Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 99 Part 2.djvu/464

 99 STAT. 1574

Prohibition. 42 USC 602.

Workfare. 7 USC 2029.

Environmental protection. Safety.

PUBLIC LAW 99-198—DEC. 23, 1985

"(4)(A) Not later than April 1, 1987, each State agency shall implement an employment and training program designed by the State agency and approved by the Secretary for the purpose of assisting members of households participating in the food stamp program in gaining skills, training, or experience that will increase their ability to obtain regular employment. "(B) For purposes of this Act, an 'employment and training program' means a program that contains one or more of the following components: "(i) Job search programs with terms and conditions comparable to those prescribed in subparagraphs (A) and (B) of section 402(a)(35) of part A of title IV of the Social Security Act, except that the State agency shall have no obligation to incur costs exceeding $25 per participant per month, as provided in subparagraph (B)(vi), and the State agency shall retain the option to apply employment requirements prescribed under this clause to program applicants at the time of application. "(ii) Job search training programs that include, to the extent determined appropriate by the State agency, reasonable job search training and support activities that may consist of jobs skills assessments, job finding clubs, training in techniques for employability, job placement services, or other direct training or support activities, including educational programs, determined by the State agency to expand the job search abilities or employability of those subject to the program. (iii) Workfare programs operated under section 20. "(iv) Programs designed to improve the employability of household members through actual work experience or training, or both, and to enable individuals employed or trained under such programs to move promptly into regular public or private employment. An employment or training experience program established under this clause shall— "(I) limit employment experience assignments to projects that serve a useful public purpose in fields such as health, social services, environmental protection, urban and rural development and redevelopment, welfare, recreation, public facilities, public safety, and day care; "(II) to the extent possible, use the prior training, experience, and skills of the participating member in making appropriate employment or training experience assignments; "(III) not provide any work that has the effect of replacing the employment of an individual not participating in the employment or training experience program; and "(IV) provide the same benefits and working conditions that are provided at the job site to employees performing comparable work for comparable hours, "(v) As approved by the Secretary, other programs, projects, and experiments, such as a supported work program, aimed an accomplishing the purpose of the employment and training program. "(C) The State agency may provide that participation in an employment and training program may supplement or supplant other employment-related requirements imposed on those subject to the program. "(D)(i) Each State agency may exempt from any requirement for participation in any program under this paragraph categories of

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