108th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1239
To provide for emergency unemployment compensation.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
March 12, 2003
Mr. LEVIN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Ways and Means
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--
(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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