I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 576 
To encourage and support partnerships between the public and private sectors 
to improve our Nation’s social programs, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 13, 2017 
Mr. TIBERI (for himself, Mr. DELANEY, Mr. MACARTHUR, Mr. LARSON of 
Connecticut, Mr. POLIS, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mrs. BROOKS of Indiana, 
Mrs. WALORSKI, and Mr. PAULSEN) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to 
the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee con-
cerned 
A BILL 
To encourage and support partnerships between the public 
and private sectors to improve our Nation’s social pro-
grams, 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 ‘‘Social Impact Partner-
ships to Pay for Results Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. SOCIAL IMPACT PARTNERSHIPS TO PAY FOR RE-
SULTS. 
Section 403 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
603) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(c) SOCIAL IMPACT DEMONSTRATION PROJECTS.— 
‘‘(1) PURPOSES.—The purposes of this sub-
section are the following: 
‘‘(A) To improve the lives of families and 
individuals in need in the United States by 
funding social programs that achieve real re-
sults. 
‘‘(B) To redirect funds away from pro-
grams that, based on objective data, are ineffec-
tive, and into programs that achieve demon-
strable, measurable results. 
‘‘(C) To ensure Federal funds are used ef-
fectively on social services to produce positive 
outcomes for both service recipients and tax-
payers. 
‘‘(D) To establish the use of social impact 
partnerships to address some of our Nation’s 
most pressing problems. 
‘‘(E) To facilitate the creation of public- 
private partnerships that bundle philanthropic 
or other private resources with existing public 
spending to scale up effective social interven-
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tions already being implemented by private or-
ganizations, nonprofits, charitable organiza-
tions, and State and local governments across 
the country. 
‘‘(F) To bring pay-for-performance to the 
social sector, allowing the United States to im-
prove the impact and effectiveness of vital social 
services programs while redirecting inefficient 
or duplicative spending. 
‘‘(G) To incorporate outcomes measure-
ment and randomized controlled trials or other 
rigorous methodologies for assessing program 
impact. 
‘‘(2) SOCIAL
IMPACT
PARTNERSHIP
APPLICA-
TION.— 
‘‘(A) NOTICE.—Not later than 1 year after 
the date of the enactment of this subsection, 
the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
with the Federal Interagency Council on Social 
Impact Partnerships, shall publish in the Fed-
eral Register a request for proposals from 
States or local governments for social impact 
partnership projects in accordance with this 
paragraph. 
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‘‘(B) REQUIRED
OUTCOMES
FOR
SOCIAL 
IMPACT PARTNERSHIP PROJECT.—To qualify as 
a social impact partnership project under this 
subsection, a project must produce one or more 
measurable, clearly defined outcomes that result 
in social benefit and Federal, State, or local 
savings through any of the following: 
‘‘(i) Increasing work and earnings by 
individuals in the United States who are 
unemployed for more than 6 consecutive 
months. 
‘‘(ii) Increasing employment and earn-
ings of individuals who have attained 16 
years of age but not 25 years of age. 
‘‘(iii) Increasing employment among 
individuals receiving Federal disability ben-
efits. 
‘‘(iv) Reducing the dependence of low- 
income families on Federal means-tested 
benefits. 
‘‘(v) Improving rates of high school 
graduation. 
‘‘(vi) Reducing teen and unplanned 
pregnancies. 
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‘‘(vii) Improving birth outcomes and 
early childhood health and development 
among low-income families and individuals. 
‘‘(viii) Reducing rates of asthma, dia-
betes, or other preventable diseases among 
low-income families and individuals to re-
duce the utilization of emergency and other 
high-cost care. 
‘‘(ix) Increasing the proportion of chil-
dren living in two-parent families. 
‘‘(x) Reducing incidences and adverse 
consequences of child abuse and neglect. 
‘‘(xi) Reducing the number of youth 
in foster care by increasing adoptions, per-
manent guardianship arrangements, reuni-
fications, or placements with a fit and will-
ing relative, or by avoiding placing children 
in foster care by ensuring they can be 
cared for safely in their own homes. 
‘‘(xii) Reducing the number of chil-
dren and youth in foster care residing in 
group homes, child care institutions, agen-
cy-operated foster homes, or other non- 
family foster homes, unless it is deter-
mined that it is in the interest of the 
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child’s long-term health, safety, or psycho-
logical well-being to not be placed in a 
family foster home. 
‘‘(xiii) Reducing the number of chil-
dren returning to foster care. 
‘‘(xiv) Reducing recidivism among ju-
venile offenders, individuals released from 
prison, or other high-risk populations. 
‘‘(xv) Reducing the rate of homeless-
ness among our most vulnerable popu-
lations. 
‘‘(xvi) Improving the health and well- 
being of those with mental, emotional, and 
behavioral health needs. 
‘‘(xvii) Improving the educational out-
comes of special-needs or low-income chil-
dren. 
‘‘(xviii) Improving the employment 
and well-being of returning United States 
military members. 
‘‘(xix) Increasing the financial sta-
bility of low-income families. 
‘‘(xx) Increasing the independence and 
employability of individuals who are phys-
ically or mentally disabled. 
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‘‘(xxi) Other measurable outcomes de-
fined by the State or local government that 
result in positive social outcomes and Fed-
eral savings. 
‘‘(C) APPLICATION REQUIRED.—The notice 
described in subparagraph (A) shall require a 
State or local government to submit an applica-
tion for the social impact partnership project 
that addresses the following: 
‘‘(i) The outcome goals of the project. 
‘‘(ii) A description of each interven-
tion in the project and anticipated out-
comes of the intervention. 
‘‘(iii) Rigorous evidence demonstrating 
that the intervention can be expected to 
produce the desired outcomes. 
‘‘(iv) The target population that will 
be served by the project. 
‘‘(v) The expected social benefits to 
participants who receive the intervention 
and others who may be impacted. 
‘‘(vi) Projected Federal, State, and 
local government costs and other costs to 
conduct the project. 
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‘‘(vii) Projected Federal, State, and 
local government savings and other sav-
ings, including an estimate of the savings 
to the Federal Government, on a program- 
by-program basis and in the aggregate, if 
the project is implemented and the out-
comes are achieved as a result of the inter-
vention. 
