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Empowering Individuals to Succeed Through Education and Workforce Training Act
To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to establish a fund to provide support services for individuals participating in certain training activities under such Act.
Summary
This bill establishes a new Support Services Training Fund within the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. The bill authorizes the Secretary of Labor to award competitive grants to local boards, consortiums of local boards, and state boards to provide support services for individuals participating in workforce training activities. Eligible support services include traditional supportive services as well as other services identified by grant recipients as necessary for training completion, such as groceries and after-hours childcare. Grant recipients are required to partner with other organizations, including TANF and SNAP programs, to deliver these services. Individual grants awarded under this program may not exceed $2 million per year.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Smith, Adam [D-WA-9] (D-WA)
Actions (2)
- Oct 21, 2025 Referred to the House Committee on Education and Workforce. · house
- Oct 21, 2025 Introduced in House
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
October 21, 2025
Mr. Smith of Washington introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Workforce
A BILL
To amend the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to establish a fund to provide support services for individuals participating in certain training activities under such Act.
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 “Empowering Individuals to Succeed Through Education and Workforce Training Act”.
SEC. 2. SUPPORT SERVICES TRAINING FUND.
Subtitle D of title I of the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3221 et seq.) is amended—
(1) by redesignating section 172 as section 173; and
(2) by adding after section 171 the following new section:
“SEC. 172. SUPPORT SERVICES TRAINING FUND.
“(a) Establishment of Specified Support Services Training Fund.— From the amounts appropriated to carry out this section, the Secretary shall award competitive grants to qualified applicants to provide specified support services for individuals participating in training activities covered under section 134(c)(3) of title I and section 231 of title II of this Act.
“(b) Qualified Applicant.—For purposes of this section, the term ‘qualified applicant’ means a local board, a consortium of local boards, or a State board acting on behalf of or in partnership with a consortium of local boards.
“(c) Application.—To receive a grant under subsection (a), a qualified applicant shall submit to the Secretary an application in such manner, at such time, and containing such information as the Secretary may require, including a description of how such qualified applicant plans to partner with other organizations, including the State agency responsible for administering the State program for temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) funded under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act and the supplemental nutrition assistance program under the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2012 et seq.), to provide specified support services.
“(d) Use of Funds.—
“(1) Eligible participant.—Individuals participating in training services covered under section 134(c)(3) of title I or section 231 of title II of this Act are eligible to receive specified support services provided under this section.
“(2) Specified support services.—The qualified support services to be provided by a grantee under this section include—
“(A) supportive services described in section 3(59), and
“(B) such other services or funding not described in such section as a grantee identifies as important for an individual to successfully complete training services covered under this section, including funding for, or the provision of, groceries and after-hours childcare.
“(e) Individual Grant Amounts.—The amount of an individual grant awarded under this section shall not exceed more than $2,000,000 per year.”. <all>
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