Provides for a transition period of continuing payments to individuals with amounts remaining in their TEUC account, for weeks beginning before December 27, 2003.
Directs the Secretary of Labor to deem second tier benefit amounts deposited in an individual's account (TEUC-X amounts, which currently provide an extra 13 weeks of benefits in high-unemployment States) as deposited in such account, by reason of the amendments made by this Act, as single tier benefit amounts (TEUC amounts, the basic benefits in all States).
Sets forth requirements relating to applicability of this Act to those who have exhausted their benefits under TEUCA, as well as to current beneficiaries.
[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1239 Introduced in House (IH)]
108th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1239
To provide for emergency unemployment compensation.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 12, 2003
Mr. Levin introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means
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A BILL
To provide for emergency unemployment compensation.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Emergency Unemployment Compensation
Act of 2003''.
SEC. 2. ENTITLEMENT TO ADDITIONAL WEEKS OF TEMPORARY EXTENDED
UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION.
(a) Entitlement to Additional Weeks.--
(1) In general.--Paragraph (1) of section 203(b) of the
Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002
(Public Law 107-147; 116 Stat. 28) is amended--
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``50 percent''
and inserting ``100 percent''; and
(B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``13 times''
and inserting ``26 times''.
(2) Repeal of restriction on augmentation during
transitional period.--Section 208(b) of the Temporary Extended
Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-147), as
amended by Public Law 108-1, is amended--
(A) in paragraph (1)--
(i) by striking ``paragraphs (2) and (3)''
and inserting ``paragraph (2)''; and
(ii) by inserting before the period at the
end the following: ``, including such
compensation payable by reason of amounts
deposited in such account after such date
pursuant to the application of subsection (c)
of such section'';
(B) by striking paragraph (2); and
(C) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph
(2).
(3) Extension of transition limitation.--Section 208(b)(2)
of the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002
(Public Law 107-147), as amended by Public Law 108-1 and as
redesignated by paragraph (2), is amended by striking ``August
30, 2003'' and inserting ``December 27, 2003''.
(4) Conforming amendment for augmented benefits.--Section
203(c)(1) of the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation
Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-147; 116 Stat. 28) is amended by
striking ``the amount originally established in such account
(as determined under subsection (b)(1))'' and inserting ``7
times the individual's average weekly benefit amount for the
benefit year''.
(b) Effective Date and Application.--
(1) In general.--The amendments made by subsection (a)
shall apply with respect to weeks of unemployment beginning on
or after the date of enactment of this Act.
(2) TEUC-X amounts deposited in account prior to date of
enactment deemed to be the additional teuc amounts provided by
this section.--In applying the amendments made by subsection
(a) under the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act
of 2002 (Public Law 107-147; 116 Stat. 26), the Secretary of
Labor shall deem any amounts deposited into an individual's
temporary extended unemployment compensation account by reason
of section 203(c) of such Act (commonly known as ``TEUC-X
amounts'') prior to the date of enactment of this Act to be
amounts deposited in such account by reason of section 203(b)
of such Act, as amended by subsection (a) (commonly known as
``TEUC amounts'').
(3) Application to exhaustees and current beneficiaries.--
(A) Exhaustees.--In the case of any individual--
(i) to whom any temporary extended
unemployment compensation was payable for any
week beginning before the date of enactment of
this Act; and
(ii) who exhausted such individual's rights
to such compensation (by reason of the payment
of all amounts in such individual's temporary
extended unemployment compensation account)
before such date,
such individual's eligibility for any additional weeks
of temporary extended unemployment compensation by
reason of the amendments made by subsection (a) shall
apply with respect to weeks of unemployment beginning
on or after the date of enactment of this Act.
(B) Current beneficiaries.--In the case of any
individual--
(i) to whom any temporary extended
unemployment compensation was payable for any
week beginning before the date of enactment of
this Act; and
(ii) as to whom the condition described in
subparagraph (A)(ii) does not apply,
such individual shall be eligible for temporary
extended unemployment compensation (in accordance with
the provisions of the Temporary Extended Unemployment
Compensation Act of 2002, as amended by subsection (a))
with respect to weeks of unemployment beginning on or
after the date of enactment of this Act.
(4) Redetermination of eligibility for augmented amounts
for individuals for whom such a determination was made prior to
the date of enactment.--Any determination of whether the
individual's State is in an extended benefit period under
section 203(c) of the Temporary Extended Unemployment
Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-147; 116 Stat. 28)
made prior to the date of enactment of this Act shall be
disregarded and the determination under such section shall be
made as follows:
(A) Individuals who exhausted all teuc and teux-x
amounts prior to the date of enactment.--In the case of
an individual whose temporary extended unemployment
account has, prior to the date of enactment of this
Act, been both augmented under section 203(c) of the
Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of
2002 and exhausted of all amounts by which it was so
augmented, the determination shall be made as of such
date of enactment.
(B) All other individuals.--In the case of an
individual who is not described in subparagraph (A),
the determination shall be made at the time that the
individual's account established under such section
203, as amended by subsection (a), is exhausted.
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Introduced in House
Introduced in House
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
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