which shall be known as the Employment Fund for 
Needy Families (in this subsection referred to as the 
‘Fund’). 
‘‘(2) DEPOSITS INTO FUND.—Out of any money 
in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise 
appropriated, there are appropriated for each of fis-
cal years 2017 through 2023, $608,000,000 for pay-
ment to the Fund, which shall remain available until 
expended. 
‘‘(3) GRANTS.— 
‘‘(A) IN
GENERAL.—For each of fiscal 
years 2017 through 2023, the Secretary shall 
make grants, on a competitive basis, to quali-
fying entities as provided in this paragraph. 
‘‘(B) QUALIFYING ENTITY.—For purposes 
of this paragraph, a qualifying entity for a fis-
cal year is a State, territory, Indian tribe, or 
tribal organization, operating a State program 
funded under this part (or any other State pro-
gram funded with qualified State expenditures 
(as defined in section 409(a)(7)(B)(i))), that 
submits to the Secretary an application for a 
grant under this paragraph for the fiscal year, 
in such manner and at such time as the Sec-
retary may require. 
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‘‘(C) ALLOTMENT OF FUNDS.— 
‘‘(i) TECHNICAL
ASSISTANCE.—The 
Secretary shall reserve $10,000,000 out of 
the amounts made available under para-
graph (2) for each fiscal year to provide 
technical assistance to qualifying entities 
receiving a grant under this paragraph for 
the fiscal year. 
‘‘(ii) 
TERRITORIES
AND
INDIAN 
TRIBES.—The 
Secretary 
shall 
reserve, 
from the amount made available under 
paragraph (2) for a fiscal year that re-
mains after applying clause (i), 3 percent 
for grants under this paragraph for the fis-
cal year to qualifying entities that are ter-
ritories and 1 percent for grants under this 
paragraph for the fiscal year to qualifying 
entities that are Indian tribes or tribal or-
ganizations, to be allotted in a manner the 
Secretary determines to be appropriate. 
‘‘(iii) STATES.— 
‘‘(I) IN GENERAL.—The amount 
of a grant under this paragraph pay-
able for a fiscal year to a qualifying 
entity that is a State shall be the 
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amount that bears the same ratio to 
the aggregate amount as the number 
of individuals residing in the State 
who have attained 18 years of age but 
have not attained 67 years of age who 
are not employed or underemployed 
(such as involuntarily working part- 
time), as determined by the Secretary, 
bears to the total number of such in-
dividuals residing in all qualifying en-
tities that are States. 
‘‘(II) AGGREGATE AMOUNT.—For 
purposes of this clause, the term ‘ag-
gregate amount’ means the amount 
made available for a fiscal year under 
paragraph (2) that remains after ap-
plying clauses (i) and (ii). 
‘‘(iv) UNUSED FUNDS.— 
‘‘(I) REASONABLE
LIMITS
ON 
CARRYING
OVER
FUNDS.—The Sec-
retary shall set reasonable limits on 
the amount of funds a State receiving 
a grant under this paragraph may 
carry over for expenditure in fiscal 
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years after the fiscal year for which 
the grant is awarded. 
‘‘(II) REDISTRIBUTION
OF
UN-
USED
FUNDS.—Any portion of the 
amount of a grant made to a State 
under clause (iii) that the Secretary 
determines will not be used by the 
State shall be redistributed among the 
States that the Secretary determines 
will not have such an unused amount, 
using the rules specified in clause (iii). 
Any amount so redistributed to a 
State is deemed part of the grant 
made to the State under the preceding 
provisions of this paragraph. 
‘‘(D) USE OF FUNDS.— 
‘‘(i) EMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS.— 
‘‘(I) 
SUBSIDIZED
EMPLOY-
MENT.—A qualifying entity awarded a 
grant under this paragraph shall use 
the grant funds to conduct a sub-
sidized employment program to assist 
recipients of TANF cash assistance 
and TANF-eligible individuals who 
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are not recipients of cash assistance 
in obtaining paid employment. 
‘‘(II) SECTORAL
SKILLS
TRAIN-
ING.—A qualifying entity may use not 
more than 15 percent of funds award-
ed to the entity under this paragraph 
for a fiscal year to conduct a sectoral 
skills training program to provide sec-
toral skills training to recipients of 
TANF cash assistance and TANF-eli-
gible individuals who are not recipi-
ents of cash assistance. 
‘‘(ii) 
ALLOWABLE
EXPENSES.—A 
qualifying entity may use funds awarded 
under this paragraph to carry out clause 
(i), including the following activities: 
‘‘(I) Administrative expenses. 
‘‘(II) Supportive services, includ-
ing transportation and childcare, to 
enable individuals to participate in a 
program described in clause (i). 
‘‘(III) Wages and associated pay-
roll costs for individuals participating 
in the subsidized employment program 
described in clause (i)(I). 
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‘‘(iii) 
ELIGIBILITY
FOR
ASSIST-
ANCE.— 
‘‘(I) REQUIREMENT
TO
USE
PERCENT OF FUNDS TO ASSIST RE-
CIPIENTS
OF
TANF
CASH
ASSIST-
ANCE.—A qualifying entity shall use 
not less than 75 percent of funds 
awarded to the entity under this para-
graph to assist under the program de-
scribed in clause (i)(I) (and, if the en-
tity so elects, the program described 
in clause (i)(II)) recipients of TANF 
cash assistance and may use the re-
mainder of the funds to assist TANF- 
eligible individuals who are not recipi-
ents of cash assistance. 
‘‘(II) RECIPIENT OF TANF CASH 
ASSISTANCE.—In this subparagraph, 
the term ‘recipient of TANF cash as-
sistance’ means an individual who— 
‘‘(aa) has attained 18 years 
of age and has not attained 67 
years of age; and 
‘‘(bb) is not employed and is 
determined by the qualifying en-
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