3.0.0 480 2022-02-03T06:06:13Z 2022-02-03T06:06:13Z Senate S S 2009-02-25 111 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2009-02-25T22:02:45Z 2009-02-25 ssev00 Environment and Public Works Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. IntroReferral 2009-02-25 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH N Economics and Public Finance Department of Commerce Economic development Economic performance and conditions Employment and training programs Executive agency funding and structure Government information and archives Unemployment Economics and Public Finance 00 2009-02-25 Introduced in Senate 2009-03-09T20:43:10Z Regional Economic Recovery Coordination Act of 2009 - Establishes in the Department of Commerce the Office of Regional Economic Adjustment, headed by a Director, to: (1) lead, support, and coordinate a program to address economic dislocation in eligible regions (regions undergoing sudden and severe economic dislocation); (2) assist in making a specified central information clearinghouse available to states and eligible regions; (3) coordinate the federal response and provide comprehensive technical assistance to eligible regions; and (4) establish an interagency regional economic adjustment working group.

Requires the Director, after notification of certain plant closings or mass employee layoffs, to certify that region as an eligible region for purposes of benefits under this Act.

Authorizes a region to establish a Regional Economic and Workforce Development Coordinating Committee to, among other things: (1) ascertain the severity of the region's economic dislocation; and (2) assess the region's capacity to respond to the economic dislocation and its needs as it undertakes economic adjustment.

Requires the Director to assign a federal economic recovery coordinator to each eligible region.

Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to require the employer involved to notify the Secretaries of Labor and Commerce of a plant closing or layoff and the number of employees affected.

]]> Regional Economic Recovery Coordination Act of 2009 Short Titles as Introduced Regional Economic Recovery Coordination Act of 2009 Display Title Regional Economic Recovery Coordination Act of 2009 Official Title as Introduced A bill to establish the Office of Regional Economic Adjustment in the Department of Commerce, to assist regions affected by sudden and severe economic dislocation by coordinating Federal, State, and local resources for economic adjustment and by providing technical assistance, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2009-02-25T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-111s480is/xml/BILLS-111s480is.xml 2009-02-25 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment and Public Works. 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.