SECTION 1. EVALUATION OF OUTCOME OF WELFARE RE-
FORM AND FORMULA FOR BONUSES TO HIGH
PERFORMANCE STATES.
(a) ADDITIONAL MEASURES OF STATE PERFORM-
ANCE.—Section 403(a)(4)(C) of the Social Security Act
(42 U.S.C. 603(a)(4)(C)) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘Not later’’ and inserting the
following:
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Not later’’;
(2) by inserting ‘‘The formula shall provide for
the awarding of grants under this paragraph based
on criteria contained in clause (ii) and in accordance
with clauses (iii) and (iv).’’ after the period; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(ii) 
FORMULA
CRITERIA.—The
grants awarded under this paragraph shall
be based on the following:
‘‘(I) 
EMPLOYMENT-RELATED
MEASURES.—Employment-related
measures, including work force en-
tries, job retention, increases in earn-
ings of recipients and former recipi-
ents of assistance under the State
program funded under this part.
‘‘(II) 
FOOD
STAMPS
MEAS-
URES.—The change since 1995 in the
proportion of children in working poor
families that receive food stamps to
the total number of children in the
State (or, if possible, to the estimated
number of children in working fami-
lies with incomes low enough to be eli-
gible for food stamps).
‘‘(III) 
MEDICAID
AND
SCHIP
MEASURES.—The percentage of mem-
bers of families who are former recipi-
ents of assistance under the State
program funded under this part (who
have ceased to receive such assistance
for approximately 6 months) who cur-
rently 
receive 
medical 
assistance
under the State plan approved under
title XIX or the child health assist-
ance under title XXI.
‘‘(IV) CHILD CARE MEASURES.—
In the case of a State that pays child
care rates that are equal to at least
the 75th percentile of market rates,
based on a market rate survey that is
not more than 2 years old, measures
of the State’s success in providing
child care, as measured by the per-
centage of children in families with in-
comes below 85 percent of the State’s
median income who receive subsidized
child care in the State, and by the
amount of public expenditures in the
State on child care subsidies divided
by the estimated number of children
younger than 13 in families with in-
comes below 85 percent of the State’s
median income.
‘‘(V) MEASURES OF ADDRESSING
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE.—In the case of
a State that has adopted the option
under the State plan relating to do-
mestic violence set forth in section
402(a)(7) and that reports the pro-
portion of eligible recipients of assist-
ance under this part who disclose
their status as domestic violence vic-
tims or survivors, measures of the
State’s success in addressing domestic
violence as a barrier to economic self-
sufficiency, as measured by the pro-
portion of such recipients who are re-
ferred to and receive services under a
service plan developed by an indi-
vidual trained in domestic violence
pursuant to section 260.55(c) of title
45 of the Code of Federal Regula-
tions.
‘‘(VI) MEASURES OF CHANGES IN
INCOME
OR
NUMBER
OF
CHILDREN
BELOW
HALF
OF
POVERTY.—For a
sample of recipients of assistance
under the State program funded
under this part, longitudinal measures
of annual changes in income (or meas-
ures of changes in the proportion of
children in families with income below
1⁄2 of the poverty line) according to
the 
American 
Community 
Survey
(ACS), including earnings and the
value of benefits received under that
State program and food stamps.
‘‘(VII) 
DEFINITIONS.—In 
this
clause:
‘‘(aa) 
DOMESTIC
VIO-
LENCE.—The term ‘domestic vio-
lence’ has the meaning given the
term ‘battered or subjected to ex-
treme 
cruelty’ 
in 
section
408(a)(7)(C)(iii).
‘‘(bb) WORKING POOR FAMI-
LIES.—The term ‘working poor
families’ means families that re-
ceive earnings at least equal to a
comparable amount that would
be received by an individual
working a half-time position for
minimum wage for a full year.
‘‘(iii) EMPLOYMENT, EARNING, AND
INCOME
RELATED
MEASURES.—
$100,000,000 of the amount appropriated
for a fiscal year under subparagraph (F)
shall be used to award grants to States
under this paragraph for that fiscal year
based on the measures of employment,
earnings, and income described in sub-
clauses (I) and (VI) of clause (ii), includ-
ing scores for the criteria described in
those subclauses.
‘‘(iv) MEASURES
OF
SUPPORT
FOR
WORKING FAMILIES.—$100,000,000 of the
amount appropriated for a fiscal year
under subparagraph (F) shall be used to
award grants to States under this para-
graph for that fiscal year based on meas-
ures of support for working families, in-
cluding scores for the criteria described in
subclauses (II), (III), (IV), and (V) of
clause (ii).
‘‘(v) LIMITATION ON APPLYING FOR
ONLY 1 BONUS.—To qualify under any one
of the employment, earnings, food stamp,
or health coverage criteria described in
subclauses (I), (II), or (III) of clause (ii),
a State must submit the data required to
compete for all of the criteria described in
those subclauses.
