IIB 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3920 
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 
NOVEMBER 5, 2007 
Received; read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance 
AN ACT 
To amend the Trade Act of 1974 to reauthorize trade adjust-
ment assistance, to extend trade adjustment assistance 
to service workers and firms, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the 
‘‘Trade and Globalization Assistance Act of 2007’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Findings. 
TITLE I—TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE FOR WORKERS 
Subtitle A—Trade Adjustment Assistance for Service Sector Workers; Expan-
sion of Covered Shifts in Production; Expansion of Downstream Secondary 
Worker Eligibility 
Sec. 101. Extension of trade adjustment assistance to services sector; shifts in 
production. 
Sec. 102. Determinations by Secretary of Labor. 
Sec. 103. Monitoring and reporting relating to service sector. 
Subtitle B—Industry-Wide Trade Adjustment Assistance 
Sec. 111. Industry-wide determinations. 
Sec. 112. Notifications regarding affirmative determinations and safeguards. 
Sec. 113. Notification to Secretary of Commerce. 
Subtitle C—Program Benefits 
Sec. 121. Qualifying requirements for workers. 
Sec. 122. Weekly amounts. 
Sec. 123. Limitations on trade readjustment allowances; allowances for ex-
tended training and breaks in training. 
Sec. 124. Special rules for calculation of eligibility period. 
Sec. 125. Application of State laws and regulations on good cause for waiver 
of time limits or late filing of claims. 
Sec. 126. Employment and case management services. 
Sec. 127. Training. 
Sec. 128. Prerequisite education; approved training programs. 
Sec. 129. Eligibility for unemployment insurance and program benefits while in 
training. 
Sec. 130. Administrative expenses and employment and case management serv-
ices. 
Sec. 131. Job search and relocation allowances. 
Subtitle D—Health Care Provisions 
Sec. 141. Modifications relating health insurance assistance for certain TAA 
and PBGC pension recipients. 
Sec. 142. Extension of COBRA benefits for certain TAA-eligible individuals 
and PBGC recipients. 
Subtitle E—Wage Insurance 
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Sec. 151. Reemployment trade adjustment assistance program for older work-
ers. 
Subtitle F—Other Matters 
Sec. 161. Restriction on eligibility for program benefits. 
Sec. 162. Agreements with States. 
Sec. 163. Fraud and recovery of overpayments. 
Sec. 164. Technical amendments. 
Sec. 165. Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance; Deputy Assistant Secretary 
for Trade Adjustment Assistance. 
Sec. 166. Collection of data and reports; information to workers. 
Sec. 167. Extension of TAA program. 
Sec. 168. Judicial review. 
Sec. 169. Liberal construction of certification of workers and firms. 
TITLE II—TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE FOR FIRMS 
Sec. 201. Trade adjustment assistance for firms. 
Sec. 202. Extension of authorization of trade adjustment assistance for firms. 
Sec. 203. Industry-wide programs for the development of new services. 
Sec. 204. Demonstration project on strategic trade transformation assistance. 
TITLE III—TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE FOR FARMERS 
Sec. 301. Eligibility of certain other producers. 
TITLE IV—UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE 
Sec. 401. Short title. 
Sec. 402. Special transfers to State accounts in the Unemployment Trust 
Fund. 
Sec. 403. Extension of FUTA tax. 
Sec. 404. Safety Net Review Commission. 
TITLE V—MANUFACTURING REDEVELOPMENT ZONES 
Sec. 501. Manufacturing redevelopment zones. 
Sec. 502. Delay in application of worldwide interest allocation. 
TITLE VI—WORKER ADJUSTMENT AND RETRAINING 
NOTIFICATION 
Sec. 601. Short title. 
Sec. 602. Amendments to the WARN Act. 
Sec. 603. Effective date. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) Since January 2001, the United States 
economy has lost nearly 3 million jobs in the manu-
facturing sector alone. 
