PURPOSES.—Section 16(h)(4) of the Food and Nutrition 
Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2035(h)(4)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘Funds’’ and inserting ‘‘(A) Ex-
cept as provided in subparagraph (B), funds’’, and 
(2) by adding at end the following: 
‘‘(B) The Secretary shall also reimburse each State 
agency in an amount equal to 100 percent of the total 
amount of payments made or costs incurred by the State 
agency to build, modernize or improve State and local data 
systems or data processes related to the supplemental nu-
trition assistance program and employment, and to enroll-
ment and eligibility for training programs carried out 
under this Act, for any of the following purposes if the 
personal identifiable information of program participants 
is not compromised or made less secure in the process and 
if the security of such systems is in no way compromised 
and if such costs are counted toward total allowable indi-
rect maximum costs related to administering the program 
that a State may claim under guidance issued by the Sec-
retary: 
‘‘(i) To make it easier to track program and 
participant outcomes. 
‘‘(ii) To make it easier to increase system inter-
operability with other Federal, State, and local data 
systems such that program participants can be more 
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easily matched and served across related workforce 
and training programs, for the purposes of better 
aligning and coordinating service delivery across pro-
grams. 
‘‘(iii) To make establishing employment and 
training participant eligibility measurably easier, 
faster, or more user-friendly for local providers. 
‘‘(iv) A combination of any of the purposes de-
scribed in clauses (i) through (iii).’’. 
SEC. 3. REPORT TO THE CONGRESS. 
The Secretary of Agriculture shall commission a de-
tailed and thorough national assessment of the employ-
ment and training programs carried out under the Food 
and Nutrition Act of 2008, consulting with experts, pro-
gram providers, State and local stakeholders, and individ-
uals with relevant lived experience across the country to 
determine what is working well, what is not working well, 
and to develop a strategy for continuous improvement, and 
shall report to the Congress on the Secretary’s findings 
not later than September 30, 2022, with a follow up as-
sessment based on continuous feedback and learning not 
later than September 30, 2024. Such report shall include 
findings and recommendations on the following topics: 
(1) Strategies to more rigorously measure the 
impact of such program. 
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(2) Strategies to improve the measurable im-
pact of such programs on key outcomes, including 
employment, earnings and economic self-sufficiency 
outcomes for participants, and reporting measures 
related to these outcomes that States are required to 
track and report annually under regulations issued 
by the Secretary under such Act. 
(3) Strategies to increase alignment and coordi-
nation between SNAP E&T and other Federal work-
force development programs, including in particular 
those funded and authorized under the Workforce 
Innovation and Training Act (WIOA) of 2014, the 
Strengthening Career and Technical Education for 
the 21st Century Act (Perkins V) of 2018, and 
other relevant Federal programs. 
(4) An assessment specifically of the amend-
ments made by this Act, in particular the effect of 
allowing States and providers to use other Federal 
funding to satisfy the matching requirement applica-
ble to such program (including how widespread this 
allowable use of other Federal funds has been used, 
whether and how that use has worked to incentivize 
local providers to coordinate programming effectively 
with other workforce and training providers funded 
through other Federal programs and with other pro-
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viders of relevant supportive services, and the likely 
impact over time of extending that provision of law). 
(5) An assessment in particular of other provi-
sions of the such amendments that will terminate in 
2023, and how such other amendments were imple-
mented by States, local governments, and providers. 
(6) An assessment of how many providers of 
such programs are opting into the heightened reim-
bursement authorized under other provisions of the 
such amendments. 
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