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| 2 | 2 | | 119THCONGRESS |
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| 3 | 3 | | 1 |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION S. 922 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to define the |
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| 6 | 6 | | term evidence-based. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES |
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| 8 | 8 | | MARCH10, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. B |
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| 10 | 10 | | ANKSintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred |
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| 11 | 11 | | to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions |
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| 12 | 12 | | A BILL |
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| 13 | 13 | | To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act |
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| 14 | 14 | | to define the term evidence-based. |
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| 15 | 15 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 16 | 16 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 17 | 17 | | SECTION 1. EVIDENCE-BASED DEFINITION. 3 |
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| 18 | 18 | | (a) I |
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| 19 | 19 | | NGENERAL.—Section 3 of the Workforce Inno-4 |
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| 20 | 20 | | vation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3102) is amended 5 |
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| 21 | 21 | | by adding at the end the following new paragraph: 6 |
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| 22 | 22 | | ‘‘(72) E |
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| 23 | 23 | | VIDENCE-BASED.—The term ‘evidence- 7 |
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| 24 | 24 | | based’, when used with respect to an activity, serv-8 |
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| 25 | 25 | | ice, strategy, or intervention, or content of materials, 9 |
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| 28 | 28 | | •S 922 IS |
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| 29 | 29 | | means an activity, service, strategy, or intervention, 1 |
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| 30 | 30 | | or content of materials that— 2 |
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| 31 | 31 | | ‘‘(A) demonstrates a statistically signifi-3 |
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| 32 | 32 | | cant effect on improving participant outcomes 4 |
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| 33 | 33 | | or other relevant outcomes based on— 5 |
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| 34 | 34 | | ‘‘(i) strong evidence from at least 1 6 |
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| 35 | 35 | | well-designed and well-implemented experi-7 |
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| 36 | 36 | | mental study; 8 |
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| 37 | 37 | | ‘‘(ii) moderate evidence from at least 9 |
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| 38 | 38 | | 1 well-designed and well-implemented 10 |
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| 39 | 39 | | quasi-experimental study; or 11 |
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| 40 | 40 | | ‘‘(iii) promising evidence from at least 12 |
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| 41 | 41 | | 1 well-designed and well-implemented cor-13 |
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| 42 | 42 | | relational study with statistical controls for 14 |
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| 43 | 43 | | selection bias; or 15 |
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| 44 | 44 | | ‘‘(B)(i) demonstrates a rationale based on 16 |
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| 45 | 45 | | high-quality research findings or positive eval-17 |
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| 46 | 46 | | uation that such activity, service, strategy, 18 |
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| 47 | 47 | | intervention, or content is likely to improve stu-19 |
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| 48 | 48 | | dent outcomes or other relevant outcomes; and 20 |
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| 49 | 49 | | ‘‘(ii) includes ongoing efforts to examine 21 |
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| 50 | 50 | | the effects of such activity, service, strategy, 22 |
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| 51 | 51 | | intervention, or content.’’. 23 |
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| 52 | 52 | | (b) D |
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| 53 | 53 | | ESCRIPTION OF EVIDENCE-BASEDPRO-24 |
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| 54 | 54 | | GRAMS.—Section 102(b)(1) of the Workforce Innovation 25 |
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| 57 | 57 | | •S 922 IS |
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| 58 | 58 | | and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3112(b)(1)) is amend-1 |
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| 59 | 59 | | ed— 2 |
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| 60 | 60 | | (1) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ‘‘the ex-3 |
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| 61 | 61 | | tent to which such activities are evidence-based,’’ 4 |
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| 62 | 62 | | after ‘‘of such activities,’’; 5 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (2) in subparagraph (D), by striking ‘‘and’’ at 6 |
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| 64 | 64 | | the end; 7 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (3) in subparagraph (E), by striking the period 8 |
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| 66 | 66 | | and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 9 |
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| 67 | 67 | | (4) by adding at the end the following new sub-10 |
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| 68 | 68 | | paragraph: 11 |
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| 69 | 69 | | ‘‘(F) a description of any strategies the 12 |
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| 70 | 70 | | State will use to prioritize the funding of evi-13 |
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| 71 | 71 | | dence-based programs through the funds re-14 |
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| 72 | 72 | | served as described in section 128(a) and avail-15 |
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| 73 | 73 | | able for statewide workforce development activi-16 |
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| 74 | 74 | | ties.’’. 17 |
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