‘‘(viii) If savings resulting from the 
successful completion of the project are es-
timated to accrue to the State or local gov-
ernment, the likelihood of the State or 
local government to realize those savings. 
‘‘(ix) A plan for delivering the inter-
vention through a social impact partner-
ship model. 
‘‘(x) A description of the expertise of 
each service provider that will administer 
the intervention, including a summary of 
the experience of the service provider in 
delivering the proposed intervention or a 
similar intervention, or demonstrating that 
the service provider has the expertise nec-
essary to deliver the proposed intervention. 
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‘‘(xi) An explanation of the experience 
of the State or local government, the inter-
mediary, or the service provider in raising 
private and philanthropic capital to fund 
social service investments. 
‘‘(xii) The detailed roles and respon-
sibilities of each entity involved in the 
project, including any State or local gov-
ernment entity, intermediary, service pro-
vider, independent evaluator, investor, or 
other stakeholder. 
‘‘(xiii) A summary of the experience of 
the service provider in delivering the pro-
posed intervention or a similar interven-
tion, or a summary demonstrating the 
service provider has the expertise necessary 
to deliver the proposed intervention. 
‘‘(xiv) A summary of the unmet need 
in the area where the intervention will be 
delivered or among the target population 
who will receive the intervention. 
‘‘(xv) The proposed payment terms, 
the methodology used to calculate outcome 
payments, the payment schedule, and per-
formance thresholds. 
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‘‘(xvi) The project budget. 
‘‘(xvii) The project timeline. 
‘‘(xviii) The criteria used to determine 
the eligibility of an individual for the 
project, including how selected populations 
will be identified, how they will be referred 
to the project, and how they will be en-
rolled in the project. 
‘‘(xix) The evaluation design. 
‘‘(xx) The metrics that will be used in 
the evaluation to determine whether the 
outcomes have been achieved as a result of 
the intervention and how the metrics will 
be measured. 
‘‘(xxi) An explanation of how the 
metrics used in the evaluation to determine 
whether the outcomes achieved as a result 
of the intervention are independent, objec-
tive indicators of impact and are not sub-
ject to manipulation by the service pro-
vider, intermediary, or investor. 
‘‘(xxii) A summary explaining the 
independence of the evaluator from the 
other entities involved in the project and 
the evaluator’s experience in conducting 
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rigorous evaluations of program effective-
ness including, where available, well-imple-
mented randomized controlled trials on the 
intervention or similar interventions. 
‘‘(xxiii) The capacity of the service 
provider to deliver the intervention to the 
number of participants the State or local 
government proposes to serve in the 
project. 
‘‘(xxiv) A description of whether and 
how the State or local government and 
service providers plan to sustain the inter-
vention, if it is timely and appropriate to 
do so, to ensure that successful interven-
tions continue to operate after the period 
of the social impact partnership. 
‘‘(D) PROJECT
INTERMEDIARY
INFORMA-
TION REQUIRED.—The application described in 
subparagraph (C) shall also contain the fol-
lowing information about any intermediary for 
the social impact partnership project (whether 
an intermediary is a service provider or other 
entity): 
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‘‘(i) Experience and capacity for pro-
viding or facilitating the provision of the 
type of intervention proposed. 
‘‘(ii) The mission and goals. 
‘‘(iii) Information on whether the 
intermediary is already working with serv-
ice providers that provide this intervention 
or an explanation of the capacity of the 
intermediary to begin working with service 
providers to provide the intervention. 
‘‘(iv) Experience working in a collabo-
rative environment across government and 
nongovernmental entities. 
‘‘(v) Previous experience collaborating 
with public or private entities to implement 
evidence-based programs. 
‘‘(vi) Ability to raise or provide fund-
ing to cover operating costs (if applicable 
to the project). 
‘‘(vii) Capacity and infrastructure to 
track outcomes and measure results, in-
cluding— 
‘‘(I) capacity to track and ana-
lyze program performance and assess 
program impact; and 
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‘‘(II) experience with perform-
ance-based awards or performance- 
based 
contracting 
and 
achieving 
project milestones and targets. 
‘‘(viii) Role in delivering the interven-
tion. 
‘‘(ix) How the intermediary would 
monitor program success, including a de-
scription of the interim benchmarks and 
outcome measures. 
‘‘(E) 
FEASIBILITY
STUDIES
FUNDED 
THROUGH
OTHER
SOURCES.—The notice de-
scribed in subparagraph (A) shall permit a 
State or local government to submit an applica-
tion for social impact partnership funding that 
contains information from a feasibility study 
developed for purposes other than applying for 
funding under this subsection. 
‘‘(3) AWARDING SOCIAL IMPACT PARTNERSHIP 
AGREEMENTS.— 
‘‘(A) TIMELINE
IN
AWARDING
AGREE-
MENT.—Not later than 6 months after receiving 
an application in accordance with paragraph 
(2), the Secretary, in consultation with the Fed-
eral Interagency Council on Social Impact Part-
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nerships, shall determine whether to enter into 
an agreement for a social impact partnership 
project with a State or local government. 
‘‘(B) 
CONSIDERATIONS
IN
AWARDING 
AGREEMENT.—In determining whether to enter 
into an agreement for a social impact partner-
ship project (the application for which was sub-
mitted under paragraph (2)) the Secretary, in 
consultation with the Federal Interagency 
Council on Social Impact Partnerships (estab-
lished by paragraph (6)) and the head of any 
Federal agency administering a similar inter-
vention or serving a population similar to that 
served by the project, shall consider each of the 
following: 
‘‘(i) The recommendations made by 
the Commission on Social Impact Partner-
ships. 
‘‘(ii) The value to the Federal Govern-
ment of the outcomes expected to be 
achieved if the outcomes specified in the 
agreement are achieved as a result of the 
intervention. 
‘‘(iii) The likelihood, based on evi-
dence provided in the application and other 
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evidence, that the State or local govern-
ment in collaboration with the inter-
mediary and the service providers will 
achieve the outcomes. 
‘‘(iv) The savings to the Federal Gov-
ernment if the outcomes specified in the 
agreement are achieved as a result of the 
intervention. 
