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Pennsylvania Industrial Jobs and Legacy Corridor Revitalization Act

Status: HopperState: PennsylvaniaIssue: Jobs

Summary

This bill creates a targeted economic development package for Pennsylvania legacy mill towns and freight corridors, offering performance-based tax credits, site preparation grants, and workforce training partnerships for steel, energy, and advanced manufacturing projects. To qualify, companies must create or keep full-time jobs, invest in Pennsylvania, and work with local schools or apprenticeship programs, with preference for redeveloping shuttered industrial sites and using Pennsylvania suppli

Full text

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, that the Department of Community and Economic Development, in coordination with the Department of Labor and Industry, shall establish a targeted industrial jobs package for legacy mill towns and major freight corridors, providing performance-based tax credits, site preparation grants, and streamlined workforce training partnerships for qualified projects in steel, energy, and advanced manufacturing. Eligibility shall require commitments to create or retain full-time jobs, make capital investments within the Commonwealth, and partner with local career and technical schools, community colleges, or registered apprenticeship programs, with preference for redevelopment of shuttered industrial sites and projects sourcing from Pennsylvania suppliers where practicable.

Sponsor

Leonard CoxRepublican Party

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