[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3425 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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118th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 3425
To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to establish a Resilient
Communities Program to provide communities impacted by trade with
grants for economic development, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
December 6, 2023
Ms. Baldwin (for herself and Mr. Cassidy) introduced the following
bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Environment
and Public Works
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A BILL
To authorize the Secretary of Commerce to establish a Resilient
Communities Program to provide communities impacted by trade with
grants for economic development, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Resilient Communities Act of 2023''.
SEC. 2. RESILIENT COMMUNITIES PROGRAM.
(a) Award of Grants.--The Secretary of Commerce shall establish a
program to be known as the Resilient Communities Program under which
the Secretary may award grants to eligible recipients representing
affected communities--
(1) to encourage the continued production of certain goods
in those communities, including the employment of individuals
involved in the production of those goods; or
(2) for the conduct of economic development in those
communities.
(b) Uses of Funds.--
(1) Subsequent grants.--An eligible recipient awarded a
grant under subsection (a) may use the amount of the grant to
award subsequent grants to covered domestic producers in
affected communities.
(2) Priority.--An eligible recipient in an affected
community shall prioritize the award of subsequent grants under
paragraph (1) to covered domestic producers that are determined
by the eligible recipient to be most likely to increase
production and employment at a facility of the covered domestic
producer located within the affected community as a result of
the grant provided.
(3) Economic development.--If there is no covered domestic
producer in an affected community, an eligible recipient
representing that community that is in receipt of a grant under
subsection (a) shall use the amounts awarded under that grant
for economic development within that community.
(c) Resilient Communities Fund.--
(1) Establishment.--There is established in the Treasury of
the United States a trust fund (to be known as the ``Resilient
Communities Fund''), consisting of--
(A) amounts transferred to the trust fund under
paragraph (2); and
(B) any amounts that may be credited to the trust
fund under paragraph (3).
(2) Transfer of amounts.--
(A) In general.--The Secretary of the Treasury
shall transfer to the trust fund established under
paragraph (1), from the general fund of the Treasury,
for fiscal year 2024 and each fiscal year thereafter,
an amount equivalent to the amount received into the
general fund during that fiscal year and attributable
to duties collected pursuant to an antidumping or
countervailing duty order under title VII of the Tariff
Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671 et seq.).
(B) Frequency of transfers.--The Secretary of the
Treasury shall transfer amounts required by
subparagraph (A) to be transferred to the trust fund
established under paragraph (1) not less frequently
than quarterly.
(3) Investment of amounts.--
(A) Investment of amounts.--The Secretary of the
Treasury shall invest such portion of the trust fund
established under paragraph (1) as is not required to
meet current withdrawals in interest-bearing
obligations of the United States or in obligations
guaranteed as to both principal and interest by the
United States.
(B) Interest and proceeds.--The interest on, and
the proceeds from the sale or redemption of, any
obligations held in the trust fund established under
paragraph (1) shall be credited to and form a part of
the trust fund.
(4) Availability of amounts in trust fund.--Amounts in the
trust fund established under paragraph (1) shall be available
to the Secretary of Commerce, as provided in advance in an
appropriations Act, to award grants to eligible recipients
under subsection (a).
(d) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Affected community.--The term ``affected community''
means an area in which a domestic producer or worker located in
that area has experienced an injury from trade.
(2) Covered domestic producer.--The term ``covered domestic
producer'' means a domestic producer who can provide recent
evidence of any of the following:
(A) A significant idling of production facilities,
plant closings, or underutilization of productive
capacity of the producer.
(B) The inability of the producer to carry out
production operations in the United States at a
reasonable level of profit.
(C) A decline in sales or market share, higher or
growing inventory, or a downward trend in production,
profits, wages, productivity, or employment of the
producer.
(D) Difficulty of the producer in generating
adequate capital to finance the modernization of
plants, property, or equipment in the United States.
(E) The inability of the producer to maintain
existing levels for research and development.
(3) Domestic producer.--The term ``domestic producer''
means a United States person that produces a good within the
United States.
(4) Economic development.--The term ``economic
development'' means--
(A) improving workforce development;
(B) building public infrastructure;
(C) improving access to health care, social
services, healthy food, or education;
(D) complying with environmental standards set
forth by the Federal Government;
(E) building affordable housing; or
(F) expanding access to broadband.
(5) Eligible recipient.--The term ``eligible recipient''
means a political subdivision of a State in which an affected
community is located.
(6) Injury from trade.--The term ``injury from trade''
means--
(A) an injury that has been determined to have
occurred by the United States International Trade
Commission--
(i) in the course of an investigation by
the Commission into dumping or subsidization
under section 701 or 731 of the Tariff Act of
1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671 and 1673); or
(ii) under section 202(b) of the Trade Act
of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2252(b));
(B) with respect to a domestic producer or a worker
at a workplace of that producer, the Secretary of
Commerce determines that--
(i) a significant number or proportion of
the workers at that workplace have become
totally or partially separated, or are
threatened to become totally or partially
separated; and
(ii)(I)(aa) the sales or production, or
both, of that producer have decreased
absolutely at that workplace;
(bb)(AA) imports of articles or services
like or directly competitive with articles
produced or services supplied by that producer
at that workplace have increased;
(BB) imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles into which one or
more component parts produced by that producer
at that workplace are incorporated have
increased;
(CC) imports of articles like or directly
competitive with articles that are produced
using services supplied by that producer at
that workplace have increased; or
(DD) imports of articles incorporating one
or more component parts produced outside the
United States that are like or directly
competitive with imports of articles
incorporating one or more component parts
produced by that producer at that workplace
have increased; and
(cc) the increase in imports described in
item (bb) contributed importantly to the
separation or threat of separation by workers
at that workplace and to the decline in the
sales or production of that producer at that
workplace; or
(II)(aa)(AA) there has been a shift by that
producer to a foreign country in the production
of articles or the supply of services like or
directly competitive with articles that are
produced or services that are supplied by that
producer at that workplace; or
(BB) that producer has acquired from a
foreign country articles or services that are
like or directly competitive with articles that
are produced or services that are supplied by
that producer at that workplace; and
(bb) the shift described in item (aa)(AA)
or the acquisition of articles or services
described in item (aa)(BB) contributed
importantly to the separation or threat of
separation by workers at that workplace; or
(C) any other trade-related injury to a domestic
producer or worker as determined by the Secretary of
Commerce.
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