that meet related labor, equity, and environmental stand-
ards, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Transform, Heal, and 
Renew by Investing in a Vibrant Economy Act’’ or the 
‘‘THRIVE Act’’. 
SEC. 2. PURPOSE; POLICY GOALS; AGENDA. 
(a) PURPOSE.—The purpose of this Act is to mobilize 
Federal efforts to respond, in a manner that is bold and 
holistic, to the urgent concurrent crises of racial injustice, 
the undermining of Tribal sovereignty, mass unemploy-
ment and economic inequality, the Coronavirus Disease 
2019 pandemic, and climate change by establishing a na-
tional agenda to transform, heal, and renew the United 
States to create a society that enables and supports— 
(1) greater racial, Indigenous, gender, environ-
mental, and economic justice; 
(2) dignified work opportunities; 
(3) healthy communities; 
(4) a stable climate; and 
(5) healthy ecosystems. 
(b) POLICY GOALS.—It is the policy of the United 
States— 
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(1) to create and sustain millions of good, safe, 
family-sustaining jobs with appropriate access to 
labor organizations; 
(2) to increase the power of workers to fight in-
equality in the workplace; 
(3) to invest in historically underserved and im-
pacted communities, including Black, Tribal, Indige-
nous, Latinx, Arab, Asian, and Pacific Islander com-
munities, to increase the capacity of those commu-
nities to counteract racial, ethnic, gender, and other 
social and economic injustices; 
(4) to strengthen and heal the nation-to-nation 
relationship between the United States and sov-
ereign Indian Tribes; 
(5) to combat environmental injustice and en-
sure healthy lives for all people; 
(6) to avert further climate and environmental 
catastrophe; 
(7) to ensure fairness for workers and commu-
nities affected by economic transitions; and 
(8) to reinvest in public sector institutions that 
enable workers and communities to thrive. 
(c) AGENDA.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 120 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the Presi-
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dent, in consultation with the Board, shall establish 
a 10-year plan, to be known as the ‘‘Agenda to 
Transform, Heal, and Renew by Investing in a Vi-
brant Economy’’, in accordance with which the pur-
pose and policy goals described in subsections (a) 
and (b), respectively, shall be achieved. 
(2) 
SUBMISSION.—The 
agenda 
established 
under paragraph (1) shall be submitted to— 
(A) the National Economic Council; and 
(B) the Office of Management and Budget 
for inclusion in each annual budget request sub-
mitted to Congress under section 1105 of title 
31, United States Code, during the 10-year pe-
riod covered by the agenda. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) ADMINISTERING AGENCY.—The term ‘‘ad-
ministering agency’’ means a Federal department or 
agency with administrative jurisdiction over a quali-
fied investment program. 
(2) BOARD.—The term ‘‘Board’’ means the 
Transform, Heal, and Renew by Investing in a Vi-
brant Economy Recovery Board established under 
section 4(a). 
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(3) CARE WORKER.—The term ‘‘care worker’’ 
means any individual who provides paid or unpaid 
child care or dependent adult care, including— 
(A) a domestic worker; 
(B) a health care worker; 
(C) a home health aide; and 
(D) a nanny. 
(4) ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE COMMUNITY.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘‘environ-
mental justice community’’ means a low-income 
or low-wealth community facing environmental 
injustice. 
(B) INCLUSIONS.—The term ‘‘environ-
mental justice community’’ includes any com-
munity that, as determined by the Board, in 
consultation with the White House Environ-
mental Justice Advisory Council and the Na-
tional Environmental Justice Advisory Coun-
cil— 
(i) is located nearest to an existing 
area of grave environmental pollution and 
degradation; 
(ii) bears a burden of negative public 
health effects of pollution; 
(iii) includes 1 or more sites of— 
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(I) a facility that is a part of a 
polluting industry; 
(II) a waste dump; or 
(III) a facility for resource ex-
traction; 
(iv) experiences a high incidence of 
climate 
change 
impacts 
and 
extreme 
weather disasters; 
(v) has been excluded or harmed by 
racist or discriminatory policies that have 
resulted in economic or health disparities; 
(vi) has a land-based or food subsist-
ence culture that is experiencing ecosystem 
disruption and devastation; 
(vii) faces relocation and resettlement 
resulting from— 
(I) climate change; 
(II) impacts to the environment 
and ecosystems; or 
(III) impacts associated with eco-
nomic inequities; or 
(viii) is an Indigenous community. 
(5) EQUITY ASSESSMENT.—The term ‘‘equity 
assessment’’, with respect to an investment, pro-
gram, plan, regulation, or operational decision, mean 
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an assessment (which may include the assignment of 
an equity score)— 
(A) to evaluate the social, economic, and 
environmental impacts of the investment, pro-
gram, plan, regulation, or decision on— 
(i) impacted communities; and 
(ii) environmental justice commu-
nities; and 
(B) the goals of which are— 
(i) to address historic inequality; 
(ii) to ensure an equitable outcome; 
(iii) to prevent further concentration 
of pollution in areas experiencing an al-
ready high concentration of a pollutant or 
other toxic substance; and 
(iv) to minimize inadvertent dis-
proportionate social, economic, and envi-
ronmental effects of the investment, pro-
gram, plan, regulation, or decision. 
(6) FAMILY-SUSTAINING JOB.—The term ‘‘fam-
ily-sustaining job’’ means an employment oppor-
tunity that provides an individual with a wage that 
is sufficient to cover necessary expenses for the fam-
ily of the individual, such as food, medical care, 
child care, housing, and transportation, without re-
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quiring reliance by the family on financial assistance 
from any other source. 
(7) FEDERAL SPENDING PROGRAM.—The term 
‘‘Federal spending program’’ means any program, 
project, or other activity— 
(A) carried out by, or pursuant to a con-
tract with, a Federal department or agency; 
and 
(B) for which Federal funds are made 
available. 
