I 
110TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3920 
To amend the Trade Act of 1974 to reauthorize trade adjustment assistance, 
to extend trade adjustment assistance to service workers and firms, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 22, 2007 
Mr. RANGEL (for himself, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. GEORGE MIL-
LER of California, Mr. SMITH of Washington, Mr. STARK, Mr. NEAL of 
Massachusetts, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Mr. MCNULTY, Mr. BECERRA, 
Mr. POMEROY, Mrs. JONES of Ohio, Mr. THOMPSON of California, Mr. 
LARSON of Connecticut, Mr. EMANUEL, Mr. BLUMENAUER, Mr. KIND, 
Mr. PASCRELL, Ms. BERKLEY, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. 
MEEK
of Florida, Ms. SCHWARTZ, Mr. DAVIS
of Alabama, Mrs. 
TAUSCHER, Mr. BAIRD, Mr. BISHOP of New York, Mr. MICHAUD, Ms. 
WASSERMAN SCHULTZ, Mr. COURTNEY, Mr. HARE, and Mr. SESTAK) in-
troduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways 
and Means, and in addition to the Committees on Education and Labor 
and Energy and Commerce, for a period to be subsequently determined 
by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
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 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. 
Sec. 114. Restriction on eligibility for program benefits. 
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. 
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. Agreements with States. 
Sec. 162. Fraud and recovery of overpayments. 
Sec. 163. Technical amendments. 
Sec. 164. Office of Trade Adjustment Assistance; Deputy Assistant Secretary 
for Trade Adjustment Assistance. 
Sec. 165. Collection of data and reports; information to workers. 
Sec. 166. Extension of TAA program. 
Sec. 167. Judicial review. 
Sec. 168. 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. 
TITLE III—UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE 
Sec. 301. Short title. 
Sec. 302. Special transfers to State accounts in the Unemployment Trust 
Fund. 
Sec. 303. Extension of FUTA tax. 
TITLE IV—MANUFACTURING REDEVELOPMENT ZONES 
Sec. 401. Manufacturing redevelopment zones. 
Sec. 402. Delay in application of worldwide interest allocation. 
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. 
(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-
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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-
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. 
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(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 
trade adjustment assistance program must be re-
formed. 
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TITLE I—TRADE ADJUSTMENT 
ASSISTANCE FOR WORKERS 
Subtitle A—Trade Adjustment As-
sistance 
for 
Service 
Sector 
Workers; Expansion of Covered 
Shifts in Production; Expansion 
of 
Downstream 
Secondary 
Worker Eligibility 
SEC. 101. EXTENSION OF TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE 
TO SERVICES SECTOR; SHIFTS IN PRODUC-
TION. 
(a) PETITIONS.—Section 221(a) of the Trade Act of 
1974 (19 U.S.C. 2271(a)(1)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) in the matter preceding subparagraph 
(A)— 
(i) by striking ‘‘Secretary’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘Secretary of Labor’’; and 
(ii) by striking ‘‘or subdivision’’ and 
inserting (or subdivision) or public agency 
(or subdivision); and 
(B) in subparagraph (A), by striking 
‘‘firm)’’ and inserting ‘‘firm, and workers in a 
service sector firm or subdivision of a service 
sector firm, or public agency)’’; and 
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(2) in paragraph (3), by inserting ‘‘and on the 
Website of the Department of Labor’’ after ‘‘Federal 
Register’’. 
(b) GROUP ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Subsection (a) of section 
222 of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2272) is 
amended— 
(A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), 
by striking ‘‘(including workers in any agricul-
tural firm or subdivision of an agricultural 
firm)’’ and inserting ‘‘(other than workers in a 
public agency)’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2)— 
(i) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by strik-
ing ‘‘like or directly competitive with arti-
cles produced’’ and inserting ‘‘or services 
like or directly competitive with articles 
produced or services provided’’; and 
(ii) by striking subparagraph (B) and 
inserting the following: 
‘‘(B)(i) there has been a shift, by such 
workers’ firm or subdivision to a foreign coun-
try, of production of articles, or in provision of 
services, like or directly competitive with arti-
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cles that are produced, or services that are pro-
vided, 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 
‘‘(2) the public agency or subdivision has ob-
tained or is likely to obtain from a foreign country 
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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— 
(A) by striking ‘‘(d) For purposes of this 
section—’’ and inserting ‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS 
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