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The JOBS Act (S. 1637) |
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Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) |
Amendment 2916 to S. 1637: Jumpstart Our Business Strength (JOBS) Act |
Extends Trade Adjustment Assistance to service workers (see below for additional TAA legislation) |
3/23/2004 Senate Amendment submitted |
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Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) |
Amendment 2660 to S. 1637: Jumpstart Our Business Strength (JOBS) Act |
Prohibits outsourcing in government contracting concerning privatization of federal work, federal procurement of goods and services and state government procurement for contracts using federal funds; there is a two year implementation phase-in
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3/4/2004: Amendment SA 2660 as modified agreed to in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 70 - 26 |
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Senator John McCain (R-AZ) |
Amendment 2685 to S. 1637: Jumpstart Our Business Strength (JOBS) Act |
Exempts defense-related departments from other federal contracts performed outside the United States |
3/4/2004: Amendment SA 2685 agreed to
modifies SA 2660 by Dodd |
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Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY) |
Amendment 2680 to S. 1637: Jumpstart Our Business Strength (JOBS) Act |
Secretary of Commerce must certify that the prohibition on the outsourcing of government contracts does not result in the loss of more jobs than it will protect and will not cause harm to the U.S. economy.
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3/4/2004: Amendment SA 2680 agreed to
modifies SA 2660 by Dodd |
Trade Adjustment Assistance |
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Representative Dave Camp (R-MI) |
H.R. 4090: Trade Adjustment Assistance Equity
for Service Workers Act of 2004 |
Extends Trade Adjustment Assistance to the services sector.
Requires the Secretary of Labor shall implement a system to collect data on adversely affected service workers that includes the number of workers by State, industry, and cause of dislocation of each worker.
The Secretary of Commerce shall conduct a study and report to the Congress on ways to improve the timeliness and coverage of data on trade in services, including methods to identify increased imports due to the relocation of United States firms to foreign countries, and increased imports due to United States firms obtaining services from firms in foreign countries. |
3/31/04: Referred to House Ways and Means |
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Representative Peter King (R-NY) |
H.R. 3957 |
Extends Trade Adjustment Assistance to certain service sector workers |
3/11/04 Referred to House Ways and Means |
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Representative Adam Smith (D-WA) |
H.R. 3881: Trade Adjustment Assistance Equity For Service Workers Act of 2004
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Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to extend the trade adjustment assistance program to the services sector
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3/3/2004 Referred to House Committee on Ways and Means.
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Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) |
S. 2157: The Trade Adjustment Assistance Equity for Service Workers Act of 2004 (note: S. 2157 and H.R. 3881 are not identical)
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Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to extend the trade adjustment assistance program to the services sector
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3/2/2004 Referred to Senate Committee on Finance
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Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) |
S. 2143: Service Workers Fairness Act’
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Extends trade adjustment assistance to service workers
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2/27/2004 Referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
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Other Related Legislation |
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Senator Fritz Hollings (D-SC) |
S. 2235: The Domestic Workforce Protection Act |
Incorporates the Office of the United States Trade Representative into the Commerce Department.
Transfers functions of United States International Trade Commission to the Commerce Department.
Disallows certain deductions for corporations who transfer the rights of a copyrighted or trademarked product to an entity outside the U.S.
Requires U.S. Attorney General to appoint Assistant Attorney General for Trade to enforce and investigate activities that have an adverse impact on the U.S. economy |
3/25/04: Referred to Senate Finance Committee |
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Senators Craig Thomas (R-WY) and George Voinovich (R-OH)
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*H.R. 2989: Amendment to the FY04 Transportation/ Treasury Appropriations bill |
An activity or function of an executive agency that is converted to contractor performance under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 may not be performed by the contractor at a location outside the United States except to the extent that such activity or function was previously performed by Federal Government employees outside the United States.
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Incorporated into H.R. 2673: FY04 Omnibus Appropriations bill… On 1/23/2004 became part of Public Law No. 108-199.