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(2) Today, over 7.1 million people in the United 
States are unemployed, and nearly 1.2 million of 
those individuals have been unemployed for 6 
months or longer. 
(3) While the United States manufacturing sec-
tor has been the hardest hit by increased unemploy-
ment, the United States service sector has also seen 
declines as jobs have moved to low-cost labor mar-
kets, such as China, India, and the Philippines. 
(4) Promoting the economic growth and com-
petitiveness of the United States requires— 
(A) opening substantial new markets for 
United States goods, services, and farm prod-
ucts; 
(B) building a strong framework of rules 
for international trade to level the playing field 
for United States workers and businesses in all 
sectors of the economy; and 
(C) helping those affected by globalization 
overcome its challenges and succeed. 
(5) Congress created the trade adjustment as-
sistance program in 1962 to provide United States 
workers who lose their jobs because of foreign com-
petition with government-funded training and associ-
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ated income support to enable such workers to tran-
sition to new, good-paying jobs. 
(6) Unfortunately, the trade adjustment assist-
ance program has not kept pace with globalization 
and it is failing to ensure that all workers adversely 
affected by trade receive the assistance they need 
and deserve. 
(7) Workers in the service sector, who make up 
approximately 80 percent of the United States work-
force, are ineligible for trade adjustment assistance. 
(8) Inadequate funding for training leaves 
many dislocated workers without access to the re-
training they need to find good-paying jobs. 
(9) Unnecessary, unduly burdensome, and con-
fusing program eligibility rules prevent workers from 
gaining access to benefits for which they are eligible. 
(10) The health coverage tax credit suffers 
from fundamental flaws and, as a result, the credit 
is not being used by the vast majority of people who 
are eligible for it, despite a clear need for access to 
affordable health care. 
(11) 
To 
meet 
the 
challenges 
posed 
by 
globalization and to preserve the critical role that 
United States workers play in promoting the 
strength and prosperity of the United States, the 
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try, of production of articles, or in provision of 
services, like or directly competitive with arti-
cles produced, or services provided, by such 
firm or subdivision; or 
‘‘(ii) such workers’ firm or subdivision has 
obtained or is likely to obtain articles or serv-
ices described in clause (i) from a foreign coun-
try.’’. 
(2) WORKERS IN PUBLIC AGENCIES.—Such sec-
tion is further amended— 
(A) by redesignating subsections (b) and 
(c) as subsections (c) and (d), respectively; and 
(B) by inserting after subsection (a) the 
following: 
‘‘(b) ADVERSELY AFFECTED WORKERS IN PUBLIC 
AGENCIES.—A group of workers in a public agency shall 
be certified by the Secretary as eligible to apply for adjust-
ment assistance under this chapter pursuant to a petition 
filed under section 221 if the Secretary determines that— 
‘‘(1) a significant number or proportion of the 
workers in the public agency, or an appropriate sub-
division of the public agency, have become totally or 
partially separated, or are threatened to become to-
tally or partially separated; and 
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‘‘(2) the public agency or subdivision has ob-
tained or is likely to obtain from a foreign country 
services that would otherwise be provided by such 
agency or subdivision.’’. 
(3) ADVERSELY AFFECTED SECONDARY WORK-
ERS.—Subsection (c) of such section (as redesig-
nated by paragraph (2)(A) of this subsection) is 
amended— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
by striking ‘‘agricultural firm)’’ and inserting 
‘‘agricultural firm, and workers in a service sec-
tor firm or subdivision of a service sector 
firm)’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) by inserting ‘‘or service’’ after ‘‘re-
lated to the article’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘(c)(3)’’ and inserting 
‘‘(d)(3)’’; and 
(C) in paragraph (3)(A), by striking ‘‘it 
supplied to the firm (or subdivision)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘or services it supplied to the firm (or 
subdivision)’’. 