‘‘(v) The savings to the State and 
local governments if the outcomes specified 
in the agreement are achieved as a result 
of the intervention. 
‘‘(vi) The expected quality of the eval-
uation that would be conducted with re-
spect to the agreement. 
‘‘(vii) The capacity and commitment 
of the State or local government to sustain 
the intervention, if appropriate and timely 
and if the intervention is successful, be-
yond the period of the social impact part-
nership. 
‘‘(C) AGREEMENT AUTHORITY.— 
‘‘(i) AGREEMENT
REQUIREMENTS.— 
In accordance with this paragraph, the 
Secretary, in consultation with the Federal 
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Interagency Council on Social Impact 
Partnerships and the head of any Federal 
agency administering a similar intervention 
or serving a population similar to that 
served by the project, may enter into an 
agreement for a social impact partnership 
project with a State or local government if 
the Secretary, in consultation with the 
Federal Interagency Council on Social Im-
pact Partnerships, determines that each of 
the following requirements are met: 
‘‘(I) The State or local govern-
ment agrees to achieve one or more 
outcomes as a result of the interven-
tion, as specified in the agreement 
and validated by independent evalua-
tion, in order to receive payment. 
‘‘(II) The Federal payment to the 
State or local government for each 
specified outcome achieved as a result 
of the intervention is less than or 
equal to the value of the outcome to 
the Federal Government over a period 
not to exceed 10 years, as determined 
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by the Secretary, in consultation with 
the State or local government. 
‘‘(III) 
The 
duration 
of 
the 
project does not exceed 10 years. 
‘‘(IV) The State or local govern-
ment has demonstrated, through the 
application submitted under para-
graph (2), that, based on prior rig-
orous experimental evaluations or rig-
orous quasi-experimental studies, the 
intervention 
can 
be 
expected 
to 
achieve each outcome specified in the 
agreement. 
‘‘(V) The State, local govern-
ment, intermediary, or service pro-
vider has experience raising private or 
philanthropic capital to fund social 
service investments (if applicable to 
the project). 
‘‘(VI) The State or local govern-
ment has shown that each service pro-
vider has experience delivering the 
intervention, a similar intervention, or 
has otherwise demonstrated the exper-
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tise necessary to deliver the interven-
tion. 
‘‘(ii) PAYMENT.—The Secretary shall 
pay the State or local government only if 
the independent evaluator described in 
paragraph (5) determines that the social 
impact partnership project has met the re-
quirements specified in the agreement and 
achieved an outcome as a result of the 
intervention, as specified in the agreement 
and validated by independent evaluation. 
‘‘(D) NOTICE OF AGREEMENT AWARD.— 
Not later than 30 days after entering into an 
agreement under this paragraph, the Secretary 
shall publish a notice in the Federal Register 
that includes, with regard to the agreement, the 
following: 
‘‘(i) The outcome goals of the social 
impact partnership project. 
‘‘(ii) A description of each interven-
tion in the project. 
‘‘(iii) The target population that will 
be served by the project. 
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‘‘(iv) The expected social benefits to 
participants who receive the intervention 
and others who may be impacted. 
‘‘(v) The detailed roles, responsibil-
ities, and purposes of each Federal, State, 
or local government entity, intermediary, 
service provider, independent evaluator, in-
vestor, or other stakeholder. 
‘‘(vi) The payment terms, the method-
ology used to calculate outcome payments, 
the payment schedule, and performance 
thresholds. 
‘‘(vii) The project budget. 
‘‘(viii) The project timeline. 
‘‘(ix) The project eligibility criteria. 
‘‘(x) The evaluation design. 
‘‘(xi) The metrics that will be used in 
the evaluation to determine whether the 
outcomes have been achieved as a result of 
each intervention and how these metrics 
will be measured. 
‘‘(xii) The estimate of the savings to 
the Federal, State, and local government, 
on a program-by-program basis and in the 
aggregate, if the agreement is entered into 
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and implemented and the outcomes are 
achieved as a result of each intervention. 
‘‘(E) AUTHORITY TO TRANSFER ADMINIS-
TRATION OF AGREEMENT.—The Secretary may 
transfer to the head of another Federal agency 
the authority to administer (including making 
payments under) an agreement entered into 
under subparagraph (C), and any funds nec-
essary to do so. 
‘‘(F) REQUIREMENT ON FUNDING USED TO 
BENEFIT CHILDREN.—Not less than 50 percent 
of all Federal payments made to carry out 
agreements under this paragraph shall be used 
for initiatives that directly benefit children. 
‘‘(4) FEASIBILITY STUDY FUNDING.— 
‘‘(A) REQUESTS FOR FUNDING FOR FEASI-
BILITY STUDIES.—The Secretary shall reserve a 
portion of the amount reserved to carry out this 
subsection to assist States or local governments 
in developing feasibility studies to apply for so-
cial impact partnership funding under para-
graph (2). To be eligible to receive funding to 
assist with completing a feasibility study, a 
State or local government shall submit an appli-
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cation for feasibility study funding addressing 
the following: 
‘‘(i) A description of the outcome 
goals of the social impact partnership 
project. 
‘‘(ii) A description of the intervention, 
including anticipated program design, tar-
get population, an estimate regarding the 
number of individuals to be served, and 
setting for the intervention. 
‘‘(iii) Evidence to support the likeli-
hood that the intervention will produce the 
desired outcomes. 
‘‘(iv) A description of the potential 
metrics to be used. 
‘‘(v) The expected social benefits to 
participants who receive the intervention 
and others who may be impacted. 
‘‘(vi) Estimated costs to conduct the 
project. 
‘‘(vii) Estimates of Federal, State, 
and local government savings and other 
savings if the project is implemented and 
the outcomes are achieved as a result of 
each intervention. 
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‘‘(viii) An estimated timeline for im-
plementation 
and 
completion 
of 
the 
project, which shall not exceed 10 years. 
‘‘(ix) With respect to a project for 
which the State or local government selects 
an intermediary to operate the project, any 
partnerships needed to successfully execute 
the project and the ability of the inter-
mediary to foster the partnerships. 
