lcalvobartolome/proxann_data huggingface dataset:
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Labor and employment
Date: 2007-10-04 00:00:00

Workforce Investment Improvement Act of 2007 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) to revise requirements and reauthorize appropriations for: (1) WIA title I, workforce investment systems for job training and employment services; and (2) WIA title II, adult basic skills and family literacy education programs (renamed as the Adult Education, Basic Skills, and Family Literacy Education Act). Revises and reauthorizes workforce investment systems with respect to: (1) state and local planning, allocation, work force investment board membership, and performance accountability; (2) one-stop centers; (3) consolidated funding for adult program activities, including job training, dislocated worker retraining, the employment service system, and reemployment grants; (4) training programs for both out-of-school and in-school youth, including challenge grants; and (5) national job training programs, including the Job Corps and programs for Native Americans, migrant and seasonal farmworkers, and veterans. Exempts religious organizations, with respect to their employment of individuals of a particular religion, from WIA nondiscrimination requirements. Sets forth provisions for the approval of state Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) plans for the carrying out of certain workforce development activities. Repeals Wagner-Peyser Act provisions relating to the U.S. Employment Service. Revises requirements and reauthorizes appropriations for: (1) vocational rehabilitation services under the Rehabilitation Act of 1973; and (2) the Helen Keller National Center Act.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Labor and employment
Date: 2007-10-10 00:00:00

Early Warning and Health Care for Workers Affected by Globalization Act - Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (the Act) to redefine the terms "employer," "plant closing," "mass layoff", and "employees" for purposes of the Act. Requires an employer to: (1) give 90-day written notice (under current law, 60-day) to employees (including part-time employees) and appropriate state and local governments before ordering a plant closing or mass layoff; (2) notify the Secretary of Labor (Secretary) of such closing or layoff; and (3) provide affected employees with information regarding benefits and services available to them, including unemployment compensation, trade adjustment assistance, COBRA benefits, and certain other services. Requires the Secretary to notify the appropriate U.S. Senators and Members of the House of Representatives who represent the area where such closing or mass layoff is to occur. Makes an employer who violates such notice requirements liable to the employee for, among other things, two days pay (under current law, back pay for each day of violation) multiplied by the number of days short of the required 90 day notice that was not given, including interest on such pay. Authorizes an affected employee to file a complaint against the employer individually and/or with the Secretary alleging a violation of the notice requirements. Requires the Secretary to investigate and attempt to resolve complaints of violations committed by an employer. Authorizes the Secretary to bring an action in court to recover on behalf of an affected employee any backpay, interest, benefits, and liquidated damages due to the employee. Requires an employer to post conspicuously upon its premises pertinent provisions of this Act and information on the filing of a complaint. Sets forth a civil penalty for willful violation of such requirement. Provides that the rights and remedies provided in this Act can't be waived. Requires the Secretary to maintain a guide on the benefits and services available to affected employees. Amends the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to extend COBRA continuation coverage for certain qualified Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) eligible employees.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Labor and employment
Date: 2007-11-01 00:00:00

Private Sector Whistleblower Protection Streamlining Act of 2007 - Sets forth whistleblower protections for private sector, state, and municipal employees who are retaliated or discriminated against by an employer for disclosing threats to public safety or violations of federal law. Authorizes a whistleblower who has been discharged or discriminated against by an employer to seek appropriate relief either by: (1) filing a complaint with the Secretary of Labor; or (2) bringing an action at law or equity in the appropriate U.S. district court. Prohibits restrictions on whistleblowing and relief provided under this Act. Establishes the Whistleblower Protection Office within the Employment Standards Administration of the Department of Labor. Makes conforming whistleblower amendments to the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Labor and employment
Date: 2007-11-01 00:00:00

Gulf Coast Civic Works Act - Establishes the Gulf Coast Recovery Authority (Corporation). Requires the Corporation to: (1) administer a Gulf Coast Civic Works Project that employs a minimum of 100,000 Gulf Coast region residents and evacuees for public works projects to rebuild, sustain, and develop the Gulf Coast region; (2) establish job training programs and apprenticeships to recruit and train qualified workers, including from the Gulf Coast region, for specific vacancies in recovery, rebuilding, and development projects; and (3) ensure that all workers are paid wages at not less than the prevailing locality rate (Davis-Bacon Act). Authorizes the Corporation to provide grants to Gulf Coast region residents that possess certain skills for: (1) artistic and cultural projects which reflect the history and culture of the Gulf Coast region; and (2) projects that chronicle the story of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Transportation and public works
Date: 2007-11-01 00:00:00

