Rural America Job Assistance and Creation Act
Latest action · Sep 28, 2001 Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
Progress
Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.
- IntroducedJun 28, 2001
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to provide financial assistance, through grants, for the establishment and support of entities that provide business incubator services (necessary for the initiation and initial sustainment of operations of a newly established business, including legal, intellectual property, and technology services and planning) for small- and medium-sized businesses.
Directs the Comptroller General to study how rural infrastructure, venture capital, and Federal programs can enhance rural areas.
Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to require employer notification of Federal and State elected officials (as well as local ones) prior to dislocation of workers.
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require submission of H-1B labor condition applications at same time as H-1B nonimmigrant classification petitions.
Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to establish a National Rural Development Partnership, to be composed of a National Rural Development Council and State rural development councils.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exclude certain amounts of severance payments from gross income; and (2) expand the work opportunity tax credit to include qualified small business employees.
Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to make a grant to the William C. Merwin Rural Services Institute of the State University of New York at Potsdam, New York, to establish and operate a Northern New York Travel and Tourism Research Center.
Cosponsors 2
Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Jul 18, 2001 to Jul 31, 2001.
| Seat | Cosponsor | Signed on | |
|---|---|---|---|
| R-NY | Jack Quinn | Jul 18, 2001 | |
| D-NY | Edolphus Towns | Jul 31, 2001 |
Actions 8
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 28, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
- Sep 28, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
- Jul 20, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy, Technology and Economic Growth, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
- Jul 16, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration and Claims.
- Jul 9, 2001Referred to the Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Rural Development and Research.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Economics and Public Finance.
- Admission of nonimmigrants
- Agribusiness
- Agriculture and Food
- Alien labor
- Apprenticeship
- Business education
- Business income tax
- Colleges
- Commerce
- Community colleges
- Conflict of interests
- Congress
- Congressional investigations
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Dislocated workers
- Economics and Public Finance
- Education
- Employee training
- Employment tax credits
- Enterprise zones
- Entrepreneurs
- Executive reorganization
- Federal aid to higher education
- Federal aid to rural areas
- Federal aid to vocational education
- Federal employees
- Federal-state relations
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government regulation
- Grants-in-aid
- High technology
- Higher education
- Housing and Community Development
- Immigration
- Income tax
- Industry-university relations
- Infrastructure
- Intellectual property
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Legal services
- New York State
- Nonprofit organizations
- Occupational retraining
- Personal income tax
- Plant shutdowns
- Public-private partnerships
- Regional economic development
- Regional planning
- Research centers
- Research grants
- Rural economic development
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Severance pay
- Small business
- Social Welfare
- Tax exclusion
- Taxation
- Technical education
- Tourism
- Transfer of employees
- Transportation and Public Works
- Venture capital
- Wages
Everything here is as published by Congress: the summary is the Congressional Research Service's, the action wording is the clerks', and the subjects are the Library of Congress's. How far it got is read from the actions themselves, taking the most recent one of each kind, so a bill that failed a vote and later passed is shown as having passed. Records come from this bill on Congress.gov and govinfo.gov.
