programs funded under this part, including dem-
onstration projects conducted under section 1309. 
‘‘(b) ONGOING PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall study 
and submit annual reports to Congress that— 
‘‘(A) measure the performances of the 
State programs funded under this part, includ-
ing demonstration projects conducted under 
section 1309; 
‘‘(B) include information about the cat-
egories of individuals and employers served by 
such programs and projects; and 
‘‘(C) describe the activities eligible individ-
uals engaged in during the year. 
‘‘(2) TIMING OF SUBMISSIONS.—The Secretary 
shall submit the reports required by paragraph 
(1)— 
‘‘(A) in the case of the first such report, 
2 years after the date on which the first State 
program funded under this part is established; 
and 
‘‘(B) in the case of subsequent reports, an-
nually thereafter. 
‘‘(c) ALIGNMENT WITH WORKFORCE INNOVATION 
AND OPPORTUNITY ACT PROGRAMS.—The Secretary shall 
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coordinate with the Secretary of Labor on aligning per-
formance measures and regulations for the State pro-
grams funded under this part with the performance meas-
ures and regulations applicable to the core programs of 
States funded under the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-
tunity Act. 
‘‘(d) INDIVIDUAL ELIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT GUID-
ANCE.—The Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary 
of Labor, shall study and issue guidance to States on best 
practices for assessing whether an individual satisfies the 
criteria for being an eligible individual under section 
1301(b)(3)(B) as being unlikely to find unsubsidized em-
ployment due to individual barriers, local economic condi-
tions, or national economic conditions. 
‘‘(e) NEW PERFORMANCE MEASURES.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall create 
new performance measures that address income 
gains and poverty reduction for eligible individuals 
participating in the State program funded under this 
part and the families of such individuals. Such per-
formance measures shall be in addition to the per-
formance accountability measures under section 
116(b) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 
Act for the adult and dislocated worker employment 
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and training activities of the State and aligned with 
the State program funded under this part. 
‘‘(2) PROGRAM
ACCESS.—The Secretary shall 
create a measure of program access to determine the 
extent to which States are serving individuals with 
the most significant barriers to employment and the 
portion of State caseloads that are made up of such 
workers. 
‘‘(f) COORDINATION
OF DATA COLLECTION.—The 
Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Labor, 
and, as appropriate, the Secretary of the Treasury and 
the Secretary of Education, shall determine the data 
States shall collect and report regarding the State pro-
gram funded under this part and the extent to which that 
data collection and reporting, and required evaluations, 
can be coordinated with the data collection, reporting, and 
evaluations required for the State program funded under 
part A of title IV and the performance accountability 
measures under section 116(b) of the Workforce Innova-
tion and Opportunity Act for the adult and dislocated 
worker employment and training activities of the State. 
‘‘(g) FUNDING.—The Secretary shall use funding 
made available under section 413(h)(1) for research, tech-
nical assistance, and evaluation to conduct the perform-
ance assessments required under subsection (b). 
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‘‘(h) INSPECTOR GENERAL AUDIT.—The Inspector 
General of the Department of Health and Human Services 
shall biennially audit a sample of the State programs 
funded under this part to ensure compliance with program 
requirements, including compliance with the nondisplace-
ment requirements of section 1305(c), and to identify and 
protect against any waste, fraud, or abuse in such pro-
grams. 
‘‘SEC. 1307. DIRECT FUNDING AND ADMINISTRATION FOR 
PROGRAMS OPERATED BY INDIAN TRIBES. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—An Indian tribe or intertribal 
consortium with a tribal family assistance plan approved 
under section 412 (or any Indian tribe that is a member 
of such a consortium) that proposes to establish a pro-
gram under this part shall submit an application to the 
Secretary to directly receive payments for expenditures 
made to carry out the program (in this section referred 
to as a ‘tribal program application’). 
‘‘(b) TRIBAL
PROGRAM
APPLICATION
REQUIRE-
MENTS.—Subject to subsection (c), a tribal program appli-
cation shall include a plan that meets the requirements 
of section 1302 in the same manner as such requirements 
apply to a State. 
‘‘(c) PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.—The program re-
quirements specified in this part shall apply to an Indian 
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tribe or intertribal consortium with a tribal program appli-
cation and plan approved under this section in the same 
manner as such requirements apply to a State except to 
the extent that an Indian tribe or intertribal consortium 
requests, and the Secretary approves, a waiver or modi-
fication of any such requirements. 