(4) 
DEFINITIONS
AND
ELIGIBILITY.—Sub-
section (d) of such section (as redesignated by para-
graph (2)(A) of this subsection) is amended— 
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(A) by striking ‘‘(d) For purposes of this 
section—’’ and inserting ‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS 
AND ELIGIBILITY.—For purposes of this sec-
tion:’’ 
(B) in paragraph (3), to read as follows: 
‘‘(3) DOWNSTREAM
PRODUCER.—The term 
‘downstream producer’ means a firm that performs 
additional, value-added production processes or serv-
ices for a firm or subdivision, including a firm that 
performs final assembly, finishing, testing, pack-
aging, or maintenance or transportation services di-
rectly for another firm (or subdivision), for articles 
or services that were the basis for a certification of 
eligibility under subsection (a) of a group of workers 
employed by such other firm (or subdivision).’’; 
(C) in paragraph (4)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘for articles’’ and in-
serting ‘‘, or services, used in the produc-
tion of articles or in the provision of serv-
ices, as the case may be,’’; and 
(ii) by inserting ‘‘(or subdivision)’’ 
after ‘‘such other firm’’; and 
(D) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) FIRMS
IDENTIFIED
BY
ITC.—A petition 
filed under section 221 covering a group of workers 
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from a firm or appropriate subdivision of a firm 
meets the requirements of subsection (a) if the firm 
is identified by the International Trade Commission 
under subsection (c), (d), or (e) of section 224.’’. 
(5) BASIS
FOR
SECRETARY’S
DETERMINA-
TIONS.—Such section is further amended by adding 
at the end the following: 
‘‘(e) BASIS FOR SECRETARY’S DETERMINATIONS.— 
‘‘(1) INCREASED IMPORTS OF SERVICES.—For 
purposes of subsection (a)(2)(A)(ii), the Secretary 
may determine that increased imports of like or di-
rectly competitive services exist if the customers of 
the workers’ firm or subdivision accounting for not 
less than 20 percent of the sales of the workers’ firm 
or subdivision (as the case may be) certify to the 
Secretary that such customers are obtaining such 
services from a foreign country. 
‘‘(2) SHIFT IN PRODUCTION; OBTAINING ARTI-
CLES OR SERVICES ABROAD.—For purposes of sub-
sections (a)(2)(B) and (b)(2), the Secretary may de-
termine that there has been a shift in production of 
articles or provision of services, or that a workers’ 
firm or public agency, or subdivision thereof, has ob-
tained or is likely to obtain like or directly competi-
tive articles or services from a foreign country, based 
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on a certification thereof from the workers’ firm, 
public agency, or subdivision (as the case may be). 
‘‘(3) PROCESS AND METHODS FOR OBTAINING 
CERTIFICATIONS.— 
‘‘(A) REQUEST
BY
PETITIONER.—If re-
quested by the petitioner, the Secretary shall 
obtain the certifications under paragraphs (1) 
and (2) in such manner as the Secretary deter-
mines is appropriate, including by issuing sub-
poenas under section 249 when necessary. 
‘‘(B) PROTECTION OF CONFIDENTIAL IN-
FORMATION.—The Secretary may not release 
information obtained under subparagraph (A) 
that the Secretary considers to be confidential 
business information unless the party submit-
ting the confidential business information had 
notice, at the time of submission, that such in-
formation would be released by the Secretary, 
or such party subsequently consents to the re-
lease of the information. Nothing in this sub-
paragraph shall be construed to prohibit a court 
from requiring the submission of such confiden-
tial business information to the court in cam-
era.’’. 
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(c) DEFINITIONS.—Section 247 of the Trade Act of 
1974 (19 U.S.C. 2319) is amended— 
(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by 
striking ‘‘chapter—’’ and inserting ‘‘chapter:’’; 
(2) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by inserting ‘‘, or employment in a 
public agency or appropriate subdivision of a 
public agency,’’ after ‘‘of a firm’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘such firm or subdivision’’ 
inserting ‘‘such firm (or subdivision) or public 
agency (or subdivision)’’; 
(3) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘employ-
ment—’’ and all that follows and inserting ‘‘employ-
ment, has been totally or partially separated from 
such employment.’’; 
(4) by redesignating paragraphs (8) through 
(17) as paragraphs (10) through (19), respectively; 
and 
(5) by inserting after paragraph (6) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(7) The term ‘public agency’ means a depart-
ment or agency of a State or local government or of 
the Federal Government. 
