[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1630 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1630

    To prevent unemployment and community disruption caused by the 
       government subsidization of runaway plants in Puerto Rico.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 1, 1993

   Mr. Miller of California introduced the following bill; which was 
             referred to the Committee on Natural Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
    To prevent unemployment and community disruption caused by the 
       government subsidization of runaway plants in Puerto Rico.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,
    Section 1. This Act may be cited as the ``Puerto Rico--U.S. 
Employment and Community Stabilization Act of 1993''.
    Sec. 2. Section 2 of the Puerto Rican Federal Relations Act (48 
U.S.C. 737) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``The rights'' and inserting ``(a) The 
        rights'', and
            (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new 
        subsections:
    ``(b) Neither Puerto Rico nor any official of Puerto Rico shall 
grant or provide, or continue to grant or provide, any exemption or 
other benefit to any business or group of businesses that is a runaway 
business.
    ``(c) No business or group of businesses shall make application 
for, or receive or otherwise enjoy continuing benefit from, any such 
exemption or other benefit where such applicant or recipient is a 
runaway business.
    ``(d) Puerto Rico shall require applicants or recipients to certify 
by sworn statement initially and annually thereafter that such 
applicant or recipient is not a runaway business.
    ``(e) Any governmental unit or any individual employee or former 
individual employee of a runaway business and the labor union, if any, 
that represents or previously represented such employee, that suffer 
economic injury because of such runaway business, shall have a cause of 
action and may bring suit in the appropriate United States district 
court to recover compensation for the injuries suffered and for the 
expenses incurred in the suit, including a reasonable sum for 
attorneys' fees, and to obtain equitable remedies.
    ``(f) Neither Puerto Rico, nor any official of Puerto Rico, shall 
be subject to suit or subject to such cause of action providing that 
the appropriate officials of Puerto Rico have taken all legal steps to 
ensure compliance with subsection (d).
    ``(g) For the purposes of subsections (b), (c), (d), and (e), a 
runaway business is a business or group of businesses that by seeking 
to do business in Puerto Rico or by doing business in Puerto Rico 
substantially and adversely affect the employment or other working 
conditions of 25 or more individual employees of that business or group 
of businesses in any State of the United States.''.

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