3.0.0 904 2022-02-03T05:53:16Z 2022-02-03T05:53:16Z Senate S S 2011-05-05 112 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2011-05-05T20:03:43Z HIRES Act 112 2731 HR 2011-08-05 Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources. Related bill CRS Standard DATA Act 112 3339 HR 2011-11-10 Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources. Related bill CRS JOBS Act of 2011 112 1745 HR 2011-05-23 Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 48. Identical bill CRS 2011-05-05 ssfi00 Finance Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. IntroReferral 2011-05-05 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S2743) IntroReferral B00100 9 Library of Congress 2011-05-05 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress H000338 Sen. Hatch, Orrin G. [R-UT] ORRIN HATCH R UT GRANT N Labor and Employment Administrative law and regulatory procedures Census and government statistics Department of Labor Government information and archives Government trust funds Intergovernmental relations State and local finance State and local government operations State and local taxation Unemployment Labor and Employment 00 2011-05-05 Introduced in Senate 2011-06-17T16:50:37Z Jobs, Opportunity, Benefits, and Services Act of 2011 or JOBS Act of 2011 - Amends title III (Grants to States for Unemployment Compensation Administration) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to require state unemployment compensation laws to require, as a condition of eligibility for regular compensation for any week, that an unemployment compensation claimant be able to work, available to work, and actively seeking work.

Requires a claimant to meet minimum educational requirements, that is, to: (1) have earned a high school diploma, (2) have earned the General Educational Development (GED) credential or other state-recognized equivalent (including by meeting recognized alternative standards for individuals with disabilities), or (3) be enrolled and making satisfactory progress in classes leading to satisfaction of the latter requirement.

Authorizes waiver of such requirements for an individual by a state agency if they would be unduly burdensome.

Authorizes the Secretary of Labor to enter into agreements with states to allow them to conduct demonstration projects to test and evaluate measures designed to: (1) expedite the reemployment of individuals who establish initial eligibility for unemployment compensation under state law, or (2) improve the effectiveness of a state in carrying out its state law with respect to reemployment.

Amends SSA title XII (Repayment by States of Advances to State Unemployment Funds) to repeal the requirement that a state meet certain funding goals if no payment of interest shall be required with respect to any advances made to it out of the federal unemployment account during any calendar year. (Thus repeals the requirement for higher state taxes.)

Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (SAA of 2008) to repeal the requirement (nonreduction rule) that makes a federal-state agreement inapplicable for a state upon a determination by the Secretary that the method governing the computation of regular compensation under state law has been modified to make the average weekly UC benefit paid less than what would have been paid before June 2, 2010.

Amends the SSA title IX (Miscellaneous Provisions Relating to Employment Security) to require the Secretary to designate codes and identifiers for any category of information required for data matching in the federal-state unemployment insurance system.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to require states (which, currently, are merely authorized) to reduce current unemployment benefits to recover prior unemployment benefit overpayments.

Amends the SSA to require the Secretary of the Treasury to makes special transfers, in FY2011-FY2012, from the extended unemployment compensation (EUC) account to each state's account in the Unemployment Trust Fund an amount determined by using a specified formula. Requires states to spend these funds: (1) to pay current federal unemployment benefits; or (2) for regular or extended unemployment benefits, for repaying federal unemployment loans, or for reemployment services, as specified by a state law passed after enactment of this Act.

Repeals requirements under the SAA of 2008 that federal payments to states cover 100% of EUC for a certain period of time.

Amends such Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to transfer from the general fund of the Treasury to the EUC account any sums the Secretary of Labor estimates to be necessary to make payments to states because of certain amendments made by this Act.

Amends the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act to accelerate from January 4, 2012, to July 6, 2011, termination of the temporary requirement that federal payments to states cover 100% of EUC.

Amends the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010 to accelerate similarly from December 31, 2011, to June 30, 2011, termination of the period during which a state may determine its "on" and "off" indicators according to specified temporary substitutions in its formula.

]]> Jobs, Opportunity, Benefits, and Services Act of 2011 Short Titles as Introduced Jobs, Opportunity, Benefits, and Services Act of 2011 Short Titles as Introduced JOBS Act of 2011 Display Title Jobs, Opportunity, Benefits, and Services Act of 2011 Official Title as Introduced A bill to improve jobs, opportunity, benefits, and services for unemployed Americans, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate 2011-05-05T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-112s904is/xml/BILLS-112s904is.xml 2011-05-05 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.