Bill > HR7487

This bill, the Promoting Local Arts and Creative Economy Workforce Act of 2020 or the PLACE Act, aims to promote and support the local arts and creative economy in the United States. The key provisions of the bill include: - Defining "creative industry or occupation" to include industries and occupations that have a substantial impact on a state, regional, or local economy, and contribute to the growth of businesses or nonprofit organizations focused on design, crafts, music, visual arts, media arts, performing arts, language, literature, or expressions of Native American culture or regional/local heritage culture. - Amending the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act to incorporate creative industries and occupations into workforce development planning and programming at the state and local levels. - Establishing grant programs at the Economic Development Administration to fund apprenticeship and internship programs focused on the creative economy. - Directing the Bureau of Prisons to include skills training for creative industries and occupations in its reentry and skills development programs. - Providing tax incentives, such as expanding the New Markets Tax Credit and Work Opportunity Tax Credit, to support the creative economy. - Directing the Export-Import Bank to enhance its capacity to provide information and promote exports by creative industries and occupations. - Requiring the Federal Emergency Management Agency to ensure that self-employed, freelance, and creative microenterprise workers can access disaster assistance to repair or replace tools needed for their work. The overall goal of the bill is to strengthen federal support for the local arts and creative economy, which the findings suggest can help create jobs, promote economic inclusion, boost entrepreneurship, and empower communities.