(8) HIGH-ROAD LABOR, EQUITY, OR ENVIRON-
MENTAL CONDITION.—The term ‘‘high-road labor, 
equity, or environmental condition’’ means any con-
dition on the provision of Federal funding for a 
qualified investment program, as established by the 
President, based on advice of the Board, under sec-
tion 5(d)(3)(A). 
(9) IMPACTED COMMUNITY.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The term ‘‘impacted 
community’’ means a community that is 
harmed by environmental, economic, or socio-
economic injustice. 
(B) INCLUSIONS.—The term ‘‘impacted 
community’’ includes— 
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(i) an environmental justice commu-
nity; and 
(ii) a community that, as determined 
by the Board, in consultation with the 
White House Environmental Justice Advi-
sory Council and the National Environ-
mental Justice Advisory Council— 
(I) has a high concentration of 
low-income and low-wealth house-
holds, including households comprised 
primarily of members of groups that 
have historically experienced discrimi-
nation on the basis of race, gender, 
national origin, or ethnicity (including 
Black, 
Indigenous, 
Latinx, 
Arab, 
Asian, and Pacific Islander commu-
nities); or 
(II) faces economic transition, 
deindustrialization, 
historic 
under-
investment, and poverty. 
(10) IMPLEMENTING ENTITY.—The term ‘‘im-
plementing entity’’ means any public or private enti-
ty (including any Federal, Tribal, State, or local 
agency and any firm, supplier, or subcontractor 
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throughout the supply chain) that carries out a 
qualified investment program using public support. 
(11) INDIAN TRIBE.—The term ‘‘Indian Tribe’’ 
means an Indian or Alaska Native tribe, band, na-
tion, pueblo, village, or community that the Sec-
retary of the Interior acknowledges to exist as an In-
dian Tribe pursuant to the Federally Recognized In-
dian Tribe List Act of 1994 (25 U.S.C. 5130 et 
seq.). 
(12) INDIGENOUS COMMUNITY.—The term ‘‘In-
digenous community’’ means— 
(A) an Indian Tribe; 
(B) a Native Hawaiian organization; 
(C) a State-recognized Indian tribe; 
(D) any reservation-based, urban Indige-
nous, or intertribal community, group, organi-
zation, or coalition; and 
(E) an Alaska Native village. 
(13) PUBLIC SUPPORT.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The term ‘‘public sup-
port’’ means any financial or in-kind contribu-
tion provided by the President under section 5 
for the administration, development, or imple-
mentation of a qualified investment program 
carried out under this Act. 
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(B) INCLUSIONS.—The term ‘‘public sup-
port’’ includes— 
(i) technical support; 
(ii) grants; 
(iii) loans; 
(iv) investments; and 
(v) equity stakes. 
(14) QUALIFIED INVESTMENT PROGRAM.—The 
term ‘‘qualified investment program’’ means any 
Federal spending program certified by the President 
pursuant to section 5(c). 
(15) STATE.—The term ‘‘State’’ means— 
(A) a State; 
(B) the District of Columbia; 
(C) the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico; 
and 
(D) any other territory or possession of the 
United States. 
SEC. 4. THRIVE RECOVERY BOARD. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—Not later than 60 days after 
the date of enactment of this Act, the President shall es-
tablish an advisory board, to be known as the ‘‘Transform, 
Heal, and Renew by Investing in a Vibrant Economy Re-
covery Board’’, to advise the President and the heads of 
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appropriate Federal departments and agencies regarding 
the implementation of this Act. 
(b) MEMBERSHIP.— 
(1) COMPOSITION.—The Board shall be com-
posed of 20 members who, as determined by the 
President— 
(A) provide diverse and fair representation 
from— 
(i) impacted communities; 
(ii) allies identified by impacted com-
munities; 
(iii) Indigenous communities; and 
(iv) labor organizations; and 
(B) are qualified, through education, train-
ing, and experience, to evaluate information re-
lating to matters referred to the Board. 
(2) APPOINTMENT.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—The members of the 
Board shall be appointed by the President from 
among individuals recommended by interested 
individuals and entities. 
(B) PROHIBITION.—A member of the 
Board may not be an employee or former em-
ployee of the Federal Government. 
(3) TERM; VACANCIES.— 
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(A) TERM.—A member of the Board— 
(i) shall be appointed to serve the 
Board for an initial term of 3 years; and 
(ii) may be reappointed to serve not 
more than 1 additional term of not longer 
than 3 years. 
(B) 
VACANCIES.—A 
vacancy 
on 
the 
Board— 
(i) shall not affect the powers of the 
Board; and 
(ii) shall be filled in the same manner 
as the original appointment was made. 
(4) CHAIRPERSON.—The Board shall select a 
chairperson from among the members of the Board. 
(5) INITIAL MEETING.—Not later than 14 days 
after the date on which all members of the Board 
have been appointed, the Board shall hold the initial 
meeting of the Board. 
(6) MEETINGS.—The Board shall meet at the 
call of the chairperson. 
(7) QUORUM.—A majority of members of the 
Board shall constitute a quorum, but a lesser num-
ber of members may hold hearings. 
(8) 
TREATMENT
AND
COMPENSATION.—A 
member of the Board shall be— 
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(A) a full-time employee of the Board; and 
(B) compensated at such rate as the Presi-
dent may establish, not to exceed the maximum 
amount of compensation payable to a member 
of the Senior Executive Service under section 
5382(b) of title 5, United States Code. 
(c) DUTIES.— 
(1) PROPOSED CRITERIA.— 
(A) PRECERTIFICATION AND INVESTMENT 
REQUIREMENTS.—Not later than 120 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act, the 
Board shall develop and submit to the Presi-
dent proposed criteria for— 
(i) precertification of existing Federal 
spending 
programs 
under 
section 
5(c)(1)(A); and 
(ii) certification of existing and new 
Federal spending programs as qualified in-
vestment programs with respect to re-
quired investments, in accordance with sec-
tion 5(d)(2). 
