of which aligns 
with the regional economic devel-
opment areas in the State; and 
‘‘(bb) one of which aligns 
with the regions described in sub-
paragraph (A) or (B) of sub-
section (a)(2); and 
‘‘(II) conduct a vote to approve, 
by majority vote, 1 of the 2 alternate 
redesignations described in subclause 
(I). 
‘‘(iv) EFFECTIVE DATE OF ALTERNATE 
DESIGNATIONS.—The alternate redesigna-
tions approved pursuant to clause (iii)(II) 
shall take effect in accordance with sub-
paragraph (B). 
‘‘(4) SUBSEQUENT
ALIGNMENT
REVIEWS.—On 
the date that is the first day of the 12th full program 
year after the date of enactment of the A Stronger 
Workforce for America Act, and every 8 years there-
after, the Governor shall review the designation of 
local areas based on the considerations described in 
paragraph (1)(B) and conduct a process in accord-
ance with paragraph (3). 
‘‘(5) INTERIM REVISIONS.— 
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‘‘(A) AUTOMATIC
APPROVAL
OF
CERTAIN 
REDESIGNATION REQUESTS.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—At any time, and 
notwithstanding the requirements of para-
graphs (2), (3), and (4), the Governor, upon 
receipt of a request for a redesignation of a 
local area described in clause (ii), shall ap-
prove such request. 
‘‘(ii) REQUESTS.—The following re-
quests shall be approved pursuant to clause 
(i) upon request: 
‘‘(I) A request from multiple local 
areas to be redesignated as a single 
local area. 
‘‘(II) A request from multiple 
local areas for a revision to the des-
ignations of such local areas, which 
would not impact the designations of 
local areas that have not made such re-
quest. 
‘‘(III) A request for designation as 
a local area from an area described in 
section 107(c)(1)(C). 
‘‘(B) OTHER REDESIGNATIONS.—Other than 
the redesignations described in subparagraph 
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(A), the Governor may only redesignate a local 
area outside of the process described in para-
graphs (3) and (4), if the local area that will be 
subject to such redesignation has not— 
‘‘(i) performed successfully; 
‘‘(ii) sustained fiscal integrity; or 
‘‘(iii) in the case of a local area in a 
planning region, met the requirements de-
scribed in subsection (c)(1). 
‘‘(C) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Any redesignation 
of a local area approved by the Governor under 
subparagraph (A) or (B) shall take effect on the 
first date of the first full program year after such 
date of approval. 
‘‘(6) APPEALS.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—A local area that is 
subject to a redesignation of such local area 
under paragraph (3), (4), or (5) may submit an 
appeal to maintain its existing designation to 
the State board under an appeal process estab-
lished in the State plan as specified in section 
102(b)(2)(D)(i)(III). 
‘‘(B) STATE BOARD REQUIREMENTS.—The 
State board shall only grant an appeal to main-
tain an existing designation of a local area de-
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scribed in subparagraph (A) if the local area can 
demonstrate that the process for redesignation of 
such local area under paragraph (3), (4), or (5), 
as applicable, has not been followed. 
‘‘(C) SECRETARIAL
REQUIREMENTS.—If a 
request to maintain an existing designation as a 
local area is not granted as a result of such ap-
peal, the Secretary, after receiving a request for 
review from such local area and determining 
that the local area was not accorded procedural 
rights under the appeals process referred to in 
subparagraph (A), shall— 
‘‘(i) review the process for the redesig-
nation of the local area under paragraph 
(3), (4), or (5), as applicable; and 
‘‘(ii) upon determining that the appli-
cable process has not been followed, require 
that the local area’s existing designation be 
maintained. 
‘‘(7) REDESIGNATION
INCENTIVE.—The State 
may provide funding from funds made available 
under sections 128(a)(1) and 133(a)(1) to provide 
payments to incentivize— 
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‘‘(A) groups of local areas to request to be 
redesignated as a single local area under para-
graph (5)(A); or 
‘‘(B) multiple local boards in a planning 
region to develop an agreement to operate as a 
regional consortium under subsection (c)(3).’’. 
(c) REGIONAL COORDINATION.—Section 106(c) of the 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
3121(c)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by redesignating subparagraphs (F) 
through (H) as subparagraphs (G) through (I), 
respectively; and 
(B) by inserting the following after sub-
paragraph (E): 
‘‘(F) the establishment of cost arrangements 
for services described in subsections (c) and (d) 
of section 134, including the pooling of funds for 
such services, as appropriate, for the region;’’; 
(2) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘, including 
to assist with establishing administrative costs ar-
rangements or cost arrangements for services under 
subparagraphs (F) and (G) of such paragraph’’ after 
‘‘delivery efforts’’; 
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(3) by redesignating paragraph (3) as para-
graph (4); and 
(4) by inserting after paragraph (2), as so 
amended, the following: 
‘‘(3) REGIONAL CONSORTIUMS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The local boards and 
chief elected officials in any planning region de-
scribed in subparagraph (B) or (C) of subsection 
(a)(2) may develop an agreement to receive fund-
ing under section 128(b) and section 133(b) as 
a single consortium for the planning region. 
‘‘(B) FISCAL AGENT.—If the local boards 
and chief elected officials develop such an agree-
ment— 
‘‘(i) one of the chief elected officials in 
the planning region shall be designated as 
the fiscal agent for the consortium; 
‘‘(ii) the local boards shall develop a 
memorandum of understanding to jointly 
administer the activities for the consortium; 
and 
‘‘(iii) the required activities for local 
areas under this Act, (including the re-
quired functions of the local boards de-
scribed in section 107(d)) shall apply to 
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such a consortium as a whole and may not 
be applied separately or differently to the 
local areas or local boards within such con-
sortium.’’. 
(d) SINGLE STATE LOCAL AREAS.—Section 106(d) of 
the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
3121(d)) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as para-
graph (3); and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (1), the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(2) NEW DESIGNATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—Consistent with the 
process described in subsection (b)(1)(A) and 
during a review of designations described in 
paragraph (3) or (4) of subsection (b), the Gov-
ernor may propose to designate a State as a sin-
gle State local area for the purposes of this title. 
‘‘(B) PROCESS FOR APPROVAL.—If the Gov-
ernor proposes a single State local area, the 
chairpersons of the existing local boards shall 
vote to approve or reject such designation 
through the process described in subsection 
(b)(3)(C). 
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‘‘(C) DESIGNATION
AS
A
SINGLE
STATE 
LOCAL
AREA.—If the majority of the chair-
persons of the local boards in the State vote to 
approve such proposed designation, the State 
shall be designated as a single State local area 
and the Governor shall identify the State as a 
local area in the State plan.’’. 
(e) DEFINITION OF ‘‘PERFORMED SUCCESSFULLY’’.— 
Section 106(e)(1) of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3121(e)) is amended by striking ‘‘ad-
justed levels of performance’’ and inserting ‘‘adjusted levels 
of performance described in section 116(g)(1)’’. 
SEC. 116. LOCAL WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT BOARDS. 
(a) MEMBERSHIP.—Section 107(b)(2)(B)(iv) of the 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
3122(b)(2)(B)(iv)) is amended by striking ‘‘out-of-school 
youth’’ and inserting ‘‘opportunity youth’’. 
(b) FUNCTIONS OF LOCAL BOARD.—Section 107(d) of 
the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
3122(d)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘, including, 
to the extent practicable, local representatives of the 
core programs and the programs described in section 
102(a)(2),’’ after ‘‘system stakeholders’’; 
(2) in paragraph (4)(D)— 
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(A) by striking ‘‘proven’’ and inserting 
‘‘evidence-based’’; 
(B) by inserting ‘‘individual’’ after ‘‘needs 
of’’; and 
(C) by inserting ‘‘from a variety of indus-
tries and occupations’’ after ‘‘and employers’’; 
(3) in paragraph (5), by inserting ‘‘and which, 
to the extent practicable, shall be aligned with career 
and technical education programs of study (as defined 
in section 3 of the Carl D. Perkins Career and Tech-
nical Education Act of 2006 (20 U.S.C. 2302(3)) of-
fered within the local area’’ before the period at the 
end; 
(4) in paragraph (6)— 
(A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘PROVEN’’ 
and inserting ‘‘EVIDENCE-BASED’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (A)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘proven’’ and inserting 
‘‘evidence-based’’; 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘and covered veterans 
(as defined in section 4212(a)(3)(A) of title 
38, United States Code)’’ after ‘‘employ-
ment’’; 
(iii) by inserting ‘‘, and prioritize cov-
ered veterans as described in section 
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4212(a)(2) of title 38, United States Code’’ 
after ‘‘delivery system’’; and 
(C) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘prov-
en’’ and inserting ‘‘evidence-based’’; 
(5) in paragraph (10)(C)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘, on the State eligible 
training provider list,’’ after ‘‘identify’’; and 
(B) by inserting ‘‘that operate in or are ac-
cessible to individuals’’ after ‘‘training services’’; 
and 
(6) in paragraph (12)(A), by striking ‘‘activi-
ties’’ and inserting ‘‘funds allocated to the local area 
under section 128(b) and section 133(b) for the youth 
workforce development activities described in section 
129 and local employment and training activities de-
scribed in section 134(b), and the activities’’. 
SEC. 117. LOCAL PLAN. 
Section 108 of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3123) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘shall prepare’’ 
and inserting ‘‘may prepare’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
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(i) by redesignating subparagraphs 
(D), (E), and (F) as subparagraphs (E), 
(F), and (H), respectively; 
(ii) by inserting the following after 
subparagraph (C): 
‘‘(D) a description of— 
‘‘(i) how the local area will use real- 
time labor market information to contin-
ually assess the economic conditions and 
workforce trends described in subparagraphs 
(A), (B), and (C); and 
‘‘(ii) how changes in such conditions or 
trends will be communicated to jobseekers, 
education and training providers, and em-
ployers in the local area;’’; 
(iii) in subparagraph (F), as so redes-
ignated, by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; and 
(iv) by inserting after subparagraph 
(F), as so redesignated, the following: 
‘‘(G) an analysis of the opportunity youth 
population in the local area, including the esti-
mated number of such youth and any gaps in 
services for such population from other existing 
workforce development activities, as identified 
under paragraph (9); and’’; 
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(B) in paragraph (4)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end 
of clause (iii); and 
(II) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(v) carry out any statewide skills- 
based initiatives identified in the State 
plan that promote the use of demonstrated 
skills and competencies as an alternative to 
the exclusive use of degree attainment as a 
requirement for employment or advance-
ment in a career; and’’; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘customized training’’ and inserting ‘‘em-
ployer-directed skills development’’; 
(C) in paragraph (6)(B), by inserting ‘‘, 
such as the use of affiliated sites’’ after ‘‘means’’; 
(D) in paragraph (9)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘including activities’’ 
and inserting the following: ‘‘including— 
‘‘(A) the availability of community based 
organizations that serve youth primarily during 
nonschool time hours to carry out activities 
under section 129; and 
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‘‘(B) activities’’; and 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘or evidence-based’’ 
after ‘‘successful’’; and 
(E) in paragraph (12), by inserting ‘‘in-
cluding as described in section 134(c)(2),’’ after 
‘‘system,’’. 
CHAPTER 3—PERFORMANCE 
ACCOUNTABILITY 
SEC. 119. PERFORMANCE ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM. 
(a) STATE PERFORMANCE ACCOUNTABILITY MEAS-
URES.— 
(1) PRIMARY INDICATORS OF PERFORMANCE.— 
Section 116(b)(2)(A) of the Workforce Innovation and 
Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3141(b)(2)(A)) is amend-
ed— 
(A) in clause (i)— 
(i) in subclause (II)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘fourth’’ and in-
serting ‘‘second’’; and 
(II) by inserting ‘‘and remain in 
unsubsidized employment during the 
fourth quarter after exit from the pro-
gram’’ after ‘‘the program’’; 
(ii) in subclause (V)— 
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(I) by striking ‘‘, during a pro-
gram year,’’; 
(II) by striking ‘‘are in’’ and in-
serting ‘‘enter into’’; and 
(III) by inserting before the semi-
colon at the end the following: ‘‘within 
6 months after the quarter in which 
the participant enters into the edu-
cation and training program’’; and 
(iii) by amending subclause (VI) to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(VI) of the program participants 
who received training services and who 
exited the program during a program 
year, the percentage of such program 
participants who completed, prior to 
such exit, on-the-job training, em-
ployer-directed skills development, in-
cumbent worker training, or an ap-
prenticeship.’’; 
(B) in clause (ii)— 
(i) in subclause (II), by striking ‘‘and’’ 
at the end; 
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(ii) in subclause (III), by striking the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; 
and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(IV) the percentage of program 
participants who, during a program 
year, participate in paid or unpaid 
work experiences as described in sec-
tion 129(c)(2)(C).’’; and 
(C) by striking clause (iv). 
(2) 
LEVELS
OF
PERFORMANCE.—Section 
116(b)(3)(A) of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3141(b)(3)(A)) is amended— 
(A) by amending clause (iii) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(iii) 
IDENTIFICATION
IN
STATE 
PLAN.— 
‘‘(I) 
SECRETARIES.—For 
each 
State submitting a State plan, the Sec-
retaries of Labor and Education shall, 
not later than December 1 of the year 
prior to the year in which such State 
plan is submitted, for the first 2 pro-
gram years covered by the State plan, 
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and not later than December 1 of the 
year prior to the third program year 
covered by the State plan, for the third 
and fourth program years covered by 
the State plan— 
‘‘(aa) propose expected levels 
of performance for each of the cor-
responding primary indicators of 
performance for each of the pro-
grams described in clause (ii) for 
such State, which shall— 
‘‘(AA) be consistent with 
the factors listed in clause 
(v); and 
‘‘(BB) be proposed in a 
manner that ensures suffi-
cient time is provided for the 
State to evaluate and re-
spond to such proposals; and 
‘‘(bb) publish, on a public 
website of the Department of 
Labor, the statistical model devel-
oped under clause (viii) and the 
methodology used to develop each 
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such proposed level of perform-
ance. 
‘‘(II) 
STATES.—Each 
State 
shall— 
‘‘(aa) evaluate each of the ex-
pected levels of performance pro-
posed under subclause (I) with re-
spect to such State; 
‘‘(bb) based on such evalua-
tion of each such proposed level of 
performance— 
‘‘(AA) accept the ex-
pected level of performance as 
so proposed; or 
‘‘(BB) provide a coun-
terproposal for such proposed 
expected level of performance, 
including an analysis of how 
the counterproposal addresses 
factors 
or 
circumstances 
unique to the State that may 
not have been accounted for 
in the proposed expected level 
of performance; and 
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‘‘(cc) include in the State 
plan, with respect to each of the 
corresponding primary indicators 
of performance for each of the pro-
grams described in clause (ii) for 
such State— 
‘‘(AA) the expected level 
of 
performance 
proposed 
under subclause (I); 
‘‘(BB) 
the 
counter-
proposal for such proposed 
level, if any; and 
‘‘(CC) the expected level 
of performance that is agreed 
to under clause (iv).’’; and 
(B) in clause (v)(II)— 
(i) in the matter preceding item (aa), 
by striking ‘‘based on’’ and inserting ‘‘based 
on each of the following considerations that 
are found to be predictive of performance on 
an indicator for a program’’; and 
(ii) in item (bb), by striking ‘‘ex-of-
fender status’’ and inserting ‘‘justice-in-
volved individual status, foster care status, 
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school status, education level, highest grade 
level completed, low-income status’’. 
(b) PERFORMANCE REPORTS.—Section 116(d) of the 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
3141(d)) is amended— 
(1) by amending paragraph (1) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.— 
‘‘(A) TEMPLATE
FOR
PERFORMANCE
RE-
PORTS.—Not later than 12 months after the date 
of enactment of the A Stronger Workforce for 
America Act, the Secretary of Labor, in conjunc-
tion with the Secretary of Education, shall de-
velop, or review and modify, as appropriate, to 
comply with the requirements of this subsection, 
the template for performance reports that shall 
be used by States (including by States on behalf 
of eligible providers of training services under 
section 122) and local boards to produce a report 
on outcomes achieved by the core programs. In 
developing, or reviewing and modifying, such 
templates, the Secretary of Labor, in conjunction 
with the Secretary of Education, shall take into 
account the need to maximize the value of the 
templates for workers, jobseekers, employers, local 
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elected officials, State officials, Federal policy-
makers, and other key stakeholders. 
‘‘(B) STANDARDIZED
REPORTING.—In de-
veloping, or reviewing and modifying, the tem-
plate under subparagraph (A), the Secretary of 
Labor, in conjunction with the Secretary of Edu-
cation, shall ensure that performance reports 
produced by States and local areas for core pro-
grams and eligible training providers collect and 
report, in a comparable and uniform format, 
common data elements, which use terms that are 
assigned identical meanings across all such re-
ports. 
‘‘(C) ADDITIONAL
REPORTING.—The Sec-
retary of Labor, in conjunction with the Sec-
retary of Education— 
‘‘(i) in addition to the common data 
elements described under subparagraph (B), 
may require a core program to provide ad-
ditional information as necessary for effec-
tive reporting; and 
‘‘(ii) shall periodically review any re-
quirement for additional information to en-
sure the requirement is necessary and does 
not impose an undue reporting burden.’’. 