‘‘(8) The term ‘service sector firm’ means an 
entity engaged in the business of providing services. 
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‘‘(1) SECRETARY OF LABOR.—Not later than 
90 days after the date of the enactment of the Trade 
and Globalization Assistance Act of 2007, the Sec-
retary of Labor shall implement a system to collect 
data on adversely affected workers employed in the 
service sector that includes the number of workers 
by State, industry, and cause of dislocation of each 
worker. 
‘‘(2) SECRETARY
OF
COMMERCE.—Not later 
than 1 year after such date of enactment, the Sec-
retary of Commerce shall, in consultation with the 
Secretary of Labor, conduct a study and report to 
Congress on ways to improve the timeliness and cov-
erage of data on trade in services, including methods 
to identify increased imports due to the relocation of 
United States firms to foreign countries, and in-
creased imports due to United States firms obtain-
ing services from firms in foreign countries.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
for title II of the Trade Act of 1974 is amended by strik-
ing the item relating to section 282 and inserting the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘Sec. 282. Trade monitoring and data collection.’’. 
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Subtitle B—Industry-Wide Trade 
Adjustment Assistance 
SEC. 111. INDUSTRY-WIDE DETERMINATIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subchapter A of chapter 2 of title 
II of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2271 et seq.) is 
amended by adding after section 223 the following: 
‘‘SEC. 223A. INDUSTRY-WIDE DETERMINATIONS. 
‘‘(a) INVESTIGATION.—Upon the request of the 
President or the United States Trade Representative, or 
the resolution of either the Committee on Finance of the 
Senate or the Committee on Ways and Means of the 
House of Representatives, with respect to a domestic in-
dustry, or if the Secretary certifies groups of workers in 
a domestic industry under section 223(a) pursuant to 3 
petitions within a 180-day period, the Secretary shall 
promptly initiate an investigation under this chapter to 
determine the eligibility for adjustment assistance of— 
‘‘(1) all workers in that domestic industry; or 
‘‘(2) all workers in that domestic industry in a 
specific geographic region. 
‘‘(b) DETERMINATION REGARDING INDUSTRY-WIDE 
CERTIFICATION.—The Secretary shall, not later than 60 
days after receiving a request or resolution described in 
subsection (a) with respect to a domestic industry, or mak-
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ing the third certification of workers in a domestic indus-
try described in subsection (a), as the case may be— 
‘‘(1) determine whether all adversely affected 
workers in that domestic industry are eligible to 
apply for assistance under this subchapter, in ac-
cordance with the criteria established under sub-
section (e); or 
‘‘(2) determine whether all adversely affected 
workers in that domestic industry in a specific geo-
graphic region are eligible to apply for assistance 
under this subchapter, in accordance with the cri-
teria established under subsection (e). 
‘‘(c) IDENTIFICATION AND CERTIFICATION.— 
‘‘(1) AFFIRMATIVE DETERMINATION.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Upon making an af-
firmative determination under subsection (b), 
the Secretary shall— 
‘‘(i) identify all firms operating within 
the domestic industry described in para-
graph (1) or (2) of subsection (b) that are 
covered by the determination; and 
‘‘(ii) certify all workers of such firms 
as a group of workers eligible to apply for 
assistance under this subchapter, without 
any other determination of whether such 
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group meets the requirements of section 
222. 
