[Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 139 (Tuesday, August 21, 2018)]
[Senate]
[Pages S5781-S5782]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3876. Mr. WARNER (for himself, Mr. Young, Mr. Bennet, Mr. Sasse, 
Mr. Hoeven, and Mr. King) submitted an amendment intended to be 
proposed to amendment SA 3695 proposed by Mr. Shelby to the bill H.R. 
6157, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the 
fiscal year ending September 30, 2019, and for other purposes; which 
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
       On page 153, strike line 7 and insert the following:
       30, 2020; and
       (3) notwithstanding paragraphs (1) and (2), $20,000,000 
     shall be used to establish and carry out a Portable Benefits 
     for Independent Workers Pilot Program, to award grants to 
     States, local governments, and nonprofit organizations--
       (A) as a means of--
       (i) promoting State, local, and nonprofit experimentation 
     concerning portable employment benefits delivery to 
     contingent and independent workers, and

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       (ii) providing an opportunity for States, local 
     governments, and nonprofit organizations to fund innovative 
     ways to attract talent and support an entrepreneurial 
     economy, and
       (B) specifically for the purpose of--
       (i) the evaluation, or improvement to the design or 
     implementation, of existing (as of the date of the award) 
     models or approaches for providing portable benefits, or
       (ii) the design, implementation, and evaluation of new 
     models or approaches for providing such benefits.
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