3.0.0 2398 2023-01-11T13:32:21Z 2023-01-11T13:32:21Z Senate S 2015-12-10 114 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2015-12-10T23:08:18Z Stop Corporate Inversions Act of 2015 114 415 HR 2015-01-20 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Related bill CRS Long-Term Unemployed Hiring Incentive Act 114 481 HR 2015-01-22 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. Related bill CRS Workplace Democracy Act 114 3690 HR 2016-03-23 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS Stop Corporate Inversions Act of 2015 114 198 S 2015-01-20 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S286) Related bill CRS Workplace Democracy Act 114 2142 S 2015-10-06 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS Employee Free Choice Act of 2016 114 5000 HR 2016-09-19 Referred to the Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions. Related bill CRS 2015-12-10 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2015-12-10 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress S000033 Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Bernard Sanders I VT N M001176 Sen. Merkley, Jeff [D-OR] Jeff Merkley D OR 2016-01-12 False M000133 Sen. Markey, Edward J. [D-MA] Edward Markey D MA J. 2016-01-12 False Labor and Employment Administrative law and regulatory procedures Administrative remedies Alternative and renewable resources Alternative dispute resolution, mediation, arbitration Business investment and capital Coal Corporate finance and management Department of the Treasury Economic development Electric power generation and transmission Employee benefits and pensions Employee hiring Employment and training programs Energy research Energy storage, supplies, demand Foreign and international corporations Government lending and loan guarantees Government trust funds Health care costs and insurance Higher education Income tax credits Income tax rates Intergovernmental relations Internet and video services Internet, web applications, social media Labor-management relations Land use and conservation Mining National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Rural conditions and development Solid waste and recycling State and local finance State and local government operations Student aid and college costs Taxation of foreign income Telephone and wireless communication Unemployment User charges and fees Water quality Water resources funding Water use and supply Labor and Employment 00 2015-12-10 Introduced in Senate 2016-02-09T22:38:57Z Clean Energy Worker Just Transition Act

This bill prescribes eligibility requirements and procedures for the award of temporary adjustment assistance to a group of workers of adversely affected coal-related or coal-dependent or similar energy industries who are totally or partially separated, or threatened with total or partial separation, because of the low cost of competing alternative forms of energy.

Such assistance shall include temporary additional unemployment compensation, health insurance premium subsidy tax credits, training and support for employment, as well as additional pension benefits.

The bill establishes in the Treasury the Clean Energy Workers Trust Fund, appropriations to which shall include the increase in revenues resulting from certain revisions to the rules for taxation of inverted corporations (U.S. corporations that acquire foreign companies to reincorporate in a foreign jurisdiction with income tax rates lower than the U.S. rates).

The Internal Revenue Code (IRC) is amended to revise such rules to treat as an inverted domestic corporation subject to U.S. taxation any foreign corporation that acquires the properties of a U.S. corporation or partnership after May 8, 2014, if, after the acquisition: (1) more than 50% (by vote or value) of the stock of the new entity (expanded affiliated group) is held by former shareholders or partners of the domestic corporation or partnership, or (2) the management or control of the expanded affiliated group occurs primarily within the United States and the group has significant domestic business activities.

The bill creates a tax credit for hiring certified adversely affected energy industry workers.

The Department of Labor shall provide full information to workers about the adjustment assistance available under this Act.

The Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 is amended to transfer specified excess funds derived from coal mine operator-paid reclamation fees to the trustees of the 1974 UMWA Pension Plan for use solely to pay pension benefits required under such Plan.

Workplace Democracy for a Clean Energy Future

This bill amends the National Labor Relations Act to require the National Labor Relations Board to certify without an election an individual or labor organization as the exclusive representative of the employees in a unit appropriate for bargaining if a majority of the employees has signed valid authorizations designating the individual or labor organization specified in a properly filed petition as their bargaining representative and no other individual or labor organization is currently certified or recognized as the exclusive representative of any of the employees in the unit.

The Board shall develop guidelines and procedures for the designation by employees of a bargaining representative.

The bill prescribes deadlines for critical turns in collective bargaining to establish an initial agreement upon the request of an individual or labor organization that has been newly organized or certified as a representative.

The bill also creates a Community Need-Based Economic Transition Assistance Program, coordinated by the Department of Commerce, for counties or Indian tribes in which at least 35 certified adversely affected workers reside. The Appalachian Regional Commission shall award grants to such counties to support economic development planning and implementation activities in them.

The Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement shall award grants to eligible counties for reclamation of abandoned coal mine land sites and associated polluted waters.

The Environmental Protection Agency shall: (1) award eligible counties capitalization grants to establish a drinking water treatment revolving loan fund; and (2) provide those counties long-term, low-interest loans for large water infrastructure projects not otherwise eligible for funding from a state revolving loan fund.

The Department of Agriculture shall provide such counties loans and loan guarantees under the Rural Electrification Act of 1936 to expand access to, and the quality of, broadband service across the rural United States. Commerce shall award them grants under the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program.

The Department of Energy shall award these counties grants for electricity delivery and energy reliability activities to modernize the electric grid.

]]> Clean Energy Worker Just Transition Act Display Title Clean Energy Worker Just Transition Act Official Title as Introduced A bill to provide benefits and services to workers who have lost their jobs or have experienced a reduction in wages or hours due to the transition to clean energy, to amend the National Labor Relations Act to establish an efficient system to enable employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Short Titles as Introduced Clean Energy Worker Just Transition Act Short Titles as Introduced for portions of this bill Workplace Democracy for a Clean Energy Future Introduced in Senate 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-114s2398is/xml/BILLS-114s2398is.xml 2015-12-10 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.