[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5600 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5600

   To amend the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to 
           provide a notice requirement regarding offshoring.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 14, 2020

  Mrs. Axne introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                    Committee on Education and Labor

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to 
           provide a notice requirement regarding offshoring.

    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 ``Offshoring Notification Act''.

SEC. 2. DEFINITION.

    Section 2(a) of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification 
Act (29 U.S.C. 2101) is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (7), by striking ``and'' at the end;
            (2) in paragraph (8), by striking the period and inserting 
        ``; and''; and
            (3) by adding at the end the following:
            ``(9) the term `United States' includes each of the 50 
        States, the District of Columbia, the Republic of the Marshall 
        Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and the Republic 
        of Palau, and each territory or possession of the United 
        States.''.

SEC. 3. NOTICE.

    Section 3 of the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act 
(29 U.S.C. 2102(a)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating subsections (b), (c), and (d) as 
        subsections (c), (d), and (e), respectively; and
            (2) by inserting after subsection (a) the following:
    ``(b) Offshoring Information.--The notice shall contain information 
stating--
            ``(1) whether the employer plans to continue producing the 
        good or providing the service that the affected employees have 
        been producing or providing; and
            ``(2) if so, whether the production or provision will be 
        performed for the employer, by employees or contractors outside 
        the United States.''.
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