Committee on Finance of the Senate, publish in the 
Federal Register, and make easily accessible to the 
public through the Internet a compilation of the re-
ports submitted pursuant to paragraph (1) for the 
preceding fiscal year.’’. 
SEC. 405. LONGITUDINAL STUDIES OF TANF RECIPIENTS. 
(a) LONGITUDINAL STUDIES OF TANF APPLICANTS 
AND RECIPIENTS TO DETERMINE THE FACTORS THAT 
CONTRIBUTE TO POSITIVE EMPLOYMENT AND FAMILY 
OUTCOMES.—Section 413(d) (42 U.S.C. 613) is amended 
to read as follows: 
‘‘(d) LONGITUDINAL STUDIES
OF TANF APPLI-
CANTS AND RECIPIENTS TO DETERMINE THE FACTORS 
THAT CONTRIBUTE
TO POSITIVE EMPLOYMENT
AND 
FAMILY OUTCOMES.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary, directly or 
through grants, contracts, or interagency agree-
ments, shall conduct longitudinal studies in not less 
than 30 States of a representative sample of families 
that receive and applicants for assistance in a State 
program funded under this part or under a program 
funded with qualified State expenditures (as defined 
in section 409(a)(7)(B)(i)). The studies shall follow 
families that leave assistance, those that receive as-
sistance throughout the study period, and those di-
verted from assistance programs. The studies shall 
gather information on family and adult demo-
graphics (including race, ethnicity/national origin, 
primary language, gender, barriers to employment, 
educational status of adults, prior work history, 
prior history of welfare receipt), family income (in-
cluding earnings, unemployment compensation, and 
child support), benefit receipt (including food 
stamps, medicaid, earned income tax credits, hous-
ing assistance, and type and amount of child care 
used), reasons for leaving or returning to assistance 
programs, work participation status and activities 
(including the scope and duration of work activities 
and the types of industries and occupations for 
which training is provided), sanction status (includ-
ing reasons for sanction), time limit status (includ-
ing months remaining on State and Federal time 
limits), recipient views on program participation, 
and measures of income change, poverty, extreme 
poverty, food security, and use of food pantries and 
soup kitchens, homelessness and the use of shelters, 
and other measures of family well-being and hard-
ship over a 5-year period. The Secretary shall, to the 
extent possible, ensure that the studies produce com-
parable results and information.
‘‘(2) REPORTS.—
‘‘(A) The Secretary shall publish, not later 
than December 2005, interim findings from at 
least 12 months of longitudinal data. 
‘‘(B) The Secretary shall publish, not later 
than December 2007, findings from at least 36 
months of longitudinal data.’’. 
(b) LONGITUDINAL STUDIES OF ECONOMIC WELL-
BEING OF CURRENT AND FORMER TANF FAMILIES.—
(1) ANNUAL REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Section 
411(b) (42 U.S.C. 611(b)) is amended—
(A) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘finan-
cial characteristics’’ and inserting ‘‘financial 
characteristics (including types of sanctions or 
other grant reductions)’’ and by striking the 
semicolon at the end and adding ‘‘, broken 
down by race, ethnicity/national origin, primary 
language, gender, education level, and, for 
closed TANF cases, reason the case was 
closed;’’; 
(B) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 
the end; 
(C) in paragraph (4), by striking the pe-
riod and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(5) the economic well-being of children and 
families receiving assistance under the State pro-
grams funded under this part and of children and 
families that have ceased to receive such assistance, 
using longitudinal matched data gathered from fed-
erally supported programs, and including State by 
State data that details the distribution of earnings 
and stability of employment of such families and (to 
the extent feasible) describes, with respect to such 
families, the distribution of income from known 
sources (including employer-reported wages, assist-
ance under the State program funded under this 
part, and benefits under the food stamp program), 
the ratio of such families’ income to the poverty line, 
and the extent to which such families receive or re-
ceived noncash benefits and child care assistance. 
Such information shall be broken down by race, eth-
nicity/national origin, primary language, gender, 
education level, whether the TANF case remains 
open, and, for closed TANF cases, reason the case 
was closed.’’. 
(2) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENTS.—Section 
411(a) (42 U.S.C. 611(a)) is amended by redesig-
nating paragraph (7) as paragraph (8) inserting 
after paragraph (6) the following:
‘‘(7) REPORT
ON
ECONOMIC
WELL-BEING
OF 
CURRENT
AND
FORMER
RECIPIENTS.—The report 
required by paragraph (1) for a fiscal quarter shall 
include for that quarter such information as the Sec-
retary may specify in order for the Secretary to in-
clude in the annual reports to Congress required 
under subsection (b) the information described in 
subsection (b)(5).’’.
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