REPORT ON EMPLOYMENT AND TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE.

SEC. 401. REPORT ON EMPLOYMENT AND TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE. (a) In General.—Not later than 9 months after the date of the enactment of this section, the Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to Congress a report regarding the efficiency and effectiveness of Federal and State coordination of employment and retraining activities associated with the following programs and legislation: (1) Trade adjustment assistance (including NAFTA trade adjustment assistance) provided for under title II of the Trade Act of 1974. (2) The Job Training Partnership Act. (3) The Workforce Investment Act of 1998. (4) Unemployment insurance. (b) Period Covered.—The report shall cover the activities involved in the programs and legislation listed in subsection (a) from January 1, 1994, to December 31, 1999. (c) Data and Recommendations.—The report shall at a minimum include specific data and recommendations regarding— (1) the compatibility of program requirements related to the employment and retraining of dislocated workers in the United States, with particular emphasis on the trade adjustment assistance programs provided for under title II of the Trade Act of 1974; (2) the compatibility of application procedures related to the employment and retraining of dislocated workers in the United States; (3) the capacity of the programs in addressing foreign trade and the transfer of production to other countries on workers in the United States measured in terms of loss of employment and wages; (4) the capacity of the programs in addressing foreign trade and the transfer of production to other countries on secondary workers in the United States measured in terms of loss of employment and wages; (5) how the impact of foreign trade and the transfer of production to other countries would have changed the number of beneficiaries covered under the trade adjustment assistance program if the trade adjustment assistance program covered secondary workers in the United States; and (6) the effectiveness of the programs described in subsection (a) in achieving reemployment of United States workers and 114 STAT. 291 maintaining wage levels of United States workers who have been dislocated as a result of foreign trade and the transfer of production to other countries.