‘‘(x) The expected resources needed to 
complete the feasibility study for the State 
or local government to apply for social im-
pact partnership funding under paragraph 
(2). 
‘‘(B) FEDERAL
SELECTION
OF
APPLICA-
TIONS
FOR
FEASIBILITY
STUDY.—Not later 
than 6 months after receiving an application for 
feasibility study funding under subparagraph 
(A), the Secretary, in consultation with the 
Federal Interagency Council on Social Impact 
Partnerships and the head of any Federal agen-
cy administering a similar intervention or serv-
ing a population similar to that served by the 
project, shall select State or local government 
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feasibility study proposals for funding based on 
the following: 
‘‘(i) The recommendations made by 
the Commission on Social Impact Partner-
ships. 
‘‘(ii) The likelihood that the proposal 
will achieve the desired outcomes. 
‘‘(iii) The value of the outcomes ex-
pected to be achieved as a result of each 
intervention. 
‘‘(iv) The potential savings to the 
Federal Government if the social impact 
partnership project is successful. 
‘‘(v) The potential savings to the 
State and local governments if the project 
is successful. 
‘‘(C) PUBLIC
DISCLOSURE.—Not later 
than 30 days after selecting a State or local 
government for feasibility study funding under 
this paragraph, the Secretary shall cause to be 
published on the website of the Federal Inter-
agency Council on Social Impact Partnerships 
information explaining why a State or local gov-
ernment was granted feasibility study funding. 
‘‘(D) FUNDING RESTRICTION.— 
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‘‘(i) FEASIBILITY
STUDY
RESTRIC-
TION.—The Secretary may not provide fea-
sibility study funding under this paragraph 
for more than 50 percent of the estimated 
total cost of the feasibility study reported 
in the State or local government applica-
tion submitted under subparagraph (A). 
‘‘(ii) AGGREGATE
RESTRICTION.—Of 
the total amount reserved to carry out this 
subsection, the Secretary may not use 
more than $10,000,000 to provide feasi-
bility study funding to States or local gov-
ernments under this paragraph. 
‘‘(iii) NO GUARANTEE OF FUNDING.— 
The Secretary shall have the option to 
award no funding under this paragraph. 
‘‘(E) SUBMISSION OF FEASIBILITY STUDY 
REQUIRED.—Not later than 9 months after the 
receipt of feasibility study funding under this 
paragraph, a State or local government receiv-
ing the funding shall complete the feasibility 
study and submit the study to the Federal 
Interagency Council on Social Impact Partner-
ships. 
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‘‘(F) DELEGATION
OF
AUTHORITY.—The 
Secretary may transfer to the head of another 
Federal agency the authorities provided in this 
paragraph and any funds necessary to exercise 
the authorities. 
‘‘(5) EVALUATIONS.— 
‘‘(A) AUTHORITY TO ENTER INTO AGREE-
MENTS.—For each State or local government 
awarded a social impact partnership project ap-
proved by the Secretary under this subsection, 
the head of the relevant agency, as rec-
ommended by the Federal Interagency Council 
on Social Impact Partnerships and determined 
by the Secretary, shall enter into an agreement 
with the State or local government to pay for 
all or part of the independent evaluation to de-
termine whether the State or local government 
project has achieved a specific outcome as a re-
sult of the intervention in order for the State 
or local government to receive outcome pay-
ments under this subsection. 
‘‘(B) EVALUATOR
QUALIFICATIONS.—The 
head of the relevant agency may not enter into 
an agreement with a State or local government 
unless the head determines that the evaluator is 
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independent of the other parties to the agree-
ment and has demonstrated substantial experi-
ence in conducting rigorous evaluations of pro-
gram effectiveness including, where available 
and appropriate, well-implemented randomized 
controlled trials on the intervention or similar 
interventions. 
‘‘(C) METHODOLOGIES TO BE USED.—The 
evaluation used to determine whether a State or 
local government will receive outcome payments 
under this subsection shall use experimental de-
signs using random assignment or other reli-
able, evidence-based research methodologies, as 
certified by the Federal Interagency Council on 
Social Impact Partnerships, that allow for the 
strongest possible causal inferences when ran-
dom assignment is not feasible. 
‘‘(D) PROGRESS REPORT.— 
‘‘(i) SUBMISSION
OF
REPORT.—The 
independent evaluator shall— 
‘‘(I) not later than 2 years after 
a project has been approved by the 
Secretary and biannually thereafter 
until the project is concluded, submit 
to the head of the relevant agency and 
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the Federal Interagency Council on 
Social Impact Partnerships a written 
report summarizing the progress that 
has been made in achieving each out-
come specified in the agreement; and 
‘‘(II) before the scheduled time of 
the first outcome payment and before 
the scheduled time of each subsequent 
payment, submit to the head of the 
relevant agency and the Federal 
Interagency Council on Social Impact 
Partnerships a written report that in-
cludes the results of the evaluation 
conducted to determine whether an 
outcome payment should be made 
along with information on the unique 
factors that contributed to achieving 
or failing to achieve the outcome, the 
challenges faced in attempting to 
achieve the outcome, and information 
on the improved future delivery of this 
or similar interventions. 
‘‘(ii) SUBMISSION TO THE SECRETARY 
AND CONGRESS.—Not later than 30 days 
after receipt of the written report pursuant 
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to clause (i)(II), the Federal Interagency 
Council on Social Impact Partnerships 
shall submit the report to the Secretary 
and each committee of jurisdiction in the 
House of Representatives and the Senate. 
‘‘(E) FINAL REPORT.— 
‘‘(i) SUBMISSION OF REPORT.—Within 
6 months after the social impact partner-
ship project is completed, the independent 
evaluator shall— 
‘‘(I) evaluate the effects of the 
activities undertaken pursuant to the 
agreement with regard to each out-
come specified in the agreement; and 
‘‘(II) submit to the head of the 
relevant agency and the Federal 
Interagency Council on Social Impact 
Partnerships a written report that in-
cludes the results of the evaluation 
and the conclusion of the evaluator as 
to whether the State or local govern-
ment has fulfilled each obligation of 
the agreement, along with information 
on the unique factors that contributed 
to the success or failure of the project, 
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the challenges faced in attempting to 
achieve the outcome, and information 
on the improved future delivery of this 
or similar interventions. 