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(2) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) by redesignating subparagraphs (J) 
through (L) as subparagraphs (K) through (M), 
respectively and inserting after subparagraph (I) 
the following: 
‘‘(J) the median earnings gain of partici-
pants who received training services, calculated 
as the difference between— 
‘‘(i) median participant earnings in 
unsubsidized employment during the second 
quarter after program exit; and 
‘‘(ii) median participant earnings in 
the second quarter prior to entering the pro-
gram;’’. 
(B) in subparagraph (L), as so redesig-
nated, by striking clause (ii); and 
(C) by striking ‘‘strategies for programs’’ 
and all that follows through ‘‘the performance’’, 
and inserting ‘‘strategies for programs, the per-
formance’’; 
(3) in paragraph (3)— 
(A) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘and’’ 
at the end; 
(B) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as 
subparagraph (E); and 
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(C) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the 
following: 
‘‘(C) the percentage of a local area’s alloca-
tion under section 133(b) that the local area 
spent on services paid for through an individual 
training 
account 
described 
in 
section 
134(c)(3)(F)(iii) or a training contract described 
in section 134(c)(3)(G)(ii); 
‘‘(D) the percentage of a local area’s alloca-
tion under section 133(b) that the local area 
spent on supportive services; and’’; 
(4) by amending paragraph (4) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(4) CONTENTS
OF
ELIGIBLE
TRAINING
PRO-
VIDERS PERFORMANCE REPORT.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The State shall use the 
information submitted by the eligible providers 
of training services under section 122 and ad-
ministrative records, including quarterly wage 
records, of the participants of the programs of-
fered by the providers to produce a performance 
report on the eligible providers of training serv-
ices in the State, which shall include, subject to 
paragraph (6)(C)— 
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‘‘(i) with respect to each program of 
study (or the equivalent) of such a pro-
vider— 
‘‘(I) information specifying the 
levels of performance achieved with re-
spect to the primary indicators of per-
formance described in subclauses (I) 
through (IV) of subsection (b)(2)(A)(i) 
with respect to all individuals engag-
ing in the program of study (or the 
equivalent); and 
‘‘(II) the total number of individ-
uals exiting from the program of study 
(or the equivalent); and 
‘‘(ii) with respect to all such pro-
viders— 
‘‘(I) the total number of partici-
pants who received training services 
through each adult and dislocated 
worker 
program 
authorized 
under 
chapter 3 of subtitle B, disaggregated 
by the type of entity that provided the 
training, during the most recent pro-
gram year and the 3 preceding pro-
gram years; 
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‘‘(II) the total number of partici-
pants who exited from training serv-
ices, disaggregated by the type of entity 
that provided the training, during the 
most recent program year and the 3 
preceding program years; 
‘‘(III) the average cost per partic-
ipant for the participants who received 
training services, disaggregated by the 
type of entity that provided the train-
ing, during the most recent program 
year and the 3 preceding program 
years; and 
‘‘(IV) the number of individuals 
with barriers to employment served by 
each adult and dislocated worker pro-
gram authorized under chapter 3 of 
subtitle B, disaggregated by each sub-
population of such individuals, and by 
race, ethnicity, sex, and age. 
‘‘(iii) with respect to each recognized 
postsecondary credential on the list of cre-
dentials awarded by eligible providers in 
the State described in section 116(d)(2)— 
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‘‘(I) information specifying the 
levels of performance achieved with re-
spect to the primary indicators of per-
formance described in subclauses (I) 
through (IV) of subsection (b)(2)(A)(i) 
for all participants in the State receiv-
ing such credential; and 
‘‘(II) information specifying the 
levels of performance achieved with re-
spect to the primary indicators of per-
formance described in subclauses (I) 
through (IV) of subsection (b)(2)(A)(i) 
for participants in the State receiving 
such credential with respect to individ-
uals with barriers to employment, 
disaggregated by each subpopulation of 
such individuals, and by race, eth-
nicity, sex, and age.’’; and 
(5) in paragraph (6)— 
(A) by amending subparagraph (A) to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(A) STATE PERFORMANCE REPORTS.—The 
Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Edu-
cation shall annually make available the per-
formance reports for States containing the infor-
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mation described in paragraph (2), which shall 
include making such reports available— 
‘‘(i) 
digitally 
using 
transparent, 
linked, open, and interoperable data for-
mats that are human readable and machine 
actionable such that the data from these re-
ports— 
‘‘(I) are easily understandable; 
and 
‘‘(II) can be easily included in 
web-based tools and services supporting 
search, discovery, comparison, anal-
ysis, navigation, and guidance; and 
‘‘(ii) in a printable format.’’; and 
(B) in subparagraph (B)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘(including by elec-
tronic means), in an easily understandable 
format,’’; and 
(ii) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘The Secretary of Labor and the Secretary 
of Education shall include, on the website 
where the State performance reports re-
quired under subparagraph (A) are made 
available, a link to local area performance 
reports and the eligible training provider 
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report for each State. Such reports shall be 
made available in each of the formats de-
scribed in subparagraph (A).’’. 
(c) EVALUATION
OF
STATE
PROGRAMS.—Section 
116(e) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act(29 
U.S.C. 3141(e)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘shall conduct ongoing’’ and 
inserting ‘‘shall use data to conduct analyses and 
ongoing’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘conduct the’’ and inserting 
‘‘conduct such analyses and’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (2), by adding ‘‘A State may 
use other forms of analysis, such as machine learning 
or other advanced analytics, to improve program op-
erations and outcomes and to identify areas for fur-
ther evaluation.’’ at the end; 
(d) SANCTIONS FOR STATE FAILURE TO MEET STATE 
PERFORMANCE
ACCOUNTABILITY
MEASURES.—Section 
116(f) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act 
(29 U.S.C. 3141(f)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(f) SANCTIONS FOR STATE FAILURE TO MEET STATE 
PERFORMANCE ACCOUNTABILITY MEASURES.— 
‘‘(1) TARGETED SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE.— 
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‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—If a State fails to meet 
80 percent of the State adjusted level of perform-
ance for an indicator described in subsection 
(b)(2)(A) for a program for any program year, 
the Secretary of Labor and the Secretary of Edu-
cation shall provide technical assistance. 
‘‘(B) SANCTIONS.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—If the State fails in 
the manner described in subclause (I) or 
(II) of clause (ii) with respect to a program 
year, the percentage of each amount that 
would (in the absence of this paragraph) be 
reserved by the Governor under section 
128(a)(1) for the immediately succeeding 
program year shall be reduced by 5 percent-
age points until such date as the Secretary 
of Labor or the Secretary of Education, as 
appropriate, determines that the State 
meets the State adjusted level of perform-
ance, in the case of a failure described in 
clause (ii)(I), or has submitted the reports 
for the appropriate program years, in the 
case of a failure described in clause (ii)(II). 
‘‘(ii) FAILURES.—A State shall be sub-
ject to clause (i)— 
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‘‘(I) if (except in the case of excep-
tional circumstances as determined by 
the Secretary of Labor or the Secretary 
of Education, as appropriate), such 
State fails to submit a report under 
subsection (d) for any program year; 
or 
‘‘(II) for a failure under subpara-
graph (A) that continues for a second 
consecutive year. 
‘‘(2) COMPREHENSIVE
SUPPORT
AND
ASSIST-
ANCE.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—If a State fails to meet 
an average of 90 percent of the State adjusted 
levels of performance for a program across all 
performance indicators for any program year, or 
if a State fails to meet an average of 90 percent 
of the State adjusted levels of performance for a 
single performance indicator across all programs 
for any program year, the Secretary of Labor 
and the Secretary of Education shall provide 
technical assistance, as described and authorized 
under section 168(b), including assistance in the 
development of a comprehensive performance im-
provement plan. 
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‘‘(B) SECOND
CONSECUTIVE
YEAR
FAIL-
URE.—If such failure under subparagraph (A) 
continues for a second consecutive year, the per-
centage of each amount that would (in the ab-
sence of this subsection) be reserved by the Gov-
ernor under section 128(a)(1) for the imme-
diately succeeding program year shall be reduced 
by 10 percentage points until such date as the 
Secretary of Labor or the Secretary of Edu-
cation, as appropriate, determines that the State 
meets such State adjusted levels of performance. 
‘‘(3) 
REALLOTMENT
OF
REDUCTIONS.—Any 
amounts not reserved under section 128(a)(1) for a 
State for a program year pursuant to paragraph 
(1)(B) or (2)(B) of this subsection shall be realloted 
to other States in a manner consistent with para-
graph (1)(B) or (2)(B) of section 132(b).’’; 
(e) SANCTIONS FOR LOCAL AREA FAILURE TO MEET 
LOCAL PERFORMANCE ACCOUNTABILITY MEASURES.—Sec-
tion 116(g) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 
Act (29 U.S.C. 3141(g)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘80 percent of the’’ before 
‘‘local performance’’; and 
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(B) by striking ‘‘accountability measures’’ 
and inserting ‘‘accountability levels of perform-
ance on an indicator of performance, an average 
of 90 percent of the local levels of performance 
across indicators for a single program, or an av-
erage of 90 percent for a single performance in-
dicator across all programs’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) by amending subparagraph (A) to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—If such failure con-
tinues, the Governor shall take corrective actions, 
which shall include— 
‘‘(i) in the case of a failure, for a sec-
ond consecutive year, on any individual in-
dicator, across indicators for a single pro-
gram, or on a single indicator across pro-
grams, a 5-percent reduction in the amount 
that would have otherwise been provided (in 
the absence of this clause) to the local area 
for the immediately succeeding program 
year under chapter 2 or 3 of subtitle B for 
the program subject to the performance fail-
ure; 
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‘‘(ii) in the case of a failure, as de-
scribed in paragraph (1), for a third con-
secutive year, the development of a reorga-
nization plan through which the Governor 
shall— 
‘‘(I) require the appointment and 
certification of a new local board, con-
sistent with the criteria established 
under section 107(b); 
‘‘(II) prohibit the use of one-stop 
partners identified as achieving a poor 
level of performance; and 
‘‘(III) revise or redesignate a local 
area, which may include merging a 
local area with another local area if 
the Governor determines that the likely 
cause of such continued performance 
failure of a local area is due to such 
local area’s designation being granted 
without the appropriate consideration 
of parameters described under section 
106(b)(1)(B); or 
‘‘(iii) other significant actions deter-
mined appropriate by the Governor.’’; 
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(B) in subparagraph (B)(i), by inserting 
‘‘(ii)’’ after ‘‘subparagraph (A)’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(D) REALLOCATION
OF
REDUCTIONS.— 
Any amounts not allocated under chapter 2 or 3 
of subtitle B to a local area for a program year 
pursuant to subparagraph (A)(i) shall be reallo-
cated to other local areas in a manner consistent 
with subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 
133(b)(2) or subparagraph (A) of section 
128(b)(2), as applicable.’’. 
(f) ESTABLISHING PAY-FOR-PERFORMANCE CONTRACT 
STRATEGY INCENTIVES.—Section 116(h) of the Workforce 
Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3141(h)) is 
amended by striking ‘‘non-Federal funds’’ and inserting 
‘‘the funds reserved under section 128(a)(1)’’. 
(g) FISCAL AND MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTABILITY IN-
FORMATION SYSTEMS.—Section 116(i) of the Workforce In-
novation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3141(i)) is 
amended— 
(1) in the first sentence of paragraph (2), by in-
serting ‘‘, and may use information provided from the 
National Directory of New Hires in accordance with 
section 453(j)(8) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
653(j)(8))’’ after ‘‘State law’’; 
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(2) by redesignating paragraph (3) as para-
graph (4); and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(3) DESIGNATED ENTITY.—The Governor shall 
designate a State agency (or appropriate State enti-
ty) to assist in carrying out the performance report-
ing requirements for core programs and eligible train-
ing providers. The designated State agency (or appro-
priate State entity) shall be responsible for— 
‘‘(A) facilitating data matches using quar-
terly wage record information, including wage 
record information made available by other 
States, to measure employment and earnings 
outcomes; 
‘‘(B) data validation and reliability, as de-
scribed in subsection (d)(5); and 
‘‘(C) protection against disaggregation that 
would violate applicable privacy standards, as 
described in subsection (d)(6)(C).’’. 
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Subtitle C—Workforce Investment 
Activities and Providers 
CHAPTER 1—WORKFORCE INVESTMENT 
ACTIVITIES AND PROVIDERS 
SEC. 121. ESTABLISHMENT OF ONE-STOP DELIVERY SYS-
TEMS. 
(a) ONE-STOP PARTNERS.—Section 121(b) of the 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
3151(b)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)(B)— 
(A) in clause (xi), by inserting ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; and 
(B) by striking clause (xii); 
(2) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ‘‘With’’ and 
inserting ‘‘At the direction of the Governor or with’’; 
and 
(3) in paragraph (2)(B)— 
(A) in clause (vi), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; 
(B) by redesignating clause (vii) as clause 
(viii); and 
(C) by inserting after clause (vi) the fol-
lowing: 
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‘‘(vii) workforce and economic develop-
ment programs carried out by the Economic 
Development Administration; and’’. 
(b) ONE-STOP OPERATORS.—Section 121(d) of the 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
3151(d)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2)(B)— 
(A) in clause (i), by inserting after ‘‘edu-
cation’’ the following: ‘‘or an area career and 
technical education school’’; 
(B) in clause (v), by striking ‘‘and’’; 
(C) by redesignating clause (vi) as clause 
(viii); 
(D) by inserting after clause (v) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(vi) a public library; 
‘‘(vii) a local board that meets the re-
quirements of paragraph (4); and’’; 
(E) in clause (viii), as so redesignated, by 
inserting after ‘‘labor organization’’ the fol-
lowing: ‘‘joint labor-management organization’’; 
and 
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as 
paragraphs (5) and (6), respectively; and 
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(3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(3) RESPONSIBILITIES.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—In operating a one-stop 
system referred to in subsection (e), a one-stop 
operator— 
‘‘(i) shall— 
‘‘(I) manage the physical and vir-
tual infrastructure and operations of 
the one-stop system in the local area; 
and 
‘‘(II) 
facilitate 
coordination 
among the partners in such one-stop 
system; and 
‘‘(ii) may, subject to the requirements 
under subparagraph (B), directly provide 
services to job seekers and employers. 
‘‘(B) INTERNAL CONTROLS.—In a case in 
which a one-stop operator seeks to operate as a 
service provider pursuant to subparagraph 
(A)(ii), the local board shall establish internal 
controls (which shall include written policies and 
procedures)— 
‘‘(i) with respect to the competition in 
which the one-stop operator will compete to 
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be selected as such service provider, and the 
subsequent oversight, monitoring, and eval-
uation of the performance of such one-stop 
operator as such service provider; and 
‘‘(ii) which— 
‘‘(I) require compliance with— 
‘‘(aa) relevant Office of Man-
agement and Budget circulars re-
lating to conflicts of interest; and 
‘‘(bb) any applicable State 
conflict of interest policy; and 
‘‘(II) prohibit a one-stop operator 
from developing, managing, or con-
ducting the competition in which the 
operator intends to compete to be se-
lected as a service provider. 
‘‘(4) LOCAL BOARDS AS ONE-STOP OPERATORS.— 
Subject to approval from the chief elected official and 
Governor and in accordance with any other eligibility 
criteria established by the State, a local board may 
serve as a one-stop operator, if the local board— 
‘‘(A) enters into a written agreement with 
the chief elected official that clarifies how the 
local board will carry out the functions and re-
sponsibilities as a one-stop operator in a manner 
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that complies with the appropriate internal con-
trols to prevent any conflicts of interest, which 
shall include how the local board, while serving 
as a one-stop operator, will— 
‘‘(i) comply with the relevant Office of 
Management and Budget circulars relating 
to conflicts of interest; and 
‘‘(ii) any applicable State conflict of 
interest policy; and 
‘‘(B) complies with the other applicable re-
quirements of this subsection.’’. 
(c) ONE-STOP DELIVERY.—Section 121(e)(2) of the 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
3151(e)(2)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A), to read as follows: 
‘‘(A) shall make each of the programs, serv-
ices, and activities described in paragraph (1) 
accessible— 
‘‘(i) to individuals through electronic 
means, in a single, virtually accessible loca-
tion, and in a manner that improves effi-
ciency, coordination, and quality, as deter-
mined by the State, in the delivery of such 
programs, services, and activities; or 
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‘‘(ii) at not less than 1 physical center 
in each local area of the State; and’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (B)(i), by inserting after 
‘‘affiliated sites’’ the following: ‘‘(such as any of the 
entities described in subsection (d)(2)(B))’’; 
(3) in subparagraph (C), by inserting after ‘‘cen-
ters’’ the following: ‘‘(which may be virtual or phys-
ical centers)’’; 
(4) in subparagraph (D)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘as applicable and prac-
ticable, shall’’ and inserting ‘‘in the case of a 
one-stop delivery system that is making each of 
the programs, services, and activities described 
in paragraph (1) accessible at not less than 1 
physical center, as described in subparagraph 
(A)(ii), the one-stop delivery system shall, as ap-
plicable and practicable,’’; and 
(B) by striking the period at the end and 
inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(5) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(E) in the case of a one-stop delivery sys-
tem that is making each of the programs, serv-
ices, and activities accessible through electronic 
means, as described in subparagraph (A)(i), the 
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one-stop delivery system shall have not less than 
two affiliated sites with a physical location 
where individuals can access, virtually, each of 
the programs, services, and activities described 
in paragraph (1) that are virtually accessible.’’. 
