Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
TITLE I—FINDINGS AND DEFINITIONS 
Sec. 101. Findings. 
Sec. 102. Definitions. 
TITLE II—CREATIVE WORKFORCE ADVANCEMENT 
Sec. 201. Department of Labor. 
Sec. 202. Department of Education. 
Sec. 203. Economic Development Administration programs. 
Sec. 204. Creative jobs training through Bureau of Prisons reentry and skills 
development programs. 
Sec. 205. Grants relating to the creative economy. 
Sec. 206. Promotion for veterans with service-connected disabilities of job train-
ing and resources in creative industries and occupations. 
Sec. 207. Disaster assistance for creative industry workers through FEMA. 
Sec. 208. Department of Health and Human Services. 
Sec. 209. Disaster unemployment assistance. 
TITLE III—TAX INCENTIVES 
Sec. 301. Tax incentives. 
TITLE IV—CULTURAL TRADE PROMOTION 
Sec. 401. Promotion by Export-Import Bank of the United States of exports 
by creative industries and occupations. 
Sec. 402. Promotion of exports from creative industries and occupations. 
Sec. 403. Collaboration to improve access to reliable international shipping 
services. 
Sec. 404. Demonstration program to promote use of creative industries and oc-
cupations in certain economic planning. 
Sec. 405. Trade and Development Agency. 
TITLE V—FEDERAL SUPPORT FOR THE CREATIVE ECONOMY 
Sec. 501. Collaboration. 
Sec. 502. Creative Economy Advisory Board. 
Sec. 503. Travel and Tourism Advisory Board. 
Sec. 504. Federal Council on the Arts and Humanities. 
Sec. 505. Art in Architecture program funding. 
Sec. 506. Office of Readiness, Recovery, and Resilience. 
TITLE I—FINDINGS AND 
DEFINITIONS 
SEC. 101. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) The United States economy has changed 
rapidly as automation, artificial intelligence, digital 
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technologies, and modern information and commu-
nication systems have transformed the way people in 
the United States work, live, and interact. 
(2) The United States must establish policies 
and create programs capable of responding to chang-
ing economic realities. 
(3) The United States must develop strategies 
to maximize current assets and help grow a United 
States economy and workforce that can thrive in a 
challenging environment of constant change and re-
invention. 
(4) The Nation needs to strengthen and im-
prove Federal support for a Next Generation econ-
omy and workforce. 
(5) The United States must explore sustainable 
strategies to create jobs that will endure, will remain 
reliant on a local workforce, and are unlikely to 
move overseas. 
(6) There is great value and untapped potential 
in the Nation’s rich history, the creative freedoms 
enjoyed by its people, and the many cultures and 
traditions that make the United States so unique. 
(7) Promoting local arts and enhancing the cre-
ative economy of the United States would support 
the Nation’s diverse citizenry, rich traditions, and 
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vast creative talents, including the unique history 
and continuing vitality of Native American commu-
nities. 
(8) The United States must embrace the oppor-
tunities and challenges the country faces and re-
imagine the role of the Federal Government in pro-
viding support for local arts activity and expanding 
the creative economy. 
(9) The United States needs to engage workers 
from around the Nation to develop, hone, and share 
expressions of their cultural heritage, including lan-
guages, creative collaborations, and artistic skills. 
(10) The Nation needs to recognize that there 
is a broad range of undervalued and underutilized 
human potential in the United States, and the exist-
ence of that human potential has profound social, 
economic, and workforce ramifications. 
(11) Securing the future well-being of individ-
uals, families, communities, and the Nation will de-
pend in part on adopting Federal policies that will 
increase support for the creative economy. 
(12) The Nation needs to improve creative 
workforce readiness and develop an education and 
job training plan, including a plan for education and 
training through specialized vocational schools and 
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apprenticeship programs, to ensure that individuals 
of all ages in the United States can realize their full 
creative potential now and in the future. 
(13) Investing in a creative economy workforce 
would help showcase the Nation’s creative arts, 
strengthen its capacity for job growth, promote eco-
nomic inclusion, boost entrepreneurship, improve 
and revitalize rural, remote, and underserved areas, 
and empower communities to share their stories. 
SEC. 102. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) CREATIVE
INDUSTRY
OR
OCCUPATION.— 
The term ‘‘creative industry or occupation’’ means— 
(A) an industry that— 
(i) has a substantial current or poten-
tial impact (including through positions 
that lead to economic self-sufficiency and 
opportunities for advancement) on a State, 
regional, or local economy or a Native 
American community’s economy, as appro-
priate; and 
(ii) contributes to the growth of busi-
nesses or nonprofit organizations that have 
their origin in individual creativity, skill, 
and talent, including businesses or non-
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profit organizations focused on design, 
crafts, music, visual and media arts, per-
forming arts, language, literature, or ex-
pressions of Native cultures or regional or 
local heritage culture; and 
(B) an occupation that— 
(i) currently has or is projected to 
have a number of positions (including posi-
tions that lead to economic self-sufficiency 
and opportunities for advancement) in an 
industry sector so as to have a substantial 
potential impact on a State, regional, or 
local economy or a Native American com-
munity’s economy, as appropriate; and 
(ii) is comprised of— 
(I) businesses or nonprofit orga-
nizations described in subparagraph 
(A)(ii); or 
(II) individuals who are self-em-
ployed or sole proprietors and whose 
work has an origin in individual cre-
ativity, skill, and talent, including a 
focus on design, crafts, music, visual 
arts, media arts, performing arts, lan-
guage, literature, or expressions of 
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