To provide that, if emergency unemployment compensation is extended, prospective benefits shall be subject to gradual reduction.

Subjects an individual's emergency unemployment compensation (EUC) benefit payment to a gradual reduction, if a law extending EUC is enacted on or after enactment of this Act.

Requires, effective for EUC payable for each week beginning on or after the enactment or, if later, the effective date of the extension, the amount of EUC payable to any individual:

• for the first week of unemployment following the initial post-extension week to be the amount that would otherwise be payable, reduced by 5%; and
• for each subsequent week of unemployment to be the amount that would otherwise be payable: (1) reduced (but not below zero) by the percentage reduction applicable to the individual's preceding week of unemployment; and (2) increased by 5 percentage points.

[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4431 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4431

 To provide that, if emergency unemployment compensation is extended, 
      prospective benefits shall be subject to gradual reduction.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 9, 2014

Mr. Bentivolio introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To provide that, if emergency unemployment compensation is extended, 
      prospective benefits shall be subject to gradual reduction.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. CONDITION.

    In the event that a law extending title IV of the Supplemental 
Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110-252; 26 U.S.C. 3304) is 
enacted on or after the date of enactment of this Act, then, effective 
with respect to emergency unemployment compensation payable for each 
week beginning on or after such date of enactment or, if later, the 
effective date of the extension (the first such week, in the case of 
any individual, to be referred to as the individual's ``initial post-
extension week''), section 2 shall apply.

SEC. 2. REDUCTION.

    Notwithstanding any provision of title IV of the Supplemental 
Appropriations Act, 2008, the amount of emergency unemployment 
compensation payable to any individual under such title shall--
            (1) for the first week of unemployment following the 
        initial post-extension week described in section 1, be equal 
        to--
                    (A) the amount that would otherwise be payable,
                    (B) reduced by 5 percent; and
            (2) for each week of unemployment subsequent to the week of 
        unemployment to which paragraph (1) applies, be equal to--
                    (A) the amount that would otherwise be payable,
                    (B) reduced by--
                            (i) the percentage reduction applicable 
                        under this section to the individual's 
                        preceding week of unemployment,
                            (ii) increased by 5 percentage points,
                but not below zero.
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