Improved Access to Trade Adjustment Assistance Act
This bill expands eligibility for trade adjustment assistance, which is federal aid provided to workers who lose their jobs or whose hours of work and wages are reduced as a result of increased imports.
Specifically, the bill makes workers of a firm with sales or production that failed to increase or will decrease absolutely due to a scheduled or imminently anticipated, long-term decrease in or reallocation of the production capacity of the firm eligible for trade adjustment assistance. Currently, this assistance is only available if a firm's sales or production have decreased absolutely.
To amend the Trade Act of 1974 to modify the group eligibility 
  requirements under trade adjustment assistance for workers program.

    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 ``Improved Access to Trade Adjustment 
Assistance Act''.

SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF GROUP ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS UNDER TRADE 
              ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE FOR WORKERS PROGRAM.

    (a) In General.--Section 222(a)(2)(A)(i) of the Trade Act of 1974 
(19 U.S.C. 2272(a)(2)(A)(i)) is amended by adding at the end before the 
semicolon the following: ``, failed to increase, or will decrease 
absolutely due to a scheduled or imminently anticipated, long-term 
decrease in or reallocation of the production capacity of the firm''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) applies 
with respect to petitions filed under section 221 of the Trade Act of 
1974 (19 U.S.C. 2271) on or after the date of the enactment of this 
Act.
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Improved Access to Trade Adjustment Assistance Act
To amend the Trade Act of 1974 to modify the group eligibility requirements under trade adjustment assistance for workers program.
Improved Access to Trade Adjustment Assistance Act
Rep. Pascrell, Bill, Jr.