(d) CERTIFICATION AND IMPROVEMENT CRITERIA.— 
Section 121(g)(2)(A) of the Workforce Innovation and Op-
portunity Act is amended by striking ‘‘under subsections 
(h)(1)’’ and inserting ‘‘under subsections (h)(1)(C)’’. 
(e) FUNDING OF ONE-STOP INFRASTRUCTURE.—Sec-
tion 121(h) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 
Act is amended— 
(1) by striking paragraph (1); 
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (2) and (3) as 
paragraphs (1) and (2), respectively; 
(3) in paragraph (1), as so redesignated— 
(A) by amending subparagraph (B) to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(B) PARTNER CONTRIBUTIONS.—Subject to 
subparagraph (D), the covered portions of fund-
ing for a fiscal year shall be provided to the Gov-
ernor from the programs described in subsection 
(b)(1) to pay the costs of infrastructure of one- 
stop centers in local areas of the State.’’; and 
(B) in subparagraph (C)— 
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(i) in clause (i)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘for funding pur-
suant to clause (i)(II) or (ii) of para-
graph (1)(A) by each partner,’’; and 
(II) by striking the fourth sen-
tence; and 
(ii) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘under 
a provision covered by section 3(13)(D)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘under a provision covered by 
subparagraph (D) of the definition of the 
term ‘core program provision’ under section 
3’’; 
(C) in subparagraph (D)— 
(i) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘For local 
areas in a State that are not covered by 
paragraph (1)(A)(i)(I), the’’ and inserting 
‘‘The’’; 
(ii) in clause (ii)— 
(I) in subclause (I)— 
(aa) by striking ‘‘WIA’’ in 
the header and inserting ‘‘WIOA’’; 
and 
(bb) by striking ‘‘3 percent’’ 
and inserting ‘‘5 percent’’; and 
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(II) by striking subclause (III); 
and 
(iii) in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘For 
local areas in a State that are not covered 
by paragraph (1)(A)(i)(I), an’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘An’’; 
(4) in paragraph (2), as so redesignated— 
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘pur-
poses of assisting in’’ and inserting ‘‘purpose of’’; 
and 
(B) in subparagraph (B)— 
(i) in the first sentence, by striking 
‘‘not funding costs of infrastructure under 
the 
option 
described 
in 
paragraph 
(1)(A)(i)(I)’’; and 
(ii) in the second sentence, by inserting 
after ‘‘local area,’’ the following: ‘‘the inten-
sity of services provided by such centers,’’; 
(5) by inserting after paragraph (2), as so redes-
ignated, the following: 
‘‘(3) SUPPLEMENTAL
INFRASTRUCTURE
FUND-
ING.—For any fiscal year in which the allocation re-
ceived by a local area under paragraph (2) is insuffi-
cient to cover the total costs of infrastructure of one- 
stop centers in such local area, the local board, the 
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chief elected official, and the one-stop partners that 
have entered into the local memorandum of under-
standing with the local board under subsection (c) 
may agree to fund any such remaining costs using a 
method described in such memorandum.’’; and 
(6) in paragraph (4), by inserting after ‘‘oper-
ation of the one-stop center’’ the following: ‘‘(whether 
for in-person or virtual service delivery)’’. 
SEC. 122. IDENTIFICATION OF ELIGIBLE PROVIDERS AND 
PROGRAMS OF TRAINING SERVICES. 
(a) ELIGIBILITY.—Section 122(a) of the Workforce In-
novation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3152(a)) is 
amended— 
(1) by amending paragraph (1) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Except as provided in sub-
section (i), the Governor, after consultation with the 
State board and considering the State’s adjusted levels 
of performance described in section 116(b)(3)(A)(iv), 
shall establish— 
‘‘(A) procedures regarding the eligibility of 
providers of training services to receive funds 
provided under section 133(b) for the provision 
of training services by programs with standard 
eligibility or conditional eligibility under this 
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section (in this section referred to as ‘eligible 
programs’) in local areas in the State; and 
‘‘(B) the minimum levels of performance on 
the criteria for a program to receive such stand-
ard or conditional eligibility.’’; 
(2) in paragraph (2)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A), by inserting be-
fore the semicolon at the end the following: 
‘‘(other than an institution of higher education 
described in subparagraph (C))’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘or’’ 
at the end; 
(C) by redesignating subparagraph (C) as 
subparagraph (D); 
(D) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the 
following: 
‘‘(C) an institution of higher education that 
offers a program that— 
‘‘(i) is of at least 150 clock hours of in-
struction, but less than 600 clock hours of 
instruction, or an equivalent number of 
credit hours; 
‘‘(ii) is offered during a minimum of 8 
weeks, but less than 15 weeks; and 
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‘‘(iii) is an eligible program for pur-
poses of the Federal Pell Grant program; 
or’’; and 
(E) in subparagraph (D), as so redesig-
nated— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘(including providers 
of such a program that is conducted (in 
whole or in part) online)’’ before ‘‘, which 
may’’; and 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘providers of entre-
preneurial skills development programs, in-
dustry or sector partnerships, groups of em-
ployers, trade or professional associations,’’ 
after ‘‘organizations,’’; and 
(3) in paragraph (3)— 
(A) in the first sentence, by striking ‘‘(C)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘(D)’’; 
(B) in the second sentence, by striking 
‘‘paragraph (2)(B)’’ the first place it appears 
and inserting ‘‘subparagraph (B) or (C) of para-
graph (2)’’; and 
(C) by inserting before the period at the end 
the following: ‘‘or remains eligible for the Federal 
Pell Grant program as described in paragraph 
(2)(C)’’. 
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(b) CRITERIA AND INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS.— 
Section 122(b) of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3152(b)) is amended to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(b) CRITERIA AND INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(1) GENERAL REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(A) GENERAL CRITERIA FOR PROGRAMS.— 
Each provider shall demonstrate that the pro-
gram for which the provider is seeking eligibility 
under this section— 
‘‘(i) prepares participants to meet the 
hiring requirements of potential employers 
in the State or a local area within the State 
for employment that— 
‘‘(I) is high skill and high wage; 
or 
‘‘(II) is in in-demand industry 
sectors or occupations; 
‘‘(ii) leads to a recognized postsec-
ondary credential; 
‘‘(iii) has been offered by the provider 
for not less than 1 year; and 
‘‘(iv)(I) meets the performance require-
ments for standard eligibility described in 
paragraph (2); or 
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‘‘(II) has received conditional eligi-
bility described in paragraph (3). 
‘‘(B) PROVIDER
ELIGIBILITY
ELECTION.— 
Any provider may elect to seek standard eligi-
bility under paragraph (2) or conditional eligi-
bility under paragraph (3). 
‘‘(2) PERFORMANCE
CRITERIA
FOR
STANDARD 
ELIGIBILITY.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Governor shall— 
‘‘(i) establish and publicize minimum 
levels of performance for each of the criteria 
listed in subparagraph (B) that a program 
offered by a provider of training services 
shall achieve to receive and maintain stand-
ard eligibility under this section; and 
‘‘(ii) verify the performance achieved 
by such a program with respect to each such 
criteria to determine whether the program 
meets the corresponding minimum level of 
performance established under clause (i)— 
‘‘(I) in the case of the criteria de-
scribed in (ii) through (iv) of subpara-
graph (B), using State administrative 
data (such as quarterly wage records); 
and 
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‘‘(II) in the case of the criteria de-
scribed in subparagraph (B)(i), using 
any 
applicable 
method 
for 
such 
verification; and 
‘‘(iii) in verifying the performance 
achievement of a program, verify that such 
program included a sufficient number of 
program participants to protect participant 
personally identifiable information, and to 
be a reliable indicator of performance 
achievement. 
‘‘(B) PERFORMANCE
CRITERIA.—The per-
formance criteria to receive and maintain stand-
ard eligibility for a program under this section 
are as follows: 
‘‘(i) The credential attainment rate of 
program participants calculated as the per-
centage of program participants who obtain 
the recognized postsecondary credential for 
which the program prepares participants to 
earn within 6 months of exit from the pro-
gram. 
‘‘(ii) The job placement rate of pro-
gram participants calculated as the percent-
age of program participants in unsub-
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sidized employment during the second quar-
ter after exit from the program. 
‘‘(iii) The median earnings of program 
participants who are in unsubsidized em-
ployment during the second quarter after 
exit from the program. 
‘‘(iv) The ratio of median earnings in-
crease to the total cost of program, cal-
culated as follows: 
‘‘(I) The difference between— 
‘‘(aa) the median participant 
wages from unsubsidized employ-
ment during the second quarter 
after program exit; and 
‘‘(bb) the median earnings of 
participants wages during the 
quarter prior to entering the pro-
gram, to 
‘‘(II) The total cost of the pro-
gram (as described in paragraph 
(5)(B)(iii)). 
‘‘(C) LOCAL
CRITERIA.—With respect to 
any program receiving standard eligibility 
under this section from a Governor, a local board 
in the State may require higher levels of per-
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formance than the minimum performance levels 
established by the Governor under this para-
graph, but may not— 
‘‘(i) require any information or appli-
cation from the provider that is not re-
quired for such standard eligibility; or 
‘‘(ii) establish a performance require-
ment with respect to any criteria not listed 
in subparagraph (B). 
‘‘(3) CONDITIONAL ELIGIBILITY.— 
‘‘(A) REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The Governor shall 
establish procedures and criteria for condi-
tional eligibility for a program of a pro-
vider of training services that does not meet 
the requirements under subparagraph (2). 
‘‘(ii) PROCEDURES AND CRITERIA.—In 
establishing the procedures and criteria 
under this subparagraph for conditional eli-
gibility under this paragraph, the Gov-
ernor— 
‘‘(I) shall establish the maximum 
period, not to exceed a 4-year period, 
that a program may receive and main-
tain such conditional eligibility; 
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‘‘(II) with respect to a program 
that has received conditional eligibility 
for the maximum period established 
under subclause (I) and that is seeking 
approval for an additional period of 
conditional eligibility, may not con-
sider such program for such condi-
tional eligibility during the 3-year pe-
riod that begins on the day after the 
end of most recent period for which the 
program received conditional eligi-
bility; and 
‘‘(III) may establish other require-
ments related to program performance, 
including setting separate minimum 
levels of performance on the criteria de-
scribed in paragraph (2) for a pro-
gram to maintain such conditional eli-
gibility. 
‘‘(B) PAYMENTS.—Payments under this Act 
for the provision of training services by a pro-
gram with conditional eligibility shall be made 
to the provider of such program, on the basis of 
the achievement of successful outcomes by a par-
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ticipant of such training services, in accordance 
with the following: 
‘‘(i) Upon participant enrollment, the 
provider shall receive not less than 25 per-
cent of the total funds to be provided under 
section 133(b) for the provision of training 
services by such program to such partici-
pant. 
‘‘(ii) Upon participant completion and 
credential attainment, the provider shall re-
ceive not less than 25 percent of such total 
funds. 
‘‘(iii) Upon verification of the partici-
pant’s employment during the second quar-
ter after program completion, the provider 
shall receive not less than 25 percent of such 
total funds. 
‘‘(iv) The remainder of such total funds 
may be awarded at any of the intervals de-
scribed in clauses (i) through (iii) as deter-
mined by the Governor in accordance with 
the procedures established under subpara-
graph (A). 
‘‘(C) LIMITATION
ON
BILLING
PARTICI-
PANTS.—With respect to a program participant 
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for whom a provider expects to be paid pursuant 
to subparagraph (B), the provider may not— 
‘‘(i) charge such participant tuition 
and refund such charges after receiving such 
payments; or 
‘‘(ii) if such program participant does 
not achieve the outcomes necessary for the 
provider to receive the provider’s full pay-
ment pursuant to subparagraph (B) for 
such participant, bill a participant for any 
of the amounts described in subparagraph 
(B). 
‘‘(4) EMPLOYER-SPONSORED
OR
INDUSTRY
OR 
SECTORAL PARTNERSHIP DESIGNATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Governor shall es-
tablish procedures and criteria for providers to 
apply for an employer-sponsored designation for 
a program that has received standard or condi-
tional eligibility under this paragraph, which 
shall include a commitment from an employer or 
an industry or sectoral partnership to— 
‘‘(i) pay to the provider, on behalf of 
each participant enrolled in such program 
under this Act, not less than 25 percent of 
the cost of the program (as described in 
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paragraph (5)(B)(iii)), which shall be pro-
vided in lieu of 25 percent of the amount 
that the provider would have otherwise re-
ceived under section 133(b) for the provision 
of training services by such program to such 
participant; and 
‘‘(ii) guarantee an interview and con-
sideration for a job with the employer, or in 
the case of an industry or sectoral partner-
ship, an employer within such partnership, 
for each such participant that successfully 
completes the program. 
‘‘(B) RESTRICTION ON FINANCIAL ARRANGE-
MENT.—A provider receiving an employer-spon-
sored designation under this paragraph may 
not— 
‘‘(i) have an ownership stake in the 
employer or industry or sectoral partner-
ship making a commitment described in 
subparagraph (A); or 
‘‘(ii) enter into an arrangement to re-
imburse an employer or partnership for the 
costs of a participant paid by such em-
ployer or partnership. 
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‘‘(5) INFORMATION REQUIREMENTS.—An eligible 
provider shall submit appropriate, accurate, and 
timely information to the Governor, to enable the 
Governor to carry out subsection (d), with respect to 
all participants of each eligible program (including 
participants for whom the provider receives payments 
under this title) offered by the provider, which shall— 
‘‘(A) be made available by the State in a 
common, linked, open, and interoperable data 
format; 
‘‘(B) include information on— 
‘‘(i) the performance of the program 
with respect to the performance account-
ability measures described in section 116 for 
such participants; 
‘‘(ii) the recognized postsecondary cre-
dentials received by such participants, in-
cluding, in relation to each such credential, 
the issuing entity, any third-party endorse-
ments, the occupations for which the creden-
tial prepares individuals, the competencies 
achieved, the level of mastery of such com-
petencies (including how mastery is as-
sessed), 
and 
any 
transfer 
value 
or 
stackability; 
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‘‘(iii) the total cost of the program, in-
cluding the costs of the published tuition 
and fees, supplies, books, and any other 
costs required by the provider for partici-
pants in the program; 
‘‘(iv) the percentage of such partici-
pants that complete the program within the 
number of weeks that full-time participants 
would take to complete the program; and 
‘‘(v) in the case of a provider offering 
programs seeking or maintaining standard 
eligibility, the criteria described in para-
graph (2) and not otherwise included in 
clause (i) of this subparagraph; and 
‘‘(C) with respect to employment and earn-
ings measures described in subclauses (I) through 
(III) of section 116(b)(2)(A)(i) for such partici-
pants— 
‘‘(i) the necessary information for the 
State to develop program performance data 
using State administrative data (such as 
wage records); and 
‘‘(ii) the necessary information to de-
termine the percentage of such participants 
who entered unsubsidized employment in an 
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occupation related to the program, to the ex-
tent practicable.’’. 
(c) PROCEDURES.—Section 122(c) of the Workforce In-
novation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3152(c)) is 
amended— 
(1) in the first sentence of paragraph (1), by in-
serting ‘‘, which shall be implemented in a manner 
that minimizes the financial and administrative bur-
den on the provider and shall not require the submis-
sion of information in excess of the information re-
quired to determine a program’s eligibility under sub-
section (b)’’ after ‘‘provision of training services’’; 
(2) by redesignating paragraph (2) as para-
graph (3), and inserting the following after para-
graph (1): 
‘‘(2) APPROVAL.—A Governor shall make an eli-
gibility determination with respect to a provider of 
training services and the program for which the pro-
vider is seeking eligibility under this section not later 
than 30 days after receipt of an application sub-
mitted by such provider consistent with the proce-
dures in paragraph (1).’’; 
(3) in paragraph (3), as so redesignated— 
(A) by striking ‘‘biennial’’ and inserting 
‘‘annual’’; and 
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(B) by inserting before the period at the end 
the following: ‘‘that continue to meet the require-
ments under subsection (b)’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘Any program with standard or conditional eli-
gibility that, upon such review, does not meet the 
eligibility criteria established under subsection 
(b) for standard or conditional eligibility, respec-
tively, shall, except as otherwise provided in sub-
section (g)(1)(E), no longer be an eligible pro-
gram and shall be removed from the list de-
scribed in subsection (d).’’; and 
(4) by inserting at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) MULTISTATE PROVIDERS.—The procedures 
established under subsection (a) shall specify the proc-
ess for any provider of training services offering a 
program in multiple States to establish eligibility in 
such States, which shall, to the extent practicable, 
minimize financial and administrative burdens on 
any such provider by authorizing the provider to sub-
mit the same application materials and information 
to the Governor of each State in which such program 
will be providing services, as long as the program 
meets the applicable State requirements established 
under subsection (b) for each such State. 