‘‘(d) PAYMENTS.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 
the Secretary shall pay an Indian tribe or intertribal 
consortium with a tribal program application and 
plan approved under this section in the same man-
ner as States are paid under section 1304. 
‘‘(2) APPLICATION
OF
TRIBAL
FMAP.—The 
Federal medical assistance percentage that would 
apply under subsection (d) of section 479B if an In-
dian tribe or tribal consortium operated a program 
under that section (in this subsection referred to as 
the ‘tribal FMAP’), shall apply to payments made to 
the Indian tribe or tribal consortium for expendi-
tures attributable to carrying out a program under 
this part, unless the tribal FMAP is less than the 
Federal medical assistance percentage that applies 
to the State in which the Indian tribe or tribal con-
sortium is located in which case the State Federal 
medical assistance percentage shall apply. In the 
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case of an Indian tribe or tribal consortium that is 
located in more than 1 State, the State in which the 
Indian tribe or tribal consortium is located that has 
the highest Federal medical assistance percentage 
shall apply to the preceding sentence. 
‘‘SEC. 1308. DIRECT FUNDING AND ADMINISTRATION FOR 
PROGRAMS OPERATED BY LOCAL GOVERN-
MENTS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall establish 
procedures under which a local government, or a consor-
tium of local governments within a State, may submit an 
application to the Secretary to establish a program under 
this part and directly receive payments for expenditures 
made to carry out the program (in this section referred 
to as a ‘local government program application’), if the 
State in which the local government or consortium is lo-
cated does not elect to establish a State program under 
this part. 
‘‘(b) LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAM APPLICATION 
REQUIREMENTS.—Subject to subsection (c), a local gov-
ernment program application shall include a plan that 
meets the requirements of section 1302 in the same man-
ner as such requirements apply to a State. 
‘‘(c) PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.—The program re-
quirements specified in this part shall apply to a local gov-
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ernment or consortium with a local government program 
application and plan approved under this section in the 
same manner as such requirements apply to a State except 
to the extent that a local government or consortium re-
quests, and the Secretary approves, a waiver or modifica-
tion of any such requirements. 
‘‘(d) PAYMENTS.—The Secretary shall pay a local 
government or consortium with a local government pro-
gram application and plan approved under this section in 
the same manner as the State in which the local govern-
ment or consortium is located would have been paid under 
section 1304 if the State had established a State program 
under this part. 
‘‘SEC. 1309. PRO-WORKER EMPLOYERS DEMONSTRATION 
PROJECTS. 
‘‘(a) AUTHORITY TO APPROVE DEMONSTRATION 
PROJECTS.—The Secretary may authorize States to con-
duct demonstration projects pursuant to this section which 
the Secretary finds are likely to promote 1 or more of the 
purposes described in section 1301(a) through subsidized 
employment for eligible individuals working for certified 
pro-worker employers. 
‘‘(b) CONDITIONS FOR STATE ELIGIBILITY.—A State 
may be authorized to conduct such demonstration project 
only if the State satisfies the following conditions: 
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‘‘(1) The State submits an application to the 
Secretary, at such time, in such manner, and con-
taining the information specified in paragraph (2) 
and such other information as the Secretary re-
quires. 
‘‘(2) The State includes the following informa-
tion in the application submitted to the Secretary: 
‘‘(A) The criteria for being an eligible indi-
vidual if the State elects to include individuals 
not described in section 1301(b)(3). 
‘‘(B) A description of the scientific or 
quasi-scientific design for the demonstration 
project that includes a randomized controlled 
trial or another valid control group. 
‘‘(C) The outcome measures for evaluating 
the impact of the demonstration project that 
shall include, at a minimum, the following: 
‘‘(i) The percentage of eligible individ-
uals who are in unsubsidized employment 
during the 2d quarter after exiting from 
the demonstration project. 
‘‘(ii) The percentage of eligible indi-
viduals who are in unsubsidized employ-
ment during the 4th quarter after exiting 
from the demonstration project. 
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‘‘(iii) The median earnings of eligible 
individuals who are in unsubsidized em-
ployment during the 2d quarter after 
exiting from the demonstration project. 
‘‘(iv) Other measures of employment 
and earnings as specified by the Secretary 
which, to the greatest extent practicable, 
shall be based on the information required 
for State performance reports under sec-
tion 116(d)(2) of the Workforce Innovation 
and 
Opportunity 
Act 
(29 
U.S.C. 
3141(d)(2)). 
