Workers Assistance Extension Act

Workers Assistance Extension Act - Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (TEUCA) to extend the TEUCA program through June 30, 2004, with a phase-out period through September 30, 2004.

(The TEUCA program provides: (1) an additional 13 weeks of unemployment benefits (TEUC) to jobless workers who have exhausted their regular unemployment benefits; and (2) another additional 13 weeks of benefits (TEUC-X), for a total of 26 additional weeks, for such workers in high unemployment States.)

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3270 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3270

To extend the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 8, 2003

Ms. Dunn (for herself, Mr. English, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Quinn, Mr. Shimkus, 
Mr. Jones of North Carolina, Mr. LaHood, Mr. McHugh, Mrs. Wilson of New 
 Mexico, Mr. Upton, Mr. Boehlert, Mr. King of New York, Mr. Baker, Mr. 
Walden of Oregon, and Mr. Sweeney) introduced the following bill; which 
            was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To extend the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002.

    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 ``Workers Assistance Extension Act''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF THE TEMPORARY EXTENDED UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION 
              ACT OF 2002.

    (a) In General.--Section 208 of the Temporary Extended Unemployment 
Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-147; 116 Stat. 30), as amended 
by Public Law 108-1 (117 Stat. 3) and Public Law 108-26 (117 Stat. 
751), is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ``December 31, 2003'' 
        and inserting ``June 30, 2004'';
            (2) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``December 31, 2003'' 
        and inserting ``June 30, 2004'';
            (3) in subsection (b)(2)--
                    (A) in the heading, by striking ``december 31, 
                2003'' and inserting ``june 30, 2004''; and
                    (B) by striking ``December 31, 2003'' and inserting 
                ``June 30, 2004''; and
            (4) in subsection (b)(3), by striking ``March 31, 2004'' 
        and inserting ``September 30, 2004''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect as if included in the enactment of the Temporary Extended 
Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-147; 116 Stat. 
21).
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