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

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 922 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 922

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


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                   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

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                                 A BILL


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

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

SECTION 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.''.
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