1.This Act may be cited as
the Jobs Coordinator for Sustainable
American Recovery Act of 2009
or the Jobs CSAR Act of 2009
.
2.Congress makes the following
findings:
(1)With global
economic conditions at their most challenging in generations, there is an
urgent and critical need to preserve and create jobs in the United
States.
(2)Given it's
statutory mission to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and
domestic commerce
of the United States (section 3 of the Act entitled
An Act to establish the Department of Commerce and Labor
,
approved February 14, 1903 (15 U.S.C. 1512)), the Department of Commerce has a
significant interest in preserving and creating jobs in the United
States.
(3)The potential of
the Department of Commerce to preserve and create jobs in the United States may
be challenged by the disparate focuses of its various constituent agencies, so
it is imperative to coordinate at a high level in the hierarchy of the
Department efforts among such agencies to maximize job preservation and
creation in the United States.
3.Jobs Creation
Coordinator
(a)The Secretary of Commerce shall establish a Jobs Creation
Coordinator (in this section referred to as the Coordinator) who
shall report to the Secretary to ensure that agencies in the Department of
Commerce use resources in a manner that maximizes the maintenance and creation
of jobs in the United States.
(b)The
duties of the Coordinator include the following:
(1)Assess the number
and quality of private sector jobs that result from programs of the Department
of Commerce.
(2)Develop a plan to
use existing statutory authority for the Department to improve the number of
private sector jobs in the United States maintained or created by programs of
the Department.
(3)Review
periodically the plan developed under paragraph (2) to assess the effectiveness
of the plan.
(4)Revise the plan
developed under paragraph (2) to incorporate the findings from the periodic
review under paragraph (3).
(5)Acting through
the Office of the Secretary, coordinate with Congress regarding additional
authority for the Department to enhance the ability of the Department to
maintain and create private sector jobs in the United States through programs
of the Department.
(6)Provide oversight
for the implementation of policies or statutory authority of the Department
that enhance the ability of the Department to maintain and create private
sector jobs in the United States through programs of the Department.