Sec. 9. Block grants to States for transitional assistance
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The Social Security Act is amended by adding at the end the following new title: There is established in the Treasury of the United States a trust fund to be known as the Transitional Assistance Trust Fund , consisting of such amounts as may be appropriated or credited to the Transitional Assistance Trust Fund as provided in this section. There are hereby appropriated to the Transitional Assistance Trust Fund, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, amounts equivalent to 25 percent of the taxes received in the Treasury after December 31, 2012, that the Secretary of the Treasury determines are attributable to Internet gambling. The amounts appropriated by paragraph
(1)shall be transferred from time to time from the general fund in the Treasury to the Transitional Assistance Trust Fund. Such amounts shall be determined on the basis of estimates by the Secretary of the Treasury of the taxes, specified in paragraph
(1)of this subsection, paid to or deposited into the Treasury. Proper adjustments shall be made in amounts subsequently transferred to the extent prior estimates were in excess of or were less than the taxes specified in paragraph
(1)of this subsection. Amounts in the Transitional Assistance Trust Fund shall be available, as provided by appropriation Acts, for making expenditures to carry out section 2202. Each State shall be entitled to a payment under this section for each fiscal year in an amount equal to its allotment for such fiscal year, to be used by such State to carry out the State’s plan for transitional assistance described in subsection (c), subject to the requirements of this section. No State may receive a payment under this section unless the State submits the State’s plan for transitional assistance described in subsection
(c)to the Secretary and the Secretary approves such plan. A State plan for transitional assistance is described by this subsection if the plan— provides for expanded education opportunities for individuals who are, or were formerly, in foster care, including streamlining and coordinating education financing opportunities and providing counseling and assistance to such individuals for the purpose of ensuring completion of their academic goals; provides for job training opportunities for individuals who are, or were formerly, in foster care; provides, primarily through expanding access to and investment in community colleges, for expanded post-secondary education and job training opportunities that lead to a certificate, for individuals who are working in, or had worked in, declining sectors of the economy, as defined by the Secretary, and who want to pursue a new career in a sector of the economy with the potential for high wages and high growth, as defined by the Secretary; and provides a subsidy for the use of public transportation by— individuals qualifying for benefits or services under title XX, including the Federal-State Unemployment Insurance Program; and individuals participating in programs under the Workforce Investment Act. The allotment for a fiscal year for a State receiving an allotment for such fiscal year shall be an amount equal to— the amount appropriated for such fiscal year under subsection (f), multiplied by the ratio by which the population of the State bears to the population of all the States receiving an allotment for such fiscal year as determined by the Secretary (on the basis of the most recent data available from the Department of Commerce). For purposes of this section: The term in foster care means, with respect to an individual, an individual who is under the care and placement responsibility of the State agency responsible for administering a plan, in connection with such individual, under part B or part E of title IV. The term Secretary means the Secretary of Health and Human Services. The term State means the 50 States of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. There are authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year to the Secretary the amount deposited into the Transitional Assistance Trust Fund pursuant to section 2201 to carry out this section. .