3.0.0 2544 2023-01-11T13:15:12Z 2023-01-11T13:15:12Z Senate S S 2008-01-22 110 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-01-22T23:36:53Z Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2008 110 4934 HR 2008-01-17 Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support. Related bill CRS TARGET Act 110 5688 HR 2008-04-16 Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support. Related bill CRS Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2008 110 5749 HR 2008-06-13 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 780 under authority of the order of the Senate of 06/12/2008. Related bill CRS 2008-01-22 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2008-01-22 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S108) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2008-01-22 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress K000105 Sen. Kennedy, Edward M. [D-MA] EDWARD KENNEDY D MA MOORE N D000388 Sen. Dodd, Christopher J. [D-CT] CHRISTOPHER DODD D CT JOHN 2008-01-22 True B000468 Sen. Bingaman, Jeff [D-NM] JESSE BINGAMAN D NM FRANCIS 2008-01-22 True H000206 Sen. Harkin, Tom [D-IA] THOMAS HARKIN D IA RICHARD 2008-01-22 True R000122 Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI] John Reed D RI F. 2008-01-22 True C001041 Sen. Clinton, Hillary Rodham [D-NY] HILLARY CLINTON D NY R 2008-01-22 True O000167 Sen. Obama, Barack [D-IL] Barack Obama D IL 2008-01-22 True B000944 Sen. Brown, Sherrod [D-OH] Sherrod Brown D OH 2008-01-22 True L000261 Sen. Levin, Carl [D-MI] CARL LEVIN D MI MILTON 2008-01-23 False S000770 Sen. Stabenow, Debbie [D-MI] Debbie Stabenow D MI 2008-01-23 False M001111 Sen. Murray, Patty [D-WA] Patty Murray D WA 2008-01-24 False M000639 Sen. Menendez, Robert [D-NJ] Robert Menendez D NJ 2008-01-24 False K000148 Sen. Kerry, John F. [D-MA] JOHN KERRY D MA FORBES 2008-01-24 False L000304 Sen. Lieberman, Joseph I. [ID-CT] JOSEPH LIEBERMAN ID CT I. 2008-01-24 False S000148 Sen. Schumer, Charles E. [D-NY] Charles Schumer D NY E. 2008-01-24 False W000802 Sen. Whitehouse, Sheldon [D-RI] Sheldon Whitehouse D RI 2008-01-25 False L000123 Sen. Lautenberg, Frank R. [D-NJ] FRANK LAUTENBERG D NJ R. 2008-01-25 False R000361 Sen. Rockefeller, John D., IV [D-WV] JAY ROCKEFELLER D WV 2008-01-28 False B000711 Sen. Boxer, Barbara [D-CA] BARBARA BOXER D CA 2008-02-26 False D000563 Sen. Durbin, Richard J. [D-IL] Richard Durbin D IL J. 2008-03-04 False S000033 Sen. Sanders, Bernard [I-VT] Bernard Sanders I VT 2008-05-08 False F000062 Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA] Dianne Feinstein D CA 2008-06-11 False Labor and Employment Collection of accounts Crime and Law Enforcement Federal-state relations Fraud Government Operations and Politics State laws Unemployment insurance Labor and Employment 00 2008-01-22 Introduced in Senate 2008-03-07T22:34:57Z Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 - Provides for federal-state agreements under which a state will make temporary extended unemployment compensation payments to individuals who: (1) have exhausted all rights to regular compensation under state or federal law with respect to a benefit year (excluding any benefit year that ended before one year before the enactment of this Act); (2) have no rights to regular compensation or extended compensation with respect to a week under such law or any other state or federal unemployment compensation law; (3) are not receiving compensation for such week under the unemployment compensation law of Canada; and (4) filed an initial claim for regular compensation on or after one year before the enactment of this Act.

Requires federal payments to states to cover 100% of such temporary extended unemployment compensation payments.

Provides for handling of fraud and overpayments of unemployment compensation.

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