‘‘(ii) SUBMISSION TO THE SECRETARY 
AND CONGRESS.—Not later than 30 days 
after receipt of the written report pursuant 
to clause (i)(II), the Federal Interagency 
Council on Social Impact Partnerships 
shall submit the report to the Secretary 
and each committee of jurisdiction in the 
House of Representatives and the Senate. 
‘‘(F) LIMITATION
ON
COST
OF
EVALUA-
TIONS.—Of the amount reserved under this 
subsection 
for 
social 
impact 
partnership 
projects, the Secretary may not obligate more 
than 15 percent to evaluate the implementation 
and outcomes of the projects. 
‘‘(G) DELEGATION
OF
AUTHORITY.—The 
Secretary may transfer to the head of another 
Federal agency the authorities provided in this 
paragraph and any funds necessary to exercise 
the authorities. 
‘‘(6) FEDERAL INTERAGENCY COUNCIL ON SO-
CIAL IMPACT PARTNERSHIPS.— 
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‘‘(A) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is estab-
lished the Federal Interagency Council on So-
cial Impact Partnerships (in this paragraph re-
ferred to as the ‘Council’) to— 
‘‘(i) coordinate with the Secretary on 
the efforts of social impact partnership 
projects funded under this subsection; 
‘‘(ii) advise and assist the Secretary in 
the development and implementation of the 
projects; 
‘‘(iii) advise the Secretary on specific 
programmatic and policy matter related to 
the projects; 
‘‘(iv) provide subject-matter expertise 
to the Secretary with regard to the 
projects; 
‘‘(v) certify to the Secretary that each 
State or local government that has entered 
into an agreement with the Secretary for a 
social impact partnership project under 
this subsection and each evaluator selected 
by the head of the relevant agency under 
paragraph (5) has access to Federal ad-
ministrative data to assist the State or 
local government and the evaluator in eval-
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evant Federal agency to produce an after- 
action accounting once the project is com-
plete to determine the actual Federal sav-
ings realized, and the extent to which ac-
tual savings aligned with projected savings; 
and 
‘‘(x) provide periodic reports to the 
Secretary and make available reports peri-
odically to Congress and the public on the 
implementation of this subsection. 
‘‘(B) COMPOSITION
OF
COUNCIL.—The 
Council shall have 11 members, as follows: 
‘‘(i) CHAIR.—The Chair of the Coun-
cil shall be the Director of the Office of 
Management and Budget. 
‘‘(ii) OTHER MEMBERS.—The head of 
each of the following entities shall des-
ignate one officer or employee of the entity 
to be a Council member: 
‘‘(I) The Department of Labor. 
‘‘(II) The Department of Health 
and Human Services. 
‘‘(III) The Social Security Ad-
ministration. 
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‘‘(IV) The Department of Agri-
culture. 
‘‘(V) The Department of Justice. 
‘‘(VI) The Department of Hous-
ing and Urban Development. 
‘‘(VII) The Department of Edu-
cation. 
‘‘(VIII) The Department of Vet-
erans Affairs. 
‘‘(IX) The Department of the 
Treasury. 
‘‘(X) The Corporation for Na-
tional and Community Service. 
‘‘(7) COMMISSION ON SOCIAL IMPACT PARTNER-
SHIPS.— 
‘‘(A) ESTABLISHMENT.—There is estab-
lished the Commission on Social Impact Part-
nerships (in this paragraph referred to as the 
‘Commission’). 
‘‘(B) DUTIES.—The duties of the Commis-
sion shall be to— 
‘‘(i) assist the Secretary and the Fed-
eral Interagency Council on Social Impact 
Partnerships in reviewing applications for 
funding under this subsection; 
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‘‘(ii) make recommendations to the 
Secretary and the Federal Interagency 
Council on Social Impact Partnerships re-
garding the funding of social impact part-
nership agreements and feasibility studies; 
and 
‘‘(iii) provide other assistance and in-
formation as requested by the Secretary or 
the Federal Interagency Council on Social 
Impact Partnerships. 
‘‘(C) 
COMPOSITION.—The 
Commission 
shall be composed of nine members, of whom— 
‘‘(i) one shall be appointed by the 
President, who will serve as the Chair of 
the Commission; 
‘‘(ii) one shall be appointed by the 
Majority Leader of the Senate; 
‘‘(iii) one shall be appointed by the 
Minority Leader of the Senate; 
‘‘(iv) one shall be appointed by the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives; 
‘‘(v) one shall be appointed by the Mi-
nority Leader of the House of Representa-
tives; 
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‘‘(vi) one shall be appointed by the 
Chairman of the Committee on Finance of 
the Senate; 
‘‘(vii) one shall be appointed by the 
ranking member of the Committee on Fi-
nance of the Senate; 
‘‘(viii) one member shall be appointed 
by the Chairman of the Committee on 
Ways and Means of the House of Rep-
resentatives; and 
‘‘(ix) one shall be appointed by the 
ranking member of the Committee on 
Ways and Means of the House of Rep-
resentatives. 
‘‘(D) QUALIFICATIONS
OF
COMMISSION 
MEMBERS.—The members of the Commission 
shall— 
‘‘(i) be experienced in finance, eco-
nomics, pay for performance, or program 
evaluation; 
‘‘(ii) have relevant professional or per-
sonal experience in a field related to one or 
more of the outcomes listed in this sub-
section; or 
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‘‘(iii) be qualified to review applica-
tions for social impact partnership projects 
to determine whether the proposed metrics 
and evaluation methodologies are appro-
priately rigorous and reliant upon inde-
pendent data and evidence-based research. 
‘‘(E) TIMING OF APPOINTMENTS.—The ap-
pointments of the members of the Commission 
shall be made not later than 120 days after the 
date of the enactment of this subsection, or, in 
the event of a vacancy, not later than 90 days 
after the date the vacancy arises. If a member 
of Congress fails to appoint a member by that 
date, the President may select a member of the 
President’s choice on behalf of the member of 
Congress. Notwithstanding the preceding sen-
tence, if not all appointments have been made 
to the Commission as of that date, the Commis-
sion may operate with no fewer than five mem-
bers until all appointments have been made. 
