Sec. 2. Table of contents

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The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title. Sec. 2. Table of contents. Division A—Education Title I—Strong Start for America’s Children Subtitle A—Access to Voluntary Prekindergarten for Low- and Moderate-Income Families Sec. 111. Purposes. Sec. 112. Definitions. Sec. 113. Program authorization. Sec. 114. Allotments and reservations of funds. Sec. 115. State eligibility criteria. Sec. 116. State applications. Sec. 117. State use of funds. Sec. 118. Additional prekindergarten services.

Sec. 119. Performance measures and targets. Sec. 120. Matching requirements. Sec. 121. Eligible local entity applications. Sec. 122. Required subgrant activities. Sec. 123. Report and evaluation. Sec. 124. Prohibition of required participation or use of funds for assessments. Sec. 125. Coordination with Head Start programs. Sec. 126. Technical assistance in program administration. Sec. 127. Authorization of appropriations. Subtitle B—Prekindergarten Development Grants Sec. 151.

Prekindergarten development grants. Title II—Youth Promise/Federal Coordination of Local and Tribal Juvenile Justice Information and Efforts Sec. 201. PROMISE Advisory Panel. Sec. 202. Geographic assessment of resource allocation. Title III—Promise Grants Sec. 301. Purposes. Sec. 302. Definitions. Subtitle A—PROMISE Assessment and Planning Grants Sec. 310. PROMISE Assessment and Planning grants authorized. Sec. 311. PROMISE Coordinating Councils. Sec. 312. Needs and strengths assessment.

Sec. 313. PROMISE Plan components. Sec. 314. Authorization of appropriations. Subtitle B—PROMISE Implementation Grants Sec. 320. PROMISE Implementation grants authorized. Sec. 321. PROMISE Implementation grant application requirements. Sec. 322. Grant award guidelines. Sec. 323. Reports. Sec. 324. Authorization of appropriations. Subtitle C—General PROMISE Grant Provisions Sec. 330. Nonsupplanting clause. Sec. 331. Grant application review panel. Sec. 332. Evaluation of PROMISE grant programs.

Title IV—Pell Grant Preservation and Expansion Act Sec. 401. Short title. Sec. 402. Findings. Sec. 403. References. Sec. 404. Funding Federal Pell Grants through mandatory funding. Sec. 405. Restoring Federal Pell Grant eligibility for borrower defense. Sec. 406. Federal Pell Grant eligibility for DREAMer students. Sec. 407. Repeal of suspension of eligibility under the Higher Education Act of 1965 for grants, loans, and work assistance for drug-related offenses. Sec. 408. Extending Federal Pell Grant eligibility of certain short-term programs.

Sec. 409. Providing Federal Pell grants for Iraq and Afghanistan veteran's dependents. Sec. 410. Increasing support for working students by 35 percent. Sec. 411. Increasing the Federal Pell Grant auto-zero threshold. Sec. 412. Raising the total semesters of Federal Pell Grant eligibility. Sec. 413. Conforming amendments. Sec. 414. Effective date. Division B—Housing Title V—Common Sense Housing Investment Sec. 501. Congressional findings. Sec. 502. Replacement of mortgage interest deduction with mortgage interest credit.

Sec. 503. Deduction allowed for interest and taxes relating to land for dwelling purposes owned or leased by cooperative housing corporations. Sec. 504. Use of mortgage interest savings to increase low-income housing tax credit. Sec. 505. Use of mortgage interest savings for affordable housing programs. Title VI—Low-Income Housing Tax Credit for Homeless Youth Sec. 601. Students who were homeless youths or homeless veterans permitted to occupy low-income housing units. Sec. 602.

Renters tax credit. Division C—Nutrition Title VII—Improving Temporary Assistance to Needy Families Program Sec. 701. References. Sec. 702. State plans required to address whether and how States will provide assistance to neediest geographic areas. Sec. 703. Funding of the TANF program. Sec. 704. Work requirements. Sec. 705. Work rules. Sec. 706. Prohibition on imposing limit of less than 60 months on duration of assistance. Sec. 707. Response of TANF program to economic recessions.

Sec. 708. Requirement that States use merit-based system in administration of TANF programs. Sec. 709. Ban on using Federal TANF funds to replace State and local spending that does not meet the definition of qualified State expenditures. Sec. 710. TANF assistance to meet basic family economic needs. Sec. 711. State plans and reports on child poverty. Sec. 712. Requirement that States adopt standards and procedures to address domestic and sexual violence among TANF recipients.