‘‘(B) OTHER REQUIREMENTS.— 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—Each certification 
under subparagraph (A)(ii) shall specify 
the date on which the total or partial sepa-
ration began or threatened to begin, except 
that— 
‘‘(I) with respect to a request or 
a resolution under subsection (a), 
such date may not be a date that pre-
cedes one year before the date on 
which the Secretary receives the re-
quest or resolution, as the case may 
be; and 
‘‘(II) with respect to the third 
certification of workers in a domestic 
industry described in subsection (a), 
such date may not be a date that pre-
cedes one year before the date on 
which the Secretary certifies the 3d 
such petition. 
‘‘(ii) 
INAPPLICABILITY.—A 
certifi-
cation under subparagraph (A)(ii) shall not 
apply to any worker whose last total or 
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partial separation from the firm occurred 
before the applicable date specified in 
clause (i). 
‘‘(iii) TRAINING
BEFORE
SEPARA-
TION.—Any worker covered by a certifi-
cation under subparagraph (A)(ii) shall be 
deemed to be an adversely affected worker 
for purposes of receiving services under 
section 235 and training under section 
236, without regard to whether the worker 
has been totally or partially separated from 
employment. In the case of a worker not 
totally or partially separated from employ-
ment, the reference in section 236(a)(1)(A) 
to ‘suitable employment’ shall be deemed 
not to refer to such employment. 
‘‘(2) NEGATIVE DETERMINATION.—If the Sec-
retary makes a negative determination under sub-
section (b), the Secretary shall notify the Committee 
on Ways and Means of the House of Representatives 
and the Committee on Finance of the Senate of the 
reasons for the Secretary’s determination. 
‘‘(3) PUBLICATION.—Upon making a deter-
mination under subsection (b), the Secretary shall 
promptly publish a summary of the determination in 
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the Federal Register and on the Website of the De-
partment of Labor, together with the reasons for 
making such determination. 
‘‘(4) TERMINATION.—Whenever the Secretary 
determines that a certification under paragraph (1) 
is no longer warranted, the Secretary shall terminate 
the certification and promptly have notice of the ter-
mination published in the Federal Register and on 
the Website of the Department of Labor, together 
with the reasons for making such determination 
under this paragraph. Such termination shall apply 
only with respect to total or partial separations oc-
curring after the termination date specified by the 
Secretary. In the case of a worker described in para-
graph (1)(B)(iii), no services described in section 
235 or training described in section 236 may be ini-
tiated after such termination date. 
‘‘(d) OUTREACH.—Upon making a certification under 
subsection (c)(1) of eligibility for adjustment assistance 
under this chapter of a group of workers or all workers 
in a domestic industry, the Secretary shall notify each 
Governor of a State in which the workers are located of 
the certification. 
‘‘(e) REGULATIONS.—The Secretary shall, not later 
than 1 year after the date of the enactment of the Trade 
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and Globalization Assistance Act of 2007, issue regula-
tions for making determinations under this section, includ-
ing criteria for making such determinations. The Sec-
retary shall develop such regulations in consultation with 
the Committee on Ways and Means of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on Finance of the Senate, 
and the Secretary shall submit such regulations to each 
such committee at least 60 days before the regulations go 
into effect. 
‘‘(f) DOMESTIC INDUSTRY DEFINED.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘domestic industry’ means an industry in 
the United States, as that industry is defined by the North 
American Industry Classification System.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
for title II of the Trade Act of 1974 is amended by insert-
ing after the item relating to section 223 the following: 
‘‘Sec. 223A. Industry-wide determinations.’’. 
