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103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4240
To ensure that defense conversion, reinvestment, and transition assistance
programs of the Department of Defense are directed primarily toward
those States (and areas within those States) that have experienced the
greatest number of job losses as a result of reductions in defense spend-
ing or the closure or realignment of military installations.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL 18, 1994
Mr. MACHTLEY introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to the
Committees on Education and Labor and Armed Services
A BILL
To ensure that defense conversion, reinvestment, and transi-
tion assistance programs of the Department of Defense
are directed primarily toward those States (and areas
within those States) that have experienced the greatest
number of job losses as a result of reductions in defense
spending or the closure or realignment of military instal-
lations.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. PREFERENCE FOR STATES MOST ADVERSELY
AFFECTED BY DEFENSE CUTS.
(a) DETERMINATION
OF DEFENSE-RELATED JOB
LOSSES.—The Secretary of Labor, acting through the Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics, shall determine annually the ag-
gregate number of employment positions lost in each State
since January 1, 1985, as a result of reductions in expend-
itures by the United States for defense, the termination
or cancellation of defense contracts, the failure to proceed
with an approved major weapon system, or the closure or
realignment of military installations. The Secretary of
Labor shall adjust the number determined for each State
by the number of employment positions created in that
State since that date as a result of new defense contracts
carried out in that State, the realignment of military func-
tions to military installations located in that State, or de-
fense conversion, reinvestment, and transition assistance
programs conducted in that State. The Secretary of Labor
shall complete the determination required by this sub-
section not later than November 1 of each year.
(b) RANKING
OF
STATES
ON
BASIS
OF
JOB
LOSSES.—Upon completing the determinations required
by subsection (a) for a year, the Secretary of Labor shall
also determine for each State a percentage represented by
the ratio of—
(1) the aggregate number of job losses deter-
mined for that State under subsection (a) for that
year; to
(2) the aggregate number of job losses deter-
mined for all States under subsection (a) for that
year.
(c) PROVISION OF RESULTS TO CONGRESS AND SEC-
RETARY OF DEFENSE.—The Secretary of Labor shall sub-
mit to Congress and the Secretary of Defense an annual
report containing the job loss number and percentage de-
termined under subsections (a) and (b) for each State.
(d) PREFERENCE FOR STATES MOST ADVERSELY
AFFECTED BY DEFENSE CUTS.—In making assistance
available under defense conversion, reinvestment, and
transition assistance programs for a fiscal year, the Sec-
retary of Defense shall target such assistance—
(1) primarily to those States with the highest
percentages determined under subsection (b), as
identified in the most recent report received from
the Secretary of Labor; and
(2) within such a State, to those areas in which
the greatest number of job losses occurred, as deter-
mined for that State under subsection (a).
(e) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section:
(1) The term ‘‘State’’ means the several States,
the District of Columbia, American Samoa, the Fed-
erated States of Micronesia, Guam, the Republic of
the Marshall Islands, the Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands, the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico, Palau, and the United States Virgin Is-
lands.
(2) The term ‘‘defense conversion, reinvestment,
and transition assistance programs’’ means the fol-
lowing programs and activities of the Department of
Defense:
(A) Programs and activities conducted
under chapter 148 of title 10, United States
Code.
(B) The programs and activities authorized
by the Defense Conversion, Reinvestment, and
Transition Assistance Act of 1992 (division D
of Public Law 102–484; 106 Stat. 2658) and
the amendments made by that Act.
(C) The programs and activities authorized
by title XIII of the National Defense Authoriza-
tion Act for Fiscal Year 1994 (Public Law
103–160; 107 Stat. 1783) and the amendments
made by that title.
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