[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3425 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 3425

    To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to establish a Resilient 
   Communities Program to provide communities impacted by trade with 
        grants for economic development, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            December 6, 2023

  Ms. Baldwin (for herself and Mr. Cassidy) introduced the following 
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment 
                            and Public Works

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                                 A BILL


 
    To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to establish a Resilient 
   Communities Program to provide communities impacted by trade with 
        grants for economic development, 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 ``Resilient Communities Act of 2023''.

SEC. 2. RESILIENT COMMUNITIES PROGRAM.

    (a) Award of Grants.--The Secretary of Commerce shall establish a 
program to be known as the Resilient Communities Program under which 
the Secretary may award grants to eligible recipients representing 
affected communities--
            (1) to encourage the continued production of certain goods 
        in those communities, including the employment of individuals 
        involved in the production of those goods; or
            (2) for the conduct of economic development in those 
        communities.
    (b) Uses of Funds.--
            (1) Subsequent grants.--An eligible recipient awarded a 
        grant under subsection (a) may use the amount of the grant to 
        award subsequent grants to covered domestic producers in 
        affected communities.
            (2) Priority.--An eligible recipient in an affected 
        community shall prioritize the award of subsequent grants under 
        paragraph (1) to covered domestic producers that are determined 
        by the eligible recipient to be most likely to increase 
        production and employment at a facility of the covered domestic 
        producer located within the affected community as a result of 
        the grant provided.
            (3) Economic development.--If there is no covered domestic 
        producer in an affected community, an eligible recipient 
        representing that community that is in receipt of a grant under 
        subsection (a) shall use the amounts awarded under that grant 
        for economic development within that community.
    (c) Resilient Communities Fund.--
            (1) Establishment.--There is established in the Treasury of 
        the United States a trust fund (to be known as the ``Resilient 
        Communities Fund''), consisting of--
                    (A) amounts transferred to the trust fund under 
                paragraph (2); and
                    (B) any amounts that may be credited to the trust 
                fund under paragraph (3).
            (2) Transfer of amounts.--
                    (A) In general.--The Secretary of the Treasury 
                shall transfer to the trust fund established under 
                paragraph (1), from the general fund of the Treasury, 
                for fiscal year 2024 and each fiscal year thereafter, 
                an amount equivalent to the amount received into the 
                general fund during that fiscal year and attributable 
                to duties collected pursuant to an antidumping or 
                countervailing duty order under title VII of the Tariff 
                Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.).
                    (B) Frequency of transfers.--The Secretary of the 
                Treasury shall transfer amounts required by 
                subparagraph (A) to be transferred to the trust fund 
                established under paragraph (1) not less frequently 
                than quarterly.
            (3) Investment of amounts.--
                    (A) Investment of amounts.--The Secretary of the 
                Treasury shall invest such portion of the trust fund 
                established under paragraph (1) as is not required to 
                meet current withdrawals in interest-bearing 
                obligations of the United States or in obligations 
                guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the 
                United States.
                    (B) Interest and proceeds.--The interest on, and 
                the proceeds from the sale or redemption of, any 
                obligations held in the trust fund established under 
                paragraph (1) shall be credited to and form a part of 
                the trust fund.
            (4) Availability of amounts in trust fund.--Amounts in the 
        trust fund established under paragraph (1) shall be available 
        to the Secretary of Commerce, as provided in advance in an 
        appropriations Act, to award grants to eligible recipients 
        under subsection (a).
    (d) Definitions.--In this section:
            (1) Affected community.--The term ``affected community'' 
        means an area in which a domestic producer or worker located in 
        that area has experienced an injury from trade.
            (2) Covered domestic producer.--The term ``covered domestic 
        producer'' means a domestic producer who can provide recent 
        evidence of any of the following:
                    (A) A significant idling of production facilities, 
                plant closings, or underutilization of productive 
                capacity of the producer.
                    (B) The inability of the producer to carry out 
                production operations in the United States at a 
                reasonable level of profit.
                    (C) A decline in sales or market share, higher or 
                growing inventory, or a downward trend in production, 
                profits, wages, productivity, or employment of the 
                producer.
                    (D) Difficulty of the producer in generating 
                adequate capital to finance the modernization of 
                plants, property, or equipment in the United States.
                    (E) The inability of the producer to maintain 
                existing levels for research and development.
            (3) Domestic producer.--The term ``domestic producer'' 
        means a United States person that produces a good within the 
        United States.
            (4) Economic development.--The term ``economic 
        development'' means--
                    (A) improving workforce development;
                    (B) building public infrastructure;
                    (C) improving access to health care, social 
                services, healthy food, or education;
                    (D) complying with environmental standards set 
                forth by the Federal Government;
                    (E) building affordable housing; or
                    (F) expanding access to broadband.
            (5) Eligible recipient.--The term ``eligible recipient'' 
        means a political subdivision of a State in which an affected 
        community is located.
            (6) Injury from trade.--The term ``injury from trade'' 
        means--
                    (A) an injury that has been determined to have 
                occurred by the United States International Trade 
                Commission--
                            (i) in the course of an investigation by 
                        the Commission into dumping or subsidization 
                        under section 701 or 731 of the Tariff Act of 
                        1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671 and 1673); or
                            (ii) under section 202(b) of the Trade Act 
                        of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2252(b));
                    (B) with respect to a domestic producer or a worker 
                at a workplace of that producer, the Secretary of 
                Commerce determines that--
                            (i) a significant number or proportion of 
                        the workers at that workplace have become 
                        totally or partially separated, or are 
                        threatened to become totally or partially 
                        separated; and
                            (ii)(I)(aa) the sales or production, or 
                        both, of that producer have decreased 
                        absolutely at that workplace;
                            (bb)(AA) imports of articles or services 
                        like or directly competitive with articles 
                        produced or services supplied by that producer 
                        at that workplace have increased;
                            (BB) imports of articles like or directly 
                        competitive with articles into which one or 
                        more component parts produced by that producer 
                        at that workplace are incorporated have 
                        increased;
                            (CC) imports of articles like or directly 
                        competitive with articles that are produced 
                        using services supplied by that producer at 
                        that workplace have increased; or
                            (DD) imports of articles incorporating one 
                        or more component parts produced outside the 
                        United States that are like or directly 
                        competitive with imports of articles 
                        incorporating one or more component parts 
                        produced by that producer at that workplace 
                        have increased; and
                            (cc) the increase in imports described in 
                        item (bb) contributed importantly to the 
                        separation or threat of separation by workers 
                        at that workplace and to the decline in the 
                        sales or production of that producer at that 
                        workplace; or
                            (II)(aa)(AA) there has been a shift by that 
                        producer to a foreign country in the production 
                        of articles or the supply of services like or 
                        directly competitive with articles that are 
                        produced or services that are supplied by that 
                        producer at that workplace; or
                            (BB) that producer has acquired from a 
                        foreign country articles or services that are 
                        like or directly competitive with articles that 
                        are produced or services that are supplied by 
                        that producer at that workplace; and
                            (bb) the shift described in item (aa)(AA) 
                        or the acquisition of articles or services 
                        described in item (aa)(BB) contributed 
                        importantly to the separation or threat of 
                        separation by workers at that workplace; or
                    (C) any other trade-related injury to a domestic 
                producer or worker as determined by the Secretary of 
                Commerce.
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