117th CONGRESS 2d Session |
To establish a climate resilience workforce, and for other purposes.
Ms. Jayapal (for herself, Ms. Barrag n, Ms. Bass, Mr. Blumenauer, Mr. Bowman, Ms. Bush, Mr. Carson, Ms. Clarke of New York, Mr. Cleaver, Mr. Connolly, Ms. Escobar, Mr. Garc a of Illinois, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Huffman, Mr. Johnson of Georgia, Mr. Jones, Ms. Lee of California, Mr. Levin of Michigan, Mrs. Carolyn B. Maloney of New York, Mr. Nadler, Mrs. Napolitano, Ms. Newman, Ms. Norton, Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, Ms. Pressley, Ms. Schakowsky, Mr. Smith of Washington, Mr. Suozzi, Mr. Takano, Ms. Tlaib, and Mrs. Watson Coleman) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Oversight and Reform, the Judiciary, Transportation and Infrastructure, Ways and Means, Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Financial Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
To establish a climate resilience workforce, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
This Act may be cited as the Climate Resilience Workforce Act .
The table of contents for this Act is as follows:
In this Act:
(1) APPRENTICE. The term apprentice means a participant in an apprenticeship program.
(2) APPRENTICESHIP PROGRAM. The term apprenticeship program means an apprenticeship registered under the Act of August 16, 1937 (commonly known as the National Apprenticeship Act 50 Stat. 664, chapter 663; 29 U.S.C. 50 et seq.) that meets the standards of subpart A of part 29 and part 30 of title 29, Code of Federal Regulations (or any successor regulations on registered programs).
(3) CLIMATE RESILIENCE. The term climate resilience
(A) means the ability and capacity of social, economic, and environmental systems, organized as natural ecosystems and human communities, to anticipate, prepare for, adapt to, respond to, and recover from hazardous events, trends, or disturbances related to climate change; and
(B) includes the ability to engage in an iterative process of
(i) assessing how climate change will create new, or alter current climate related risks, and how such risks are distributed within and across natural ecosystems and human communities, including
(I) for human communities, risks shall be assessed by geography, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, health and other demographic and social factors, as applicable; and
(II) for natural ecosystems, risks shall be assessed by geography, species and ecosystem services, as applicable;
(ii) identifying human populations, animal and plant species, ecosystem services and habitats that face disproportionate risks and impacts of climate change, including
(I) for human populations, identifying risks due to historic and ongoing systemic racism, economic inequity, and environmental degradation and pollution; and
(II) for natural species and ecosystem services, identifying risks due to environmental degradation, pollution and other anthropogenic impacts;
(iii) working to address the root causes that lead the entities identified in clause (ii) to be disproportionately vulnerable to the risks and impacts of climate change; and
(iv) prioritizing the natural species, ecosystem services and human populations identified in clause (ii) in taking steps to
(I) mitigate climate change by addressing its causes and impacts to the greatest extent possible as quickly as possible;
(II) prepare for and adapt to the unavoidable impacts of climate change by ensuring that effective risk reduction and management and adaptation strategies can be implemented and maintained; and
(III) recover from and rebuild after climate disasters in ways that minimize future risks and increase the ability of natural ecosystems and human communities to face future risks with less harm.
(4) CO-OPERATIVE. The term co-operative has the meaning given such term in section 1381 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
(5) COMMUNITY OF COLOR. The term community of color means a census block group or series of geographically contiguous blocks in which the population of any of the following categories of individuals, individually or in combination, comprises 30 percent or more of the population of persons in the census block group or series of geographically contiguous blocks:
(A) Black.
(B) African American.
(C) Asian.
(D) Pacific Islander.
(E) Other non-White race.
(F) Hispanic.
(G) Latino.
(H) Linguistically isolated.
(6) COVERED PROJECT LABOR AGREEMENT. The term covered project labor agreement means a project labor agreement that
(A) binds all contractors and subcontractors on the project through the inclusion of appropriate specifications in all relevant solicitation provisions and contract documents;
(B) allows all contractors and subcontractors to compete for contracts and subcontracts without regard to whether they are otherwise a party to a collective bargaining agreement;
(C) contains guarantees against strikes, lockouts, and other similar job disruptions;
(D) sets forth effective, prompt, and mutually binding procedures for resolving labor disputes arising during the covered project labor agreement; and
(E) provides other mechanisms for labor-management cooperation on matters of mutual interest and concern, including productivity, quality of work, safety, and health.
(7) DIRECTOR. The term Director means the director of the Office of Climate Resilience established under section 4 of this Act.
(8) FRONTLINE COMMUNITY. The term frontline community means
(A) a community or population that, due to systemic racial or economic injustice, has been made vulnerable to experience disproportionate exposure to environmental hazards, including