(c) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Chapter 2 of title 
II of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2271 et seq.) is 
amended— 
(1) in section 225— 
(A) in subsection (a), in the last sentence 
by inserting ‘‘or 223A’’ after ‘‘223’’; and 
(B) in subsection (b)— 
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(i) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘sub-
chapter A of this chapter’’ and inserting 
‘‘this subchapter’’; and 
(ii) in paragraph (2), by striking 
‘‘subchapter A’’ and inserting ‘‘this sub-
chapter’’; and 
(2) in section 231— 
(A) in subsection (a)— 
(i) in the matter preceding paragraph 
(1), by striking ‘‘more than 60 days’’ and 
all that follows through ‘‘section 221’’ and 
inserting ‘‘on or after the date of such cer-
tification’’; and 
(ii) in paragraph (1)— 
(I) in subparagraph (B), by in-
serting ‘‘or 223A (as the case may 
be)’’ after ‘‘223’’; and 
(II) in subparagraph (C), by in-
serting ‘‘or 223A(c)(4), as the case 
may be’’ after ‘‘223(d)’’; and 
(B) in subsection (b)— 
(i) by striking paragraph (2); and 
(ii) in paragraph (1)— 
(I) by striking ‘‘(1)’’; 
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(II) by redesignating subpara-
graphs (A) and (B) as paragraph (1) 
and (2), respectively; 
(III) by redesignating clauses (i) 
and (ii) as subparagraphs (A) and 
(B), respectively; and 
(IV) by redesignating subclauses 
(I) and (II) as clauses (i) and (ii), re-
spectively. 
SEC. 112. NOTIFICATIONS REGARDING AFFIRMATIVE DE-
TERMINATIONS AND SAFEGUARDS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 224 of the Trade Act of 
1974 (19 U.S.C. 2274) is amended— 
(1) in the heading, by striking ‘‘STUDY BY 
SECRETARY OF LABOR WHEN INTERNATIONAL 
TRADE COMMISSION BEGINS INVESTIGATION’’ 
and inserting ‘‘STUDY AND NOTIFICATIONS RE-
GARDING TRADE REMEDY DETERMINATIONS’’; 
(2) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘Whenever’’ 
and inserting ‘‘STUDY OF DOMESTIC INDUSTRY.— 
Whenever’’; 
(3) in subsection (b)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘The report’’ and inserting 
‘‘REPORT BY THE SECRETARY.—The report’’; 
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(B) by striking ‘‘his report’’ and inserting 
‘‘the Secretary’s report’’; and 
(C) by inserting ‘‘and on the Website of 
the Department of Labor’’ after ‘‘Federal Reg-
ister’’; and 
(4) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(c) 
NOTIFICATIONS
REGARDING
AFFIRMATIVE 
SAFEGUARD DETERMINATIONS UNDER SECTION 202.— 
Upon issuing an affirmative finding regarding serious in-
jury, or the threat thereof, to a domestic industry, under 
section 202, the Commission shall notify the Secretary and 
the Secretary of Commerce of that finding and the identity 
of the firms which comprise the domestic industry. 
‘‘(d) NOTIFICATIONS REGARDING AFFIRMATIVE DE-
TERMINATIONS UNDER SECTION 421.—Upon issuing an 
affirmative determination of market disruption, or the 
threat thereof, under section 421, the Commission shall 
notify the Secretary and the Secretary of Commerce of 
that determination and the identity of the firms which 
comprise the affected domestic industry. 
‘‘(e) NOTIFICATIONS REGARDING AFFIRMATIVE DE-
TERMINATIONS UNDER TARIFF ACT
OF 1930.—Upon 
issuing a final affirmative determination of injury, or the 
threat thereof, under section 705 or section 735 of the 
Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671d and 1673d), the 
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Commission shall notify the Secretary and the Secretary 
of Commerce of that determination and the identity of the 
firms which comprise the affected domestic industry. 
‘‘(f) NOTIFICATION
OF INDUSTRY
AND WORKER 
REPRESENTATIVES.—Whenever the Commission makes a 
notification under subsection (c), (d), or (e)— 
‘‘(1) the Secretary shall— 
‘‘(A) notify the firms identified by the 
Commission as comprising the domestic indus-
try affected, and any certified or recognized 
union or other duly authorized representatives 
of the workers in such industry, of the allow-
ances, training, employment services, and other 
benefits available under this chapter, and the 
procedures under this chapter for filing peti-
tions and applying for benefits; 
‘‘(B) notify the Governor of each State in 
which one or more firms described in subpara-
graph (A) are located of the Commission’s de-
termination and the identity of the firms; and 
‘‘(C) provide the necessary assistance to 
employers, groups of workers, and any certified 
or recognized union or other duly authorized 
representatives of such workers to file petitions 
under section 221; and 
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‘‘(2) the Secretary of Commerce shall— 
‘‘(A) notify the firms identified by the 
Commission as comprising the domestic indus-
try affected of the benefits under chapter 3 and 
the procedures under such chapter for filing pe-
titions and applying for benefits; and 
‘‘(B) provide the necessary assistance to 
firms to file petitions under section 251.’’. 