Maximizing the Use of Federal Funds for Job Creation Act of 2007 - Authorizes a state with an unemployment rate equal to or greater than 125% of the national unemployment rate to transfer, without limitation, any Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) amounts apportioned to the state to any state apportionments for certain named federal-aid highway programs (except, amounts for highway safety improvement programs).
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Labor and employment
Date: 2008-01-23 00:00:00

Maximizing the Use of Federal Funds for Job Training Act - Authorizes states with unemployment rates that equal or exceed 125% of the national unemployment rate to consolidate or transfer, without limitation, any funds made available to them under specified job training programs.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Labor and employment
Date: 2008-04-10 00:00:00

Pathways Advancing Career Training Act - Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to make formula matching grants to states with approved plans for programs that provide preparatory and supportive services, information on career and technical education, training, pre-apprenticeship assistance, and related services, including tuition assistance, to: (1) single parents and displaced homemakers; and (2) individuals pursuing nontraditional training and employment in fields where individuals from one gender compose less than 25% of workers. Requires the Secretary, through the award of competitive grants, contracts, or cooperative agreements with an independent institution of higher education, public or private nonprofit organization, or state agency, to conduct at least one multi-site evaluation of such programs. Requires eligible state agencies to administer such programs, make competitive subgrants to eligible entities, and identify certain core indicators of performance.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Housing and community development
Date: 2008-05-12 00:00:00

Prohibits any individual from purchasing or leasing any housing (or any dwelling unit in housing) acquired using federal loan or grant funds Congress appropriates for the purchase and rehabilitation of foreclosed housing under the Neighborhood Stabilization Act of 2008, if he or she has been convicted under federal or state law of a felony drug-dealing offense (within the five-year period preceding the purchase or lease transaction date), a sex offense, or mortgage fraud.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Housing and community development
Date: 2008-05-20 00:00:00

Requires the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, upon the request of a public housing agency (PHA) which has a Moving to Work agreement (under the demonstration program authorized by the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1996), to extend it for a 12-month period under such terms as are or were in effect upon the agreement's expiration. Provides that, for a PHA that previously received an extension of its agreement and entered into a subsequent agreement after January 1, 2008, the Secretary shall, upon the PHA's request, invalidate such subsequent agreement and extend any agreement that was in effect as of such date also for a 12-month period under such terms as were in effect as of that date. Prohibits the Secretary from extending a Moving to Work agreement if a PHA is noncompliant with its agreement's terms. Expresses the sense of Congress that the maximum number of PHAs authorized to participate in the Moving to Work demonstration program should not be expanded until the demonstration program has been reformed and permanently authorized through enactment of a federal law.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Energy
Date: 2008-05-22 00:00:00

End the Pain at the Pump Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to: (1) allow an excise tax credit between June 1, 2008, and May 30, 2011, for individuals commuting to work in a vehicle fueled primarily by gasoline or diesel fuel; (2) treat the income of partners performing investment management services as ordinary income and set forth tax rules for the treatment of partnership acquisition indebtedness and other partnership interests; and (3) require the inclusion in gross income for income tax purposes of employee compensation deferred under a nonqualified deferred compensation plan of a nonqualified entity when there is no substantial risk of forfeiture of the rights to such compensation.Refinery Permit Process Schedule Act - Authorizes the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), upon request of a state governor, to provide financial assistance to hire additional personnel with expertise in federal refinery authorizations.Directs the President to: (1) appoint a federal coordinator to implement federal refinery authorizations; and (2) designate certain closed military installations as potentially suitable refinery construction sites.Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish and implement a competitive oil and gas leasing program in the Coastal Plain of Alaska.Repeals the prohibition against producing oil and gas from the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.Sets forth requirements for the sale of oil and natural gas leases in the Coastal Plain, environmental protection, and transportation easements. Establishes the Coastal Plain Local Government Impact Aid Assistance Fund to provide financial assistance to specified jurisdictions in Alaska.Deep Ocean Energy Resources Act of 2008 - Amends the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act (OCSLA) to revise the outer Continental Shelf leasing program.Federal Energy Natural Resources Enhancement Act of 2008 - Authorizes appropriations for a natural resources enhancement program for the management of fish, wildlife, and natural resources. Terminates existing federal laws prohibiting the spending of appropriated funds to conduct oil and natural gas leasing or the issuance of a lease to any individual for any area of the outer Continental Shelf.Rigs to Reefs Act of 2008 - Amends the OCSLA to authorize the Secretary to use decommissioned offshore oil and gas platforms for artificial reef and scientific research.Allows the cancellation and exchange of certain oil and gas leases within 100 miles of the coastline within the California or Florida Adjacent Zones.Repeals: (1) the requirement to conduct a comprehensive inventory of outer Continental Shelf oil and natural gas resources; (2) the coastal impact assistance program; and (3) the Oil Shale, Tar Sands, and Other Strategic Unconventional Fuels Act of 2005.Amends the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 to repeal emission requirements with respect to the procurement and acquisition of alternative fuels.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Labor and employment
Date: 2008-06-10 00:00:00

