[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4240 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4240

    To ensure that defense conversion, reinvestment, and transition 
assistance programs of the Department of Defense are directed primarily 
     toward those States (and areas within those States) that have 
experienced the greatest number of job losses as a result of reductions 
     in defense spending or the closure or realignment of military 
                             installations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 18, 1994

Mr. Machtley introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly 
      to the Committees on Education and Labor and Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
    To ensure that defense conversion, reinvestment, and transition 
assistance programs of the Department of Defense are directed primarily 
     toward those States (and areas within those States) that have 
experienced the greatest number of job losses as a result of reductions 
     in defense spending or the closure or realignment of military 
                             installations.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. PREFERENCE FOR STATES MOST ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY DEFENSE 
              CUTS.

    (a) Determination of Defense-Related Job Losses.--The Secretary of 
Labor, acting through the Bureau of Labor Statistics, shall determine 
annually the aggregate number of employment positions lost in each 
State since January 1, 1985, as a result of reductions in expenditures 
by the United States for defense, the termination or cancellation of 
defense contracts, the failure to proceed with an approved major weapon 
system, or the closure or realignment of military installations. The 
Secretary of Labor shall adjust the number determined for each State by 
the number of employment positions created in that State since that 
date as a result of new defense contracts carried out in that State, 
the realignment of military functions to military installations located 
in that State, or defense conversion, reinvestment, and transition 
assistance programs conducted in that State. The Secretary of Labor 
shall complete the determination required by this subsection not later 
than November 1 of each year.
    (b) Ranking of States on Basis of Job Losses.--Upon completing the 
determinations required by subsection (a) for a year, the Secretary of 
Labor shall also determine for each State a percentage represented by 
the ratio of--
            (1) the aggregate number of job losses determined for that 
        State under subsection (a) for that year; to
            (2) the aggregate number of job losses determined for all 
        States under subsection (a) for that year.
    (c) Provision of Results to Congress and Secretary of Defense.--The 
Secretary of Labor shall submit to Congress and the Secretary of 
Defense an annual report containing the job loss number and percentage 
determined under subsections (a) and (b) for each State.
    (d) Preference for States Most Adversely Affected by Defense 
Cuts.--In making assistance available under defense conversion, 
reinvestment, and transition assistance programs for a fiscal year, the 
Secretary of Defense shall target such assistance--
            (1) primarily to those States with the highest percentages 
        determined under subsection (b), as identified in the most 
        recent report received from the Secretary of Labor; and
            (2) within such a State, to those areas in which the 
        greatest number of job losses occurred, as determined for that 
        State under subsection (a).
    (e) Definitions.--For purposes of this section:
            (1) The term ``State'' means the several States, the 
        District of Columbia, American Samoa, the Federated States of 
        Micronesia, Guam, the Republic of the Marshall Islands, the 
        Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth 
        of Puerto Rico, Palau, and the United States Virgin Islands.
            (2) The term ``defense conversion, reinvestment, and 
        transition assistance programs'' means the following programs 
        and activities of the Department of Defense:
                    (A) Programs and activities conducted under chapter 
                148 of title 10, United States Code.
                    (B) The programs and activities authorized by the 
                Defense Conversion, Reinvestment, and Transition 
                Assistance Act of 1992 (division D of Public Law 102-
                484; 106 Stat. 2658) and the amendments made by that 
                Act.
                    (C) The programs and activities authorized by title 
                XIII of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
                Fiscal Year 1994 (Public Law 103-160; 107 Stat. 1783) 
                and the amendments made by that title.

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