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‘‘(5) ONLINE
PROVIDERS.—If a participant 
chooses a provider that delivers training services ex-
clusively online and is not located in the State of the 
local area that approved such training services for the 
participant 
in 
accordance 
with 
section 
133(c)(3)(A)(i), such provider shall be ineligible to re-
ceive payment for such participant from funds allo-
cated to such State unless such provider is on the list 
of eligible providers of training services described in 
subsection (d) for such State.’’. 
(d) LIST AND INFORMATION TO ASSIST PARTICIPANTS 
IN CHOOSING PROVIDERS.—Section 122(d) of the Workforce 
Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3152(d)) is 
amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) 
as paragraphs (3), (4), and (6), respectively; 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(2) CREDENTIAL
NAVIGATION
FEATURE.—In 
order to enhance the ability of participants and em-
ployers to understand and compare the value of the 
recognized postsecondary credentials awarded by eli-
gible programs offered by providers of training serv-
ices in a State, the Governor shall establish (or de-
velop in partnership with other States), a credential 
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navigation feature that allows participants and the 
public to search a list of such recognized postsec-
ondary credentials, and the providers and programs 
awarding such a credential, which shall include, with 
respect to each such credential (aggregated for all par-
ticipants in the State that have received such creden-
tial)— 
‘‘(A) the information required under sub-
section (b)(5)(B)(ii); and 
‘‘(B) the employment and earnings out-
comes described in subclause (I) through (III) of 
section 116(b)(2)(i).’’; 
(3) in paragraph (3) (as redesignated by para-
graph (1))— 
(A) by amending subparagraph (A), by 
striking ‘‘(C) of subsection (a)(2)’’ and inserting 
‘‘(D) of subsection (a)(2)’’; 
(B) by amending subparagraph (B) to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(B) with respect to a program described in 
subsection (b)(3) that is offered by a provider, 
consist of information designating the program 
as having conditional eligibility;’’; and 
(C) by amending subparagraph (C) to read 
as follows: 
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‘‘(C) with respect to a program described in 
subsection (b)(4) that is offered by a provider, 
consist of the information promoting the pro-
gram as having an employer-sponsored designa-
tion and identifying the employer or partnership 
sponsoring the program.’’. 
(4) by amending paragraph (4) (as so redesig-
nated) to read as follows: 
‘‘(4) AVAILABILITY.—The list (including the cre-
dential navigation feature described in paragraph 
(2)), and the accompanying information shall be 
made available to such participants and to members 
of the public through the one-stop delivery system in 
the State— 
‘‘(A) on a publicly accessible website that— 
‘‘(i) is consumer-tested; and 
‘‘(ii) is searchable, easily understand-
able, and navigable, and allows for the com-
parison of eligible programs through the use 
of common, linked, open-data descriptive 
language; and 
‘‘(B) in a manner that does not reveal per-
sonally identifiable information about an indi-
vidual participant.’’; and 
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(5) by inserting before paragraph (6) (as so re-
designated), the following: 
‘‘(5) WEBSITE
TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE.—The 
Secretary shall— 
‘‘(A) upon request, provide technical assist-
ance to a State on establishing a website that 
meets the requirements of paragraph (4); and 
‘‘(B) disseminate to each State effective 
practices or resources from States and private 
sector entities related to establishing a website 
that is consumer-tested to ensure that the website 
is easily understood, searchable, and navigable.’’. 
(e) PROVIDER PERFORMANCE INCENTIVES.—Section 
122 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3152), as amended by this section, is further amend-
ed— 
(1) in subsection (e), by striking ‘‘information 
requirements,’’ in each place it appears; 
(2) by redesignating subsections (f) through (i) 
as subsection (g) through (j), respectively; 
(3) by inserting after subsection (e), as so 
amended, the following: 
‘‘(f) PROVIDER PERFORMANCE INCENTIVES.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—The Governor or a local 
board may establish a system of performance incen-
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tive payments to be awarded to providers in addition 
to the amount paid under section 133(b) to such pro-
viders for the provision of training services to partici-
pants of eligible programs. Such system of perform-
ance incentives may be established to award eligible 
programs that— 
‘‘(A) achieve performance levels above the 
minimum levels established by the Governor 
under subsection (b)(2); 
‘‘(B) serve a significantly higher number of 
individuals with barriers to employment com-
pared to training providers offering similar 
training services; or 
‘‘(C) achieve other performance successes, 
including those related to jobs that provide eco-
nomic stability and upward mobility (such as 
leading to jobs with high wages and family sus-
tainable benefits) as determined by the State or 
the local board. 
‘‘(2) INCENTIVE PAYMENTS.—Incentive payments 
to providers established under paragraph (1) shall be 
awarded to providers from the following allotments: 
‘‘(A) In the case of a system of performance 
incentive payments established by the Governor, 
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from funds reserved by the Governor under sec-
tion 128(a). 
‘‘(B) In the case of a system of performance 
incentive payments established by a local board, 
from the allocations made to the local area for 
youth under section 128(b), for adults under 
paragraph (2)(A) or (3) of section 133(b), or for 
dislocated workers under section 133(b)(2)(B), as 
appropriate.’’; 
(f) ENFORCEMENT.—Section 122(g)(1) of the Work-
force Innovation and Opportunity Act (as redesignated by 
subsection (e)(2)), is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(D) FAILURE TO PROVIDE REQUIRED IN-
FORMATION.—With respect to a provider of 
training services that is eligible under this sec-
tion for a program year with respect to an eligi-
ble program, but that does not provide the infor-
mation described in subsection (b)(5) with re-
spect to such program for such program year 
(including information on performance necessary 
to determine if the program meets the minimum 
levels on the criteria to maintain eligibility), the 
provider shall be ineligible under this section 
with respect to such program for the program 
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year after the program year for which the pro-
vider fails to provide such information. 
‘‘(E) FAILURE TO MEET PERFORMANCE CRI-
TERIA.— 
‘‘(i) FIRST YEAR.—An eligible program 
that has received standard eligibility under 
subsection (c)(2) for a program year but 
fails to meet the minimum levels of per-
formance on the criteria described in sub-
section (b)(2) during the most recent pro-
gram year for which performance data on 
such criteria are available shall be notified 
of such failure by the Governor. 
‘‘(ii) SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR.—A 
program that fails to meet the minimum 
levels of performance for a second consecu-
tive program year shall lose standard eligi-
bility for such program for at least the pro-
gram year following such second consecutive 
program year. 
‘‘(iii) REAPPLICATION.— 
‘‘(I) STANDARD
ELIGIBILITY.—A 
provider may reapply to receive stand-
ard eligibility for the program accord-
ing to the criteria described in sub-
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section (c) if the program performance 
for the most recent program year for 
which performance data is available 
meets the minimum levels of perform-
ance required to receive such standard 
eligibility. 
‘‘(II) 
CONDITIONAL
ELIGI-
BILITY.—A program that loses stand-
ard eligibility may apply to receive 
conditional eligibility under the proc-
ess and criteria established by the Gov-
ernor under subsection (b)(3).’’. 
(g) ON-THE-JOB
TRAINING, EMPLOYER-DIRECTED 
SKILLS DEVELOPMENT, INCUMBENT WORKER TRAINING, 
AND OTHER TRAINING EXCEPTIONS.—Subsection (i) (as re-
designated by subsection (e)(2)) of section 122 of the Work-
force Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3152) is 
amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘customized training’’ and 
inserting ‘‘employer-directed skills development’’; 
and 
(B) by striking ‘‘subsections (a) through (f)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘subsections (a) through (g)’’; and 
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(2) in paragraph (2), by amending the first sen-
tence to read as follows: ‘‘A one-stop operator in a 
local area shall collect the minimum amount of infor-
mation from providers of on-the-job training, em-
ployer-directed skills development, incumbent worker 
training, internships, paid or unpaid work experience 
opportunities, and transitional employment as nec-
essary to enable the use of State administrative data 
to generate such performance information as the Gov-
ernor may require.’’. 
(h) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—Section 122 of the 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
3152) is further amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(k) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE.—The Governor may 
apply to the Secretary for technical assistance, as described 
in section 168(c), for purposes of carrying out the require-
ments of subsection (c)(4), or paragraph (2) or (5) of sub-
section (d), or any other amendments made by the A 
Stronger Workforce for America Act to this section, and the 
Secretary shall provide such technical assistance in a time-
ly manner.’’. 
(i) TRANSITION.—A Governor and local boards shall 
implement the requirements of section 122 of the Workforce 
Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3152), as 
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amended by this Act, not later than 12 months after the 
date of enactment of this Act. In order to facilitate early 
implementation of this section, the Governor may establish 
transition procedures under which providers eligible to pro-
vide training services under chapter 1 of subtitle B of title 
I of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3151 et seq.), as such chapter was in effect on the 
day before the date of enactment of this Act, may continue 
to be eligible to provide such services until December 31, 
2024, or until such earlier date as the Governor determines 
to be appropriate. 
CHAPTER 2—YOUTH WORKFORCE 
INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES 
SEC. 131. RESERVATIONS FOR STATEWIDE ACTIVITIES. 
Section 128(a) of the Workforce Innovation and Op-
portunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3173(a)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘reserved 
amounts’’ in each place and inserting ‘‘reserved 
amounts under paragraph (1)’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) STATEWIDE
CRITICAL
INDUSTRY
SKILLS 
FUND.— 
‘‘(A) AUTHORIZED RESERVATION.—In addi-
tion to the reservations required under para-
graph (1) and section 133(a)(2), and subject to 
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subparagraph (B), the Governor may reserve not 
more than 10 percent of each of the amounts al-
lotted to the State under section 127(b)(1)(C) 
and paragraphs (1)(B) and (2)(B) of section 
132(b) for a fiscal year to establish and admin-
ister a critical industry skills fund described in 
section 134(a)(4). 
‘‘(B) MATCHING FUNDS.— 
‘‘(i) REQUIREMENT.—The amount of 
funds reserved by a Governor under sub-
paragraph (A) for a fiscal year may not ex-
ceed the amount of funds that such Gov-
ernor commits to using from any of the 
funds listed in clause (ii) for such fiscal 
year for the purposes of establishing and 
administering the critical industry skills 
fund for which funds are reserved under 
subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(ii) SOURCES OF MATCHING FUNDS.— 
The funds listed in this clause are as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(I) Funds reserved by the Gov-
ernor under paragraph (1) of this sub-
section. 
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‘‘(II) Other Federal funds not de-
scribed in subclause (I). 
‘‘(III) State funds.’’. 
SEC. 132. USE OF FUNDS FOR YOUTH WORKFORCE INVEST-
MENT ACTIVITIES. 
(a) OPPORTUNITY YOUTH.—Section 129 of the Work-
force Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3164) is 
amended by striking ‘‘out-of-school’’ each place it appears 
and inserting ‘‘opportunity’’. 
(b) YOUTH PARTICIPANT ELIGIBILITY.— 
(1) ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION.— 
(A) ELIGIBILITY.—Subparagraph (A) of 
section 129(a)(1) of the Workforce Innovation 
and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3164(a)(1) is 
amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(A) ELIGIBILITY DETERMINATION.— 
‘‘(i) IN
GENERAL.—To be eligible to 
participate in activities carried out under 
this chapter during any program year, an 
individual shall, at the time the eligibility 
determination is made, be an opportunity 
youth or an in-school youth. 
‘‘(ii) ENROLLMENT.—If a one-stop op-
erator or eligible provider of youth work-
force activities carrying out activities under 
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this chapter reasonably believes that an in-
dividual is eligible to participate in such 
activities, the operator or provider may 
allow such individual to participate in such 
activities for not more than a 30-day period 
during which the operator or provider shall 
obtain the necessary information to make 
an eligibility determination with respect to 
such individual (which may involve work-
ing with such individual, other entities in 
the local area, and available sources of ad-
ministrative data to obtain the necessary 
information). 
‘‘(iii) DETERMINATION
OF
INELIGI-
BILITY.—With respect to an individual who 
is determined to be ineligible for activities 
under this chapter by a one-stop operator or 
a service provider during the period de-
scribed in clause (ii) and who does not 
qualify for an exception under paragraph 
(3)(A)(ii) applicable to the local area in-
volved, such operator or service provider— 
‘‘(I) may— 
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‘‘(aa) continue serving such 
individual 
using 
non-Federal 
funds; or 
‘‘(bb) end the participation 
of such individual in activities 
under this chapter and refer the 
individual to other services that 
may be available in the local area 
for which the individual may be 
eligible; and 
‘‘(II) shall be paid for any serv-
ices provided to such individual under 
this chapter during the period de-
scribed in clause (ii) by the local area 
involved using funds allocated to such 
area under section 128(b). 
‘‘(iv) DETERMINATION
PROCESS
FOR 
HOMELESS AND FOSTER YOUTH.—In deter-
mining whether an individual is eligible to 
participate in activities carried out under 
this chapter on the basis of being an indi-
vidual who is a homeless child or youth, or 
a youth in foster care, as described in sub-
paragraph (B)(iii)(V), the one-stop operator 
or service provider involved shall— 
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‘‘(I) if determining whether the 
individual is a homeless child or 
youth, use a process that is in compli-
ance with the requirements of sub-
section (a) of section 479D of the High-
er Education Act of 1965, as added by 
section 702(l) of the FAFSA Sim-
plification Act (Public Law 116–260), 
for financial aid administrators; and 
‘‘(II) if determining whether the 
individual is a youth in foster care, 
use a process that is in compliance 
with the requirements of subsection (b) 
of section 479D of the Higher Edu-
cation Act of 1965, as added by section 
702(l) of the FAFSA Simplification 
Act (Public Law 116–260), for finan-
cial aid administrators.’’. 
(B) DEFINITION OF OPPORTUNITY YOUTH.— 
Subparagraph (B) of section 129(a)(1) of the 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3164(a)(1) is amended— 
(i) in the subparagraph heading, by 
striking ‘‘OUT-OF-SCHOOL’’ and inserting 
‘‘OPPORTUNITY’’; 
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(ii) in clause (i), by inserting ‘‘, except 
that an individual described in subpara-
graph (IV) or (V) of clause (iii) may be at-
tending school’’ after ‘‘(as defined under 
State law)’’; and 
(iii) in clause (iii)(III)(bb), by striking 
‘‘language’’. 
(C) DEFINITION
OF
IN-SCHOOL
YOUTH.— 
Subparagraph (C)(iv) of section 129(a)(1) of the 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3164(a)(1)) is amended— 
(i) in subclause (II), by striking ‘‘lan-
guage’’; 
(ii) by striking subclauses (III) and 
(IV); and 
(iii) by redesignating subclauses (V), 
(VI), and (VII) as subclauses (III), (IV), 
and (V), respectively. 
(2) 
EXCEPTION
AND
LIMITATION.—Section 
129(a)(3) of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3164(a)(1)) is amended— 
(A) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by striking 
‘‘5’’ and inserting ‘‘10’’; and 
(B) in subparagraph (B)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘5’’ inserting ‘‘10’’; and 
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(ii) 
by 
striking 
‘‘paragraph 
(1)(C)(iv)(VII)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph 
(1)(C)(iv)(V)’’. 
(3) OPPORTUNITY
YOUTH
PRIORITY.—Section 
129(a)(4) of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3164(a)(1)) is amended— 
(A) in the paragraph heading, by striking 
‘‘OUT-OF-SCHOOL’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘OPPOR-
TUNITY’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (A)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘75’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘65’’; 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘the total amount of’’ 
before ‘‘funds available’’; and 
(iii) by inserting ‘‘in the State’’ after 
‘‘subsection (c)’’; 
(C) in subparagraph (B)(i), by striking 
‘‘75’’ and inserting ‘‘65’’; 
(D) by redesignating subparagraph (B), as 
so amended, as subparagraph (C); and 
(E) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the 
following: 
‘‘(B) LOCAL
AREA
TARGETS.—The local 
board, the chief elected official, and the Governor 
shall negotiate and reach agreement on the min-
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imum amount of funds provided to a local area 
under subsection (c) that shall be used to provide 
youth workforce investment activities for oppor-
tunity youth based on the needs of youth in the 
local area, as necessary for the State to meet the 
percentage described in subparagraph (A).’’. 
(c) REQUIRED STATEWIDE YOUTH ACTIVITIES.— Sec-
tion 129(b)(1) of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3164(b)(1))— 
(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), 
by striking ‘‘sections 128(a)’’ and inserting ‘‘sections 
128(a)(1)’’; and 
(2) in subparagraph (B), by inserting ‘‘through 
a website that is consumer-tested to ensure that the 
website is easily understood, searchable, and navigable 
and allows for comparison of eligible providers based 
on the program elements offered by such providers 
and the performance of such providers on the primary 
indicators of performance for the youth program as 
described in section 116(b)(2)(A)(ii)’’ after ‘‘under 
section 123’’. 
