3.0.0 1652 2023-01-12T17:52:47Z 2023-01-12T17:52:47Z Senate S S 2007-06-19 110 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2007-06-19T19:50:25Z Trade Adjustment Assistance Reform Act 110 1729 HR 2007-03-28 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Related bill CRS 2007-06-19 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2007-06-19 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress D000601 Sen. Dole, Elizabeth [R-NC] Elizabeth Dole R NC H. N C000127 Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] Maria Cantwell D WA 2007-06-19 True Foreign Trade and International Finance Clothing Commerce Economics and Public Finance Finance and Financial Sector Grants-in-aid Health Health insurance Income tax Insurance premiums Labor and Employment Overhead costs Tax credits Taxation Textile industry Trade adjustment assistance Foreign Trade and International Finance 00 2007-06-19 Introduced in Senate 2007-08-27T17:09:45Z Trade Adjustment Assistance Reform Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to repeal group eligibility requirements for trade adjustment assistance (TAA) that: (1) the country to which the workers' firm has shifted production of the articles be a party to a free trade agreement with the United States; or (2) such country be a beneficiary country under the Andean Trade Preference Act, African Growth and Opportunity Act, or the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act.

Requires the Secretary of Labor, with respect to textile and apparel workers, to make group eligibility determinations without regard to the sales, imports, and production factors of the group eligibility requirements.

Requires funds provided to a state to cover the administrative costs associated with its TAA responsibilities to be sufficient to cover all costs associated with operating the program, including caseworker costs.

Increases the amount of payments for training of adversely affected workers under the Act.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the credit for health insurance costs of certain TAA and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) pension recipients.

Requires the Secretaries of the Treasury and of Labor each to carry out compatible and coordinated programs to simplify the TAA and credit eligibility process.

]]> Trade Adjustment Assistance Reform Act Display Title Trade Adjustment Assistance Reform Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to amend the Trade Act of 1974 with respect to trade adjustment assistance for textile and apparel workers, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Trade Adjustment Assistance Reform Act Introduced in Senate 2007-06-19T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s1652is/xml/BILLS-110s1652is.xml 2007-06-19 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.