(b) DATA COLLECTION AND REPORTING.—Section
411(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 611(a)) is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(8) REPORT ON OUTCOME OF WELFARE RE-
FORM FOR STATES NOT PARTICIPATING IN BONUS
GRANTS UNDER SECTION 403(a)(4).—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—In the case of a State
which does not participate in the procedure for
awarding grants under section 403(a)(4) pursu-
ant to regulations prescribed by the Secretary,
the report required by paragraph (1) for a fis-
cal quarter shall include data regarding the
characteristics and well-being of former recipi-
ents of assistance under the State program
funded under this part for 6 months after such
recipient has ceased receiving such assistance.
‘‘(B) 
CONTENTS.—The 
data 
required
under subparagraph (A) shall consist of infor-
mation regarding former recipients, including—
‘‘(i) employment status;
‘‘(ii) job retention;
‘‘(iii) changes in income;
‘‘(iv) poverty status, including the
number of children in families of such
former recipients with income below 1⁄2 of
the poverty line;
‘‘(v) receipt of food stamps, medical
assistance under the State plan approved
under title XIX or child health assistance
under title XXI, or subsidized child care;
‘‘(vi) accessibility of child care and
child care cost;
‘‘(vii) the percentage of families in
poverty receiving child care subsidies;
‘‘(viii) measures of hardship, including
lack of medical insurance and difficulty
purchasing food; and
‘‘(ix) the availability of the option
under the State plan in section 402(a)(7)
(relating to domestic violence) and the dif-
ficulty accessing services for victims of do-
mestic violence.
‘‘(C) SAMPLING.—A State may comply
with this paragraph by using a scientifically ac-
ceptable sampling method approved by the Sec-
retary.
‘‘(D) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary shall
prescribe such regulations as may be necessary
to ensure that—
‘‘(i) data reported under this para-
graph are in such a form as to promote
comparison of data among States;
‘‘(ii) a State reports, for each meas-
ure, changes in data over time and com-
parisons in data between such former re-
cipients and comparable groups of current
recipients; and
‘‘(iii) a State that is already con-
ducting a scientifically acceptable study of
former recipients that provides sufficient
data required under subparagraph (A) may
use the results of such study to satisfy the
requirements of this paragraph.’’.
(c) REPORT OF CURRENTLY COLLECTED DATA.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than July 1, 2000,
and annually thereafter, the Secretary of Health and
Human Services shall transmit to Congress a report
regarding characteristics of former and current re-
cipients of assistance under State programs funded
under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act,
based on information currently being received from
States.
(2) CHARACTERISTICS.—For purposes of para-
graph (1), the characteristics shall include earnings,
employment, and, to the extent possible, income (in-
cluding earnings, the value of benefits received
under the State program funded under part A of
title IV of the Social Security Act, and food stamps),
the ratio of income to poverty, receipt of food
stamps, and other family resources.
(3) BASIS OF REPORT.—The report under para-
graph (1) shall be based on longitudinal data of em-
ployer reported earnings for a sample of States,
which represents at least 80 percent of the popu-
lation of the United States, including separate data
for each of fiscal years 1997 through 2000
regarding—
(A) a sample of former recipients of assist-
ance under State programs funded under part
A of title IV of the Social Security Act;
(B) a sample of current recipients of such
assistance; and
(C) a sample of food stamp recipients.
(d) REPORT ON DEVELOPMENT OF MEASURES.—The
Secretary of Health and Human Services shall transmit
to Congress—
(1) not later than July 1, 2000, a report re-
garding the development of measures required under
section 403(a)(4)(C)(ii)(IV) of the Social Security
Act (42 U.S.C. 603(a)(4)(C)(ii)(IV)), as added by
this Act, regarding subsidized child care and
changes in income; and
(2) not later than January 1, 2001, a report,
prepared in consultation with the Secretary of Labor
and domestic violence organizations, regarding the
domestic violence criteria required under subclause
(V) of such section.
(e) EFFECTIVE DATES.—
(1) ADDITIONAL
MEASURES
OF
STATE
PER-
FORMANCE.—The amendments made by subsection
(a) of this section shall take effect on July 1, 2000,
except that subclauses (IV) and (V) of section
403(a)(4)(C)(ii) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 603(a)(4)(C)(ii)(IV) and (V)), as added by
this Act, shall not apply to grants awarded under
section 403(a)(4) of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 603(a)(4)) before July 1, 2001, and shall
have no force or effect before the report required by
subsection (d)(2) of this section is made.
(2) DATA COLLECTION AND REPORTING.—The
amendment made by subsection (b) shall apply to re-
ports submitted in fiscal years beginning with fiscal
year 2001.
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