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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2579 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act to allow States |
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| 6 | 6 | | to transfer a limited amount of funds provided under the program |
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| 7 | 7 | | of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families, |
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| 8 | 8 | | for use under title I of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. |
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| 9 | 9 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 10 | 10 | | APRIL1, 2025 |
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| 11 | 11 | | Mr. S |
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| 12 | 12 | | MUCKER(for himself and Ms. VANDUYNE) introduced the following bill; |
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| 13 | 13 | | which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means |
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| 14 | 14 | | A BILL |
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| 15 | 15 | | To amend part A of title IV of the Social Security Act |
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| 16 | 16 | | to allow States to transfer a limited amount of funds |
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| 17 | 17 | | provided under the program of block grants to States |
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| 18 | 18 | | for temporary assistance for needy families, for use |
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| 19 | 19 | | under title I of the Workforce Innovation and Oppor- |
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| 20 | 20 | | tunity Act. |
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| 21 | 21 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 22 | 22 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 24 | 24 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Reduce Duplication 4 |
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| 25 | 25 | | and Improve Access to Work Act’’. 5 |
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| 29 | 29 | | SEC. 2. ALLOWING TRANSFERS TO SUPPORT WORKFORCE 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | DEVELOPMENT. 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | (a) I |
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| 32 | 32 | | NGENERAL.—Section 404(d) of the Social Secu-3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | rity Act (42 U.S.C. 604(d)) is amended— 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (1) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end the 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | following: 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | ‘‘(C) Title I of the Workforce Innovation 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | and Opportunity Act.’’; 8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | (2) in paragraph (2)— 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (A) in the heading, by striking ‘‘ |
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| 40 | 40 | | SUBTITLE 10 |
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| 41 | 41 | | 1’’ and inserting ‘‘SUBTITLE A’’; and 11 |
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| 42 | 42 | | (B) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘sub-12 |
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| 43 | 43 | | title 1’’ and inserting ‘‘subtitle A’’; and 13 |
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| 44 | 44 | | (3) in paragraph (3)— 14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (A) in subparagraph (B)— 15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (i) in the heading, by striking ‘‘ |
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| 47 | 47 | | 1OF 16 |
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| 48 | 48 | | TITLE XX’’ and inserting ‘‘A OF TITLE XX 17 |
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| 49 | 49 | | AND TITLE I OF WIOA’’; and 18 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (ii) by striking ‘‘1 of title XX’’ and in-19 |
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| 51 | 51 | | serting ‘‘A of title XX or title I of the 20 |
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| 52 | 52 | | Workforce Innovation and Opportunity 21 |
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| 53 | 53 | | Act’’; and 22 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (B) by adding at the end the following: 23 |
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| 55 | 55 | | ‘‘(C) F |
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| 56 | 56 | | UNDS TRANSFERRED TO TITLE I OF 24 |
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| 57 | 57 | | WIOA PROGRAM.— 25 |
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| 61 | 61 | | ‘‘(i) LIMITATION ON RESERVATION OF 1 |
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| 62 | 62 | | FUNDS.—In the case of funds transferred 2 |
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| 63 | 63 | | under paragraph (1)(C) of this subsection, 3 |
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| 64 | 64 | | not more than 15 percent of the funds 4 |
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| 65 | 65 | | shall be reserved for statewide workforce 5 |
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| 66 | 66 | | investment activities referred to in section 6 |
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| 67 | 67 | | 128(a)(1) of the Workforce Innovation and 7 |
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| 68 | 68 | | Opportunity Act. 8 |
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| 69 | 69 | | ‘‘(ii) S |
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| 70 | 70 | | UBMISSION OF COMBINED 9 |
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| 71 | 71 | | STATE PLAN UNDER WIOA .—If a State in-10 |
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| 72 | 72 | | tends to transfer funds under paragraph 11 |
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| 73 | 73 | | (1)(C) of this subsection, the State shall— 12 |
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| 74 | 74 | | ‘‘(I) submit to the Secretary and 13 |
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| 75 | 75 | | the Secretary of Labor a combined 14 |
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| 76 | 76 | | State plan pursuant to section 103 of 15 |
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| 77 | 77 | | the Workforce Innovation and Oppor-16 |
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| 78 | 78 | | tunity Act that covers the State pro-17 |
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| 79 | 79 | | gram to be carried out pursuant to 18 |
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| 80 | 80 | | this part; and 19 |
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| 81 | 81 | | ‘‘(II) in doing so, apply section 20 |
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| 82 | 82 | | 102(c)(3) of such Act to the programs 21 |
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| 83 | 83 | | referred to in section 103(a)(2)(B) of 22 |
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| 84 | 84 | | such Act covered by the combined 23 |
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| 85 | 85 | | plan.’’. 24 |
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| 89 | 89 | | (b) EFFECTIVEDATE.—The amendments made by 1 |
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| 90 | 90 | | subsection (a) shall take effect on October 1, 2026. 2 |
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