[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2365 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 2365

  To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to authorize funds for 
  certain employment and training activities, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             July 18, 2023

 Mr. Ricketts 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 Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to authorize funds for 
  certain employment and training activities, and for other purposes.

    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 ``SNAP Next Step Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. WORKFORCE INNOVATION AND OPPORTUNITY ACT ELIGIBILITY.

    Section 6(d)(4) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2015(d)(4)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
                    ``(P) Workforce innovation and opportunity act 
                eligibility.--
                            ``(i) Definition of covered individual.--In 
                        this subparagraph, the term `covered 
                        individual' means an individual that--
                                    ``(I) is in a household that is 
                                receiving assistance under the 
                                supplemental nutrition assistance 
                                program;
                                    ``(II) meets the requirements for 
                                participation in the supplemental 
                                nutrition assistance program under this 
                                subsection or is exempt from those 
                                requirements pursuant to this 
                                subsection;
                                    ``(III) is unemployed or 
                                underemployed;
                                    ``(IV) is in a family that is not 
                                receiving assistance through the 
                                program of block grants to States for 
                                temporary assistance for needy families 
                                established under part A of title IV of 
                                the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 601 
                                et seq.); and
                                    ``(V) is not enrolled in a State 
                                program that is identified as an 
                                Employment First program by the State 
                                workforce agency.
                            ``(ii) Eligibility.--A State agency may use 
                        administrative funds to recruit participants 
                        for and carry out a program that provides 
                        employment and training activities (as defined 
                        in section 3 of the Workforce Innovation and 
                        Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3102)) under 
                        subtitle B of title I of that Act (29 U.S.C. 
                        3151 et seq.) to covered individuals.''.

SEC. 3. EMPLOYMENT CALCULATOR.

    Section 6(d)(4) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 
2015(d)(4)) (as amended by section 2) is amended by adding at the end 
the following:
                    ``(Q) Employment calculator.--
                            ``(i) In general.--Each State agency may 
                        develop a publicly available employment 
                        calculator on the website of the State agency 
                        that assists participants receiving benefits 
                        under the supplemental nutrition assistance 
                        program in calculating whether the amount of 
                        benefits received would be greater or lesser 
                        than income from future employment.
                            ``(ii) Administrative cost.--Carrying out 
                        clause (i) shall be an administrative cost for 
                        purposes of section 16(a).''.
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