(d) ALLOWABLE STATEWIDE YOUTH ACTIVITIES.— 
Section 129(b)(2) of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3164(b)(2)) is amended— 
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(1) in the matter preceding subparagraph (A), 
by striking ‘‘sections 128(a)’’ and inserting ‘‘sections 
128(a)(1)’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ‘‘, which 
may include providing guidance on career options in 
in-demand industry sectors or occupations’’ after ‘‘in 
the State’’; 
(3) in subparagraph (D)— 
(A) in clause (iv), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; and 
(B) by inserting after clause (v) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(vi) supporting the ability to under-
stand relevant tax information and obliga-
tions;’’; 
(4) in subparagraph (E), by striking the period 
at the end and inserting a semicolon; and 
(5) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(F) establishing, supporting, and expand-
ing work-based learning opportunities, including 
transitional jobs, that are aligned with career 
pathways; 
‘‘(G) raising public awareness (including 
through public service announcements, such as 
social media campaigns and elementary and sec-
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ondary school showcases and school visits) about 
career and technical education programs and 
community-based and youth services organiza-
tions, and other endeavors focused on programs 
that prepare students for in-demand industry 
sectors or occupations; and 
‘‘(H) developing partnerships between edu-
cational institutions (including area career and 
technical schools and institutions of higher edu-
cation) and employers to create or improve 
workforce development programs to address the 
identified education and skill needs of the work-
force and the employment needs of employers in 
the regions or local areas of the State, as deter-
mined based on the most recent analysis con-
ducted under subparagraphs (B) and (C) of sec-
tion 102(b)(1).’’. 
(e) LOCAL ELEMENTS AND REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) PROGRAM DESIGN.—Section 129(c)(1) of the 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3164(c)(1)) is amended— 
(A) in subparagraph (B), by inserting 
‘‘(which, in the case of a participant 18 years or 
older, may include co-enrollment in any employ-
ment or training activity provided under section 
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134 for adults)’’ after ‘‘services for the partici-
pant’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (C)(v), by inserting 
‘‘high-skill, high-wage, or’’ after ‘‘small employ-
ers, in’’; and 
(C) in subparagraph (D)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘10’’ and inserting 
‘‘40’’; and 
(ii) by inserting before the period the 
following: ‘‘, except that after 2 consecutive 
years of the local board implementing such 
a pay-for-performance contract strategy, the 
local board may reserve and use not more 
than 60 percent of such total funds allocated 
to the local area for such strategy if— 
‘‘(i) the local board demonstrates to the 
Governor that such strategy resulted in per-
formance improvements; and 
‘‘(ii) the Governor approves a request 
to use such percentage of total funds’’. 
(2) PROGRAM ELEMENTS.—Section 129(c)(2) of 
the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3164(c)(2)) is amended— 
(A) in subparagraph (C)— 
(i) in clause (i)— 
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(I) by striking ‘‘other’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘year-round’’; and 
(II) by inserting ‘‘that meet the 
requirements of paragraph (10)’’ after 
‘‘school year’’; 
(ii) in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘and 
job shadowing; and’’ and inserting the fol-
lowing: ‘‘that, to the extent practicable, are 
aligned with in-demand industry sectors or 
occupations in the State or local area and 
for which participants shall be paid (by the 
entity providing the internship, through 
funds allocated to the local area pursuant to 
paragraph (1) for the program, or by an-
other entity) if such internships are longer 
than— 
‘‘(I) 4 weeks in the summer or 8 
weeks during the school year for in- 
school youth and opportunity youth 
who are enrolled in school; or 
‘‘(II) 8 weeks for opportunity 
youth who are not enrolled in school;’’; 
(iii) by redesignating clause (iv) as 
clause (v); and 
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(iv) by inserting after clause (iii), as 
so amended, the following: 
‘‘(iv) job shadowing; and’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (H), by striking 
‘‘adult mentoring’’ and inserting ‘‘coaching and 
adult mentoring services’’; 
(C) in subparagraph (M)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘high-skill, high-wage, 
or’’ before ‘‘in-demand industry’’; and 
(ii) by striking the ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(D) in subparagraph (N), by striking the 
period at the end and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(E) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(O) activities to develop fundamental 
workforce readiness, which may include cre-
ativity, collaboration, critical thinking, digital 
literacy, persistence, and other relevant skills.’’. 
(3) PRIORITY.—Section 129(c)(4) of the Work-
force Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
3164(c)(2)) is amended, by striking ‘‘20’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘40’’. 
(4) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—Section 129(c)(5) 
of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3164(c)(2)) is amended by inserting ‘‘or local 
area’’ after ‘‘youth services’’. 
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(5) INDIVIDUAL
TRAINING
ACCOUNTS.—Section 
129(c) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 
Act (29 U.S.C. 3164(c)(2)) is further amended by 
adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(9) INDIVIDUAL
TRAINING
ACCOUNTS.—Funds 
allocated pursuant to paragraph (1) to a local area 
may be used to pay, through an individual training 
account, an eligible provider of training services de-
scribed in section 122(d) for training services de-
scribed in section 134(c)(3) provided to in-school 
youth who are not younger than age 16 and not older 
than age 21 and opportunity youth, in the same 
manner that an individual training account is used 
to pay an eligible provider of training services under 
section 134(c)(3)(F)(iii) for training services provided 
to an adult or dislocated worker.’’. 
(6) SUMMER AND YEAR-ROUND EMPLOYMENT OP-
PORTUNITIES REQUIREMENTS.—Section 129(c) of the 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3164(c)(2)) is further amended by adding at 
the end the following: 
‘‘(10) SUMMER AND YEAR-ROUND EMPLOYMENT 
OPPORTUNITIES REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—A summer employment 
opportunity or a year-round employment oppor-
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tunity referred to in paragraph (2)(C)(i) shall be 
a program that matches eligible youth partici-
pating in such program with an appropriate 
employer (based on factors including the needs of 
the employer and the age, skill, and informed as-
pirations of the eligible youth) that— 
‘‘(i) shall include— 
‘‘(I) a component of occupational 
skills education; and 
‘‘(II) not less than 2 of the activi-
ties described in subparagraphs (G), 
(H), (I), (K), (M), and (O) of para-
graph (2); 
‘‘(ii) may not use funds allocated 
under this chapter to subsidize more than 
50 percent of the wages of each eligible 
youth participant in such program; 
‘‘(iii) in the case of a summer employ-
ment opportunity, complies with the re-
quirements of subparagraph (B); and 
‘‘(iv) in the case of a year-round em-
ployment opportunity, complies with the re-
quirements of subparagraph (C). 
‘‘(B) 
SUMMER
EMPLOYMENT
OPPOR-
TUNITY.—In addition to the applicable require-
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ments described in subparagraph (A), a summer 
employment opportunity— 
‘‘(i) may not be less than 4 weeks; and 
‘‘(ii) may not pay less than the greater 
of the applicable Federal, State, or local 
minimum wage. 
‘‘(C) YEAR-ROUND
EMPLOYMENT
OPPOR-
TUNITY.—In addition to the applicable require-
ments described in subparagraph (B), a year- 
round employment opportunity— 
‘‘(i) may not be shorter than 180 days 
or longer than 1 year; 
‘‘(ii) may not pay less than the greater 
of the applicable Federal, State, or local 
minimum wage; and 
‘‘(iii) may not employ the eligible 
youth for less than 20 hours per week, ex-
cept in instances when the eligible youth are 
under the age of 18 or enrolled in school. 
‘‘(D) PRIORITY.—In selecting summer em-
ployment opportunities or year-round employ-
ment opportunities for purposes of paragraph 
(2)(C)(i), a local area shall give priority to pro-
grams that meet the requirements of this para-
graph, which are in existing or emerging high- 
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skill, high-wage, or in-demand industry sectors 
or occupations.’’. 
CHAPTER 
3—ADULT 
AND 
DISLOCATED 
WORKER EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING 
ACTIVITIES 
SEC. 141. STATE ALLOTMENTS. 
Section 132(a)(2)(A) of the Workforce Innovation and 
Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3172(a)(2)(A)) is amended 
by— 
(1) striking ‘‘, 169(c) (relating to dislocated 
worker projects),’’; and 
(2) by inserting ‘‘, and under subsections (c) (re-
lated to dislocated worker projects) and (d) (related to 
workforce data quality initiatives) of section 169’’ be-
fore ‘‘; and’’ 
SEC. 142. RESERVATIONS FOR STATE ACTIVITIES; WITHIN 
STATE ALLOCATIONS. 
(a) RESERVATIONS FOR STATE ACTIVITIES.—Section 
133(a) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act 
(29 U.S.C. 3173(a)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘section 
128(a)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 128(a)(1)’’; 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(3) STATEWIDE
CRITICAL
INDUSTRY
SKILLS 
FUND.—In addition to the reservations required 
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under paragraphs (1) and (2) of this subsection, the 
Governor may make the reservation authorized under 
section 128(a)(3).’’. 
(b) WITHIN STATE ALLOCATIONS.—Section 133(b)(1) 
of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3173(b)) is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘subsection 
(a)(1)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph (1) or (3) of sub-
section (a)’’; and 
(2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘paragraph 
(1) or (2) of subsection (a)’’ and inserting ‘‘para-
graph (1), (2), or (3) of subsection (a)’’. 
SEC. 143. USE OF FUNDS FOR EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING 
ACTIVITIES. 
(a) STATEWIDE EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ACTIVI-
TIES.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Section 134(a)(1) of the 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3174(a)(1))— 
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘and’’ 
at the end; 
(B) in subparagraph (B)— 
(i) in the matter preceding clause (i), 
by 
striking 
‘‘128(a)’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘128(a)(1)’’; and 
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(ii) in clause (ii)— 
(I) by striking the comma at the 
end and inserting ‘‘or to establish and 
administer a critical skills fund under 
paragraph (4); and’’ ; and 
(C) by inserting before the flush left text at 
the end the following: 
‘‘(C) as described in section 128(a)(3), shall 
be used to establish and administer a critical in-
dustry skills fund described in paragraph (4).’’. 
(2) REQUIRED
STATEWIDE
EMPLOYMENT
AND 
TRAINING ACTIVITIES.— 
(A) STATEWIDE RAPID RESPONSE ACTIVI-
TIES.—Section 134(a)(2)(A) of the Workforce In-
novation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
3174(a)(2)(A)) is amended— 
(i) in clause (i)— 
(I) in subclause (I)— 
(aa) by striking ‘‘working’’ 
and inserting ‘‘as a rapid re-
sponse unit working’’; and 
(bb) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; 
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(II) in subclause (II), by striking 
the period at the end and inserting ‘‘; 
and’’; and 
(III) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(III) provision of additional as-
sistance to a local area that has excess 
demand for individual training ac-
counts for dislocated workers in such 
local area and requests such assistance 
under paragraph (5) of section 414(c) 
of the American Competitiveness and 
Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 
(29 U.S.C. 3224a(5)), upon a deter-
mination by the State that, in using 
funds allocated to such local area pur-
suant to paragraph (1) of such section 
414(c) and subsection (c)(1)(B) of this 
section for the purpose described in 
paragraph (2)(A) of such section 
414(c), the local area was in compli-
ance with the requirements of such sec-
tion 414(c).’’; and 
(ii) by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(iii) INSUFFICIENT FUNDS TO MEET 
EXCESS
DEMAND.—If a State determines 
that a local area with excess demand as de-
scribed in clause (i)(III) met the compliance 
requirements described in such clause, but 
the State does not have sufficient funds re-
served under section 133(a)(2) to meet such 
excess demand, the State— 
‘‘(I) shall notify the Secretary of 
such excess demand; and 
‘‘(II) if eligible, may apply for a 
national dislocated worker grant under 
section 170 of this Act.’’. 
(B) STATEWIDE EMPLOYMENT AND TRAIN-
ING
ACTIVITIES.—Section 134(a)(2)(B) of the 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3174(a)(2)(B) is amended— 
(i) in clause (i)— 
(I) in subclause (III), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(II) in subclause (IV)— 
(aa) by inserting ‘‘the devel-
opment and education of staff to 
increase expertise in providing 
opportunities for covered veterans 
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(as 
defined 
in 
section 
4212(a)(3)(A) of title 38, United 
States Code) to enter in-demand 
industry sectors or occupations 
and nontraditional occupations),’’ 
after ‘‘exemplary program activi-
ties,’’; and 
(bb) by adding ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; and 
(III) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(V) local boards and eligible 
training providers in carrying out the 
performance reporting required under 
section 116(d), including facilitating 
data matches for program participants 
using quarterly wage record informa-
tion (including the wage records made 
available by any other State) and other 
sources of information, as necessary to 
measure the performance of programs 
and activities conducted under chapter 
2 or chapter 3 of this subtitle;’’; 
(ii) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘(7)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘(6)’’; 
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(iii) in clause (v)— 
(I) in subclause (II), by striking 
‘‘customized training’’ and inserting 
‘‘employer-directed skills development’’; 
and 
(II) in subclause (VI), by striking 
‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(iv) in clause (vi), by striking the pe-
riod at the end and inserting a semicolon; 
and 
(v) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(vii) coordinating (which may be 
done in partnership with other States) with 
industry organizations, employers (includ-
ing small and mid-sized employers), indus-
try or sector partnerships, training pro-
viders, local boards, and institutions of 
higher education to identify or develop com-
petency-based assessments that are a valid 
and reliable method of collecting informa-
tion with respect to, and measuring, the 
prior knowledge, skills, and abilities of indi-
viduals who are adults or dislocated workers 
for the purpose of— 
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‘‘(I) awarding, based on the 
knowledge, skills, and abilities of such 
an individual validated by such assess-
ments— 
‘‘(aa) a recognized postsec-
ondary credential that is used by 
employers in the State for recruit-
ment, hiring, retention, or ad-
vancement purposes; 
‘‘(bb) postsecondary credit to-
ward a recognized postsecondary 
credential aligned with in-demand 
industry sectors and occupations 
in the State for the purpose of ac-
celerating attainment of such cre-
dential; and 
‘‘(cc) postsecondary credit for 
progress along a career pathway 
developed by the State or a local 
area within the State; 
‘‘(II) developing individual em-
ployment 
plans 
under 
subsection 
(c)(2)(B)(vii)(II) that incorporate the 
knowledge, skills, and abilities of such 
an individual to identify— 
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‘‘(aa) in-demand industry 
sectors or occupations that require 
similar knowledge, skills, and 
abilities; and 
‘‘(bb) any upskilling needed 
for the individual to secure em-
ployment in such a sector or occu-
pation; and 
‘‘(III) helping such an individual 
communicate such knowledge, skills, 
and abilities to prospective employers 
through a skills-based resume, profile, 
or portfolio; and 
‘‘(viii) disseminating to local areas 
and employers information relating to the 
competency-based assessments identified or 
developed pursuant to clause (vii), includ-
ing— 
‘‘(I) any credential or credit 
awarded 
pursuant 
to 
items 
(aa) 
through (cc) of clause (vii)(I); 
‘‘(II) the industry organizations, 
employers, training providers, and in-
stitutions of higher education located 
within the State that recognize the 
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knowledge, skills, and abilities of an 
individual validated by such assess-
ments; 
‘‘(III) how such assessments may 
be provided to, and accessed by, indi-
viduals through the one-stop delivery 
system; and 
‘‘(IV) information on the extent to 
which such assessments are being used 
by employers and local areas in the 
State.’’. 
(3) ALLOWABLE STATEWIDE EMPLOYMENT AND 
TRAINING
ACTIVITIES.—Section 134(a)(3)(A) of the 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3174(a)(3)(A))— 
(A) in clause (i)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘or evidence-based’’ 
after ‘‘innovative’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘customized training’’ 
and inserting ‘‘employer-directed skills de-
velopment’’; 
(B) in clause (ii), by inserting ‘‘, or bring-
ing evidence-based strategies to scale,’’ after 
‘‘strategies’’; 
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(C) in clause (iii), by striking ‘‘ and prior 
learning assessment to’’ and inserting ‘‘, prior 
learning assessment, or a competency-based as-
sessment identified or developed by the State 
under paragraph (2)(B)(vii), to’’; 
(D) in clause (viii)(II)— 
(i) in item (dd), by striking ‘‘and lit-
eracy’’ and inserting ‘‘, literacy, and digital 
literacy’’; 
(ii) in item (ee), by striking ‘‘ex-of-
fenders in reentering the workforce; and’’ 
and inserting ‘‘ justice-involved individuals 
in reentering the workforce;’’; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(gg) programs under the 
Older Americans Act of 1965 (42 
U.S.C. 3001 et seq.) that support 
employment and economic secu-
rity; and’’; 
(E) in clause (xiii), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
(F) in clause (xiv), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting a semicolon; and 
(G) by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(xv) supporting employers seeking to 
implement skills-based hiring practices, 
which may include technical assistance on 
the use and validation of employment as-
sessments (including competency-based as-
sessments developed or identified by the 
State pursuant to paragraph (2)(B)(vii)), 
and support in the creation of skills-based 
job descriptions; 
‘‘(xvi) developing partnerships between 
educational institutions (including area ca-
reer and technical education schools, local 
educational agencies, and institutions of 
higher education) and employers to create 
or improve workforce development programs 
to address the identified education and skill 
needs of the workforce and the employment 
needs of employers in regions of the State, 
as determined by the most recent analysis 
conducted under subparagraphs (A), (B), 
and (C) of section 102(b)(1); 
‘‘(xvii) identifying and making avail-
able to residents of the State, free or reduced 
cost access to online skills development pro-
grams that are aligned with in-demand in-
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dustries or occupations in the State and 
lead to attainment of a recognized postsec-
ondary credential valued by employers in 
such industries or occupations; and 
‘‘(xviii) establishing and administering 
critical skills fund under paragraph (4).’’. 