‘‘(F) TERM OF APPOINTMENTS.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The members ap-
pointed under subparagraph (C) shall serve 
as follows: 
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‘‘(I) Three members shall serve 
for 2 years. 
‘‘(II) Three members shall serve 
for 3 years. 
‘‘(III) Three members (one of 
which shall be Chair of the Commis-
sion appointed by the President) shall 
serve for 4 years. 
‘‘(ii) ASSIGNMENT
OF
TERMS.—The 
Commission shall designate the term 
length that each member appointed under 
subparagraph (C) shall serve by unani-
mous agreement. In the event that unani-
mous agreement cannot be reached, term 
lengths shall be assigned to the members 
by a random process. 
‘‘(G) VACANCIES.—Subject to subpara-
graph (E), in the event of a vacancy in the 
Commission, whether due to the resignation of 
a member, the expiration of a member’s term, 
or any other reason, the vacancy shall be filled 
in the manner in which the original appoint-
ment was made and shall not affect the powers 
of the Commission. 
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‘‘(H) APPOINTMENT POWER.—Members of 
the Commission appointed under subparagraph 
(C) shall not be subject to confirmation by the 
Senate. 
‘‘(8) LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS.—Of the 
amounts reserved to carry out this subsection, the 
Secretary may not use more than $2,000,000 in any 
fiscal year to support the review, approval, and over-
sight of social impact partnership projects, including 
activities conducted by— 
‘‘(A) the Federal Interagency Council on 
Social Impact Partnerships; and 
‘‘(B) any other agency consulted by the 
Secretary before approving a social impact part-
nership project or a feasibility study under 
paragraph (4). 
‘‘(9) NO FEDERAL FUNDING FOR CREDIT EN-
HANCEMENTS.—No amount reserved to carry out 
this subsection may be used to provide any insur-
ance, guarantee, or other credit enhancement to a 
State or local government under which a Federal 
payment would be made to a State or local govern-
ment as the result of a State or local government 
failing to achieve an outcome specified in a contract. 
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‘‘(10) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Amounts re-
served to carry out this subsection shall remain 
available until 10 years after the date of the enact-
ment of this subsection. 
‘‘(11) WEBSITE.—The Federal Interagency 
Council on Social Impact Partnerships shall estab-
lish and maintain a public website that shall display 
the following: 
‘‘(A) A copy of, or method of accessing, 
each notice published regarding a social impact 
partnership project pursuant to this subsection. 
‘‘(B) A copy of each feasibility study fund-
ed under this subsection. 
‘‘(C) For each State or local government 
that has entered into an agreement with the 
Secretary for a social impact partnership 
project, the website shall contain the following 
information: 
‘‘(i) The outcome goals of the project. 
‘‘(ii) A description of each interven-
tion in the project. 
‘‘(iii) The target population that will 
be served by the project. 
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‘‘(iv) The expected social benefits to 
participants who receive the intervention 
and others who may be impacted. 
‘‘(v) The detailed roles, responsibil-
ities, and purposes of each Federal, State, 
or local government entity, intermediary, 
service provider, independent evaluator, in-
vestor, or other stakeholder. 
‘‘(vi) The payment terms, method-
ology used to calculate outcome payments, 
the payment schedule, and performance 
thresholds. 
‘‘(vii) The project budget. 
‘‘(viii) The project timeline. 
‘‘(ix) The project eligibility criteria. 
‘‘(x) The evaluation design. 
‘‘(xi) The metrics used to determine 
whether the proposed outcomes have been 
achieved and how these metrics are meas-
ured. 
‘‘(D) A copy of the progress reports and 
the final reports relating to each social impact 
partnership project. 
‘‘(E) An estimate of the savings to the 
Federal, State, and local government, on a pro-
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gram-by-program basis and in the aggregate, 
resulting from the successful completion of the 
social impact partnership project. 
‘‘(12) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary, in con-
sultation with the Federal Interagency Council on 
Social Impact Partnerships, may issue regulations as 
necessary to carry out this subsection. 
‘‘(13) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
‘‘(A) AGENCY.—The term ‘agency’ has the 
meaning given that term in section 551 of title 
5, United States Code. 
‘‘(B) INTERVENTION.—The term ‘interven-
tion’ means a specific service delivered to 
achieve an impact through a social impact part-
nership project. 
‘‘(C) SECRETARY.—The term ‘Secretary’ 
means the Secretary of the Treasury. 
‘‘(D) 
SOCIAL
IMPACT
PARTNERSHIP 
PROJECT.—The term ‘social impact partnership 
project’ means a project that finances social 
services using a social impact partnership 
model. 
‘‘(E) 
SOCIAL
IMPACT
PARTNERSHIP 
MODEL.—The term ‘social impact partnership 
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model’ means a method of financing social serv-
ices in which— 
‘‘(i) Federal funds are awarded to a 
State or local government only if a State 
or local government achieves certain out-
comes agreed on by the State or local gov-
ernment and the Secretary; and 
‘‘(ii) the State or local government co-
ordinates with service providers, investors 
(if applicable to the project), and (if nec-
essary) an intermediary to identify— 
‘‘(I) an intervention expected to 
produce the outcome; 
‘‘(II) a service provider to deliver 
the intervention to the target popu-
lation; and 
‘‘(III) investors to fund the deliv-
ery of the intervention. 
‘‘(F) STATE.—The term ‘State’ means 
each State of the United States, the District of 
Columbia, each commonwealth, territory or pos-
session of the United States, and each federally 
recognized Indian tribe. 
‘‘(14) FUNDING.—Of the amounts made avail-
able to carry out subsection (b) for fiscal year 2017, 
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the Secretary shall reserve $100,000,000 to carry 
out this subsection.’’. 
SEC. 3. EXTENSION OF TANF PROGRAM. 
(a) 
FAMILY
ASSISTANCE
GRANTS.—Section 
403(a)(1) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 603(a)(1)) 
is amended in each of subparagraphs (A) and (C), by 
striking ‘‘2012’’ and inserting ‘‘2017’’. 
