‘‘SEC. 11. POSTING OF NOTICES; PENALTIES. 
‘‘(a) POSTING OF NOTICES.—Each employer shall 
post and keep posted in conspicuous places upon its prem-
ises where notices to employees are customarily posted a 
notice to be prepared or approved by the Secretary setting 
forth excerpts from, or summaries of, the pertinent provi-
sions of this chapter and information pertinent to the fil-
ing of a complaint. 
‘‘(b) PENALTIES.—A willful violation of this section 
shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $500 for 
each separate offense.’’. 
(e) INFORMATION REGARDING BENEFITS AND SERV-
ICES AVAILABLE TO EMPLOYEES.—Such Act is further 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 12. INFORMATION REGARDING BENEFITS AND SERV-
ICES AVAILABLE TO WORKERS. 
‘‘The Secretary of Labor shall maintain a guide of 
benefits and services which may be available to affected 
employees, including unemployment compensation, trade 
adjustment assistance, COBRA benefits, and services 
available under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998. 
Such guide shall be available on the Internet website of 
the Department of Labor and shall include a description 
of the benefits and services, the eligibility requirements, 
and the means of obtaining such benefits and services. 
Upon receiving notice from an employer under section 
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3(a)(2), the Secretary shall immediately transmit such 
guide to such employer.’’. 
SEC. 3. EXTENSION OF COBRA BENEFITS FOR CERTAIN IN-
DIVIDUALS CERTIFIED AS TAA ELIGIBLE. 
(a) AMENDMENTS TO THE EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT 
INCOME SECURITY ACT OF 1974.— 
(1) SPECIAL RULE FOR QUALIFIED TAA ELIGI-
BLE EMPLOYEES.— 
(A) IN
GENERAL.—Section 602(2)(A) of 
the Employee Retirement Income Security Act 
of 1974 (29 U.S.C. 1162(2)(A)) is amended— 
(i) by moving clause (v) to after 
clause (iv) and before the flush left sen-
tence beginning with ‘‘In the case of a 
qualified beneficiary’’; and 
(ii) by inserting after clause (v) the 
following new clause: 
‘‘(vi) SPECIAL RULE FOR QUALIFIED 
TAA ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES.—In the case of 
a qualifying event described in section 
603(2), clauses (i) and (ii) shall not apply 
to a qualified TAA eligible employee (as 
defined in section 607(6)).’’. 
(B) QUALIFIED TAA ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEE 
DEFINED.—Section 607 of such Act (29 U.S.C. 
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1167) is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing new paragraph: 
‘‘(6) QUALIFIED TAA ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEE.— 
The term ‘qualified TAA eligible employee’ means a 
covered employee, with respect to a qualifying event, 
if— 
‘‘(A) the qualifying event is attributable to 
the conditions specified in section 222 of the 
Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2272) based on 
which the Secretary of Labor has certified a 
group of workers as eligible to apply for adjust-
ment assistance under subchapter A of chapter 
2 of title II of such Act; 
‘‘(B) such certification applies to the cov-
ered employee; and 
‘‘(C) as of the date of such qualifying 
event the covered employee has attained age 55 
or has completed 10 or more years of service 
with the employer.’’. 
(2) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENTS.—Section 
602(2)(A) of such Act (29 U.S.C. 1162(2)(A)) is 
further amended— 
(A) in clause (i), by striking ‘‘In the case 
of’’ and inserting ‘‘Subject to clause (vi), in the 
case of’’; and 
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(B) in clause (ii), by striking ‘‘If a quali-
fying event’’ and inserting ‘‘Subject to clause 
(vi), if a qualifying event’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.— 
(1) GENERAL RULE.—The amendments made 
by this section shall apply for plan years beginning 
on or after January 1, 2008. 
(2) SPECIAL
RULE
FOR
COLLECTIVE
BAR-
GAINING
AGREEMENTS.—In the case of a group 
health plan maintained pursuant to one or more col-
lective bargaining agreements between employee rep-
resentatives and one or more employers ratified be-
fore the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
amendments made by this section shall not apply to 
plan years beginning before the earlier of— 
(A) the later of— 
(i) the date on which the last of the 
collective bargaining agreements relating to 
the plan terminates (determined without 
regard to any extension thereof agreed to 
after the date of the enactment of this 
Act), or 
(ii) July 1, 2008, or 
(B) the date which is 3 years after the 
date of the enactment of this Act. 
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SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the provi-
sions of this Act, and the amendments made by this Act, 
shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act. 
Æ 
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