American Competitiveness and Adjustment Act
Latest action · Sep 27, 2006 Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
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.
- IntroducedSep 27, 2006
- Passed HouseNot reached
- Passed SenateNot reached
- To the PresidentNot reached
- Became lawNot reached
Summary
American Competitiveness and Adjustment Act - Amends the Trade Act of 1974 with respect to: (1) trade adjustment assistance; (2) data collection; (3) industry-wide certifications; (4) trade assistance for farmers; (5) trade adjustment assistance for firms; and (6) trade adjustment assistance for service workers and firms and industries.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to revise and increase the health care tax credit.
Establishes in the International Trade Administration of the Department of Commerce an Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance.
Cosponsors
Members who signed on, in the order they did.
Actions 2
Everything that happened, newest first.
- Sep 27, 2006Introduced in House
- Sep 27, 2006Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Subjects
Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Foreign Trade and International Finance.
- Administrative procedure
- Administrative remedies
- Agricultural prices
- Agricultural subsidies
- Agriculture and Food
- Agriculture in foreign trade
- Commerce
- Congressional reporting requirements
- Cost effectiveness
- Countervailing duties
- Department of Commerce
- Department of Labor
- Dislocated workers
- Dumping
- Executive reorganization
- Exports
- Farmers
- Federal advisory bodies
- Finance and Financial Sector
- Fisheries
- Foreign Trade and International Finance
- Government and business
- Government Operations and Politics
- Government paperwork
- Government procurement
- Government publicity
- Governmental investigations
- Health
- Health insurance
- Imports
- Income tax
- Insurance premiums
- International Affairs
- International competitiveness
- Judicial review
- Labor and Employment
- Law
- Manufacturing industries
- Occupational retraining
- Performance measurement
- Relocation
- Science, Technology, Communications
- Service industries
- Small business
- Tax credits
- Taxation
- Technology transfer
- Textile fabrics
- Trade adjustment assistance
- Trade agreements
- Wages
Text 1
Each version as it was printed, newest first.
- Sep 27, 2006Introduced in House
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