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of contents 
for title II of the Trade Act of 1974 is amended by strik-
ing the item relating to section 224 and inserting the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘Sec. 224. Study and notifications regarding trade remedy determinations.’’. 
SEC. 113. NOTIFICATION TO SECRETARY OF COMMERCE. 
Section 225 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 
2275) is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(c) Upon issuing a certification under section 223 
or 223A, the Secretary shall notify the Secretary of Com-
merce of the identify of the firm or firms that are covered 
by the certification.’’. 
Subtitle C—Program Benefits 
SEC. 121. QUALIFYING REQUIREMENTS FOR WORKERS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Subsection (a)(5)(A)(ii) of section 
231 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2291) is amend-
ed— 
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(1) by striking subclauses (I) and (II) and in-
serting the following: 
‘‘(I) in the case of a worker whose 
most recent total separation from adversely 
affected employment that meets the re-
quirements of paragraphs (1) and (2) oc-
curs after the date on which the Secretary 
issues a certification covering the worker, 
the last day of the 26th week after such 
total separation, 
‘‘(II) in the case of a worker whose 
most recent total separation from adversely 
affected employment that meets the re-
quirements of paragraphs (1) and (2) oc-
curs before the date on which the Sec-
retary issues a certification covering the 
worker, the last day of the 26th week after 
the date of such certification,’’; and 
(2) in subclause (III)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘later of the dates specified 
in subclause (I) or (II)’’ and inserting ‘‘date 
specified in subclause (I) or (II), as the case 
may be’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘or’’ at the end; 
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(3) by redesignating subclause (IV) as sub-
clause (V); and 
(4) by inserting after subclause (III) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(IV) the last day of such period that 
the Secretary determines appropriate, if 
the failure to enroll is due to the failure to 
provide the worker with timely information 
regarding the date specified in subclause 
(I) or (II), as the case may be, or’’. 
(b) WAIVERS OF TRAINING REQUIREMENTS.—Sub-
section (c) of such section 231 is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)(B)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘The worker possesses’’ 
and inserting 
‘‘(i) IN GENERAL.—The worker pos-
sesses’’; 
(B) by moving the remaining text 2 ems to 
the right; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(ii) 
MARKETABLE
SKILLS
DE-
FINED.—For purposes of clause (i), the 
term ‘marketable skills’ may include the 
possession of a postgraduate degree from 
an institution of higher education (as de-
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fined in section 101(a) of the Higher Edu-
cation Act of 1965) or equivalent institu-
tion, or the possession of an equivalent 
postgraduate certification in a specialized 
field.’’; and 
(2) in paragraph (3)— 
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘may 
authorize’’ and inserting ‘‘shall authorize’’; 
(B) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as 
subparagraph (C); and 
(C) by inserting after subparagraph (A) 
the following: 
‘‘(B) DURATION OF WAIVERS.—A waiver 
issued under paragraph (1) by a cooperating 
State shall be effective for not more than 3 
months after the date on which the waiver is 
issued, except that the State, upon reviewing 
the waiver, may extend the waiver for an addi-
tional period of not more than 3 months if the 
State determines that the waiver should be 
maintained.’’. 