(B) HIGH-ROAD LABOR, EQUITY, AND EN-
VIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS.— 
(i) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 180 
days after the date of enactment of this 
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Act, the Board shall develop and submit to 
the President proposed criteria for certifi-
cation of existing and new Federal spend-
ing programs as qualified investment pro-
grams with respect to high-road labor, eq-
uity, and environmental conditions, in ac-
cordance with section 5(d)(3)(A). 
(ii) PUBLIC
PARTICIPATION.—In de-
veloping the proposed criteria relating to 
high-road labor, equity, and environmental 
conditions under clause (i), the Board 
shall— 
(I) make the proposed criteria 
available for public comment; and 
(II) host public hearings and 
other direct engagement opportunities 
for impacted communities and Indige-
nous communities. 
(iii) PUBLICATION.—Not later than 
190 days after the date of enactment of 
this Act, the President shall publish in the 
Federal Register the proposed criteria de-
veloped by the Board under clause (i). 
(2) STUDY.— 
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(A) IN
GENERAL.—Not less frequently 
than annually, the Board shall conduct a study 
of all matters relating to qualified investment 
programs. 
(B) INCLUSIONS.—The study conducted by 
the Board under subparagraph (A) shall include 
an evaluation of— 
(i) any legislative or administrative 
actions (including with respect to invest-
ment requirements and other criteria 
under section 5(d)) carried out under this 
Act during the period covered by the study; 
(ii) the degree to which qualified in-
vestment programs have contributed to 
achieving the policy goals described in sec-
tion 2(b); 
(iii) the effectiveness of the criteria 
relating to investment requirements estab-
lished under section 5(d)(2) in achieving 
those policy goals; and 
(iv) practicable modifications to those 
requirements to better achieve those goals. 
(3) RECOMMENDATIONS.—The Board shall de-
velop recommendations regarding— 
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(A) the method by which the President can 
effectuate the Agenda to Transform, Heal, and 
Renew by Investing in a Vibrant Economy es-
tablished under section 2(c)(1) pursuant to the 
annual budget request submitted to Congress 
under section 1105 of title 31, United States 
Code; 
(B) the means by which Federal spending 
programs may be certified under section 5(d) as 
qualified investment programs to receive public 
support under this Act; 
(C) legislative and administrative actions 
(including with respect to investment require-
ments and other criteria) to best achieve the 
purpose and policy goals described in section 2; 
(D) the effectiveness of the criteria relat-
ing to investment requirements established 
under section 5(d)(2) in achieving those policy 
goals; and 
(E) modifications to those criteria, if any. 
(4) REPORTS.— 
(A) STUDY AND RECOMMENDATIONS.— 
(i) IN GENERAL.—Not less frequently 
than annually, the Board shall submit to 
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the President and Congress a report that 
contains— 
(I) a detailed statement of the 
findings and conclusions of the Board 
under paragraph (2); and 
(II) the recommendations of the 
Board under paragraph (3). 
(ii) 
PUBLICATION.—The 
President 
shall publish each report submitted by the 
Board under clause (i) in the Federal Reg-
ister. 
(B) HIGH-ROAD LABOR, EQUITY, AND EN-
VIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS.— 
(i) IN GENERAL.—Not less frequently 
than once every 2 years, the Board shall 
submit to the President and Congress a re-
port assessing— 
(I) the degree of compliance by 
implementing entities with applicable 
high-road labor, equity, and environ-
mental conditions; and 
(II) the relative efficacy of en-
forcement by administering agencies 
of those high-road labor, equity, and 
environmental conditions. 
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(ii) 
COMMUNITY
IMPACT
ASSESS-
MENTS.—The Board shall conduct regular 
regional community impact assessments to 
gather information for each report sub-
mitted under clause (i). 
(d) POWERS.— 
(1) HEARINGS.—The Board may hold such 
hearings, meet and act at such times and places, 
take such testimony, and receive such evidence as 
the Board considers to be advisable to carry out this 
Act. 
(2) INFORMATION FROM AGENCIES.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The Board may secure 
directly from a Federal department or agency 
such information as the Board considers to be 
necessary to carry out this Act. 
(B) PROVISION OF INFORMATION.—On re-
quest of the chairperson of the Board, the head 
of a Federal department or agency shall provide 
any requested information to the Board. 
(3) POSTAL
SERVICES.—The Board may use 
the United States mails in the same manner and 
under the same conditions as other Federal depart-
ments and agencies. 
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(4) GIFTS.—The Board may accept, use, and 
dispose of gifts or donations of services or property. 
(e) INAPPLICABILITY OF FACA.—The Federal Advi-
sory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.) shall not apply to 
the Board. 
SEC. 5. TRANSFORM, HEAL, AND RENEW BY INVESTING IN 
A VIBRANT ECONOMY (THRIVE) QUALIFIED 
INVESTMENT PROGRAMS. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The President shall establish 
and carry out a program under which the President 
shall provide public support in accordance with this 
Act to implementing entities to carry out 1 or more 
qualified investment programs certified by the Presi-
dent, in consultation with the Board, under sub-
section (d). 
(2) CONDITION OF RECEIPT.—As a condition of 
receiving public support under this section, an imple-
menting entity shall agree to carry out each applica-
ble qualified investment program— 
(A) pursuant to a contract or agreement 
with the administering agency; and 
(B) subject to oversight by— 
(i) the administering agency; and 
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(ii) the President, in consultation with 
the Board. 
(3) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
There are authorized to be appropriated to the 
President to carry out the program under this sec-
tion such sums as are necessary, but not less than 
$1,000,000,000,000, for each of fiscal years 2022 
through 2032. 
