Rural America Job Assistance and Creation Act

Bill: 108-hr-137
Sponsor: Rep. McHugh, John M. [R-NY-23]
Introduced: 2003-01-07 in the House
Policy area: Economics and Public Finance
Subjects: Admission of nonimmigrants
Advertising
Alien labor
Apprenticeship
Business education
Commerce
Community colleges
Curricula
Dislocated workers
Education
Employee training
Enterprise zones
Entrepreneurs
Federal-state relations
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Grants-in-aid
High technology
Higher education
Immigration
Income tax
Industry-university relations
Intellectual property
Internet
Labor and Employment
Labor unions
Law
Legal services
Marketing
Nonprofit organizations
Plant shutdowns
Public-private partnerships
Regional planning
Science, Technology, Communications
Severance pay
Small business
Social Welfare
Strategic planning
Tax credits
Tax exclusion
Taxation
Technical education
Vocational and technical education
Wages

Summary:
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Rural America Job Assistance and Creation Act - Directs the Secretary of Labor to make matching grants to regional consortia meeting specified criteria to improve the job skills necessary for employment in specific industries.
Directs the Secretary of Commerce to provide financial assistance, through grants, for the establishment and support of entities that provide business incubator services (necessary for the initiation and initial sustainment of operations of a newly established business, including legal, intellectual property, and technology services and planning) for small- and medium-sized businesses.
Directs the Comptroller General to study how rural infrastructure, venture capital, and Federal programs can enhance rural areas.
Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act to require employer notification of Federal and State elected officials (as well as local ones) prior to dislocation of workers.
Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to require submission of H-1B labor condition applications at same time as H-1B nonimmigrant classification petitions.
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) exclude certain amounts of severance payments from gross income; and (2) expand the work opportunity tax credit to include qualified small business employees.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-03-06
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security, and Claims.
action_date: 2003-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on 21st Century Competitiveness.
action_date: 2003-03-03
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Workforce Protections.
action_date: 2003-02-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Domestic and International Monetary Policy, Trade, and Technology, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Chairman.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Judiciary, and Financial Services, 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.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Judiciary, and Financial Services, 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.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Judiciary, and Financial Services, 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.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Judiciary, and Financial Services, 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.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on Ways and Means, the Judiciary, and Financial Services, 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.
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-01-07
text: Introduced in House