‘‘(c) WAIVER AUTHORITY.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary may waive 
compliance with any requirement of this part or part 
A of title IV which (if applied) would prevent a 
State from carrying out a demonstration project 
under this section or prevent the State from effec-
tively achieving the purpose of such a project. 
‘‘(2) COST
AND
BUDGET
NEUTRALITY.—The 
Secretary shall not impose cost or budget neutrality 
requirement as a condition for approving a dem-
onstration project under this section. 
‘‘(d) PAYMENT TO STATES.— 
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‘‘(1) TREATMENT
AS
PROGRAM
EXPENDI-
TURES.—The Secretary shall consider the expendi-
tures of any State to conduct a demonstration 
project under this section to be expenditures under 
this part. 
‘‘(2) ENHANCED FMAP.—The enhanced FMAP 
described in the first sentence of section 2105(b) 
that is applicable to a State for a fiscal year shall 
apply to payments made to the State for a fiscal 
year quarter for expenditures to conduct a dem-
onstration project under this section in lieu of the 
Federal medical assistance percentage applicable to 
payments made under section 1304(a) to the State 
for the quarter. If the State is eligible for an in-
crease in the Federal medical assistance percentage 
applicable to payments under section 1304(a) in ac-
cordance with subsection (b) of section 1304, the en-
hanced FMAP applicable to the State for the fiscal 
year shall be used to determine the amount of the 
increase. 
‘‘(e) DURATION OF DEMONSTRATION.—A demonstra-
tion project under this section may be conducted for such 
period of years as the Secretary and a State shall agree, 
but for not more than 5 years, unless in the judgment 
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of the Secretary, the demonstration project should be al-
lowed to continue. 
‘‘(f) INDIAN TRIBES AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS.— 
An Indian tribe or intertribal consortium approved for 
payments under section 1307 and a local government or 
a consortium of local governments within a State approved 
for payments under section 1308 may be considered a 
State for purposes of conducting a demonstration project 
under this section. 
‘‘(g) PRO-WORKER EMPLOYER STANDARD.— 
‘‘(1) ESTABLISHMENT
OF
STANDARD.—Not 
later than 2 years after the date of enactment of 
this part, the Secretary and the Secretary of Labor, 
jointly shall establish a standard for employers to 
meet in order to be a certified pro-worker employer 
for purposes of a demonstration project under this 
section. At a minimum, the standard shall require 
that an employer does the following: 
‘‘(A) OFFER PREDICTABLY.—The employer 
has scheduling practices with predictable work 
hours. 
‘‘(B) PROVIDE
FAMILY-FRIENDLY
BENE-
FITS.—The employer offers paid family and 
medical leave programs, paid sick days, health 
insurance, child care, paid time off, and other 
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benefits that contribute to work-life balance, 
and provides similar or portable benefits to 
freelance, independent contractors, consultants, 
outsourced and non-permanent workers, or 
other contingent workers. 
‘‘(C) ENSURE ADEQUATE PAY.—The em-
ployer pays employees a living wage that en-
ables the employees to meet their basic needs 
and has policies to ensure fair compensation for 
freelance, independent contractors, consultants, 
outsourced and non-permanent workers, or 
other contingent workers by adopting clear con-
tractual language and committing to on-time 
payments. 
‘‘(D) INVEST IN EMPLOYEE GROWTH AND 
DEVELOPMENT.—The employer provides in- 
house or through employee stipends and other 
financial assistance, access to education and 
training opportunities and promotes career 
pathways for entry-level workers which demon-
strably improve income and job responsibilities. 
‘‘(E) REWARD WORKERS WHEN COMPANY 
DOES WELL.—The employer has profit-sharing 
practices or other mechanisms that ensure 
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workers benefit when the company grows or in-
creases profits. 
‘‘(2) PROCESS FOR CERTIFICATION.—The Sec-
retary of Labor, in consultation with the Secretary 
shall establish a process by which an employer may 
apply for and be issued a certification as a pro-work-
er employer. The process may allow for applications 
for certification to be considered and issued by a 
State, the Secretary of Labor, or the Secretary, or 
an entity under a contract or other arrangement 
with the Secretary of Labor. 
‘‘(h) REPORTS AND PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENTS.— 
The Secretary shall report on and assess the demonstra-
tion projects conducted under this section as part of the 
reports and ongoing performance assessments required 
under section 1306. 