(b) TARGETS.—In selecting implementing entities to 
receive public support under this section, the President 
shall ensure that, in the aggregate, the qualified invest-
ment programs funded under this section will enable— 
(1) the creation and support of not fewer than 
15,500,000 family-sustaining jobs; 
(2) the achievement of— 
(A) full employment; and 
(B) economic security for all individuals; 
(3) the meaningful and measurable counter-
action of racial, ethnic, Indigenous, gender, and 
other social, economic, and environmental injustices; 
(4) by not later than December 31, 2025, 100 
percent of all newly constructed buildings in the 
United States (including territories) to be zero-emis-
sion buildings; 
(5) a rapid transition to ensure— 
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(A) 100 percent of all new vehicles pur-
chased in the United States (including terri-
tories) are zero-emission vehicles; and 
(B) the deployment of a nationwide net-
work of zero-emission vehicle infrastructure; 
(6) by not later than December 31, 2030, the 
majority of the population of the United States (in-
cluding territories) to reside within walking distance 
of frequent, high-quality, affordable, clean energy- 
powered or zero-emission public transit and bikeable 
and walkable transportation infrastructure to reduce 
emissions from the transportation sector; 
(7) by not later than December 31, 2035, the 
achievement of 100-percent clean energy generation 
throughout the United States (including territories), 
with priority given to deployment of renewable en-
ergy; and 
(8) by not later than December 31, 2035, the 
conversion of all school buses in operation in the 
United States as of that date (including diesel school 
buses) to zero-emission school buses. 
(c) CERTIFICATION OF FEDERAL SPENDING PRO-
GRAMS AS QUALIFIED INVESTMENT PROGRAMS.— 
(1) PROCESS.— 
(A) REGULAR CERTIFICATION.— 
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(i) IN GENERAL.—The President shall 
establish a process under which the Presi-
dent, in consultation with the Board, may 
certify, in accordance with this section, an 
existing or new Federal spending program 
that is the subject of a nomination under 
paragraph (2) as a qualified investment 
program. 
(ii) PRECERTIFICATION.—The process 
under clause (i) shall include a process for 
precertification by the President of existing 
Federal spending programs as qualified in-
vestment programs, if the President deter-
mines that the existing Federal spending 
programs are consistent with the policy 
goals described in section 2(b). 
(B) EXPEDITED
PROCESS
FOR
INTERIM 
CERTIFICATION.— 
(i) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 
days after the date of enactment of this 
Act, the President, in coordination with 
the Director of the Office of Management 
and Budget, the Chairperson of the Coun-
cil on Environmental Quality, and the 
White House Domestic Climate Advisor, 
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shall establish an expedited process to pro-
vide interim certification of appropriate ex-
isting Federal spending programs as quali-
fied investment programs for receipt of 
public support under this section to enable 
the rapid disbursal of funds urgently need-
ed for economic recovery. 
(ii) INCLUSION.—The expedited proc-
ess established under clause (i) shall in-
clude an expedited process for nomination 
by interested Federal departments and 
agencies, Indian Tribes, stakeholders, and 
members of the public of existing Federal 
spending programs for interim certification 
under this subparagraph. 
(iii) USE OF CRITERIA.—The criteria 
described in subsection (d) shall apply to 
the expedited process established under 
clause (i). 
(2) NOMINATIONS.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 240 
days after the date of enactment of this Act, 
any interested Federal department or agency, 
Indian Tribe, stakeholder, or member of the 
public may submit to the President and the 
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Board a nomination of an existing or new Fed-
eral spending program for certification as a 
qualified investment program under this sub-
section. 
(B) EFFECT.—The President may not cer-
tify a Federal spending program as a qualified 
investment program under this subsection un-
less the Federal spending program is the sub-
ject of a nomination submitted under subpara-
graph (A). 
(3) CERTIFICATION.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 300 
days after the date of enactment of this Act, for 
each Federal spending program nominated 
under paragraph (2), the President, in con-
sultation with the Board, shall— 
(i) determine whether the Federal 
spending program— 
(I) achieves compliance with the 
applicable criteria described in sub-
section (d); and 
(II) includes or establishes an en-
vironmental justice screening in ac-
cordance with subparagraph (B), for 
the purpose of preventing projects 
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from concentrating pollution and dis-
proportionate health and economic 
burdens on impacted communities; 
and 
(ii) on making a positive determina-
tion under each of subclauses (I) and (II) 
of clause (i)— 
(I) approve the nomination of the 
Federal 
spending 
program 
under 
paragraph (2); and 
(II) certify the Federal spending 
program as a qualified investment 
program for purposes of this Act. 
(B) ENVIRONMENTAL
JUSTICE
SCREEN-
ING.—An environmental justice screening under 
subparagraph (A)(i)(II) shall include an evalua-
tion, over the lifecycle of the applicable Federal 
spending program, of— 
(i) lifecycle greenhouse gas emissions 
under the Federal spending program, in-
cluding direct, indirect, and supply chain 
emissions, taking into consideration mate-
rials and operations; 
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(ii) the cumulative toxic pollution 
emitted under the Federal spending pro-
gram; 
(iii) resource depletion caused by the 
Federal spending program; 
(iv) the biodiversity and climate 
change impacts of the Federal spending 
program; and 
(v) the lifecycle social and cultural im-
pacts of the Federal spending program. 
(C) PUBLICATION.—Each determination of 
the President under subparagraph (A) relating 
to a Federal spending program shall be pub-
lished in the Federal Register, together with the 
rationale of the President and the Board for 
approving or disapproving the nomination of 
the Federal spending program. 
(4) DISTRIBUTION
OF
FUNDING.—The Presi-
dent shall distribute to implementing entities the 
amounts made available to carry out this section, on 
an equitable basis pursuant to paragraph (5)— 
(A) as soon as practicable for each quali-
fied investment program for which an interim 
certification is provided under the expedited 
process under paragraph (1)(B); and 
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(B) by not later than 1 year after the date 
of enactment of this Act for each qualified in-
vestment program certified under paragraph 
(3). 
