[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 800 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 800

  To provide for a demonstration project to improve the provision of 
 certain benefits under the Social Security Act through a private aid 
                                program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

               April 21 (legislative day, April 19), 1993

Mr. Kohl (for himself and Mr. Feingold) introduced the following bill; 
     which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
  To provide for a demonstration project to improve the provision of 
 certain benefits under the Social Security Act through a private aid 
                                program.

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

SECTION 1. NEW HOPE DEMONSTRATION PROJECT.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Health and Human Services 
(referred to in this section as the ``Secretary'') shall provide for a 
demonstration project for a qualified program to be conducted in 
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in accordance with this section.
    (b) Payments.--
            (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), for 
        each calendar quarter in which there is a qualified program 
        approved under this section, the Secretary shall pay to the 
        operator of the qualified program an amount equal to the 
        aggregate amount that would otherwise have been payable to the 
        State in the absence of the program, with respect to 
        participants in the program, for cash assistance and child care 
        under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act, for 
        medical assistance under title XIX of such Act, and for 
        administrative expenses related to such assistance for such 
        calendar quarter. In calculating the amount of such payment, 
        the expenses of the program incurred in evaluating the effects 
        of the program (as required under subsection (d)(1)) may be 
        treated as amounts necessary for the proper and efficient 
        administration of the program for purposes of part A of title 
        IV of the Social Security Act and title XIX of such Act.
            (2) Limitation on payments.--Payments shall be made under 
        paragraph (1) to participants in the program for no more than 
        20 calendar quarters.
    (c) Demonstration Project Described.--For purposes of this section, 
the term ``qualified program'' means a program operated--
            (1) by The New Hope Project, Inc., a private, not-for-
        profit corporation incorporated under the laws of the State of 
        Wisconsin (referred to in this section as the ``operator''), 
        which offers low-income residents of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 
        employment, wage supplements, child care, health care, and 
        counseling and training for job retention or advancement; and
            (2) in accordance with an application submitted by the 
        operator of the program and approved by the Secretary based on 
        the Secretary's determination that the application satisfies 
        the requirements of subsection (d).
    (d) Contents of Application.--The operator of the qualified program 
shall provide, in the operator's application to conduct a demonstration 
project for the program, that the following terms and conditions will 
be met:
            (1) The operator will develop and implement an evaluation 
        plan designed to provide reliable information on the impact and 
        implementation of the program. The evaluation plan will include 
        adequately sized groups of project participants and control 
        groups assigned at random.
            (2) The operator will develop and implement a plan 
        addressing the services and assistance to be provided by the 
        program, the timing and determination of payments from the 
        Secretary to the operator of the program, and the roles and 
        responsibilities of the Secretary and the operator with respect 
        to meeting the requirements of this paragraph.
            (3) The operator will specify a methodology for determining 
        expenditures to be paid to the operator by the Secretary, with 
        assistance from the Secretary in calculating the amount that 
        would otherwise have been payable to the State in the absence 
        of the program, pursuant to subsection (b).
            (4) The operator will issue an interim and final report on 
        the results of the evaluation described in paragraph (1) to the 
        Secretary at such times as required by the Secretary.
    (e) Effective Date.--This section shall take effect on the first 
day of the first calendar quarter that begins after the date of 
enactment of this Act.

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