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S 2088 107th Congress Senate Foreign Trade and International Finance Administrative remedies Agricultural labor Agriculture and Food Dislocated workers Federal-state relations Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publicity Labor and Employment Labor statistics Law Layoffs Trade adjustment assistance U.S. International Trade Commission

A bill to provide for industry-wide certification for trade adjustment assistance, and for other purposes.

Introduced: April 10, 2002 See on congress.gov
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Apr 10, 2002
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Apr 10, 2002
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service
Provides a presumption of eligibility for trade adjustment assistance under the Trade Act of 1974 for a worker (including a worker in any agricultural firm or subdivision of an agricultural firm) in an industry where the International Trade Commission (ITC) notifies the Secretary of Labor that it has made an affirmative determination that an article is being imported into the United States in such increased quantities as to be a substantial cause of serious injury (or threat thereof) to that industry producing an article like or directly competitive with the imported article.

Requires the Secretary, where a worker is presumed eligible for assistance, to: (1) initiate outreach to the industry to gather information on the number and geographic location of workers in that industry who are likely to be certified eligible for assistance; (2) work with the State to develop an expedited process to accept applications from workers in that industry; (3) process each application for certification within a specified time after receiving the application or after enactment of this Act, whichever is later; and (4) deny an application for certification only if there is clear and compelling evidence that a worker was laid off or a plant was closed as a result of causes other than the ITC's affirmative determination for that industry.

What's happening now April 10, 2002

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

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