(5) EQUITABLE
ALLOCATION
OF
FUNDS.—In 
distributing amounts under paragraph (4), the 
President, in consultation with the Board, shall col-
laborate with the head of each administering agency 
to ensure that— 
(A) of the total amount of public support 
provided under this Act for qualified investment 
programs under the jurisdiction of the admin-
istering agency, not less than 50 percent shall 
be invested in impacted communities in a mean-
ingful and measurable manner, subject to the 
condition that the public support shall be dis-
tributed— 
(i) proportionately, and with priority 
given to communities that have been 
disenfranchised from generational wealth— 
(I) to repair past harm; and 
(II) to advance equity; and 
(ii) based on a mandatory equity as-
sessment— 
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(I) to identify potential dis-
proportionate impacts; and 
(II) to support more equitable 
outcomes of— 
(aa) investments; and 
(bb) programs, plans, regu-
lations, and operational decisions; 
(B) the public support provided to the ad-
ministering agency under this Act shall be equi-
tably distributed across all States, based on 
population size and poverty level, subject to the 
condition that the shares of funding for each of 
the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of 
Puerto Rico, the United States Virgin Islands, 
Guam, and any other territory or possession of 
the United States shall be— 
(i) not less than proportional to the 
population of that jurisdiction; and 
(ii) responsive to the unique and spe-
cific challenges faced by the residents of 
those jurisdictions; and 
(C) Tribal, State, and local units of gov-
ernment shall be adequately funded to develop, 
administer, service, support, and monitor quali-
fied investment programs, as applicable, to en-
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sure that no unfunded mandate is imposed on 
those governments. 
(d) CRITERIA.— 
(1) ESTABLISHMENT.—The President shall es-
tablish such criteria as the President determines to 
be appropriate, in accordance with paragraphs (2) 
through (4) and taking into consideration the pro-
posed criteria developed by the Board under section 
4(c)(1), for— 
(A) the precertification of existing Federal 
spending 
programs 
under 
subsection 
(c)(1)(A)(ii); and 
(B) the certification of new Federal spend-
ing programs and existing Federal spending 
programs that receive precertification under 
subsection (c)(1)(A)(ii) as qualified investment 
programs under subsection (c)(3), if the Fed-
eral spending programs— 
(i) are consistent with the policy goals 
described in section 2(b); and 
(ii) achieve compliance with, as appli-
cable— 
(I) the investment requirements 
described in paragraph (2); 
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(II) the high-road labor, equity, 
and 
environmental 
conditions 
de-
scribed in paragraph (3); and 
(III) the prohibitions described in 
paragraph (4). 
(2) INVESTMENT REQUIREMENTS.—To be eligi-
ble for certification as a qualified investment pro-
gram under subsection (c), a Federal spending pro-
gram shall invest in 1 or more of the following: 
(A) INFRASTRUCTURE.—Upgrades to inad-
equate infrastructure and infrastructure oper-
ations to expand access to— 
(i) pollution-free, renewable, and af-
fordable energy, including wind and solar 
energy; 
(ii) transportation; 
(iii) high-speed broadband internet; or 
(iv) drinking water and wastewater, 
particularly for public systems. 
(B) SOCIAL
INFRASTRUCTURE.—Support 
of care workers and social infrastructure, by— 
(i) rebuilding vital public services; 
(ii) strengthening social infrastructure 
to address, mitigate, and adapt to crises; 
or 
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(iii) expanding the low-carbon public 
health care infrastructure of the United 
States, including through investment in— 
(I) hospitals; 
(II) public or Tribal schools; 
(III) child care; 
(IV) home care or elder care; 
(V) mental health care; 
(VI) care workers; 
(VII) expanding access to qual-
ity, secure, affordable health care and 
homes; or 
(VIII) increasing jobs, employ-
ment protection, wages, and benefits 
for historically underpaid, unpaid, and 
undervalued care workers. 
(C) HOUSING.—Expanded access to hous-
ing, without displacing existing residents or 
community-serving entities, by— 
(i) investing in housing by modern-
izing and retrofitting homes, schools, of-
fices, industrial buildings, and apartment 
buildings, including tenant-owned and com-
munity-owned properties— 
(I) to decrease pollution; and 
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(II) to maintain affordability by 
decreasing costs to low-income com-
munities and Indigenous communities; 
(ii) ensuring an increase in accessible 
units for individuals with disabilities and 
chronic illnesses; or 
(iii) mitigating and adapting to ex-
treme weather impacts. 
(D) 
ECOSYSTEMS.—Supporting 
eco-
systems, by— 
(i) protecting and restoring biodiver-
sity or natural habitat, including wetlands, 
forests, prairies, deserts, aquifers, ground-
water, public land, and Indian land; 
(ii) remediating pollution in impacted 
communities, including— 
(I) Superfund sites on the Na-
tional Priorities List developed by the 
President in accordance with section 
105(a)(8)(B) of that Act (42 U.S.C. 
9605(a)(8)(B)); 
(II) brownfield sites (as defined 
in section 101 of the Comprehensive 
Environmental Response, Compensa-
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tion, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 
U.S.C. 9601)); and 
(III) abandoned fossil fuel infra-
structure; or 
(iii) ensuring sustainable resource use. 
(E) 
AGRICULTURE.—Supporting 
agri-
culture, by— 
(i) creating opportunities for family, 
Indigenous, and Black farmers and ranch-
ers, rural communities, and urban agri-
culture, including by disentangling the 
hyperconsolidated food supply chain; 
(ii) supporting agroecology; 
(iii) supporting regenerative agri-
culture; or 
(iv) investing in local and regional 
food systems that support farmers, agricul-
tural workers, healthy soil, and climate re-
silience. 
(F) INDUSTRY.—Developing and trans-
forming the industrial base of the United 
States, while creating high-skill, high-wage 
manufacturing jobs and nonextractive, nature- 
based jobs and opportunities for locally and 
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Tribally owned businesses throughout the 
United States, including by— 
(i) expanding manufacturing of clean 
technologies; 
(ii) reducing industrial pollution; and 
(iii) prioritizing domestic production 
for an investment described in clause (i) or 
(ii). 