(c) DETERMINATIONS OF ELIGIBILITY BY STATE EM-
PLOYEES APPOINTED ON MERIT BASIS.—Such section 
231 is further amended by adding at the end the following: 
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‘‘(d) DETERMINATIONS OF ELIGIBILITY BY STATE 
EMPLOYEES APPOINTED ON MERIT BASIS.—All deter-
minations of eligibility for trade readjustment allowances 
under this part shall be made by employees of the State 
who are appointed on a merit basis.’’. 
(d) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 233 of the 
Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2293) is amended by strik-
ing subsection (b) and redesignating subsections (c) 
through (g) as subsections (b) through (f), respectively. 
SEC. 122. WEEKLY AMOUNTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 232 of the Trade Act of 
1974 (19 U.S.C. 2292) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘subsections (b) and (c)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘subsections (b), (c), and (d)’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘total unemployment’’ the 
first place it appears and inserting ‘‘unemploy-
ment’’; and 
(C) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end 
before the period the following: ‘‘, except that 
in the case of an adversely affected worker who 
is participating in full-time training under this 
chapter, such income shall not include earnings 
from work for such week that are equal to or 
less than the most recent weekly benefit amount 
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of the unemployment insurance payable to the 
worker for a week of total unemployment pre-
ceding the worker’s first exhaustion of unem-
ployment insurance (as determined for purposes 
of section 231(a)(3)(B))’’; 
(2) by redesignating subsections (b) and (c) as 
subsections (c) and (d), respectively; and 
(3) by inserting after subsection (a) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(b)(1) Notwithstanding section 231(a)(3)(B), if an 
adversely affected worker who is participating in training 
qualifies for unemployment insurance under State law, 
based in whole or in part upon part-time or short-term 
employment following approval of the worker’s initial 
trade readjustment allowance application under section 
231(a), then for any week for which unemployment insur-
ance is payable and for which the worker would otherwise 
be entitled to a trade readjustment allowance based upon 
the certification under section 223, the worker shall, in 
addition to any such unemployment insurance, be paid a 
trade readjustment allowance in the amount described in 
paragraph (2). 
‘‘(2) The trade readjustment allowance payable under 
paragraph (1) shall be equal to the weekly benefit amount 
of the unemployment insurance upon which the worker’s 
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trade readjustment allowance was initially determined 
under subsection (a), reduced by— 
‘‘(A) the amount of the unemployment insur-
ance benefit payable to such worker for that week of 
unemployment for which a trade readjustment allow-
ance is payable under paragraph (1); and 
‘‘(B) the amounts described in paragraphs (1) 
and (2) of subsection (a).’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 233 of the 
Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2293) is amended— 
(1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ‘‘section 
232(a)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsections (a) and (b) of 
section 232’’; and 
(2) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘section 
232(b)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 232(c)’’. 
SEC. 123. LIMITATIONS ON TRADE READJUSTMENT ALLOW-
ANCES; ALLOWANCES FOR EXTENDED TRAIN-
ING AND BREAKS IN TRAINING. 
Section 233(a) of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 
2293(a)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘under para-
graph (1)’’ after ‘‘trade readjustment allowance’’; 
(2) in paragraph (3)— 
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
(A)— 
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qualifying family members of such individual 
(and any advance payment of such credit under 
section 7527). This subparagraph shall only 
apply with respect to the first 36 months after 
such eligible individual is first entitled to the 
benefits described in subsection (f)(2)(A). 
‘‘(B) DIVORCE.—In the case of the final-
ization of a divorce between an eligible indi-
vidual and such individual’s spouse, such spouse 
shall be treated as an eligible individual for pur-
poses of this section and section 7527 for a pe-
riod of 36 months beginning with the date of 
such finalization, except that the only qualifying 
family members who may be taken into account 
with respect to such spouse are those individ-
uals who were qualifying family members imme-
diately before such finalization. 
‘‘(C) DEATH.—In the case of the death of 
an eligible individual— 
‘‘(i) any spouse of such individual (de-
termined at the time of such death) shall 
be treated as an eligible individual for pur-
poses of this section and section 7527 for 
a period of 36 months beginning with the 
date of such death, except that the only 
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