(b) HEALTHY MARRIAGE PROMOTION AND RESPON-
SIBLE FATHERHOOD GRANTS.—Section 403(a)(2)(D) of 
such Act (42 U.S.C. 603(a)(2)(D)) is amended by striking 
‘‘2012’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘2017’’. 
(c) TRIBAL GRANTS.—Section 412(a) of such Act (42 
U.S.C. 612(a)) is amended in each of paragraphs (1)(A) 
and (2)(A) by striking ‘‘2012’’ and inserting ‘‘2017’’. 
(d) CHILD CARE ENTITLEMENT.—Section 418(a)(3) 
of such Act (42 U.S.C. 618(a)(3)) is amended by striking 
‘‘2012’’ and inserting ‘‘2017’’. 
(e) 
GRANTS
TO
THE
TERRITORIES.—Section 
1108(b)(2) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1308(b)(2)) is amend-
ed by striking ‘‘2012’’ and inserting ‘‘2017’’. 
(f) EXTENSION OF THE TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE 
FOR NEEDY FAMILIES PROGRAM AND RELATED PRO-
GRAMS THROUGH DECEMBER 31, 2017.—Activities au-
thorized by part A of title IV and section 1108(b) of such 
Act (other than under section 403(b) of such Act) shall 
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continue through December 31, 2017, in the manner au-
thorized for fiscal year 2017, and out of any money in 
the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appro-
priated, there are hereby appropriated such sums as may 
be necessary for such purpose. Grants and payments may 
be made pursuant to this authority on a quarterly basis 
through the first quarter of fiscal year 2018 at the level 
provided for such activities for the corresponding quarter 
of fiscal year 2017. 
SEC. 4. STRENGTHENING WELFARE RESEARCH AND EVAL-
UATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF A WHAT 
WORKS CLEARINGHOUSE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 413 of the Social Security 
Act (42 U.S.C. 613) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘SEC. 413. EVALUATION OF TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR 
NEEDY FAMILIES AND RELATED PROGRAMS. 
‘‘(a) EVALUATION OF THE IMPACTS OF TANF.—The 
Secretary shall conduct research on the effect of State pro-
grams funded under this part and any other State pro-
gram funded with qualified State expenditures (as defined 
in section 409(a)(7)(B)(i)) on employment, self-suffi-
ciency, child well-being, unmarried births, marriage, pov-
erty, economic mobility, and other factors as determined 
by the Secretary. 
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‘‘(b) EVALUATION OF GRANTS TO IMPROVE CHILD 
WELL-BEING BY PROMOTING HEALTHY MARRIAGE AND 
RESPONSIBLE FATHERHOOD.—The Secretary shall con-
duct research to determine the effects of the grants made 
under section 403(a)(2) on child well-being, marriage, 
family stability, economic mobility, poverty, and other fac-
tors as determined by the Secretary. 
‘‘(c) DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION.—The Sec-
retary shall, in consultation with States receiving funds 
provided under this part, develop methods of dissemi-
nating information on any research, evaluation, or study 
conducted under this section, including facilitating the 
sharing of information and best practices among States 
and localities. 
‘‘(d) STATE-INITIATED
EVALUATIONS.—A State 
shall be eligible to receive funding to evaluate the 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)) if— 
‘‘(1) the State submits to the Secretary a de-
scription of the proposed evaluation; 
‘‘(2) the Secretary determines that the design 
and approach of the proposed evaluation is rigorous 
and is likely to yield information that is credible and 
will be useful to other States; and 
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‘‘(3) unless waived by the Secretary, the State 
contributes to the cost of the evaluation, from non- 
Federal sources, an amount equal to at least 25 per-
cent of the cost of the proposed evaluation. 
‘‘(e) CENSUS BUREAU RESEARCH.— 
‘‘(1) The Bureau of the Census shall implement 
or enhance household surveys of program participa-
tion, in consultation with the Secretary and the Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics and made available to inter-
ested parties, to allow for the assessment of the out-
comes of continued welfare reform on the economic 
and child well-being of low-income families with chil-
dren, including those who received assistance or 
services from a State program funded under this 
part or any other State program funded with quali-
fied State expenditures (as defined in section 
409(a)(7)(B)(i)). The content of the surveys should 
include such information as may be necessary to ex-
amine the issues of unmarried childbearing, mar-
riage, welfare dependency and compliance with work 
requirements, the beginning and ending of spells of 
assistance, work, earnings and employment stability, 
and the well-being of children. 
‘‘(2) To carry out the activities specified in 
paragraph (1), the Bureau of the Census, the Sec-
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retary, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics shall con-
sider ways to improve the surveys and data derived 
from the surveys to— 
‘‘(A) address under reporting of the receipt 
of means-tested benefits and tax benefits for 
low-income individuals and families; 
‘‘(B) increase understanding of poverty 
spells and long-term poverty, including by facili-
tating the matching of information to better un-
derstand intergenerational poverty; 
‘‘(C) generate a better geographical under-
standing of poverty such as through State- 
based estimates and measures of neighborhood 
poverty; 
‘‘(D) increase understanding of the effects 
of means-tested benefits and tax benefits on the 
earnings and incomes of low-income families; 
and 
‘‘(E) improve how poverty and economic 
well-being are measured, including through the 
use of consumption measures, material depriva-
tion measures, social exclusion measures, and 
economic and social mobility measures. 
‘‘(f) RESEARCH
AND
EVALUATION
CONDUCTED 
UNDER THIS SECTION.—Research and evaluation con-
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ducted under this section designed to determine the effects 
of a program or policy (other than research conducted 
under subsection (e)) shall use experimental designs using 
random assignment or other reliable, evidence-based re-
search methodologies that allow for the strongest possible 
causal inferences when random assignment is not feasible. 
‘‘(g) DEVELOPMENT OF WHAT WORKS CLEARING-
HOUSE OF PROVEN AND PROMISING APPROACHES TO 
MOVE WELFARE RECIPIENTS INTO WORK.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, in consulta-
tion with the Secretary of Labor, shall develop a 
database (which shall be referred to as the ‘What 
Works Clearinghouse of Proven and Promising 
Projects to Move Welfare Recipients into Work’) of 
the projects that used a proven approach or a prom-
ising approach in moving welfare recipients into 
work, based on independent, rigorous evaluations of 
the projects. The database shall include a separate 
listing of projects that used a developmental ap-
proach in delivering services and a further separate 
listing of the projects with no or negative effects. 