Sec. 713. Child care entitlement. Sec. 714. Child support enforcement. Sec. 715. State option to extend eligibility for assistance to children through age 21; prohibition on considering financial aid tied to education of child in determining eligibility for, or amount of assistance; prohibition on imposing additional requirements based on educational enrollment of child. Sec. 716. Elimination of certain other bars to TANF assistance. Sec. 717. Effective date. Title VIII—Employment Advancement, Retention, and Navigation Act Sec. 811.

Focus on employment. Sec. 812. Modification relating to the Contingency Fund. Sec. 813. Training for in-demand jobs. Sec. 814. Effective date. Title IX—Restoring Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs funding cuts instituted in Farm Bill (Heat-and-Eat) Sec. 901. Restoration of standard utility allowances based on the receipt of energy assistance payments. Title X—Helping Hungry Students Learn Sec. 1001. Findings. Sec. 1002. School Lunch Program. Sec. 1003. School Breakfast Program.

Sec. 1004. Summer Electronic Benefits Transfer for Children program. Sec. 1005. Weekends and holidays without hunger. Title XI—Food Assistance to Improve Reintegration Act Sec. 1101. Repeal of denial of benefits. Division D—Labor/Job Training Title XII—Assistance for the Unemployed and Pathways Back to Work Subtitle A—Supporting Unemployed Workers Sec. 1201. Short title. Part I—Extension of emergency unemployment compensation and certain extended benefits provisions, and establishment of self-Employment assistance program Sec. 1211.

Extension of Emergency Unemployment Compensation program. Sec. 1212. Temporary extension of extended benefit provisions. Sec. 1213. Additional extended unemployment benefits under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act. Part II—Reemployment NOW program Sec. 1221. Establishment of Reemployment NOW program. Sec. 1222. Distribution of funds. Sec. 1223. State plan. Sec. 1224. Bridge to Work program. Sec. 1225. Wage insurance. Sec. 1226. Enhanced reemployment strategies. Sec. 1227.

Self-employment programs. Sec. 1228. Additional innovative programs. Sec. 1229. Guidance and additional requirements. Sec. 1230. Report of information and evaluations to Congress and the public. Sec. 1231. State. Part III—Short-Time compensation program Sec. 1241. Temporary financing of short-time compensation payments in States with programs in law. Sec. 1242. Temporary financing of short-time compensation agreements. Sec. 1243. Grants for short-time compensation programs. Sec. 1244.

Assistance and guidance in implementing programs. Sec. 1245. Reports. Subtitle B—Long-Term unemployed hiring preferences Sec. 1251. Long-term unemployed workers work opportunity tax credits. Subtitle C—Pathways Back to Work Sec. 1261. Short title. Sec. 1262. Authorization of appropriations. Sec. 1263. Availability of funds. Sec. 1264. Subsidized employment for unemployed, low-income adults. Sec. 1265. Summer employment and year-round employment opportunities for low-income youth.

Sec. 1266. Work-based employment strategies of demonstrated effectiveness. Sec. 1267. General requirements. Sec. 1268. Definitions. Subtitle D—Prohibition of discrimination in employment on the basis of an individual’s status as unemployed Sec. 1271. Short title. Sec. 1272. Findings and purpose. Sec. 1273. Definitions. Sec. 1274. Prohibited acts. Sec. 1275. Enforcement. Sec. 1276. Federal and State immunity. Sec. 1277. Relationship to other laws. Sec. 1278. Severability. Sec. 1279.

Effective date. Title XIII—Living American Wage Sec. 1301. Short title. Sec. 1302. Minimum wage increases. Sec. 1303. Tipped employees. Sec. 1304. Newly hired employees who are less than 20 years old. Sec. 1305. Publication of notice. Sec. 1306. Promoting economic self-sufficiency for individuals with disabilities. Sec. 1307. General effective date. Division E—Anti-poverty Tax Provisions Title XIV—Child Tax Credit Permanency Sec. 1401. Inflation adjustment of the child tax credit.

Title XV—Earned Income Tax Credit Sec. 1501. Expansion of Earned Income Credit. Title XVI—Child Care Access and Refundability Expansion Act Sec. 1601. Credit for dependent care expenses. Sec. 1602. Amendments to the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990. Division I—Miscellaneous Title I—Poverty Impact Trigger Sec. 1701. Certain poverty impact legislation subject to point of order. Sec. 1702. Congressional Budget Office Poverty Impact Division. Sec. 1703. Exercise of rulemaking powers.

Sec. 1704. Effective date. Title II—Half in Ten Act to Create a National Strategy to Reduce Poverty Sec. 1801. Findings. Sec. 1802. Definitions. Sec. 1803. Establishment of the Federal Interagency Working Group on Reducing Poverty. Sec. 1804. Appointment and responsibilities of the Director. Sec. 1805. Consultation. Sec. 1806. Reports to Congress and the public.