Green Jobs Improvement Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to make nonunion training programs eligible for federal funding under the energy efficiency and renewable energy worker training program (Green Jobs program). Applies certain worker protections and nondiscrimination requirements to such programs.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Labor and employment
Date: 2008-06-12 00:00:00

Online Job Training Act of 2008 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to direct the Secretary of Labor to make: (1) grants to states to assist them in implementing workforce investment programs that enable individuals to take courses on the Internet to enhance employment opportunities within the state workforce investment system; and (2) a grant to an eligible postsecondary educational institution to provide technical assistance to such states in implementing such programs.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2008-07-08 00:00:00

Amends the Trade Act of 1974 to require the Secretary of Labor to certify an adversely affected secondary group of workers in a subdivision of a firm as eligible to apply for trade adjustment assistance (TAA) if the Secretary determines that: (1) a significant number of workers have become, or are threatened to become, totally or partially separated; (2) the workers' subdivision is a seller of articles of the firm (or another subdivision) that employed a group of workers who received a certification of TAA eligibility and such sales are related to the article that was the basis for such certification; and (3) a loss of business by the workers' subdivision with the firm (or another subdivision) contributed to the workers' separation or threat of separation.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Labor and employment
Date: 2008-07-29 00:00:00

Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to authorize appropriations for FY2010-FY2017 for activities under the youth employment, adult employment and training, and dislocated worker employment and training programs.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Labor and employment
Date: 2008-08-01 00:00:00

Incumbent Worker Development Act of 2008 - Requires the Secretary of Labor to establish a program of grants to states to assist employers to provide incumbent worker training to enhance the knowledge and skills of an employee in order to improve his or her job performance.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Housing and community development
Date: 2008-08-01 00:00:00

Metro Economies Green Act or MEGA - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish a metro area green zone grant program to make grants to local government units to support and establish green job programs that: (1) target low-income, difficult-to-employ, and formerly incarcerated persons; and (2) involve local business, academia, trade associations, nonprofits, and other stakeholders in energy-efficient economic development and green job training and creation. Authorizes the Secretary also to establish competitive programs to make grants to local government units to support and establish: (1) a similar mini-metro green program that engages smaller communities in green economic and workforce development; and (2) an alternative green academies program that provides green job training, employment opportunities, and other life skills to high school dropouts, formerly incarcerated youth, and individuals unable to attend traditional institutions of higher education. Directs the Secretary to select one unit of general local government or nonprofit organization designated by such a unit to establish and operate a Metro Area Green Institute to serve as a national resource center to support municipally based, green economic and workforce development efforts.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Government operations and politics
Date: 2008-08-01 00:00:00

Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1988 to authorize a federal agency to make noncompetitive appointments of Job Corps graduates that lead to conversion to career or career-conditional employment.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Date: 2008-09-25 00:00:00

Tax Incentives for Growth, Expansion and Revitalization Act of 2008 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow employers in a high-job loss area a tax deduction for 50% of the income attributable to trade or business activities conducted in such area. Designates an area as a high-job loss area based upon standards relating to employment, annual payroll, and business establishments. Makes such tax deduction applicable to taxable years beginning after December 31, 2008, and before January 1, 2014.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Taxation
Date: 2007-01-10 00:00:00

