SHIELD Act

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4424 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4424

     To amend title III of the Social Security Act and the Federal 
   Unemployment Tax Act to clarify eligibility requirements when an 
       individual is unemployed as the result of a labor dispute.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 16, 2025

 Mr. Yakym (for himself, Ms. Tenney, Mr. Murphy, Mr. Bean of Florida, 
 Ms. Van Duyne, Mr. Moran, Mr. Rouzer, Mr. Kelly of Pennsylvania, and 
Mr. Moore of Utah) introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
     To amend title III of the Social Security Act and the Federal 
   Unemployment Tax Act to clarify eligibility requirements when an 
       individual is unemployed as the result of a labor dispute.

    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 ``Securing Help for Involuntary 
Employment Loss and Displacement Act'' or the ``SHIELD Act''.

SEC. 2. INELIGIBILITY AS A RESULT OF LABOR DISPUTES.

    (a) Provision of State Laws.--Section 303(a) of the Social Security 
Act (42 U.S.C. 503(a)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(13) A requirement that, as a condition of eligibility 
        for regular compensation for any week, an individual not be 
        unemployed during such week as the result of a strike or other 
        labor dispute (other than a lockout) that such individual--
                    ``(A) is participating in,
                    ``(B) providing financial support to, or
                    ``(C) has a direct interest in.''.
    (b) Federal Unemployment Tax Act Amendment.--Paragraph (5) of 
section 3304(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 is repealed.
    (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply beginning on the date that is 2 years after the date of enactment 
of this Act, except that nothing in this section shall be interpreted 
to prevent a State from amending its law before the end of the 2-year 
period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act.
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