US Congress House Bill 1947 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 9-0)
Status: Introduced on April 22 2015 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2015-05-04 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
Pending: House Subcommittee on Trade Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

STRONGER Act of 2015 Supplemental Trade Review, Oversight, Noncompliance and General Enforcement Resources Act of 2015 Establishes in the U.S. Treasury the Trade Agreements Enforcement Trust Fund. Directs the Department of the Treasury to transfer to the Trust Fund an amount equal to $15 million of the countervailing duties and antidumping duties received in the Treasury for each fiscal year beginning after enactment of this Act. Limits the total amount of funds in the Trust Fund to $30 million. Authorizes the President to make sums in the Trust Fund available to: (1) the United States Trade Representative (USTR) to take specified actions relating to enforcement of free trade agreements; and (2) the USTR, the Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Department of Labor, and other departments and agencies with relevant expertise to take specified actions relating to implementation assistance and local capacity building under such agreements. Prohibits amounts made available in the Trust Fund from being used to negotiate any new free trade agreement. Directs the President to establish a permanent interagency committee to ensure that actions taken under under this Act relating to implementation assistance and local capacity building are effectively prioritized, targeted, coordinated, and implemented. Requires the United States to promote aid effectiveness and accountability through transparency, monitoring, evaluation, learning, and fostering local ownership and implementation of U.S. assistance through such activities by requiring the interagency committee to: (1) publish timely, comprehensive, and detailed information regarding such activities on a quarterly basis, consistent with the U.S. commitment to full compliance with the International Aid Transparency Initiative; (2) conduct evaluations that are independent, methodologically rigorous, made public in their entirety, and transmitted to the International Aid Transparency Initiative Registry; and (3) develop and implement procedures for ensuring that data and evaluation results inform decisionmaking and lead to the revision and promotion of best practices among relevant executive branch agencies.

STRONGER Act of 2015 Supplemental Trade Review, Oversight, Noncompliance and General Enforcement Resources Act of 2015

Rep. Earl Blumenauer [D-OR]	Rep. Ron Kind [D-WI]	Rep. Richard Neal [D-MA]	Rep. Mike Thompson [D-CA]
Rep. John Larson [D-CT]	Rep. Linda Sanchez [D-CA]	Rep. Jim McDermott [D-WA]	Rep. Rick Larsen [D-WA]
Rep. James Himes [D-CT]

Date	Chamber	Action
2015-05-04	House	Referred to the Subcommittee on Trade.
2015-04-22	House	Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
2015-04-22	House	Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E552)
2015-04-22	House	Introduced in House

HB644 (Related) 2016-02-24 - Became Public Law No: 114-125. (TXT | PDF)
SB1269 (Related) 2015-05-13 - By Senator Hatch from Committee on Finance filed written report. Report No. 114-45.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1947/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/114/bills/hr1947/BILLS-114hr1947ih.pdf