A bill to amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to define the term evidence-based.

Bill: 119-s-922
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Banks, Jim [R-IN]
Introduced: 2025-03-10
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Latest action: action_date: 2025-03-10
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

Summaries:

tv_txt: II 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 922 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 10, 2025 Mr. Banks introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions A BILL To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to define the term evidence-based.

1. Evidence-based definition (a) In general Section 3 of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act ( 29 U.S.C. 3102 ) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (72) Evidence-based The term evidence-based , when used with respect to an activity, service, strategy, or intervention, or content of materials, means an activity, service, strategy, or intervention, or content of materials that— (A) demonstrates a statistically significant effect on improving participant outcomes or other relevant outcomes based on— (i) strong evidence from at least 1 well-designed and well-implemented experimental study; (ii) moderate evidence from at least 1 well-designed and well-implemented quasi-experimental study; or (iii) promising evidence from at least 1 well-designed and well-implemented correlational study with statistical controls for selection bias; or (B) (i) demonstrates a rationale based on high-quality research findings or positive evaluation that such activity, service, strategy, intervention, or content is likely to improve student outcomes or other relevant outcomes; and (ii) includes ongoing efforts to examine the effects of such activity, service, strategy, intervention, or content. . (b) Description of evidence-Based programs Section 102(b)(1) of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act ( 29 U.S.C. 3112(b)(1) ) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (C), by inserting the extent to which such activities are evidence-based, after of such activities, ; (2) in subparagraph (D), by striking and at the end; (3) in subparagraph (E), by striking the period and inserting ; and ; and (4) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: (F) a description of any strategies the State will use to prioritize the funding of evidence-based programs through the funds reserved as described in section 128(a) and available for statewide workforce development activities. .