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Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers, Farmers, Fishermen, Communities, and Firms Act of 2002

Introduced: February 4, 2002 See on congress.gov
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Jun 12, 2002
Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3458-3459)
May 9, 2002
Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
May 9, 2002
Referred to the Subcommittee on Employer-Employee Relations.
Mar 5, 2002
Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
Feb 4, 2002
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, and Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
Feb 4, 2002
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers, Farmers, Fishermen, Communities, and Firms Act of 2002 - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to revise requirements with respect to: (1) agreements between the United States and cooperating States for certain services for workers adversely affected by import competition; (2) eligibility certification of a group of adversely affected workers for trade adjustment assistance; (3) payment to them of trade adjustment allowances; (4) training programs for them; and (5) the maximum amount of job search and relocation allowances payable to an adversely affected worker.

Provides for the eligibility certification for such assistance of adversely affected secondary workers employed at a downstream producer (a firm that performs additional, value-added production processes to articles produced by another firm) or a supplier.

Establishes a self-employment training pilot program to be administered by the Small Business Administration for adversely affected workers.

Reauthorizes the trade adjustment assistance program for firms adversely affected by import competition.

Revises eligibility requirements for certification of communities for trade adjustment assistance.

Establishes trade adjustment assistance programs for adversely affected groups of agricultural commodity producers and commercial fishermen or U.S. fish processors.

Establishes a program to provide 75 percent of the premium for COBRA continuation health coverage for workers (and their families) eligible for trade adjustment assistance.

Allows a State to elect to provide temporary coverage under title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act for: (1) certain uninsured workers; and (2) for the unsubsidized portion of COBRA continuation premiums.

What's happening now June 12, 2002

Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H3458-3459)

 Bill text 1 version

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 Committees of jurisdiction 6
 Cosponsors 12
All 12 Democratic 12
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Larson, John B.
Connecticut · May 22, 2002
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Meeks, Gregory W.
New York · May 22, 2002
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Davis, Danny K.
Illinois · Apr 9, 2002
 D
Smith, Adam
Washington · Apr 9, 2002
 D
Lynch, Stephen F.
Massachusetts · Mar 20, 2002
 D
Larsen, Rick
Washington · Feb 26, 2002
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McGovern, James P.
Massachusetts · Feb 14, 2002
 D
Neal, Richard E.
Massachusetts · Feb 14, 2002
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Pelosi, Nancy
California · Feb 6, 2002
 D
Kaptur, Marcy
Ohio · Feb 5, 2002
 D
Norton, Eleanor Holmes
District of Columbia · Feb 5, 2002
 D
Lofgren, Zoe
California · Feb 4, 2002
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3670: Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers, Farmers, Fishermen, Communities, and Firms Act of 2002. 107th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-3670/
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"H.R. 3670: Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers, Farmers, Fishermen, Communities, and Firms Act of 2002." 107th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-3670/.
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H.R. 3670, 107th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/107-HR-3670/.
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