[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2537 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2537

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

                             July 14, 2011

    Mr. Cohen (for himself, Mr. Conyers, Ms. Moore, and Mr. Filner) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and 
 Infrastructure, Financial Services, and Education and the Workforce, 
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 and 
Training in America Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. GRANTS TO CITIES WITH HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT.

    (a) Department of Commerce Grants for Public Works and Economic 
Development.--The Secretary of Commerce may 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 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 greater than the national unemployment rate 
        (determined by reference to the monthly unemployment data 
        announced by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department 
        of Labor).
    (d) Authorization of Appropriations.--There are authorized to be 
appropriated for all fiscal years--
            (1) $5,000,000,000 for purposes of making grants under 
        subsection (a), and
            (2) $5,000,000,000 for purposes of carrying out subsection 
        (b).

SEC. 3. DEDUCTION FOR INCOME ATTRIBUTABLE TO DOMESTIC PRODUCTION 
              ACTIVITIES NOT ALLOWED WITH RESPECT TO OIL AND GAS 
              ACTIVITIES OF MAJOR INTEGRATED OIL COMPANIES.

    (a) In General.--Subparagraph (B) of section 199(c)(4) of the 
Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amended by striking ``and'' at the end 
of clause (ii), by striking the period at the end of clause (iii) and 
inserting ``, and'', and by inserting after clause (iii) the following 
new clause:
                            ``(iv) in the case of a major integrated 
                        oil company (as defined in section 167(h)(5)), 
                        the production, refining, processing, 
                        transportation, or distribution of oil, gas, or 
                        any primary product thereof.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply to taxable years beginning after the date of the enactment of 
this Act.
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