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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 2537 

To provide grants to cities with high unemployment rates to provide job 

training, public works, and economic development programs, and for 

other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 14, 2011 

Mr. COHEN (for himself, Mr. CONYERS, Ms. MOORE, and Mr. FILNER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways 

and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Transportation and Infrastructure, Financial Services, and Education and the Workforce, 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 

A BILL 

To provide grants to cities with high unemployment rates 

to provide job training, public works, and economic development programs, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Jobs for Urban Sus5 tainability and Training in America Act of 2011’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. GRANTS TO CITIES WITH HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT. 

2 (a) DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE GRANTS FOR PUB3 LIC WORKS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.—The Sec4 retary of Commerce may make additional grants— 

5 (1) to cities with high unemployment, under 

6 sections 201, 203, 207, and 209 of the Public Works 

7 and Economic Development Act of 1965; and 

8 (2) under the Trade Adjustment Assistance for 

9 Firms Program under chapters 3 and 5 of title II 

10 of the Trade Act of 1974. 

11 (b) DEPARTMENT OF LABOR GRANTS FOR JOB

12 TRAINING PROGRAMS.—The Secretary of Labor shall 

13 carry out adult and dislocated worker employment and 

14 training activities under chapter V of subtitle B of title 

15 I of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (29 U.S.C. 

16 2861 et seq.) to benefit cities with high unemployment. 

17 (c) CITY WITH HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT DEFINED.— 

18 For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘city with high un19 employment’’ means a city that— 

20 (1) has a population of at least 600,000 people; 

21 and 

22 (2) has, for each month beginning with January 

23 2009, and ending on the date of the enactment of 

24 this Act, an unemployment rate greater than the na25 tional unemployment rate (determined by reference 

26 to the monthly unemployment data announced by 


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1 the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of 

2 Labor). 

3 (d) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There 

4 are authorized to be appropriated for all fiscal years— 

5 (1) $5,000,000,000 for purposes of making 

6 grants under subsection (a), and 

7 (2) $5,000,000,000 for purposes of carrying out 

8 subsection (b). 

9 SEC. 3. DEDUCTION FOR INCOME ATTRIBUTABLE TO DO10 MESTIC PRODUCTION ACTIVITIES NOT AL11 LOWED WITH RESPECT TO OIL AND GAS AC12 TIVITIES OF MAJOR INTEGRATED OIL COM13 PANIES. 

14 (a) IN GENERAL.—Subparagraph (B) of section 

15 199(c)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is amend16 ed by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of clause (ii), by striking 

17 the period at the end of clause (iii) and inserting ‘‘, and’’, 

18 and by inserting after clause (iii) the following new clause: 

19 ‘‘(iv) in the case of a major integrated 

20 oil company (as defined in section 

21 167(h)(5)), the production, refining, proc22 essing, transportation, or distribution of 

23 oil, gas, or any primary product thereof.’’. 


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1 (b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by 

2 subsection (a) shall apply to taxable years beginning after 

3 the date of the enactment of this Act. 

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