(3) HIGH-ROAD LABOR, EQUITY, AND ENVIRON-
MENTAL CONDITIONS.— 
(A) CONDITIONS.—To be eligible for cer-
tification as a qualified investment program 
under subsection (c), a Federal spending pro-
gram shall achieve compliance with, as applica-
ble, the following high-road labor, equity, and 
environmental conditions: 
(i) EMPOWERING WORKERS AGAINST 
INEQUALITY.—Increase the power of work-
ers to oppose inequality by— 
(I) ensuring that no investment 
made under the Federal spending pro-
gram degrades the quality of jobs or 
obstructs the right of workers— 
(aa) to form or join a labor 
organization; 
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(bb) to bargain collectively 
over terms and conditions of em-
ployment; or 
(cc) to engage in other con-
certed activities for mutual aid or 
protection; 
(II) creating quality jobs that 
provide— 
(aa) family-sustaining job 
benefits and wages equal to not 
less than the greater of— 
(AA) $15 per hour; and 
(BB) 
the 
prevailing 
wage for jobs of a similar 
nature; 
(bb) the right of workers to 
form or join a labor organization 
and engage in collective bar-
gaining, free of harassment and 
intimidation; 
(cc) child care support; 
(dd) not fewer than 84 days 
per calendar year of paid family 
leave; 
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(ee) not fewer than 14 days 
per calendar year of paid sick 
leave; 
(ff) not fewer than 14 days 
per calendar year of paid vaca-
tion; 
(gg) robust worker safety 
standards; and 
(hh) the right of workers to 
not be disciplined or discharged 
except for just cause; 
(III) including all affected care 
workers and agricultural workers in 
worker protections and investments 
under the Federal spending program; 
(IV) advancing principles and 
policies that ensure or support— 
(aa) 
more 
effective 
and 
timely remedies in cases in which 
employers 
interfere 
with 
the 
rights of workers; 
(bb) expanded freedom for 
workers to organize without em-
ployer interference; 
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(cc) requiring employers to 
submit to interest arbitration for 
purposes of establishing an initial 
collective bargaining agreement 
following the initial certification 
or recognition of a collective bar-
gaining representative in any 
case in which, after a reasonable 
period, collective bargaining fails 
to produce an initial collective 
bargaining agreement; 
(dd) allowing collective bar-
gaining agreements covering pri-
vate-sector workers to include 
agency shop agreements, subject 
to the condition that those agree-
ments shall be valid and enforce-
able, notwithstanding— 
(AA) section 14(b) of 
the National Labor Rela-
tions 
Act 
(29 
U.S.C. 
164(b)); or 
(BB) 
any 
applicable 
State or territorial law; 
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tion that obtains written author-
ization from a majority of em-
ployees in any appropriate bar-
gaining unit stating that the em-
ployees wish to be represented by 
the labor organization; 
(VI) using project labor agree-
ments or community workforce agree-
ments, where appropriate; 
(VII) supporting domestic job 
creation by applying and fortifying do-
mestic content standards, such as the 
standards under chapter 83 of title 
41, United States Code (formerly 
known as the ‘‘Buy American Act’’), 
including among contractors and sub-
contractors of a primary employer; 
(VIII) creating pathways of op-
portunity, particularly for priority 
groups described in subparagraph (B), 
including by supporting— 
(aa) 
community 
benefits 
agreements; 
(bb) local hire standards; 
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(cc) high-road training part-
nerships; and 
(dd) access to registered ap-
prenticeship 
and 
preapprenticeship programs in 
communities of all sizes across 
the United States; and 
(IX) where appropriate, using the 
rescission of a contract under the 
Federal spending program as an en-
forcement mechanism in any case in 
which an employer engaged by the 
Federal spending program has vio-
lated— 
(aa) a provision of an appli-
cable contract; or 
(bb) a Federal labor or em-
ployment law (including regula-
tions). 
(ii) 
HISTORICALLY
UNDERSERVED 
AND IMPACTED COMMUNITIES.—Invest in 
historically underserved communities and 
impacted communities, to increase the 
power of those communities and counteract 
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racial, ethnic, gender, and other social and 
economic injustices by— 
(I) ensuring no investment made 
under the Federal spending pro-
gram— 
(aa) damages such a com-
munity; or 
(bb) reduces the ability of 
residents, businesses, and institu-
tions of the community to live 
and operate with equity and dig-
nity; 
(II) ensuring that those commu-
nities have— 
(aa) the ability to democrat-
ically plan, implement, and ad-
minister projects under the Fed-
eral spending program, where ap-
plicable, including through part-
nership with, and oversight by, 
community residents, scholars, 
and community-based organiza-
tions; and 
(bb) meaningful involvement 
in the implementation and gov-
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ernance of proposed activities 
under the Federal spending pro-
gram; 
(III) including a mandatory eq-
uity assessment to identify potential 
disproportionate impacts and support 
more-equitable outcomes of invest-
ments, programs, plans, regulations, 
and operational decisions; 
(IV) addressing historic discrimi-
natory practices in hiring, investment, 
and procurement by prioritizing local 
and equitable hiring and contracting 
that creates opportunities for priority 
groups described in subparagraph (B), 
including a requirement to hire and 
contract with members of those pri-
ority groups at a rate that is not less 
than twice the average rate reflected 
in the industry standard of that hir-
ing; 
(V) including specific fair hire 
provisions, including those similar to 
‘‘Ban the Box’’ provisions, that sup-
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port traditionally marginalized work-
ers; 
(VI) increasing equitable public 
education opportunities by including 
career and technical education path-
ways that prepare youth (especially 
youth who are members of historically 
marginalized communities or impacted 
communities) for high-quality jobs, in-
cluding access to quality workforce 
training and registered apprentice-
ships; 
(VII)(aa) ensuring that any in-
vestment made under the Federal 
spending program to upgrade a build-
ing does not displace any existing resi-
dent or community-serving entity oc-
cupying the building; and 
(bb) investing in the creation of 
new low- or zero-emission public hous-
ing and affordable housing, including 
through community land trusts; 
(VIII) centering and uplifting 
historically underserved communities, 
impacted communities, and workers 
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located in rural areas, including by 
developing provisions— 
(aa) to improve the status of 
impacted agricultural producers 
and workers; and 
(bb) for Federal spending 
programs carried out by the De-
partment of Agriculture, to end 
the systematic mistreatment of 
those producers and workers by 
the Department; 
(IX) directing funds to support, 
create, and provide debt relief, where 
appropriate, to community-owned and 
operated organizations, including— 
(aa) electric cooperatives; 
(bb) worker-owned coopera-
tives engaging in sustainability 
initiatives; 
(cc) community land trusts; 
and 
(dd) publicly owned or com-
munity-owned 
entities, 
includ-
ing— 
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(AA) not-for-profit pub-
lic power utilities; 
(BB) 
not-for-profit 
public water utilities; and 
(CC) tribally owned or 
operated utilities; and 
(X) directing funds to support 
and diversify local economies and cre-
ate opportunities for entrepreneur-
ship. 
