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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5807 
To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to establish a 
fund to provide support services for individuals participating in certain 
training activities under such Act. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 21, 2025 
Mr. SMITH of Washington introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Education and Workforce 
A BILL 
To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act 
to establish a fund to provide support services for indi-
viduals participating in certain training activities under 
such Act. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Empowering Individ-
uals to Succeed Through Education and Workforce Train-
ing Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. SUPPORT SERVICES TRAINING FUND. 
Subtitle D of title I of the Workforce Innovation and 
Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3221 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating section 172 as section 173; 
and 
(2) by adding after section 171 the following 
new section: 
‘‘SEC. 172. SUPPORT SERVICES TRAINING FUND. 
‘‘(a) ESTABLISHMENT
OF
SPECIFIED
SUPPORT 
SERVICES TRAINING FUND.—From the amounts appro-
priated to carry out this section, the Secretary shall award 
competitive grants to qualified applicants to provide speci-
fied support services for individuals participating in train-
ing activities covered under section 134(c)(3) of title I and 
section 231 of title II of this Act. 
‘‘(b) QUALIFIED APPLICANT.—For purposes of this 
section, the term ‘qualified applicant’ means a local board, 
a consortium of local boards, or a State board acting on 
behalf of or in partnership with a consortium of local 
boards. 
‘‘(c) APPLICATION.—To receive a grant under sub-
section (a), a qualified applicant shall submit to the Sec-
retary an application in such manner, at such time, and 
containing such information as the Secretary may require, 
including a description of how such qualified applicant 
plans to partner with other organizations, including the 
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State agency responsible for administering the State pro-
gram for temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) 
funded under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act 
and the supplemental nutrition assistance program under 
the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012 et 
seq.), to provide specified support services. 
‘‘(d) USE OF FUNDS.— 
‘‘(1) ELIGIBLE PARTICIPANT.—Individuals par-
ticipating in training services covered under section 
134(c)(3) of title I or section 231 of title II of this 
Act are eligible to receive specified support services 
provided under this section. 
‘‘(2) 
SPECIFIED
SUPPORT
SERVICES.—The 
qualified support services to be provided by a grant-
ee under this section include— 
‘‘(A) supportive services described in sec-
tion 3(59), and 
‘‘(B) such other services or funding not de-
scribed in such section as a grantee identifies as 
important for an individual to successfully com-
plete training services covered under this sec-
tion, including funding for, or the provision of, 
groceries and after-hours childcare. 
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‘‘(e) INDIVIDUAL GRANT AMOUNTS.—The amount of 
an individual grant awarded under this section shall not 
exceed more than $2,000,000 per year.’’. 
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