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Primary Omnibus Sponsor: Representative Henry Bonilla (R-TX) |
H.R. 2673: FY2004 Omnibus Appropriations bill |
SEC. 607. If it has been finally determined by a court or Federal agency that any person intentionally affixed a label bearing a `Made in America' inscription, or any inscription with the same meaning, to any product sold in or shipped to the United States that is not made in the United States, the person shall be ineligible to receive any contract or subcontract made with funds made available in this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspension, and ineligibility of a contractor described in sections 9.400 through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regulations.
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1/23/2004 became part of Public Law No. 108-199.
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language by Senator Richard Shelby (R-AL) |
Language from H.R. 2417: Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004
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Not later than February 15, 2004, the Director of Central Intelligence shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the extent of United States dependence on computer hardware or software that is manufactured overseas and its threat to national security.
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12/13/2003 became law |
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Representative James Sensenbrenner (R-WI) (incoporated from language proposed by Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX))
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Amendment to H.R. 1561: United States Patent and Trademark Fee Modernization Act of 2004
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Regarding patent search fees, the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office shall require that any search by a qualified search authority that is a commercial entity is conducted in the United States by persons that, if individuals, are United States citizens; and, if business concerns, are organized under the laws of the United States or any State and employ United States citizens to perform the searches. |
03/09/04 passed House |
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Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) |
H.R. 3911 |
To make certain companies that have outsourced jobs during the previous five years ineligible for the receipt of Federal grants, Federal contracts, Federal loan guarantees, and other Federal funding, and for other purposes
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3/4/2004 Referred to House Committee on Government Reform.
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Representative Bernard Sanders (I-VT) |
H.R. 3888: Defending American Jobs Act |
To prohibit business enterprises that lay-off a greater percentage of their United States workers than workers in other countries from receiving any Federal assistance |
3/3/2004 Referred to House Committee on Government Reform. |
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Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) |
H.R. 3878: Commission on American Jobs Act |
Establishes the Commission on American Jobs under the Department of Commerce to:
(1) collect data on outsourcing by companies of interest from reports transmitted to the Commission;
(2) identify the number of jobs outsourced by companies of interest, the dates that the jobs were outsourced, and the locations to which the jobs were outsourced;
(3) conduct studies on why the were outsourced; and
(4) propose possible measures to prevent outsourcing by companies of interest.
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3/2/2004 Referred to House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
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Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN) |
S. 2148: USA Jobs Protection Act of 2004 |
(1) IN GENERAL- Funds appropriated for financial assistance for a State may not be disbursed to or for such State during a fiscal year unless the chief executive of that State has transmitted to the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, not later than April 1 of the preceding fiscal year, a written certification that, except as described under paragraph (2), none of such funds will be expended for the performance of State contracts outside the United States.
(2) EXCEPTION- Funds described in paragraph (1) may be expended for the performance of a State contract outside the United States if the chief executive of such State certifies in advance to the Administrator that such expenditure is for a contract that cannot be performed within the United States.
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3/1/2004 Referred to Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs.
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Senator Max Baucus (D-MT) |
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To confront the challenges posed by offshoring, the proposed legislative package will:
expand research and development tax credit and increase federal spending on research in the physical sciences and engineering;
offer small employer tax credits, provide funding for employer-based group purchasing pools and increase funding for high-risk pools;
enforce current trade agreements; and
support lifelong education |
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Representative Adam Smith (D-WA) |
Request to General Accounting Office |
Conduct study on IT offshore outsourcing |
Request granted; study pending |
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Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD) (for Senator John Kerry (D-MA)) and Representative Ted Strickland (D-OH) |
H.R. 3816/S. 1873: The Call Center Consumer's Right to Know Act of 2003 (bills identical)
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A bill to require employees at a call center who either initiate or receive telephone calls to disclose the physical location of such employees.
