To modify the eligibility requirements for trade adjustment assistance.

SA 642. Mr. HATCH submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 633 submitted by Mr. Casey (for himself, Mr. Brown of
Ohio, and Mr. Baucus) to the bill H.R. 2832, to extend the Generalized
System of Preferences, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie
on the table; as follows:

On page 31 of the amendment, between lines 6 and 7, insert
the following:

SEC. 224. MODIFICATION OF TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE
ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS.

(a) Trade Adjustment Assistance for Workers.--Section 222
of the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2272), as amended by
section 211(a), is further amended--
(1) in subsection (a)(2)--
(A) in subparagraph (A)(iii), by striking ``contributed
importantly to such workers' separation or threat of
separation and to'' and inserting ``was a substantial cause
of such workers' separation or threat of separation and of'';
and
(B) in subparagraph (B)(ii), by striking ``contributed
importantly to'' and inserting ``was a substantial cause
of'';
(2) in paragraph (3)(B) of subsection (b), as redesignated
by section 211(a), by striking ``contributed importantly to''
and inserting ``was a substantial cause of''; and
(3) in subsection (c), as redesignated and amended by
section 211(a), by striking paragraph (1) and redesignating
paragraphs (2) through (4) as paragraphs (1) through (3),
respectively.
(b) Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms.--Section 251 of
the Trade Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2341) is amended--
(1) in subsection (c)--
(A) in paragraph (1)(C), by striking ``contributed
importantly to such total or partial separation, or threat
thereof, and to'' and inserting ``were a substantial cause of
such total or partial separation, or threat thereof, and
of''; and
(B) in paragraph (2)--
(i) by striking subparagraph (A);
(ii) by striking ``(B)''; and
(iii) by redesignating clauses (i) and (ii) as
subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively, and moving such
subparagraphs, as so redesignated, 2 ems to the left.
(c) Trade Adjustment Assistance for Farmers.--
(1) In general.--Section 292(c)(3) of the Trade Act of 1974
(19 U.S.C. 2401a(c)(3)) is

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amended by striking ``contributed importantly to'' and
inserting ``was a substantial cause of''.
(2) Conforming amendment.--Section 291 of the Trade Act of
1974 (19 U.S.C. 2401) is amended by striking paragraph (3)
and redesignating paragraphs (4) through (7) as paragraphs
(3) through (6), respectively.
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