(iii) INDIAN TRIBES AND INDIGENOUS 
COMMUNITIES.—Heal and reinforce the na-
tion-to-nation relationship between the 
United States and Indian Tribes by— 
(I) carrying out the responsibil-
ities of the administering agency de-
scribed in section 6(b); 
(II) preserving and protecting sa-
cred and cultural sites of significance 
to Indian Tribes and Indigenous com-
munities in carrying out the Federal 
spending program; 
(III) providing significantly ex-
panded funding to Indian Tribes and 
Indigenous communities for recovery 
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and relief with respect to establishing 
sustainable economies and jobs based 
on the principle known as ‘‘Indigenous 
Just Transition’’; 
(IV) prioritizing investments in 
Tribal and local community-based 
projects that contribute to— 
(aa) 
improved 
infrastruc-
ture, health care, clean water, 
and sanitation; 
(bb) food sovereignty and 
agroecological farming; 
(cc) housing, with signifi-
cantly expanded investments in 
local and community-based hous-
ing; and 
(dd) renewable energy; 
(V) providing equitable funding 
for environmental and ecosystems 
management, clean-up, and remedi-
ation of contaminated and hazardous 
sites on and near Indian land, includ-
ing Federal and State land located 
near Indian land or Indigenous com-
munities; 
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(VI) addressing Tribal housing 
needs by— 
(aa) significantly expanding 
funding to meet housing and 
community development needs on 
Indian land, including needs re-
lating to health, water, and sani-
tation; 
(bb) advancing the goals of 
the Native American Housing 
Assistance and Self-Determina-
tion Act of 1996 (25 U.S.C. 
4101 et seq.); and 
(cc) allowing for innovative 
and alternative community-based 
housing programs based on tradi-
tional Indigenous design, the use 
of local natural materials, and lo-
calized training and employment; 
and 
(VII) adequately and equitably 
addressing violence against Indige-
nous women, Indigenous trans women 
and femmes, and Indigenous children, 
in a manner that is inclusive of the 
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inherent authority of Indian Tribes 
with respect to that violence. 
(iv) 
ENVIRONMENTAL
JUSTICE.— 
Combat environmental injustice and ensure 
healthy lives for all individuals by— 
(I) 
promoting 
and 
including 
meaningful involvement by impacted 
communities, particularly the most 
vulnerable environmental justice com-
munities, in the implementation and 
governance of proposed programs and 
expenditures in a manner that aligns 
and is consistent with the principles 
entitled ‘‘Jemez Principles for Demo-
cratic Organizing’’ and dated Decem-
ber 1996; 
(II) holding polluting corpora-
tions accountable by establishing pen-
alties and liabilities for historic, per-
sistent, and concentrated pollution in 
environmental justice communities in 
a manner that ensures that the costs 
of those penalties and liabilities are 
not passed through to ratepayers, con-
sumers, or workers; 
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(III) prioritizing investment in 
remediation of polluted sites located 
in environmental justice communities, 
including— 
(aa) Superfund sites on the 
National Priorities List developed 
by the President in accordance 
with section 105(a)(8)(B) of that 
Act (42 U.S.C. 9605(a)(8)(B)); 
(bb) brownfield sites (as de-
fined in section 101 of the Com-
prehensive 
Environmental 
Re-
sponse, Compensation, and Li-
ability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 
9601)); 
(cc) abandoned mines and 
factories; and 
(dd) retired fossil fuel, de-
fense, and nuclear energy sites; 
(IV) reducing toxic pollution at 
the source and fortifying the regula-
tion and accounting of the cumulative 
health impacts of toxic pollution; 
(V) developing provisions to in-
crease equitable access to public 
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health resources in historically under-
served communities (including rural 
communities) and impacted commu-
nities; and 
(VI) recognizing the dispropor-
tionate burden of health impacts in 
historically underserved communities 
(including rural communities) and im-
pacted communities and the historic 
disinvestment in public health re-
sources, including public hospitals, 
mental health services, care worker 
services, and other facilities and serv-
ices in those communities. 
