[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4740 Introduced in House (IH)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4740

To provide grants to cities with high unemployment rates to provide job 
  training, public works, and economic development programs, and for 
                            other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 3, 2010

    Mr. Cohen (for himself, Mr. Rush, Mr. Hastings of Florida, Mr. 
 McGovern, Mr. Lewis of Georgia, Ms. Fudge, Mr. Clay, and Mr. Brady of 
Pennsylvania) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
 Committee on Financial Services, and in addition to the Committees on 
 Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, and Education and 
 Labor, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
   each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
                jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide grants to cities with high unemployment rates to provide job 
  training, public works, and economic development programs, and for 
                            other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Jobs for Urban Sustainability in 
America Act''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS TO CITIES WITH HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT.

    (a) Department of Commerce Grants for Public Works and Economic 
Development.--The Secretary of Commerce shall use the funds made 
available to the Secretary under section 3(a)(2) to make additional 
grants--
            (1) to cities with high unemployment, under sections 201, 
        203, 207, and 209 of the Public Works and Economic Development 
        Act of 1965; and
            (2) under the Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms Program 
        under chapters 3 and 5 of title II of the Trade Act of 1974.
    (b) Department of Labor Grants for Job Training Programs.--The 
Secretary of Labor shall use the funds made available to the Secretary 
under section 3(a)(1) to carry out adult and dislocated worker 
employment and training activities under chapter V of subtitle B of 
title I of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 2861 et 
seq.) to benefit cities with high unemployment.
    (c) City With High Unemployment Defined.--For purposes of this 
section, the term ``city with high unemployment'' means a city that--
            (1) has a population of at least 600,000 people; and
            (2) has, for each month beginning with January 2009, and 
        ending on the date of the enactment of this Act, an 
        unemployment rate of 10 percent or more.

SEC. 3. FUNDING.

    (a) Funding From the TARP.--Of funds made available to the 
Secretary of the Treasury under title I of the Emergency Economic 
Stabilization Act of 2008 (12 U.S.C. 5211 et seq.) that remain 
unobligated, the Secretary of the Treasury shall--
            (1) make $5,000,000,000 available to the Secretary of Labor 
        to carry out section 2(a); and
            (2) make $5,000,000,000 available to the Secretary of 
        Commerce to carry out section 2(b).
    (b) Authorization.--The amounts described under subsection (a) 
shall be deemed to be for actions authorized under title I of the 
Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008.
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