[Congressional Bills 111th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3069 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

111th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3069

To amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to provide 
  for the preservation and creation of jobs in the United States for 
        projects receiving grants for specified energy property.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 3, 2010

Mr. Schumer (for himself, Mr. Casey, Mr. Brown of Ohio, Mr. Tester, and 
 Mr. Specter) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
    referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to provide 
  for the preservation and creation of jobs in the United States for 
        projects receiving grants for specified energy property.

    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 ``American Renewable Energy Jobs 
Act''.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATIONS TO GRANTS FOR SPECIFIED ENERGY PROPERTY IN LIEU 
              OF TAX CREDITS.

    (a) Discretion To Provide Grants.--Subsection (a) of section 1603 
of division B of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is 
amended by striking ``Upon application, the Secretary of the Treasury 
shall'' and inserting ``Upon application, the Secretary of the Treasury 
may''.
    (b) Preservation and Creation of Jobs in the United States.--
Section 1603 of division B of the American Recovery and Reinvestment 
Act of 2009 is amended by redesignating subsection (j) as subsection 
(l), and by inserting after subsection (i) the following new 
subsections:
    ``(j) Buy American.--Any grants provided under this section shall 
be subject to the requirements of section 1605 of division A without 
regard to whether the specified energy property involves a public 
building or public work.
    ``(k) Domestic Job Preservation and Creation.--The Secretary of the 
Treasury shall not make any payment of any grant under this section 
unless the Secretary--
            ``(1) analyzes and takes into consideration domestic job 
        preservation and creation provided by a specified energy 
        property, including domestic job preservation and creation 
        related to--
                    ``(A) production of equipment for the property,
                    ``(B) installation of equipment for the property, 
                and
                    ``(C) operation of the property, and
            ``(2) submits a copy of the analysis carried out under 
        paragraph (1) for the specified energy property to the 
        Committee on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways 
        and Means of the House of Representatives--
                    ``(A) not later than 30 days after the date of 
                application for a grant, for applications filed after 
                the date of enactment of the American Renewable Energy 
                Jobs Act, or
                    ``(B) not later than 30 days after the date of 
                enactment of such Act, for applications filed prior to 
                the date of enactment of such Act.''.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to any grants for which full payment by the Secretary of the 
Treasury has not yet been made as of the date of the enactment of this 
Act.
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