Title: Improving Access to Work Act
Policy area: Social Welfare

Summary:
Improving Access to Work Act
This bill requires states to use at least 25% of grant funds received under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program for assistance, case management, supportive services, nonrecurring short-term benefits, and certain activities related to work and wages.

[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4524 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4524

To amend title IV-A of the Social Security Act, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 19, 2021

  Mr. LaHood (for himself and Mrs. Walorski) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title IV-A of the Social Security Act, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Improving Access to Work Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITING STATE DIVERSION OF FEDERAL FUNDS TO REPLACE STATE 
              SPENDING.

    Section 404 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 604) is amended 
by adding at the end the following:
    ``(l) Limitation on Use of Federal Funds To Replace State General 
Revenue Funds.--Funds made available to States under this part on or 
after the effective date of this subsection must be used to supplement, 
not supplant, State general revenue spending on activities described in 
this section.''.

SEC. 3. TARGETING FUNDS TO CORE PURPOSES.

    (a) Requirement That States Reserve 25 Percent of TANF Grant for 
Spending on Core Activities.--Section 408(a) (42 U.S.C. 608(a)) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(13) Requirement that states reserve 25 percent of tanf 
        grant for spending on core activities.--A State to which a 
        grant is made under section 403(a) for a fiscal year shall 
        expend not less than 25 percent of the grant on assistance, 
        case management, work supports and supportive services, work, 
        wage subsidies, work activities (as defined in section 407(d)), 
        and non-recurring short-term benefits.''.
    (b) Requirement That at Least 25 Percent of Qualified State 
Expenditures From Non-Private Sources Be for Core Activities.--Section 
408(a) (42 U.S.C. 608(a)), as amended by subsection (a) of this 
section, is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(14) Requirement that at least 25 percent of qualified 
        state expenditures from non-private sources counting towards 
        maintenance of effort requirement be for core activities.--Not 
        less than 25 percent of the qualified State expenditures of a 
        State during the fiscal year shall be expenditures of funds 
        from non-private sources for assistance, case management, work 
        supports and supportive services, work, wage subsidies, work 
        activities (as defined in section 407(d)), and non-recurring 
        short-term benefits.''.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    The amendments made by this Act shall take effect on October 1, 
2022.
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