(4) CRITICAL INDUSTRY SKILLS FUND.—Section 
134(a) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 
Act (29 U.S.C. 3174(a)), as amended, is further 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) CRITICAL INDUSTRY SKILLS FUND.— 
‘‘(A) PERFORMANCE-BASED PAYMENTS.—A 
State shall use funds reserved under paragraph 
(3)(A) of section 128(a), and any funds reserved 
under paragraph (3)(B) of section 128(a), to es-
tablish and administer a critical industry skills 
fund to award performance-based payments on a 
per-worker basis to eligible entities that provide 
eligible skills development programs to prospec-
tive workers or incumbent workers (which may 
include youth age 18 through age 24) in indus-
tries and occupations identified by the Governor 
under subparagraph (B) that will result in em-
ployment or retention with a participating em-
ployer. 
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‘‘(B) INDUSTRIES AND OCCUPATIONS.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The Governor (in 
consultation with the State board)— 
‘‘(I) shall identify the industries 
and occupations for which an eligible 
skills development program carried out 
by an eligible entity in the State may 
receive funds under this paragraph; 
and 
‘‘(II) may select the industries 
and occupations identified under sub-
clause (I) that will receive priority for 
funds under this paragraph. 
‘‘(ii) 
HIGH
GROWTH
AND
HIGH 
WAGE.—In selecting industries or occupa-
tions to prioritize pursuant to clause 
(i)(II), the Governor may consider— 
‘‘(I) industries that have, or are 
expected to have, a high rate of growth 
and an unmet demand for skilled 
workers; and 
‘‘(II) occupations— 
‘‘(aa) with wages that are 
significantly higher than an occu-
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pation of similar level of skill or 
needed skill development; or 
‘‘(bb) that are aligned with 
career pathways into higher wage 
occupations. 
‘‘(C) SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—To be eligible to re-
ceive a payment under the critical industry 
skills fund established under this paragraph 
by a State, an eligible entity shall submit 
a proposal to the Governor in such form 
and at such time as the Governor may re-
quire (subject to the requirements of clause 
(ii)), which shall include— 
‘‘(I) a description of the indus-
tries or occupations in which the par-
ticipating employer is seeking to fill 
jobs, the specific skills or credentials 
necessary for an individual to obtain 
such a job, and the salary range of 
such a job; 
‘‘(II) the expected number of indi-
viduals who will participate in the 
skills development program to be car-
ried out by the eligible entity; 
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‘‘(III) a description of the eligible 
skills development program, including 
the provider, the length of the program, 
the skills to be gained, and any recog-
nized postsecondary credentials that 
will be awarded; 
‘‘(IV) the total cost of providing 
the program; 
‘‘(V) for purposes of receiving a 
payment pursuant to subparagraph 
(D)(i)(II)(bb), a commitment from the 
participating employer in the eligible 
entity to employ each participant of 
the program for not less than a 6- 
month period (or a longer period as 
determined by the State) after success-
ful completion of the program; and 
‘‘(VI) an assurance that the entity 
will— 
‘‘(aa) establish the written 
agreements described in subpara-
graph (D)(ii)(I); 
‘‘(bb) maintain and submit 
the documentation described in 
subparagraph (D)(ii)(II); and 
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‘‘(cc) maintain and submit 
the necessary documentation for 
the State to verify participant 
outcomes and report such out-
comes as described in subpara-
graph (F). 
‘‘(ii) ADMINISTRATIVE
BURDEN.—The 
Governor shall ensure that the form and 
manner in which a proposal required to be 
submitted under clause (i) is designed to 
minimize paperwork and administrative 
burden for entities. 
‘‘(iii) APPROVAL OF SUBSEQUENT PRO-
POSALS.—With respect to an eligible entity 
that has had a proposal approved by the 
Governor under this subparagraph and that 
submits a subsequent proposal under this 
subparagraph, the eligible entity may only 
receive approval from the Governor for the 
subsequent proposal if— 
‘‘(I) with respect to the most re-
cent proposal approved under this sub-
paragraph— 
‘‘(aa) the skills development 
program has ended; 
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‘‘(bb) for any participants 
employed by the participating em-
ployer in accordance with sub-
paragraph (C)(i)(V), the min-
imum periods of such employment 
described in such subparagraph 
have ended; 
‘‘(cc) all the payments under 
subparagraph (D) owed to the eli-
gible entity have been made; and 
‘‘(dd) not fewer than 70 per-
cent of the participants who en-
rolled in the skills development 
program— 
‘‘(AA) completed such 
program; and 
‘‘(BB) after such com-
pletion, were employed by the 
participating employer for 
the minimum period de-
scribed 
in 
subparagraph 
(C)(i)(V); and 
‘‘(II) the eligible entity meets any 
other requirements that the Governor 
may establish with respect to eligible 
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entities submitting subsequent pro-
posals. 
‘‘(D) REIMBURSEMENT FOR APPROVED PRO-
POSALS.— 
‘‘(i) STATE REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(I) IN
GENERAL.—With respect 
to each eligible entity whose proposal 
under subparagraph (C) has been ap-
proved by the Governor, the Governor 
shall make payments (in an amount 
determined by the Governor and sub-
ject to the requirements of subclause 
(II) of this clause, subparagraphs (E) 
and (G), and any other limitations de-
termined necessary by the State) from 
the critical industry skills fund estab-
lished under this paragraph to such el-
igible entity for each participant of the 
eligible skills development program de-
scribed in such proposal and with re-
spect to whom the eligible entity meets 
the requirements of clause (ii). 
‘‘(II) 
PAYMENTS.—In 
making 
payments to an eligible entity under 
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subclause (I) with respect to a partici-
pant— 
‘‘(aa) 50 percent of the total 
payment shall be made after the 
participant completes the eligible 
skills development program offered 
by the eligible entity; and 
‘‘(bb) the remaining 50 per-
cent of such total payment shall 
be made after the participant has 
been employed by the partici-
pating employer for the minimum 
period described in subparagraph 
(C)(i)(V). 
‘‘(ii) 
ELIGIBLE
ENTITY
REQUIRE-
MENTS.—To be eligible to receive the pay-
ments described in clause (i) with respect to 
a participant, an eligible entity described 
in such clause shall— 
‘‘(I) establish a written agreement 
with the participant that includes the 
information described in subclauses (I) 
and (III) of subparagraph (C)(i); and 
‘‘(II) submit documentation as the 
Governor 
determines 
necessary 
to 
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verify that such participant has com-
pleted the skills development program 
offered by the eligible entity and has 
been employed by the participating 
employer for the minimum period de-
scribed in subparagraph (C)(i)(V). 
‘‘(E) NON-FEDERAL COST SHARING.— 
‘‘(i) LIMITS ON FEDERAL SHARE.—An 
eligible entity may not receive funds under 
subparagraph (D) with respect to a partici-
pant of the eligible skills development pro-
gram offered by the eligible entity in excess 
of the following costs of such program: 
‘‘(I) In the case of a participating 
employer of such eligible entity with 25 
or fewer employees, 90 percent of the 
costs. 
‘‘(II) In the case of a partici-
pating employer of such eligible entity 
with more than 25 employees, but 
fewer than 100 employees, 75 percent 
of the costs. 
‘‘(III) In the case of a partici-
pating employer of such eligible entity 
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with 100 or more employees, 50 per-
cent of the costs. 
‘‘(ii) NON-FEDERAL SHARE.— 
‘‘(I) IN GENERAL.—Any costs of 
the skills development program offered 
to a participant by such eligible entity 
that are not covered by the funds re-
ceived under subparagraph (D) shall be 
the non-Federal share provided by the 
eligible entity (in cash or in-kind). 
‘‘(II) 
EMPLOYER
COST
SHAR-
ING.—If the eligible skills development 
program is being provided on-the-job, 
the non-Federal share provided by an 
eligible entity may include the amount 
of the wages paid by the participating 
employer of the eligible entity to a par-
ticipant while such participant is re-
ceiving the training. 
‘‘(F) PERFORMANCE REPORTING.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The State shall use 
the participant information provided by eli-
gible entities to submit to the Secretary a 
report, on an annual basis, with respect to 
the participants of the eligible skills devel-
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opment programs for which the eligible enti-
ties received funds under this paragraph for 
the most recent program year, which 
shall— 
‘‘(I) be made digitally available 
by the Secretary using linked, open, 
and interoperable data, which shall in-
clude; and 
‘‘(II) include— 
‘‘(aa) the number of individ-
uals who participated in pro-
grams, unless such information 
would reveal personally identifi-
able information about an indi-
vidual); and 
‘‘(bb) performance outcomes 
on the measures listed in clause 
(ii). 
‘‘(ii) MEASURES.—The measures listed 
below are as follows: 
‘‘(I) The percentage of partici-
pants who completed the skills develop-
ment program. 
‘‘(II) The percentage of partici-
pants who were employed by the par-
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ticipating employer for a 6-month pe-
riod after program completion. 
‘‘(III) The percentage of partici-
pants who were employed by the par-
ticipating employer as described in 
subclause (II), and who remained em-
ployed by the participating employer 1 
year after program completion. 
‘‘(IV) The median earnings of 
program participants who are in un-
subsidized employment during the sec-
ond quarter after program completion. 
‘‘(V) The median earnings in-
crease of program participants, meas-
ured by comparing the earning of a 
participant in the second quarter prior 
to entry into the program to the earn-
ings of such participant in the second 
quarter following completion of the 
program. 
‘‘(G) DEFINITIONS.—In this paragraph: 
‘‘(i) ELIGIBLE ENTITY.—The term ‘eli-
gible entity’ means an employer, a group of 
employers, an industry or sector partner-
ship, or another entity serving as an inter-
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mediary (such as a local board) that is in 
a partnership with at least one employer in 
an industry or occupation identified by the 
Governor under subparagraph (B)(i) (re-
ferred to in this paragraph as the ‘partici-
pating employer’). 
‘‘(ii) ELIGIBLE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT 
PROGRAM.—The term ‘eligible skills develop-
ment program’, with respect to which a 
State may set a maximum and minimum 
length (in weeks)— 
‘‘(I) includes work-based edu-
cation or related occupational skills in-
struction that— 
‘‘(aa) develops the specific 
technical skills necessary for suc-
cessful performance of the occupa-
tions in which participants are to 
be employed upon completion; and 
‘‘(bb) may be provided by the 
eligible entity or by any training 
provider selected by the eligible 
entity and that is not required to 
be on a list of eligible providers of 
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training services described in sec-
tion 122(d); and 
‘‘(II) may not include employee 
onboarding, orientation, or profes-
sional development generally provided 
to employees.’’. 
(5) STATE-IMPOSED
REQUIREMENTS.—Section 
134(a) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 
Act (29 U.S.C. 3174(a)), as amended, is further 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) STATE-IMPOSED
REQUIREMENTS.—When-
ever a State or outlying area implements any rule or 
policy relating to the administration or operation of 
activities authorized under this title that has the effect 
of imposing a requirement that is not imposed under 
Federal law, or is not a requirement, process, or cri-
teria that the Governor or State is directed to estab-
lish under Federal law, the State or outlying area 
shall identify to local areas and eligible providers the 
requirement as being imposed by the State or out-
lying area.’’. 
(b) REQUIRED LOCAL EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING 
ACTIVITIES.— 
(1) MINIMUM
AMOUNT
FOR
SKILLS
DEVELOP-
MENT.—Section 134(c)(1) of the Workforce Innovation 
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and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3174(c)(1)) is 
amended— 
(A) in subparagraph (A)(iv), by striking 
‘‘to’’ and inserting ‘‘to provide business services 
described in paragraph (4) and’’; 
(B) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as 
subparagraph (C); and 
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (A), as 
so amended, the following: 
‘‘(B) MINIMUM AMOUNT FOR SKILLS DEVEL-
OPMENT.—Not less than 50 percent of the funds 
described in subparagraph (A) shall be used by 
the local area— 
‘‘(i) for the payment of training serv-
ices— 
‘‘(I) provided to adults under 
paragraph (3)(F)(iii); and 
‘‘(II) provided to adults and dis-
located 
workers 
under 
paragraph 
(3)(G)(ii); and 
‘‘(ii) for the payment of training serv-
ices under paragraph (2)(A) of section 
414(c) of the American Competitiveness and 
Workforce Improvement Act of 1998 (29 
U.S.C. 3224a(c)) after funds allocated to 
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such local area under paragraph (1) of such 
section 414(c) have been exhausted.’’; and 
(D) in subparagraph (C), as so redesig-
nated, by striking ‘‘and (ii)’’ and inserting ‘‘, 
(ii), and (iv)’’. 
(2) CAREER SERVICES.—Section 134(c)(2) of the 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3174(c)(2)) is amended— 
(A) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) 
through (C) as subparagraphs (B) through (D), 
respectively; 
(B) by inserting before subparagraph (B), 
as so redesignated, the following: 
‘‘(A) BASIC CAREER SERVICES.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The one-stop deliv-
ery system— 
‘‘(I) shall coordinate with the Em-
ployment Service office colocated with 
the one-stop delivery system for such 
Employment Service office to provide, 
using the funds allotted to the State 
under section 6 of the Wagner-Peyser 
Act (29 U.S.C. 49e), basic career serv-
ices, which shall— 
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‘‘(aa) include, at a min-
imum, the services listed in clause 
(ii); and 
‘‘(bb) be available to individ-
uals who are adults or dislocated 
workers in an integrated manner 
to streamline access to assistance 
for such individuals, to avoid du-
plication of services, and to en-
hance coordination of services; 
and 
‘‘(II) may use funds allocated 
under paragraph (1)(A), as necessary, 
to supplement the services that are pro-
vided pursuant to subclause (I) to in-
dividuals who are adults or dislocated 
workers. 
‘‘(ii) SERVICES.—The basic career 
services provided pursuant to clause (i) 
shall include— 
‘‘(I) provision of workforce and 
labor market employment statistics in-
formation, including the provision of 
accurate (and, to the extent prac-
ticable, real-time) information relating 
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to local, regional, and national labor 
market areas, including— 
‘‘(aa) job vacancy listings in 
such labor market areas; 
‘‘(bb) information on job 
skills necessary to obtain the jobs 
described in item (aa); and 
‘‘(cc) information relating to 
local 
occupations 
in 
demand 
(which may include entrepreneur-
ship opportunities), and the earn-
ings, skill requirements, and op-
portunities for advancement for 
such occupations; 
‘‘(II) labor exchange services, in-
cluding job search and placement as-
sistance and, in appropriate cases, ca-
reer counseling, including— 
‘‘(aa) provision of informa-
tion on in-demand industry sec-
tors and occupations; 
‘‘(bb) provision of informa-
tion on nontraditional employ-
ment; and 
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‘‘(cc) provision of informa-
tion on entrepreneurship, as ap-
propriate; 
‘‘(III)(aa) provision of informa-
tion, in formats that are usable by and 
understandable to one-stop center cus-
tomers, relating to the availability of 
supportive services or assistance, in-
cluding child care, child support, med-
ical or child health assistance under 
title XIX or XXI of the Social Security 
Act (42 U.S.C. 1396 et seq. and 
1397aa et seq.), benefits under the sup-
plemental nutrition assistance pro-
gram established under the Food and 
Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2011 
et seq.), assistance through the earned 
income tax credit under section 32 of 
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, 
and assistance under a State program 
for temporary assistance for needy 
families funded under part A of title 
IV of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 601 et seq.) and other sup-
portive services and transportation 
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provided through funds made available 
under such part, available in the local 
area; and 
‘‘(bb) referral to the services or as-
sistance described in item (aa), as ap-
propriate; 
‘‘(IV) provision of information 
and assistance regarding filing claims 
for unemployment compensation; and 
‘‘(V) assistance in establishing eli-
gibility for programs of financial aid 
assistance for training and education 
programs that are not funded under 
this Act.’’; 
(C) in subparagraph (B), as so redesig-
nated— 
(i) in the heading, by striking the 
heading and inserting ‘‘INDIVIDUALIZED 
CAREER’’; 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘individualized’’ be-
fore ‘‘career services’’; 
(iii) by inserting ‘‘shall, to the extent 
practicable, be evidence-based,’’ before ‘‘and 
shall’’; 
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(iv) in clause (iii), by inserting ‘‘, and 
a determination (considering factors includ-
ing prior work experience, military service, 
education, and in-demand industry sectors 
and occupations in the local area) of wheth-
er such an individual would benefit from a 
competency-based assessment developed or 
identified by the State pursuant to sub-
section (a)(2)(B)(vii) to accelerate the time 
to obtaining employment that leads to eco-
nomic self-sufficiency or career advance-
ment’’ before the semi-colon at the end; 
(v) by striking clauses (iv), (vi), (ix), 
(x), and (xi); 
(vi) by redesignating clauses (v), (vii), 
(viii), (xii), and (xiii) as clauses (iv), (v), 
(vi), (vii), and (viii), respectively; 
(vii) in clause (v), as so redesignated, 
by inserting ‘‘and credential’’ after ‘‘by pro-
gram’’; and 
(viii) in clause (vii)(I)(aa), as so re-
designated, by inserting ‘‘, including a com-
petency-based assessment developed or iden-
tified by the State pursuant to subsection 
(a)(2)(B)(vii)’’ after ‘‘tools’’; 
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(D) by amending subparagraph (C), as so 
redesignated, to read as follows: 
‘‘(C) USE OF PREVIOUS ASSESSMENTS.—A 
one-stop operator or one-stop partner shall not be 
required to conduct a new interview, evaluation, 
or assessment of a participant under subpara-
graph (B)(vii) if the one-stop operator or one- 
stop partner determines that— 
‘‘(i) it is appropriate to use a recent 
interview, evaluation, or assessment of the 
participant conducted pursuant to another 
education or training program; and 
‘‘(ii) using such recent interview, eval-
uation, or assessment will accelerate an eli-
gibility determination.’’; and 
(E) in subparagraph (D), as so redesig-
nated— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘individualized’’ before 
‘‘career’’; and 
(ii) in clause (ii), by inserting ‘‘, li-
braries, and community-based organiza-
tions’’ after ‘‘nonprofit service providers’’. 