Encouraging Work Act of 2007 - Amends Internal Revenue Code provisions relating to the combined work opportunity and welfare-to-work tax credit to: (1) make such credit permanent; (2) make individuals age 18 through 39 residing in an empowerment zone, enterprise community, or renewal community (designated community residents) eligible for such credit; (3) allow vocational rehabilitation referrals under such credit after completion of certain individual work plans; and (4) allow an increased credit for the hiring of certain veterans with service-connected disabilities incurred after September 10, 2001.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: International affairs
Date: 2007-02-13 00:00:00

Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) Congress and the American people will continue to support and protect U.S. Armed Forces members who are serving or who have served bravely and honorably in Iraq; and (2) Congress disapproves of President George W. Bush's decision announced on January 10, 2007, to deploy more than 20,000 additional U.S. combat troops to Iraq. Amends the United States Policy in Iraq Act to require reports every 30 days on specified aspects of U.S. policy and military operations in Iraq until all U.S. combat brigades have been redeployed from Iraq.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Foreign trade and international finance
Date: 2007-02-13 00:00:00

Border Infrastructure and Technology Modernization Act of 2007 - Directs the Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security (Under Secretary) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to: (1) increase, during FY2008-FY2012, the number of agents and inspectors in the Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement of the DHS; and (2) provide such agents and inspectors new technology training to a level of proficiency acceptable to protect U.S. borders. Directs the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to update, and submit to Congress, the Port of Entry Infrastructure Assessment Study. Directs the Under Secretary to prepare annually, and submit to Congress, a National Land Border Security Plan that includes a vulnerability assessment of each port of entry located on the U.S. northern and southern borders. Authorizes the Under Secretary to establish one or more port security coordinators at such ports of entry. Directs the Commissioner of the United States Customs and Border Protection of the DHS to: (1) develop a plan to expand Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism programs along the U.S. northern and southern borders; and (2) establish a demonstration program to develop a cooperative trade security system to improve supply chain security. Directs the Under Secretary to carry out a technology demonstration program to test and evaluate new port of entry technologies that enhance port of entry inspections and the detection of weapons of mass destruction, and to train personnel in its use.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Labor and employment
Date: 2007-07-16 00:00:00

FOREWARN Act of 2007 - Amends the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (the Act) to to revise the terms "employer," "plant closing," and "mass layoff" for purposes of the Act. Requires an employer to: (1) give 90-day written notice (under current law, 60-day) to employees and appropriate state and local governments before ordering a plant closing or mass layoff; and (2) notify the Secretary of Labor within 60 days of such closing or layoff (including the number of employees involved). Makes an employer who violates such notice requirements liable to the employee for double the back pay (under current law, for back pay) for each day of the violation for up to 90 days (under current law, 60 days). Authorizes the Secretary to bring a civil action on behalf of one or more employees for certain relief under the Act. Directs the Secretary to make educational materials concerning employee rights and employer responsibilities available to the general public and employers.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Labor and employment
Date: 2008-02-14 00:00:00

Supporting Training and Employment Potential for Underemployed Populations Act, or the STEP UP Act - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to revise Youth Opportunity Grant Program requirements to direct the Secretary of Labor to make grants to local boards and eligible entities to carry out programs that provide job training and employment activities and related services to youth and young adults (allows up to 25% of funds to be made available for hard-to-serve young adults) as defined in this Act who live in empowerment zones, enterprise communities, or high poverty areas. Earned Income Tax Credit Enhancement Act of 2007 - Amends provisions of the Internal Revenue Code (IRC) to revise requirements with respect to the earned income tax credit, including to increase the maximum earned income tax credit amount for certain taxpayers without qualifying children. Allows the unused portion of an eligible taxpayer's standard deduction and personal exemption deductions that exceeds his or her adjusted gross income to be carried back to the preceding taxable year and carried forward to each of the two taxable years following the unused deduction year. Allows an employment tax credit and an advanced employment tax credit of $500, respectively, for members of targeted groups as defined under the IRC. Expands the work opportunity credit for employers who hire: (1) a youth opportunity program participant; (2) a qualified Workforce Investment Act (WIA) youth activity participant; or (3) a qualified young offender. Allows an additional work opportunity credit of $500 for each retained employee of a targeted group.
Topic: Labor — Employment Training
Subject: Labor and employment
Date: 2008-03-11 00:00:00

Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development Act of 2008 - Amends the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 to provide for: (1) preparation and approval of state Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) plans for carrying out certain workforce development activities; (2) the integration of workforce development programs and community and economic development programs included as part of an approved plan; and (3) the award of supplementary grants to entities to implement approved WIRED plans and to states to carry out WIRED activities.