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S. 1873: 11/17/2003- Referred to Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
H.R. 3816: 2/24/2004 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection.
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Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD) |
S. 2090: Jobs for America Act of 2004 |
The bill requires companies that offshore 15 or more jobs to provide at least three months notice of their intentions to offshore. It also requires notification to the Departments of Labor, which compile similar notices and information in order to transmit a report to Congress and the President on the offshoring of jobs.
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2/12/2004 Referred to Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) |
*S. 2094: The United States Workers Protection Act
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Funds appropriated for financial Federal assistance for procurement contracts may not be distributed to a state unless the chief executive of that state has transmitted to the Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy a written certification that none of the funds will be expended for goods or services performed outside the United States;
inapplicable to states during first two fiscal years of enactment;
strikes subsection (e) of Section 647 (part of the Thomas-Voinovich amendment to the FY04 Omnibus).
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2/12/04 Referred Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs
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Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) |
Senate of the Senate language (S.AMDT.2311) to S.1072: Safe, Accountable, Flexible, and Efficient Transportation Equity Act of 2003 |
It is the sense of the Senate that it should - (1) oppose any efforts to encourage the outsourcing of American jobs overseas; and (2) adopt legislation providing for a manufacturing tax incentive to encourage job creation in the United States and oppose efforts to make it cheaper to send jobs overseas.
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2/12/2004 Amendment SA 2311 ruled non-germane by the chair
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Senator Diane Feinstein (D-NY) |
Amendment to S. 1585: Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2004
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Prohibits the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative from entering into trade agreements that contain immigration provisions or that otherwise amend immigration laws
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Dropped in conference with House |
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Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) and Representative Nancy Johnson (R-CT) |
S. 1452/H.R. 2849: The USA Jobs Protection Act of 2003 (note: bills identical) |
The purpose of this Act is to ensure that the H-1B and L-1 visa programs are utilized for the purposes for which they were intended and not to displace American workers with lower cost foreign visa holders, by closing the loopholes in the programs and strengthening enforcement and penalties for violations of laws.
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S. 1452: 07/24/2003 Referred to Senate Committee on the Judiciary
H.R. 2849: 09/24/2003- Referred to House Committee on the Judiciary
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Representative James Walsh (R-NY) |
H.R. 3134: American Manufacturing Retention Act |
In the case of any contract for the procurement of goods and services to be entered into by a military department or an executive agency, the head of the military department or the head of the executive agency may not consider a covered prospective contractor to be a responsible source unless the covered prospective contractor employs at least 50 percent of its employees in the United States.
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9/17/2003 Referred to the House Committee on Government Reform, and in addition to the House Committee on Armed Services, 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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Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) |
S. 1635: ***L-1 Visas Reform Act of 2003 |
Prevents an L-1 visa holder from being stationed primarily with a third-party if the visa holder is supervised by that third-party or the work of the visa holder is not part of his/her intended duty;
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9/17/2003 Referred to Senate Judiciary Committee
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Representative Tom Tancredo (R-CO) |
H.R. 2688 |
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to repeal authorities relating to **H1-B visas for temporary workers
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9/4/2003 Referred to House Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
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Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-NY) |
H.R. 2702: L-1 Nonimmigrant Reform Act
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Caps L visas at 35,000 for 2004
Requires employer to offer prevailing wage to alien
Requires employer to not outsource alien to another firm
Prohibits employers from displacing a U.S. worker with an L-1 visa status employee |
9/4/2003 Referred to House Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims |
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Representative John Mica (R-FL) |
H.R. 2154 |
Prevent an employer from placing a nonimmigrant who is an intracompany transferee with another employer.
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6/25/2003 Referred to House Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims
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Representative Ted Strickland (D-OH) |
H.R. 2410: Genuine American Flag Act
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Prohibits the importation for sale of foreign-made flags of the United States of America |
6/10/2003 Referred to House Ways and Means
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