(3) TRAINING SERVICES.—Section 134(c)(3) of 
the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3174(c)(3)) is amended— 
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(A) in subparagraph (A)— 
(i) in clause (i), in the matter pre-
ceding subclause (I), by striking ‘‘clause 
(ii)’’ and inserting ‘‘clause (ii) or (iii)’’ 
(ii) in clause (i)(II)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘or in’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘in’’ and 
(II) by inserting ‘‘, or that may 
be performed remotely’’ after ‘‘relo-
cate’’; 
(iii) by redesignating clause (iii) as 
clause (iv); 
(iv) by inserting after clause (ii) the 
following: 
‘‘(iii) EMPLOYER REFERRAL.— 
‘‘(I) IN GENERAL.—A one-stop op-
erator or one-stop partner shall not be 
required to conduct an interview, eval-
uation, or assessment of an individual 
under clause (i)(I) if such indi-
vidual— 
‘‘(aa) is referred by an em-
ployer to receive on-the-job train-
ing or employer-directed skills de-
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velopment in connection with that 
employer; and 
‘‘(bb) has been certified by 
the employer as being in need of 
training services to obtain unsub-
sidized employment with such em-
ployer and having the skills and 
qualifications to successfully par-
ticipate in the selected program of 
training services. 
‘‘(II) PRIORITY.—A one-stop oper-
ator or one-stop partner shall follow 
the priority described in subparagraph 
(E) to determine whether an indi-
vidual that meets the requirements of 
subclause (I) of this clause is eligible to 
receive training services.’’; and 
(v) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(v) ADULT
EDUCATION
AND
FAMILY 
LITERACY ACTIVITIES.—In the case of an 
individual who is determined to not have 
the skills and qualifications to successfully 
participate in the selected program of train-
ing services under clause (i)(I)(cc), the one- 
stop operator or one-stop partner shall refer 
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such individual to adult education and lit-
eracy activities under title II, including for 
co-enrollment in such activities, as appro-
priate.’’; 
(B) in subparagraph (B)— 
(i) in clause (i)— 
(I) in subclause (I), by striking 
‘‘other grant assistance for such serv-
ices, including’’ and inserting ‘‘assist-
ance for such services under’’; and 
(II) by striking ‘‘under other 
grant assistance programs, including’’ 
and inserting ‘‘under’’; and 
(ii) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(iv) PARTICIPATION
DURING
ELIGI-
BILITY
DETERMINATION.—An 
individual 
may participate in a program of training 
services during the period which such indi-
vidual’s eligibility for training services 
under clause (i) is being determined, except 
that the provider of such a program shall 
only receive reimbursement under this Act 
for the individual’s participation during 
such period if such individual is determined 
to be eligible under clause (i).’’; 
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(C) in subparagraph (D)(xi), by striking 
‘‘customized training’’ and inserting ‘‘employer- 
directed skills development’’; 
(D) in subparagraph (E)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘are basic skills defi-
cient’’ and inserting ‘‘have foundational 
skill needs’’; and 
(ii) 
by 
striking 
‘‘paragraph 
(2)(A)(xii)’’ 
and 
inserting 
‘‘paragraph 
(2)(B)(vii)’’; 
(E) in subparagraph (G)(ii)— 
(i) in subclause (II), by striking ‘‘cus-
tomized training’’ and inserting ‘‘employer- 
directed skills development’’; and 
(ii) in subclause (IV), by striking ‘‘is 
a’’ and inserting ‘‘is an evidence-based’’; 
(F) in subparagraph (H)— 
(i) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘reim-
bursement described in section 3(44)’’ and 
inserting ‘‘reimbursement described in the 
definition of the term ‘‘on-the-job training’’ 
in section 3’’; and 
(ii) in clause (ii)— 
(I) in subclause (I), by inserting 
‘‘, such as the extent to which partici-
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pants are individuals with barriers to 
employment’’ after ‘‘participants’’; and 
(II) in subclause (III), by insert-
ing ‘‘, including whether the skills a 
participant will obtain are transfer-
able to other employers, occupations, or 
industries in the local area or the 
State’’ after ‘‘opportunities’’; and 
(G) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(I) EMPLOYER-DIRECTED
SKILLS
DEVEL-
OPMENT.—An employer may receive a contract 
from a local board to provide employer-directed 
skills development to a participant or group of 
participants if the employer submits to the local 
board an agreement that establishes— 
‘‘(i) the provider of the skills develop-
ment program, which may be the employer; 
‘‘(ii) the length of the skills develop-
ment program; 
‘‘(iii) the recognized postsecondary cre-
dentials that will be awarded to, or the oc-
cupational skills that will be gained by, 
program participants; 
‘‘(iv) the cost of the skills development 
program; 
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‘‘(v) the amount of such cost that will 
be paid by the employer, which shall not be 
less than the amount specified in section 
3(14)(C); and 
‘‘(vi) a commitment by the employer to 
employ the participating individual or in-
dividuals upon successful completion of the 
program.’’. 
(c) BUSINESS SERVICES.—Section 134(c) of the Work-
force Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3174(c)) 
is further amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)(A)(iv), by inserting ‘‘pro-
vide business services described in paragraph (4) 
and’’ before ‘‘establish’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(4) BUSINESS SERVICES.—Funds described in 
paragraph (1) shall be used to provide appropriate 
recruitment and other business services and strategies 
on behalf of employers, including small employers, 
that meet the workforce investment needs of area em-
ployers, as determined by the local board and con-
sistent with the local plan under section 108, which 
services— 
‘‘(A) may be provided through effective busi-
ness intermediaries working in conjunction with 
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the local board, and may also be provided on a 
fee-for-service basis or through the leveraging of 
economic development, philanthropic, and other 
public and private resources in a manner deter-
mined appropriate by the local board; and 
‘‘(B) may include one or more of the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(i) Developing and implementing in-
dustry sector strategies (including strategies 
involving industry partnerships, regional 
skills alliances, industry skill panels, and 
sectoral skills partnerships). 
‘‘(ii) Developing and delivering inno-
vative workforce investment services and 
strategies for area employers, which may 
include career pathways, skills upgrading, 
skill standard development and certification 
for recognized postsecondary credential or 
other employer use, apprenticeship, and 
other effective initiatives for meeting the 
workforce investment needs of area employ-
ers and workers. 
‘‘(iii) Assistance to area employers in 
managing reductions in force in coordina-
tion with rapid response activities provided 
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under subsection (a)(2)(A) and developing 
strategies for the aversion of layoffs, which 
strategies may include early identification 
of firms at risk of layoffs, use of feasibility 
studies to assess the needs of and options for 
at-risk firms, and the delivery of employ-
ment and training activities to address risk 
factors. 
‘‘(iv) The marketing of business serv-
ices offered under this title to appropriate 
area employers, including small and mid- 
sized employers. 
‘‘(v) Technical assistance or other sup-
port to employers seeking to implement 
skills-based hiring practices, which may in-
clude technical assistance on the use and 
validation of employment assessments, in-
cluding competency-based assessments devel-
oped or identified by the State pursuant to 
paragraph (2)(B)(vii), and support in the 
creation of skills-based job descriptions. 
‘‘(vi) Other services described in this 
subsection, including providing information 
and referral to microenterprise services, as 
appropriate, and specialized business serv-
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ices not traditionally offered through the 
one-stop delivery system.’’. 
(d) PERMISSIBLE LOCAL EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING 
ACTIVITIES.— 
(1) ACTIVITIES.—Section 134(d)(1)(A) of the 
Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 
U.S.C. 3174(d)(1)(A)) is amended— 
(A) by amending clause (iii) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(iii) implementation of a pay-for-per-
formance contract strategy for training 
services, for which the local board may re-
serve and use not more than 40 percent of 
the total funds allocated to the local area 
under paragraph (2) or (3) of section 
133(b), except that after 2 fiscal years of a 
local board implementing such pay-for-per-
formance contract strategy, the local board 
may request approval from the Governor to 
reserve and use not more than 60 percent of 
the total funds allocated to the local area 
under paragraph (2) or (3) of section 
133(b) for such strategy for the following 
fiscal year if the local board can dem-
onstrate to the Governor the performance 
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improvements achieved through the use of 
such strategy;’’; 
(B) in clause (vii)— 
(i) in subclause (II), by striking ‘‘and’’ 
at the end; 
(ii) in subclause (III), by inserting 
‘‘and’’ at the end; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(IV) to strengthen, through pro-
fessional development activities, the 
knowledge and capacity of staff to use 
the latest digital technologies, tools, 
and strategies to deliver high quality 
services and outcomes for jobseekers, 
workers, and employers;’’; 
(C) in clause (ix)(II)— 
(i) in item (cc), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
(ii) in item (dd), by inserting ‘‘and’’ 
at the end; and 
(iii) by adding at the end the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(ee) technical assistance or 
other support to employers seeking 
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to implement skills-based hiring 
practices, which may include tech-
nical assistance on the use and 
validation of employment assess-
ments, 
including 
competency- 
based assessments developed or 
identified by the State pursuant 
to paragraph (2)(B)(vii), and 
support in the creation of skills- 
based job descriptions;’’; 
(D) in clause (xi), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the 
end; 
(E) in clause (xii), by striking the period at 
the end and inserting a semicolon; and 
(F) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(xiii) the use of competency-based as-
sessments for individuals upon initial as-
sessment of skills (pursuant to subsection 
(c)(2)(A)(iii)) or completion of training 
services or other learning experiences; and 
‘‘(xiv) the development of partnerships 
between educational institutions (including 
area career and technical education schools, 
local educational agencies, and institutions 
of higher education) and employers to create 
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or improve workforce development programs 
to address the identified education and skill 
needs of the workforce and the employment 
needs of employers in a region, as deter-
mined based on the most recent analysis 
conducted by the local board under section 
107(d)(2).’’. 
(2) INCUMBENT WORKER TRAINING PROGRAMS.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—Section 134(d)(4)(A) of 
the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act 
(29 U.S.C. 3174(d)(4)(A)) is amended— 
(i) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘20’’ and 
inserting ‘‘30’ ’’ 
(ii) by redesignating clauses (ii) and 
(iii) as clauses (iii) and (iv), respectively; 
and 
(iii) by inserting after clause (i) the 
following: 
‘‘(ii) INCREASE
IN
RESERVATION
OF 
FUNDS.—Notwithstanding clause (i)— 
‘‘(I) with respect to a local area 
that had a rate of unemployment of 
not more than 3 percent for not less 
than 6 months during the preceding 
program year, clause (i) shall be ap-
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plied by substituting ‘40 percent’ for 
‘30 percent’; or 
‘‘(II) with respect to a local area 
that meets the requirement in subclause 
(I) and is located in a State that had 
a labor force participation rate of not 
less than 68 percent for not less than 
6 months during the preceding pro-
gram year, clause (i) shall be applied 
by substituting ‘45 percent’ for ‘30 per-
cent’.’’. 
(B) INCUMBENT WORKER UPSKILLING AC-
COUNTS.—Section 134(d)(4) of the Workforce In-
novation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 
3174(d)(4)) is further amended by adding at the 
end the following: 
‘‘(E) INCUMBENT WORKER UPSKILLING AC-
COUNTS.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—To establish incum-
bent worker upskilling accounts through 
which an eligible provider of training serv-
ices under section 122 may be paid for the 
program of training services provided to an 
incumbent worker, a local board— 
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‘‘(I) may use up to 5 percent of 
the funds reserved by the local area 
under subparagraph (A)(i) or, if the 
local area reserved funds under sub-
paragraph (A)(ii), up to 10 percent of 
such reserved funds; and 
‘‘(II) may use funds reserved 
under section 134(a)(2)(A) for state-
wide rapid response activities and pro-
vided by the State to local area to es-
tablish such accounts. 
‘‘(ii) ELIGIBILITY.— 
‘‘(I) IN
GENERAL.—Subject to 
subclause (II), a local board that seeks 
to 
establish 
incumbent 
worker 
upskilling accounts under clause (i) 
shall establish criteria for determining 
the eligibility of an incumbent worker 
to receive such an account, which shall 
take into account factors of— 
‘‘(aa) the wages of the in-
cumbent worker as of the date of 
determining such worker’s eligi-
bility under this clause; 
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‘‘(bb) the career advancement 
opportunities for the incumbent 
worker in the occupation of such 
worker as of such date; and 
‘‘(cc) the ability of the in-
cumbent worker to, upon comple-
tion of the program of training 
services selected by such worker, 
secure employment in an in-de-
mand industry or occupation in 
the local area that will lead to 
economic 
self-sufficiency 
and 
wages higher than the current 
wages of the incumbent worker. 
‘‘(II) LIMITATION.— 
‘‘(aa) IN GENERAL.—An in-
cumbent worker described in item 
(bb) shall be ineligible to receive 
an incumbent worker upskilling 
account under this subparagraph. 
‘‘(bb) 
INELIGIBILITY.—Item 
(aa) shall apply to an incumbent 
worker— 
‘‘(AA) whose total an-
nual wages for the most re-
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cent year are greater than 
the median household income 
of the State; or 
‘‘(BB) who has earned a 
baccalaureate or professional 
degree. 
‘‘(iii) COST SHARING FOR CERTAIN IN-
CUMBENT
WORKERS.—With respect to an 
incumbent worker determined to be eligible 
to receive an incumbent worker upskilling 
account who is not a low-income indi-
vidual— 
‘‘(I) such incumbent worker shall 
pay not less than 25 percent of the cost 
of the program of training services se-
lected by such worker; and 
‘‘(II) funds provided through the 
incumbent worker upskilling account 
established for such worker shall cover 
the remaining 75 percent of the cost of 
the program.’’. 
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CHAPTER 4—AUTHORIZATION OF 
APPROPRIATIONS 
SEC. 145. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
Section 136 of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3181) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 136. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 
‘‘(a) YOUTH WORKFORCE INVESTMENT ACTIVITIES.— 
There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the 
activities described in section 127(a) $976,573,900 for each 
of the fiscal years 2025 through 2030. 
‘‘(b) ADULT EMPLOYMENT
AND TRAINING ACTIVI-
TIES.—There are authorized to be appropriated to carry out 
the activities described in section 132(a)(1) $912,218,500 
for each of the fiscal years 2025 through 2030. 
‘‘(c) DISLOCATED WORKER EMPLOYMENT AND TRAIN-
ING ACTIVITIES.—There are authorized to be appropriated 
to carry out the activities described in section 132(a)(2) 
$1,451,859,000 for each of the fiscal years 2025 through 
2030.’’. 
Subtitle D—Job Corps 
SEC. 151. PURPOSES. 
Section 141 of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3191) is amended by striking ‘‘cen-
ters’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘campuses’’. 
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SEC. 152. DEFINITIONS. 
Section 142 of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3192) is amended— 
(1) in paragraphs (1), (7), (8), and (10), by 
striking ‘‘center’’ each place it appears and inserting 
‘‘campus’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (7), by striking ‘‘CENTER’’ in 
the header and inserting ‘‘CAMPUS’’. 
SEC. 153. INDIVIDUALS ELIGIBLE FOR THE JOB CORPS. 
Section 144 of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3194) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘21’’ and inserting 
‘‘24’’; 
(ii) by amending subparagraph (A) to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(A) an individual who is age 16 or 17 
shall be eligible only upon an individual deter-
mination by the director of a Job Corps campus 
that such individual meets the criteria described 
in subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 145(b)(1); 
and’’; and 
(iii) in subparagraph (B), by striking 
‘‘either’’; 
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(B) in paragraph (2), by inserting after 
‘‘individual’’ the following: ‘‘or a resident of a 
qualified opportunity zone as defined in section 
1400Z–1(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986’’; and 
(C) in paragraph (3), by amending sub-
paragraph (A) to read as follows: 
‘‘(A) Has foundational skill needs.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b), by inserting after ‘‘a vet-
eran’’ the following: ‘‘or a member of the Armed 
Forces eligible for preseparation counseling of the 
Transition Assistance Program under section 1142 of 
title 10, United States Code’’; and 
(3) by inserting at the end the following: 
‘‘(c) SPECIAL RULE
FOR HOMELESS
AND FOSTER 
YOUTH.—In determining whether an individual is eligible 
to enroll for services under this subtitle on the basis of being 
an individual who is a homeless child or youth, or a youth 
in foster care, as described in subsection (a)(3)(C), staff 
shall— 
‘‘(1) if determining whether the individual is a 
homeless child or youth, use a process that is in com-
pliance with the requirements of subsection (a) of sec-
tion 479D of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as 
added by section 702(l) of the FAFSA Simplification 
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Act (Public Law 116–260), for financial aid adminis-
trators; and 
‘‘(2) if determining whether the individual is a 
youth in foster care, use a process that is in compli-
ance with the requirements of subsection (b) of such 
section 479D of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as 
added by section 702(l) of the FAFSA Simplification 
Act (Public Law 116–260), for financial aid adminis-
trators.’’. 