The Secretary shall add to the What Works Clear-
inghouse of Proven and Promising Projects to Move 
Welfare Recipients into Work data about the 
projects that, based on an independent, well-con-
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ducted experimental evaluation of a program or 
project, using random assignment or other research 
methodologies that allow for the strongest possible 
causal inferences, have shown they are proven, 
promising, developmental, or ineffective approaches. 
‘‘(2) CRITERIA FOR EVIDENCE OF EFFECTIVE-
NESS OF APPROACH.—The Secretary, in consultation 
with the Secretary of Labor and organizations with 
experience in evaluating research on the effective-
ness of various approaches in delivering services to 
move welfare recipients into work, shall— 
‘‘(A) establish criteria for evidence of effec-
tiveness; and 
‘‘(B) ensure that the process for estab-
lishing the criteria— 
‘‘(i) is transparent; 
‘‘(ii) is consistent across agencies; 
‘‘(iii) provides opportunity for public 
comment; and 
‘‘(iv) takes into account efforts of 
Federal agencies to identify and publicize 
effective interventions, including efforts at 
the Department of Health and Human 
Services, the Department of Education, 
and the Department of Justice. 
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‘‘(3) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection: 
‘‘(A) APPROACH.—The term ‘approach’ 
means a process, product, strategy, or practice 
that is— 
‘‘(i) research-based, based on the re-
sults of one or more empirical studies, and 
linked to program-determined outcomes; 
and 
‘‘(ii) evaluated using rigorous research 
designs. 
‘‘(B) 
PROVEN
APPROACH.—The 
term 
‘proven approach’ means an approach that— 
‘‘(i) meets the requirements of a 
promising approach; and 
‘‘(ii) has demonstrated significant and 
substantively important positive outcomes 
at more than one site in terms of increas-
ing work and earnings of participants, re-
ducing poverty and dependence, improving 
child well-being, or strengthening families. 
‘‘(C) PROMISING
APPROACH.—The term 
‘promising approach’ means an approach— 
‘‘(i) that meets the requirements of 
subparagraph (D)(i); 
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‘‘(ii) that has been evaluated using 
well-designed and rigorous randomized 
controlled trials (or, if not available, rig-
orous quasi-experimental research designs); 
‘‘(iii) that has demonstrated signifi-
cant and substantively important positive 
outcomes at one site in terms of increasing 
work and earnings of participants, reduc-
ing poverty and dependence, improving 
child well-being, or strengthening families; 
and 
‘‘(iv) under which the benefits of the 
positive outcomes have exceeded the costs 
of achieving the outcomes. 
‘‘(D) DEVELOPMENTAL
APPROACH.—The 
term ‘developmental approach’ means an ap-
proach that— 
‘‘(i) is research-based, grounded in 
relevant empirically based knowledge, and 
linked to program-determined outcomes; 
‘‘(ii) is evaluated using rigorous re-
search designs; and 
‘‘(iii) has yet to demonstrate a signifi-
cant positive outcome in terms of increas-
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ing work and earnings of participants in a 
cost-effective way. 
‘‘(h) APPROPRIATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN
GENERAL.—Of the amount appro-
priated by section 403(a)(1) for each fiscal year, 
0.33 percent shall be available for research, technical 
assistance, and evaluation under this section. 
‘‘(2) ALLOCATION.—Of the amount made avail-
able under paragraph (1) for each fiscal year, the 
Secretary shall make available $10,000,000 plus 
such additional amount as the Secretary deems nec-
essary and appropriate, to carry out subsection 
(e).’’. 
(b) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section 
403(a)(1)(B) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 603(a)(1)(B)) is 
amended by inserting ‘‘, reduced by the percentage speci-
fied in section 413(h) with respect to the fiscal year,’’ be-
fore ‘‘as the amount’’. 
SEC. 5. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS TO DATA EXCHANGE 
STANDARDS TO IMPROVE PROGRAM COORDI-
NATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 411(d) of the Social Secu-
rity Act (42 U.S.C. 611(d)) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(d) DATA EXCHANGE STANDARDS FOR IMPROVED 
INTEROPERABILITY.— 
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‘‘(1) DESIGNATION.—The Secretary shall, in 
consultation with an interagency work group estab-
lished by the Office of Management and Budget and 
considering State government perspectives, by rule, 
designate data exchange standards to govern, under 
this part— 
‘‘(A) necessary categories of information 
that State agencies operating programs under 
State plans approved under this part are re-
quired under applicable Federal law to elec-
tronically exchange with another State agency; 
and 
‘‘(B) Federal reporting and data exchange 
required under applicable Federal law. 
‘‘(2) 
REQUIREMENTS.—The 
data 
exchange 
standards required by paragraph (1) shall, to the ex-
tent practicable— 
‘‘(A) incorporate a widely accepted, non- 
proprietary, searchable, computer-readable for-
mat, such as the eXtensible Markup Language; 
‘‘(B) contain interoperable standards devel-
oped and maintained by intergovernmental 
partnerships, such as the National Information 
Exchange Model; 
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‘‘(C) incorporate interoperable standards 
developed and maintained by Federal entities 
with authority over contracting and financial 
assistance; 
‘‘(D) be consistent with and implement ap-
plicable accounting principles; 
‘‘(E) be implemented in a manner that is 
cost-effective and improves program efficiency 
and effectiveness; and 
‘‘(F) be capable of being continually up-
graded as necessary. 
‘‘(3) RULE
OF
CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in 
this subsection shall be construed to require a 
change to existing data exchange standards found to 
be effective and efficient.’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—Not later than the date that 
is 24 months after the date of the enactment of this sec-
tion, the Secretary of Health and Human Services shall 
issue a proposed rule that— 
(1) identifies federally required data exchanges, 
include specification and timing of exchanges to be 
standardized, and address the factors used in deter-
mining whether and when to standardize data ex-
changes; and 
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