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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 487 
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to expand the operation 
of the State employment and training programs under such Act, and 
for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 25, 2021 
Ms. SPANBERGER (for herself and Mr. UPTON) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Agriculture 
A BILL 
To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to expand 
the operation of the State employment and training pro-
grams under such Act, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Revitalize and Expand 
SNAP Education and Training for America’s Future Act’’ 
or the ‘‘RESET for America’s Future Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. AMENDMENTS. 
(a) STREAMLINED EMPLOYMENT
AND TRAINING 
PROGRAM.—The Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 
U.S.C. 2011 et seq.) is amended— 
(1) in section 6(d)(4) by inserting after sub-
paragraph (K) the following: 
‘‘(K–1)(i) Not later than 90 days after the 
effective date of this subparagraph, the Sec-
retary shall issue the following streamlined 
guidelines for the implementation of an employ-
ment and training program under this subpara-
graph: 
‘‘(I) Guidelines that permit the State 
agency to submit for full and expedited 
Federal reimbursement of any costs in-
curred under such program, with no match 
requirement, that meets 1 or more of the 
following: 
‘‘(aa) Activities that include an 
evaluation to measure employment 
and earnings outcomes for partici-
pants in such program, with a meth-
odology that could, in the event that 
the evaluation finds positive program 
impacts, subsequently classify the pro-
gram as having a high or moderate 
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causal evidence rating that shows a 
demonstrated capacity to improve em-
ployment and earnings outcomes for 
program participants, as defined by 
the Secretary of Labor under section 
3026 of Public Law 115–12. 
‘‘(bb) Activities under such pro-
gram that have already been evalu-
ated, and found to positively affect 
employment and earnings outcomes 
for program participants, with a 
methodology that has a high or mod-
erate causal evidence rating, as de-
fined by the Secretary of Labor under 
section 3206 of Public Law 115–123. 
‘‘(cc) Activities under such pro-
gram that use at least 20 percent of 
the funding allocated through such 
program through a performance or 
outcomes contract to pay for measur-
able improvements in outcomes re-
lated to improved employment earn-
ings, credential attainment, or meas-
urable attainment of new vocational 
skills for eligible participants served, 
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including any reporting measures re-
lated to these outcomes which State 
agencies must track and report annu-
ally under regulations issued by the 
Secretary under this Act, or any 
benchmarks clearly shown by credible 
research to be highly correlated with 
these key outcomes if these outcomes 
are measured using administrative 
data validated by a third-party eval-
uator if— 
‘‘(AA) any participants eligi-
ble to participate in the supple-
mental nutrition assistance pro-
gram are eligible for such pro-
gram; 
‘‘(BB) the State agency 
demonstrates that the population 
served by the program under this 
subparagraph is similar to the 
population that participates in 
the supplemental nutrition assist-
ance program in the local area 
served with respect to both demo-
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graphics and barriers to employ-
ment; and 
‘‘(CC) funds provided under 
this subparagraph and designed 
for the purposes of making out-
come-based payments may be 
held by the State agency or local 
agency for the purpose of making 
payments required under such 
contract based on a measurable 
outcome, for a period not to ex-
ceed 5 years notwithstanding any 
other provision of the law. 
‘‘(dd) Activities under such pro-
grams that use an additional amount, 
not to exceed 20 percent of the total 
amount, covered by activities under 
such program that meet 1 of the 3 
criteria 
specified 
in 
items 
(aa) 
through (cc) for purposes that may be 
necessary to administer or evaluate 
projects or programs permitted under 
any of such criteria, or to pay for 
technical assistance to better admin-
ister or evaluate such projects or pro-
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grams, except that the maximum al-
lowable percentage permitted in this 
item may be increased from 20 to 30 
percent for providers that coordinate 
and cost-share with other programs 
funded under the Workforce Innova-
tion and Opportunity Act of 2014. 
‘‘(ii) Program participants who are eligible 
for any services, or who enroll in any program 
or project under this paragraph, shall remain 
eligible, notwithstanding any other provision in 
this Act, for not less than 6 months. 
‘‘(iii) Any State agency that receives funds 
under this subparagraph shall— 
‘‘(I) as part of its current reporting 
requirements, include in its report to the 
Secretary details on how such funds were 
allocated under this subparagraph, and 
make these findings available to the public 
not later than 1 year after receiving funds 
under this subparagraph; 
‘‘(II) release, as part of its reporting 
requirements to the Secretary, a final pub-
licly available report to the Secretary 
with— 
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