‘‘(i) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: 
‘‘(1) CERTIFIED
PRO-WORKER
EMPLOYER.— 
The term ‘certified pro-worker employer’ means an 
employer who has applied for and been issued a cer-
tification as having met the pro-worker employer 
standard established under subsection (g). 
‘‘(2) ELIGIBLE INDIVIDUALS.—The term ‘eligi-
ble individuals’ has the meaning given that term in 
section 1301(b)(3) and includes individuals who 
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meet such other criteria and a State conducting a 
demonstration project under this section specifies 
and the Secretary approves.’’. 
(b) STUDY REGARDING INCENTIVES FOR ELEVATE 
PROGRAM PERFORMANCE.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Health and 
Human Services shall enter into an agreement with 
the National Academy of Sciences to evaluate State 
programs carried out under part A of title XIII of 
the Social Security Act (as added by subsection (a)), 
including demonstration projects conducted under 
section 1309 of that Act (as so added). The evalua-
tion shall analyze the relationships between engage-
ment, impacts, and outcome measures. The evalua-
tion shall also examine the issue of program per-
formance and include recommendations to Congress 
as to whether and how program performance could 
be tied to fiscal incentives. 
(2) REPORT.—Not later than 7 years after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services shall submit to Con-
gress a report containing the results of the evalua-
tion conducted under paragraph (1), together with 
recommendations for such legislation and adminis-
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trative action as the Secretary determines appro-
priate. 
SEC. 3. SELF-EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE BENEFITS AND 
RELOCATION ASSISTANCE BENEFITS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Title XIII, as added by sec-
tion 2(a), is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘PART B—SELF-EMPLOYMENT AND RELOCATION 
ASSISTANCE BENEFITS 
‘‘SEC. 1321. SELF-EMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE BENEFITS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Every individual who— 
‘‘(1) is determined to be an eligible self-employ-
ment assistance individual (as defined in section 
1325); and 
‘‘(2) has filed an application for self-employ-
ment assistance under this title, 
shall be entitled to a self-employment assistance benefit 
for each week beginning with the first week in which such 
individual meets the criteria specified in paragraphs (1) 
and (2) and ending with the benefit termination week (as 
defined in section 1325) determined with respect to the 
individual. 
‘‘(b) AMOUNT.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraph (2), 
the self-employment assistance benefit for an indi-
vidual shall be the amount equal to 1⁄2 of the aver-
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age weekly earnings from the individual’s most re-
cent employment. 
‘‘(2) MAXIMUM
LIMIT.—The self-employment 
assistance benefit for any individual shall not exceed 
the amount equal to the maximum weekly unemploy-
ment insurance benefit in the State in which the in-
dividual resides. 
‘‘SEC. 1322. RELOCATION ASSISTANCE BENEFITS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Every individual who— 
‘‘(1) is determined to be an eligible relocation 
assistance individual (as defined in section 1325); 
‘‘(2) has filed an application for relocation as-
sistance under this title, 
shall be entitled to a relocation assistance benefit. 
‘‘(b) AMOUNT.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—Subject to paragraphs (2) 
and (3), the relocation assistance benefit for an indi-
vidual shall be a lump-sum amount sufficient to en-
able the individual to move to a new area to earn 
family-sustaining wages in employment and may in-
clude up to 90 percent of the reasonable and nec-
essary expenses incurred in relocating the individual, 
the individual’s family, and household effects, includ-
ing subsistence and transportation expenses. 
‘‘(2) MAXIMUM LIMIT.— 
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‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—The relocation assist-
ance benefit for any individual shall not exceed 
$2,000. 
‘‘(B) ANNUAL ADJUSTMENT.—The dollar 
amount specified in subparagraph (A) shall be 
increased, beginning with 2020, from year to 
year based on the percentage increase in the 
consumer price index for all urban consumers 
(all items; United States city average), rounded 
up to the nearest $10. 
‘‘(3) ADJUSTMENT FOR FAMILY SIZE.—An eli-
gible relocation assistance individual who is relo-
cating with a family may be paid a relocation assist-
ance benefit greater than the benefit limit applicable 
to a year. The size of an individual’s family shall be 
taken into account in determining the amount of 
such benefit. 
‘‘(c) LIMITATION.—An individual may not be paid a 
relocation assistance benefit more than 1 time during any 
5-year period. 
‘‘SEC. 1323. ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS. 
‘‘(a) ADMINISTRATION.—Self-employment assistance 
benefits and relocation assistance benefits shall be admin-
istered by the Director, in consultation with the Secretary 
of Labor. 
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