SEC. 154. RECRUITMENT, SCREENING, SELECTION, AND AS-
SIGNMENT OF ENROLLEES. 
Section 145 of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3195) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) by amending subparagraph (A) to 
read as follows: 
‘‘(A) prescribe procedures for— 
‘‘(i) administering drug tests to enroll-
ees; and 
‘‘(ii) informing such enrollees that 
drug tests will be administered;’’; 
(ii) in subparagraph (D), by striking 
‘‘and’’; 
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(iii) in subparagraph (E), by striking 
the period and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(iv) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(F) assist applicable one-stop centers and 
other entities identified in paragraph (3) in de-
veloping joint applications for Job Corps, 
YouthBuild, and the youth activities described in 
section 129.’’; and 
(B) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(6) DRUG TEST PROCEDURES.—The procedures 
prescribed under paragraph (2)(A)(i) shall require 
that— 
‘‘(A) each enrollee take a drug test not more 
than 48 hours after such enrollee arrives on cam-
pus; 
‘‘(B) if the result of the drug test taken by 
an enrollee pursuant to subparagraph (A) is 
positive, the enrollee take a subsequent drug test 
at the earliest appropriate time (considering the 
substance and potency levels identified in the 
initial test) to determine if the enrollee has con-
tinued to use drugs since arriving on campus, 
the results of which must be received not later 
than 50 days after the enrollee arrived on cam-
pus; and 
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‘‘(C) if the result of the subsequent test ad-
ministered under subparagraph (B) is positive, 
the enrollee be terminated from the program and 
referred to a substance use disorder treatment 
program.’’; and 
(2) in subsections (b), (c), and (d)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘center’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘campus’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘centers’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘campus’’. 
SEC. 155. JOB CORPS CAMPUSES. 
Section 147 of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3197) is amended— 
(1) in the header, by striking ‘‘CENTERS’’ and 
inserting ‘‘CAMPUSES’’; 
(2) in subsection (a)— 
(A) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘center’’ each place it 
appears and inserting ‘‘campus’’; and 
(ii) in subparagraph (A), by inserting 
after ‘‘area career and technical education 
school,’’ the following: ‘‘an institution of 
higher education,’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A)— 
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(I) by striking ‘‘center’’ each place 
it appears and inserting ‘‘campus’’; 
and 
(II) by inserting after ‘‘United 
States Code,’’ the following: ‘‘and para-
graph (2)(C)(iii) of section 159(f),’’; 
and 
(ii) in subparagraph (B)— 
(I) in clause (i)— 
(aa) by striking ‘‘operate a 
Job Corps center’’ and inserting 
‘‘operate a Job Corps campus’’; 
(bb) by striking subclause 
(IV); 
(cc) by redesignating sub-
clauses (I), (II), (III), and (V), as 
subclauses (III), (IV), (V), and 
(VI), respectively; 
(dd) by inserting before sub-
clause (III), as so redesignated, 
the following: 
‘‘(I)(aa) in the case of an entity 
that has previously operated a Job 
Corps campus, a numeric metric of the 
past achievement on the primary indi-
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cators of performance for eligible youth 
described in section 116(b)(2)(A)(ii); or 
‘‘(bb) in the case of an entity that 
has not previously operated a Job 
Corps campus, an alternative numeric 
metric on the past effectiveness of the 
entity in successfully assisting at-risk 
youth to connect to the labor force, 
based on such primary indicators of 
performance for eligible youth; 
‘‘(II) in the case of an entity that 
has previously operated a Job Corps 
campus, any information regarding 
the entity included in any report devel-
oped by the Office of Inspector General 
of the Department of Labor;’’; 
(ee) in subclauses (III) and 
(IV), as so redesignated, by strik-
ing ‘‘center’’ each place it appears 
and inserting ‘‘campus’’; 
(ff) in subclause (V), as so re-
designated, by striking ‘‘center is 
located’’ and inserting ‘‘campus is 
located, including agreements to 
provide 
off-campus 
work-based 
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learning 
opportunities 
aligned 
with the career and technical edu-
cation provided to enrollees’’; and 
(gg) by amending subclause 
(VI), as so redesignated, to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(VI) the ability of the entity to 
implement an effective behavior man-
agement plan, as described in section 
152(a), and maintain a safe and se-
cure learning environment for enroll-
ees.’’; and 
(II) in clause (ii), by striking 
‘‘center’’ and inserting ‘‘campus’’; 
(C) in paragraph (3)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘center’’ each place it 
appears and inserting ‘‘campus’’; 
(ii) in subparagraph (D), by inserting 
after ‘‘is located’’ the following: ‘‘, including 
agreements to provide off-campus work- 
based learning opportunities aligned with 
the career and technical education provided 
to enrollees’’; 
(iii) by redesignating subparagraphs 
(E), (F), (G), (H), (I), (J), and (K) as sub-
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paragraphs (F), (G), (H), (I), (J), (K), and 
(L), respectively; and 
(iv) by inserting after subparagraph 
(D) the following: 
‘‘(E) A description of the policies that will 
be implemented at the campus regarding security 
and access to campus facilities, including proce-
dures to report on and respond to criminal ac-
tions and other emergencies occurring on cam-
pus.’’; 
(3) in subsection (b)— 
(A) in the header, by striking ‘‘CENTERS’’ 
and inserting ‘‘CAMPUSES’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘center’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘campus’’; 
(C) by striking ‘‘centers’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘campuses’’; 
(D) in paragraph (2)(A), by striking ‘‘20 
percent’’ and inserting ‘‘25 percent’’; and 
(E) by striking paragraph (3); 
(4) in subsection (c)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘centers’’ and inserting 
‘‘campuses’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘20 percent’’ and inserting 
‘‘30 percent’’; 
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(5) in subsection (d) by striking ‘‘centers’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘campuses’’; 
(6) in subsection (e)(1), by striking ‘‘centers’’ 
and inserting ‘‘campuses’’; 
(7) in subsection (f), by striking ‘‘2-year period’’ 
and inserting ‘‘3-year period’’; and 
(8) in subsection (g)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘center’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘campus’’; 
(B) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by striking subparagraph (A); 
(ii) by redesignating subparagraph (B) 
as subparagraph (A); 
(iii) by amending subparagraph (A), 
as so redesignated— 
(I) by striking ‘‘50 percent’’ and 
inserting ‘‘80 percent’’; and 
(II) by striking the period at the 
end and inserting ‘‘; or’’; and 
(iv) by inserting after subparagraph 
(A), as so redesignated and amended, the 
following: 
‘‘(B) failed to achieve an average of 80 per-
cent of the level of enrollment that was agreed to 
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in 
the 
agreement 
described 
in 
subsection 
(a)(1)(A).’’; 
(C) in paragraph (3) by striking ‘‘shall pro-
vide’’ and inserting ‘‘shall provide, at least 30 
days prior to renewing the agreement’’; and 
(D) in paragraph (4)— 
(i) in subparagraph (C), by striking 
‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; 
(ii) by redesignating subparagraph (D) 
as subparagraph (E); and 
(iii) by inserting after subparagraph 
(C) the following: 
‘‘(D) has maintained a safe and secure 
campus environment; and’’. 
SEC. 156. PROGRAM ACTIVITIES. 
Section 148 of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3198) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘center’’ and inserting 
‘‘campus’’; 
(B) in paragraph (1), by inserting before 
the period at the end the following: ‘‘, and pro-
ductive activities, such as tutoring or other skills 
development opportunities, for residential enroll-
ees to participate in outside of regular class time 
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and work hours in order to increase supervision 
of enrollees and reduce behavior infractions’’; 
and 
(2) in subsection (c)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘centers’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘campuses’’; and 
(B) in paragraph (1)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘the eligible providers’’ 
and inserting ‘‘any eligible provider’’; and 
(ii) by inserting after ‘‘under section 
122’’ the following: ‘‘that is aligned with the 
career and technical education an enrollee 
has completed’’. 
SEC. 157. SUPPORT. 
Section 150 of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3200) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘centers’’ and 
inserting ‘‘campuses’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d) PERIOD OF TRANSITION.—Notwithstanding the 
requirements of section 146(b), a Job Corps graduate may 
remain an enrollee and a resident of a Job Corps campus 
for not more than one month after graduation as such grad-
uate transitions into independent living and employment 
if such graduate— 
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‘‘(1) has not had a behavioral infraction in the 
90 days prior to graduation; and 
‘‘(2) receives written approval from the director 
of the Job Corps campus to remain such a resident.’’. 
SEC. 158. OPERATIONS. 
Section 151 of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3201) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘center’’ each place it appears 
and inserting ‘‘campus’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d) LOCAL AUTHORITY.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to the limitations of 
the budget approved by the Secretary for a Job Corps 
campus, the operator of a Job Corps campus shall 
have the authority, without prior approval from the 
Secretary, to— 
‘‘(A) hire staff and provide staff profes-
sional development; 
‘‘(B) set terms and enter into agreements 
with Federal, State, or local educational part-
ners, such as secondary schools, institutions of 
higher education, child development centers, 
units of Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps 
programs established under section 2031 of title 
10, United States Code, or employers; and 
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‘‘(C) engage with and educate stakeholders 
about Job Corps operations and activities. 
‘‘(2) LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.—In the case of 
an agreement described in paragraph (1)(B) that does 
not involve the Job Corps operator providing mone-
tary compensation to the entity involved in such 
agreement from the funds made available under this 
subtitle, such agreement shall not be considered a sub-
contract (as defined in section 8701 of title 41, 
United States Code). 
‘‘(e) PRIOR NOTICE.—Prior to making a change to the 
agreement described in section 147(a) or an operating plan 
described in this section, the Secretary shall solicit from the 
operators of the Job Corps campuses information on any 
operational costs the operators expect to result from such 
change.’’. 
SEC. 159. STANDARDS OF CONDUCT. 
Section 152 of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3202) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘centers’’ each place it appears 
and inserting ‘‘campuses’’; 
(2) in subsection (a), by inserting ‘‘As part of 
the operating plan required under section 151(a), the 
director of each Job Corps campus shall develop and 
implement a behavior management plan consistent 
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with the standards of conduct and subject to the ap-
proval of the Secretary.’’ at the end; and 
(3) in subsection (b)(2)(A), by striking ‘‘or dis-
ruptive’’; 
(4) by amending subsection (c) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(c) APPEAL PROCESS.— 
‘‘(1) ENROLLEE APPEALS.—A disciplinary meas-
ure taken by a director under this section shall be 
subject to expeditious appeal in accordance with pro-
cedures established by the Secretary. 
‘‘(2) DIRECTOR APPEALS.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall es-
tablish an appeals process under which the direc-
tor of a Job Corps campus may submit a request 
that an enrollee who has engaged in an activity 
which is a violation of the guidelines established 
pursuant to subsection (b)(2)(A) remain enrolled 
in the program, but be subject to other discipli-
nary actions. 
‘‘(B) CONTENTS.—An request under para-
graph (A) shall include— 
‘‘(i) a signed certification from the di-
rector attesting that, to the belief of the di-
rector, the continued enrollment of such en-
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rollee would not impact the safety or learn-
ing environment of the campus; and 
‘‘(ii) the behavioral records of such en-
rollee. 
‘‘(C) TIMELINE.—The Secretary shall re-
view such appeal and either approve or deny the 
appeal within 30 days of receiving such appeal. 
‘‘(D) INELIGIBILITY FOR APPEAL.—The Sec-
retary shall reject an appeal made by a director 
of a Job Corps campus if such campus has been 
found out of compliance with the requirements 
under subsection (d) at any time during the pre-
vious 5 years.’’; and 
(5) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(d) INCIDENT REPORTING.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall require 
that the director of a Job Corps campus report to the 
appropriate regional office— 
‘‘(A) not later than 2 hours after the cam-
pus management becomes aware of the occur-
rence of— 
‘‘(i) an enrollee or on-duty staff death; 
‘‘(ii) any incident— 
‘‘(I) requiring law enforcement in-
volvement; 
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‘‘(II) involving a missing minor 
student; or 
‘‘(III) where substantial property 
damage has occurred; or 
‘‘(iii) a level 1 infraction; 
‘‘(B) in the case of a level 2 infraction, on 
a quarterly basis, including the number and type 
of such infractions that occurred during such 
time period; and 
‘‘(C) in the case of a minor infraction, as 
determined necessary by the Secretary. 
‘‘(2) INFRACTIONS DEFINED.—In this subsection: 
‘‘(A) LEVEL 1 INFRACTION.—The term ‘level 
1 infraction’ means an activity described in sub-
section (b)(2)(A). 
‘‘(B) LEVEL 2 INFRACTION.—The term ‘level 
2 infraction’ means an activity, other than a 
level 1 infraction, determined by the Secretary to 
be a serious infraction. 
‘‘(C) MINOR INFRACTION.—The term ‘minor 
infraction’ means an activity, other than a level 
1 or 2 infraction, determined by the Secretary to 
be an infraction. 
‘‘(3) LAW ENFORCEMENT AGREEMENTS.—The di-
rector of each Job Corps campus shall enter into an 
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agreement with the local law enforcement agency with 
jurisdiction regarding procedures for the prompt re-
porting and investigation of potentially illegal activ-
ity on Job Corps campuses.’’. 
SEC. 160. COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION. 
Section 153 of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3203) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘center’’ each place it appears 
and inserting ‘‘campus’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘centers’’ each place it appears 
and inserting ‘‘campuses’’; and 
(3) in subsection (c), in the heading, by striking 
‘‘CENTERS’’ and inserting ‘‘CAMPUSES’’. 
SEC. 161. WORKFORCE COUNCILS. 
Section 154 of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3204) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘center’’ each place it appears 
and inserting ‘‘campus’’; 
(2) in subsection (d), in the heading, by striking 
‘‘NEW CENTERS’’ and inserting ‘‘NEW CAMPUSES’’. 
SEC. 162. ADVISORY COMMITTEES. 
Section 155 of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3205) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘The Secretary’’ and inserting 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary’’; 
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(2) by striking ‘‘centers’’ and inserting ‘‘cam-
puses’’ 
(3) by striking ‘‘center’’ and inserting ‘‘campus’’; 
and 
(4) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(b) ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO IMPROVE JOB CORPS 
SAFETY.—Not later than 6 months after the date of enact-
ment of the A Stronger Workforce for America Act, the Sec-
retary shall establish an advisory committee to provide rec-
ommendations on effective or evidence-based strategies to 
improve— 
‘‘(1) safety, security, and learning conditions on 
Job Corps campuses; and 
‘‘(2) the standards for campus safety established 
under section 159(c)(4).’’. 
SEC. 163. EXPERIMENTAL PROJECTS AND TECHNICAL AS-
SISTANCE. 
Section 156 of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3206) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘center’’ and inserting ‘‘campus’’; 
(2) by striking ‘‘centers’’ and inserting ‘‘cam-
puses’’; 
(3) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection 
(c); 
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(4) by inserting the following after subsection 
(a): 
‘‘(b) JOB CORPS SCHOLARS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may award 
grants, on a competitive basis, to institutions of high-
er education to enroll cohorts of Job Corps eligible 
youth in Job Corps Scholars activities for a 24-month 
period and pay the tuition and necessary costs for en-
rollees for such period. 
‘‘(2) ACTIVITIES.—Job Corps Scholar activities 
shall include— 
‘‘(A) intensive counseling services and sup-
portive services; 
‘‘(B) a 12-month career and technical edu-
cation component aligned with in-demand in-
dustries and occupations in the State where the 
institution of higher education that is receiving 
the grant is located; and 
‘‘(C) a 12-month employment placement pe-
riod that follows the component described in sub-
paragraph (B). 
‘‘(3) PERFORMANCE DATA.—The Secretary shall 
collect performance information from institutions of 
higher education receiving grants under this sub-
section on the primary indicators of performance for 
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eligible youth described in section 116(b)(2)(A)(ii), 
the cost per participant and cost per graduate, and 
other information as necessary to evaluate the success 
of Job Corps Scholars grantees in improving outcomes 
for at-risk youth. 
‘‘(4) EVALUATION.—At the end of each 2-year 
period for which the Secretary awards grants under 
this subsection, the Secretary shall provide for an 
independent, robust evaluation that compares— 
‘‘(A) the outcomes achieved by Job Corps 
Scholars participants with the outcomes achieved 
by other participants in the Job Corps program 
during such 2-year period; and 
‘‘(B) the costs of the Job Corps Scholars 
programs with the costs of other Job Corps pro-
grams during such 2-year period.’’; and 
(5) in subsection (c)(1), as so redesignated, is 
amended by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of subpara-
graph (C) and by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(D) in the development and implementa-
tion of a behavior management plan under sec-
tion 152(a); and 
‘‘(E) maintaining a safe and secure learn-
ing environment; and’’. 
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