119-hr4347

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4347 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 4347

 To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide employment and 
 training data grants, and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 July 10, 2025

 Ms. Salinas introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Agriculture

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 A BILL

 To amend the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 to provide employment and 
 training data grants, 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 E&T Data And Technical 
Assistance

    (DATA) Act of 2025''.

SEC. 2. AMENDMENT.

 

Section 5 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2014) is 
amended by adding at the end the following:
 ``

    (o) Employment and Training Data Grants.--The Secretary is 
authorized to award grants to State agencies, on a competitive basis, 
for the purpose of creating and strengthening longitudinal 
administrative databases and associated resources for the purpose of 
strengthening program quality, reducing burden, advancing equity, 
protecting privacy, and improving transparency in supplemental 
nutrition and assistance program employment and training programs.
 ``

    (1) Award basis.--The Secretary shall award grants on a 
 competitive basis and in a manner consistent with the following 
 priorities:
 ``
        (A) Encouraging participation among States that 
 have not yet received such grants and among those with 
 the greatest needs in terms of data infrastructure.
 ``
        (B) Strengthening effectiveness in meeting the 
 purposes of 

section 6
            (d) (4)
        (A)
            (i) .
 ``
            (C) Facilitating co-enrollment and coordination 
 of services between employment and training programs 
 offered under this Act and other federally-supported 
 workforce development programs, such as those 
 authorized under the Workforce Innovation and 
 Opportunity Act (29 U.S.C. 3101 et seq.) and the 
 Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 
 21st Century Act (Public Law 115-224; 132 Stat. 1563) 
 and the amendments made by that Act.
 ``
            (D) Participating in and contributing data to the 
 State's linked longitudinal data system, including 
 submitting data that when linked with K-12, 
 postsecondary, and workforce development data, provides 
 the State with the ability to create more robust tools 
 and analytics.
 ``
        (E) Encouraging the use of non-Federal 
 contributions to improve State data infrastructure and 
 related resources.
 ``
        (F) Enabling research and program improvement 
 activities.
 ``
        (G) Other priorities as determined by the 
 Secretary.
 ``

    (2) Privacy and security standards.--Data supported by 
 this subsection shall be--
 ``
        (A) used only for the purpose described in this 
 subsection;
 ``
        (B) exempted from the disclosure requirements of 
 

section 552

    (a) of title 5 of the United States Code 
 pursuant to 

section 552

    (b)

    (3) of such title, to the 
 extent such information is obtained or received by the 
 Secretary;
 ``
            (C) used in a manner that protects the identity 
 and location of an individual that is an applicant for, 
 or recipient of, supplemental nutrition assistance 
 program benefits; and
 ``
            (D) shall meet security standards as determined 
 by the Secretary.
 ``

    (3) Supplement not supplant.--Funds made available under 
 this subsection shall be used to supplement, and not supplant, 
 other State or local funds used for developing State data 
 systems.
 ``

    (4) Authorization of appropriations.--Of the funds 
 available under 

section 18, the Secretary shall use to carry 
 out this subsection $15,000,000 for each of the fiscal years 
 2026 through 2030.
 ``

    (5) Administrative costs.--The Secretary shall reserve 
 not more than 20 percent of the funds made available under 
 paragraph

    (4) for the provision of technical assistance to 
 support the implementation of these Grants.
 ``

    (6) Reports.--Not later than 3 years after the effective 
 date of this subsection, and annually thereafter, the Secretary 
 shall submit to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of 
 Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, 
 and Forestry of the Senate, a report regarding implementation 
 of this subsection that, includes the following information.
 ``
        (A) The number of grants awarded, a list of 
 recipients, and the amount of funds awarded.
 ``
        (B) A description of recipients' use of the grant 
 funds.
 ``
            (C) An analysis of the impact of receiving such 
 grants on improving the effectiveness of State 
 employment and training programs in meeting the 
 purposes of 

section 6
            (d) (4)
        (A)
            (i) .''.

SEC. 3. GAO REPORT.

 Not later than 1 year after funds are made available to carry out 

section 5

    (o) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2014

    (o) ), 
the Comptroller General of the United States shall--

    (1) examine and review the implementation of such section, 
 including an examination of--
        (A) co-enrollment strategies and related best 
 practices that maximize participant eligibility using 
 linked and integrated data;
        (B) an examination and distillation of best 
 practices related to the coordination and braiding of 
 funds that improve the quality of employment and 
 training programs implemented under the Food and 
 Nutrition Act of 2008; and
            (C) additional issues and impact that access to 
 linked and integrated databases and the development of 
 data exchange agreements have on the participant and 
 provider outcomes within employment and training 
 programs implemented under the Food and Nutrition Act 
 of 2008;

    (2) develop recommendations to the Secretary of Agriculture 
 on any changes that should be made to improve such data grants; 
 and

    (3) prepare and submit a report on the findings and 
 recommendations based on the examination made under paragraph

    (1) , and recommendations received, under paragraph

    (2) , to--
        (A) the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and 
 Forestry of the Senate; and
        (B) the Committee on Agriculture of the House of 
 Representatives.
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