AMENDMENTS RELATING TO DEMONSTRATION PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF THE POOR.

SEC. 705. AMENDMENTS RELATING TO DEMONSTRATION PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS ADDRESSING THE NEEDS OF THE POOR. (a) General Authority.—Section 408(a)(1) of the Human Services Reauthorization Act of 1986 (42 U.S.C. 9910b(a)(1) is amended— (1) in the first sentence, by striking “provide for the self-sufficiency of the Nation’s poor” and inserting “stimulate the development of new approaches to provide for greater self-sufficiency of the poor, to test and evaluate such new approaches, to disseminate project results and evaluation findings so that such approaches can be replicated, and to strengthen the integration, coordination, and redirection of activities to promote maximum self-sufficiency among the poor”; and (2) in the second sentence— (A) by striking “or” at the end of subparagraph (B); (B) by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (C) and inserting “; and”; and (C) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: “(D) contain an assurance that the applicant for such grants will obtain an independent, methodologically sound evaluation of the effectiveness of the activities carried out with such grant and will submit such evaluation to the Secretary.”. (b) Limitations.— (1) Subsequent grants.—Section 408(b)(1) of such Act is amended— (A) by striking “Grants” and inserting “(A) Subject to subparagraph (B), grants”; (B) by striking “new” both places it appears; and (C) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph: “(B) After the first fiscal year for which an eligible entity receives a grant under this section to carry out a program, the amount of a subsequent grant made under this section to such entity to carry out such program may not exceed 80 percent of the amount of the grant 103 STAT. 1822 previously received by such entity under this section to carry out such program.”. (2) Amount and number of grants.—Section 408(b)(3) of such Act is amended— (A) by inserting “in each fiscal year” after “one grant”; (B) by striking “$250,000” and inserting “$350,000”; and (C) by adding at the end the following new sentence: “Not more than 2 grants may be made under this section to an eligible entity to carry out a particular program.”. (c) Dissemination of Results.—Subsection (c) of section 408 of such Act is amended to read as follows: “(c) Dissemination of Results.—As soon as practicable, but not later than 180 days after the end of the fiscal year in which a recipient of a grant under this section completes the expenditure of such grant, the Secretary shall prepare and make available to each State and each eligible entity a description of the program carried out with such grant, any relevant information developed and results achieved, and a summary of the evaluation of such program received under subsection (a)(1)(D) so as to provide a model of innovative programs for other eligible entities ”. (d) Definition.—Section 408(d)(1) of such Act is amended by inserting before the semicolon the following: “, except that such term includes an organization that serves migrant and seasonal farm workers and that receives a grant under the Community Services Block Grant Act (42 U.S.C. 9901 et seq.) in the fiscal year preceding the fiscal year for which such organization requests a grant under this section”. (e) Authorization of Appropriations.—Section 408(e) of such Act is amended— (1) by striking “is” and inserting “are”; and (2) by inserting after “1989,” the following: “and $7,000,000 for fiscal year 1990,”. (f) Report to Congress.—Section 408 of such Act (as amended by subsections (d) and (e) of this section) is amended— (1) by redesignating subsections (d) and (e) as subsections (0 and (g), respectively; and (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following new subsections: “(d) Replication of Programs.—(1) The Secretary shall annually identify programs that receive grants under this section that demonstrate a significant potential for dealing with particularly critical needs or problems of the poor that exist in a number of communities. “(2) Not less than 10 percent, and not more than 25 percent, of the funds appropriated for each fiscal year to carry out this section shall be available to make grants under this section to replicate in additional geographic areas programs identified under paragraph (1). “(e) Report to Congress.—The Secretary shall submit annually, to the Committee on Education and Labor of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Labor and Human Resources of the Senate, a report containing— “(1) a description of— “(A) programs for which grants under this section in the then most recently completed fiscal year; and “(B) the evaluations received under subsection (a)(1)(D) in such fiscal year; and 103 STAT. 1823 “(2) a description of the methods used by the Secretary to comply with subsection (c); “(3) recommendations of the Secretary regarding the suitability of carrying out such programs with funds made available under other Federal laws; and “(4) a description of each program identified under subsection (d)(1) or replicated under subsection (d)(2), and an identification of the geographical location where such program was carried out.”.