(v) CLIMATE
AND
ENVIRONMENT.— 
Avert additional climate and environmental 
catastrophe by— 
(I) ensuring that the Federal 
spending program supports the emis-
sions reductions necessary— 
(aa) to maintain an increase 
in global temperature due to 
global warming of less than 1.5 
degrees Celsius; and 
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(bb) to achieve the targets 
described in subsection (b); 
(II) ensuring that the Federal 
spending program will not expand— 
(aa) the extraction, proc-
essing, or use of fossil fuels or 
uranium at any level of the sup-
ply chain; 
(bb) the use of emissions 
offsets; 
(cc) geoengineering; or 
(dd) the use of any other en-
ergy source that would not pass 
the environmental justice screen-
ing 
described 
in 
subsection 
(c)(3)(B); 
(III) investing in— 
(aa) the protection of eco-
systems and biodiversity; and 
(bb) the sustainable use of 
natural resources; 
(IV) requiring the use of climate- 
resilient designs for infrastructure 
and low-emissions operations, as ap-
plicable; 
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(V) requiring that materials shall 
be produced with high standards for 
environmental sustainability, includ-
ing— 
(aa) technologically feasible 
limits on embodied greenhouse 
gas emissions; 
(bb) restrictions on toxic 
pollution; and 
(cc) requirements for sus-
tainable resource use and the 
protection of ecosystems and bio-
diversity; 
(VI) requiring that materials and 
appliances meet high environmental 
performance 
standards, 
including 
standards relating to energy efficiency 
and climate resilience; 
(VII) 
ensuring 
that 
environ-
mental standards apply across the 
international supply chain; and 
(VIII) supporting public and 
community-based services and actions 
for increased mitigation of, and adap-
tation to, the impacts of climate 
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change, particularly in communities 
vulnerable to climate impacts, includ-
ing flooding, storms, fires, sea-level 
rise, extreme heat or cold, and other 
impacts. 
(vi) FAIRNESS
DURING
ECONOMIC 
TRANSITION.—Ensure fairness for workers 
and communities affected by economic 
transitions by directing funding and sup-
port— 
(I) to displaced workers, includ-
ing by providing— 
(aa) wage and benefit re-
placement for a period of not less 
than 5 years; 
(bb) housing assistance; 
(cc) fully funded pensions; 
(dd) support for crisis, trau-
ma, and early retirement; 
(ee) skills training; 
(ff) education; and 
(gg) equitable job placement; 
(II) to cover local budget short-
falls due to the closure of facilities or 
a decline in economic activity; 
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(III) to economic development 
and diversification in communities af-
fected by economic transitions, includ-
ing to address historic injustices, as 
determined by community- and work-
er-led planning processes; 
(IV) to ensure adequate physical 
and social infrastructure and services 
in economically transitioning commu-
nities, including— 
(aa) public health services; 
(bb) social services; 
(cc) child care and depend-
ent adult care; and 
(dd) broadband internet in-
vestment; and 
(V) to the reorganization, conver-
sion, reclamation, and remediation of 
closed and abandoned facilities and 
sites. 
(vii) PUBLIC
INSTITUTIONS.—Rein-
vest in public institutions that enable all 
communities and workers to thrive by— 
(I) preventing privatization of— 
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(aa) any public land, water, 
or natural resource; or 
(bb) existing public sector 
jobs; 
(II) 
prioritizing 
public 
edu-
cational institutions as centers of in-
novation and pathways to green collar 
jobs through investments in vocational 
and technical education in public 
schools, trade schools, and community 
colleges that connect to labor organi-
zation apprenticeship and other high- 
road jobs; 
(III) directing funding to support 
and expand public health care sys-
tems, public education, and other pub-
lic services at the State and local lev-
els to address the health, environ-
mental, and socioeconomic impacts of 
climate crises, especially in impacted 
communities, 
including 
by 
sup-
porting— 
(aa) climate mitigation ef-
forts and resilience; and 
(bb) access to nature; and 
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(IV) directing funding to institu-
tional reforms that reorganize the 
process of Federal decisionmaking re-
garding the allocation of funds to 
make government investments more 
coordinated, effective, accountable to 
impacted communities, and appro-
priate to respond to the full scale of 
the major challenges expected to occur 
during the period of calendar years 
2022 through 2032. 
(viii) THRIVE RESOLUTION.—Com-
pliance with, as applicable— 
(I) the labor, equity, and environ-
mental provisions described in Senate 
Resolution 43, 117th Congress, intro-
duced on February 8, 2021; and 
(II) 
such 
additional, 
specific 
labor, equity, and environmental con-
ditions as are required to make the 
resolution described in subclause (I) 
operable, as determined by the Presi-
dent, based on the advice of the 
Board under section 4(c)(1)(B). 
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(B) PRIORITY GROUPS.—A priority group 
referred to in subparagraph (A) is any group 
comprised of low-income and low-wealth individ-
uals, subject to the condition that highest pri-
ority shall be given to a group comprised of 
low-income and low-wealth individuals who have 
been excluded from economic opportunities, in-
cluding individuals who are— 
(i) members of impacted communities; 
(ii) members of any other groups that 
have historically experienced discrimination 
on the basis of race, gender, national ori-
gin, or ethnicity (including Black, Indige-
nous, Latinx, Arab, Asian, and Pacific Is-
lander communities); 
(iii) immigrants to the United States 
(regardless of immigration status); 
(iv) formerly incarcerated individuals; 
(v) women; 
(vi) LGBTQIAP+ individuals; 
(vii) individuals with disabilities or 
chronic illness; 
(viii) young or elderly; 
(ix) young adults exiting the foster 
care system; and 
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(x) unhoused individuals. 
(4) PROHIBITIONS.—To be eligible for certifi-
cation as a qualified investment program under sub-
section (c), a Federal spending program shall not— 
(A) exacerbate any racial, Indigenous, gen-
der, or income disparity; 
(B) privatize any public infrastructure, 
service, land, water, or natural resource; 
(C) violate human rights; 
(D) destroy any ecosystem; 
(E) decrease labor organization density or 
membership; 
(F) in any investment made under the 
Federal spending program to upgrade a build-
ing, displace any resident or community-serving 
entity occupying the building; or 
(G) invest or participate in the use of 
emissions offset or geoengineering programs. 
(e) MONITORING.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The President, in consulta-
tion with the Board, shall monitor qualified invest-
ment programs that receive public support under 
this section to ensure that each qualified investment 
program— 
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