[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3167 Engrossed in House (EH)]

103d CONGRESS

  1st Session

                               H. R. 3167

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                                 AN ACT

To extend the emergency unemployment compensation program, to establish 
         a system of worker profiling, and for other purposes.






103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3167

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 AN ACT


 
To extend the emergency unemployment compensation program, to establish 
         a system of worker profiling, and for other purposes.

    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 ``Unemployment Compensation Amendments 
of 1993''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION PROGRAM.

    (a) General Rule.--Sections 102(f)(1) and 106(a)(2) of the 
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-164, as 
amended) are each amended by striking ``October 2, 1993'' and inserting 
``February 5, 1994''.
    (b) Weeks of Benefits Available During Extension.--
            (1) Subparagraph (A) of section 102(b)(2) of such Act is 
        amended--
                    (A) by redesignating clause (vi) as clause (vii),
                    (B) by inserting after clause (v) the following new 
                clause:
                            ``(vi) Reduction of weeks after october 2, 
                        1993.--In the case of weeks beginning after 
                        October 2, 1993--
                                    ``(I) clause (i) of this 
                                subparagraph shall be applied by 
                                substituting `13' for `33' and by 
                                substituting `7' for `26',
                                    ``(II) clauses (ii), (iii), (iv), 
                                and (v) of this subparagraph shall not 
                                apply, and
                                    ``(III) subparagraph A of paragraph 
                                (1) shall be applied by substituting 
                                `50 percent' for `130 percent'.'', and
                    (C) by striking ``or (iv)'' in clause (vii) (as 
                redesignated by subparagraph (A)) and inserting ``(iv), 
                or (vi)''.
            (2) Subparagraph (B) of section 102(b)(2) of such Act is 
        amended by striking ``and (iv)'' and inserting ``(iv) and 
        (vi)''.
    (c) Modification of Final Phase-Out.--Paragraph (2) of section 
102(f) of such Act is amended--
            (1) by striking ``October 2, 1993'' and inserting 
        ``February 5, 1994'', and
            (2) by striking ``January 15, 1994'' and inserting ``April 
        30, 1994''.
    (d) Conforming Amendments.--Section 101(e) of such Act is amended--
            (1) by striking ``October 2, 1993'' each place it appears 
        in paragraph (1) and inserting ``February 5, 1994'', and
            (2) by striking ``(and is not triggered off under paragraph 
        (1))'' in paragraph (2) and inserting ``after February 5, 
        1994,''.
    (e) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall 
apply to weeks of unemployment beginning after October 2, 1993.

SEC. 3. MODIFICATION TO ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR EMERGENCY 
              UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION.

    (a) Repeal of Disregard of Rights to Regular Compensation.--
Subsection (f) of section 101 of the Emergency Unemployment 
Compensation Act of 1991 (Public Law 102-164, as amended) is hereby 
repealed.
    (b) Effective Date.--The repeal made by subsection (a) shall apply 
to weeks of unemployment beginning after the date of the enactment of 
this Act; except that such repeal shall not apply in determining 
eligibility for emergency unemployment compensation from an account 
established before October 2, 1993.

SEC. 4. WORKER PROFILING.

    (a) In General.--
            (1) Establishment of profiling system.--Section 303 of the 
        Social Security Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the 
        following new subsection:
    ``(j)(1) The State agency charged with the administration of the 
State law shall establish and utilize a system of profiling all new 
claimants for regular compensation that--
            ``(A) identifies which claimants will be likely to exhaust 
        regular compensation and will need job search assistance 
        services to make a successful transition to new employment;
            ``(B) refers claimants identified pursuant to subparagraph 
        (A) to reemployment services, such as job search assistance 
        services, available under any State or Federal law;
            ``(C) collects follow-up information relating to the 
        services received by such claimants and the employment outcomes 
        for such claimants subsequent to receiving such services and 
        utilizes such information in making identifications pursuant to 
        subparagraph (A); and
            ``(D) meets such other requirements as the Secretary of 
        Labor determines are appropriate.
    ``(2) Whenever the Secretary of Labor, after reasonable notice and 
opportunity for hearing to the State agency charged with the 
administration of the State law, finds that there is a failure to 
comply substantially with the requirements of paragraph (1), the 
Secretary of Labor shall notify such State agency that further payments 
will not be made to the State until he is satisfied that there is no 
longer any such failure. Until the Secretary of Labor is so satisfied, 
he shall make no further certification to the Secretary of the Treasury 
with respect to such State.''.
            (2) Conforming amendment.--Section 304(a)(2) of the Social 
        Security Act is amended by striking ``or (i)'' and inserting 
        ``(i), or (j)''.
    (b) Participation Requirement.--Section 303(a) of the Social 
Security Act is amended--
            (1) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (9) and 
        inserting ``; and'', and
            (2) by adding at the end thereof the following new 
        paragraph:
            ``(10) A requirement that, as a condition of eligibility 
        for regular compensation for any week, any claimant who has 
        been referred to reemployment services pursuant to the 
        profiling system under subsection (j)(1)(B) participate in such 
        services or in similar services unless the State agency charged 
        with the administration of the State law determines--
                    ``(A) such claimant has completed such services; or
                    ``(B) there is justifiable cause for such 
                claimant's failure to participate in such services.''.
    (c) Technical Assistance.--The Secretary of Labor shall provide 
technical assistance and advice to assist the States in implementing 
the profiling system required under the amendments made by subsection 
(a). Such assistance shall include the development and identification 
of model profiling systems.
    (d) Report to Congress.--Not later than the date 3 years after the 
date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Labor shall report to 
the Congress on the operation and effectiveness of the profiling system 
required under the amendments made by subsection (a) and the 
participation requirement provided by the amendments made under 
subsection (b). Such report shall include such recommendations as the 
Secretary of Labor determines are appropriate.
    (e) Conforming Amendment.--Section 4 of the Emergency Unemployment 
Compensation Amendments of 1993 (Public Law 103-6) is hereby repealed.
    (f) Effective Dates.--
            (1) The amendments made by subsections (a) and (b) shall 
        take effect on the date one year after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act.
            (2) The provisions of subsections (c), (d), and (e) shall 
        take effect on the date of enactment of this Act.

SEC. 5. TECHNICAL AMENDMENT TO UNEMPLOYMENT TRUST FUND.

    Paragraph (1) of section 905(b) of the Social Security Act is 
amended to read as follows:
    ``(b)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (3), the Secretary of the 
Treasury shall transfer (as of the close of each month) from the 
employment security administration account to the extended unemployment 
compensation account established by subsection (a), an amount 
(determined by such Secretary) equal to 20 percent of the amount by 
which--
            ``(A) the transfers to the employment security 
        administration account pursuant to section 901(b)(2) during 
        such month, exceed
            ``(B) the payments during such month from the employment 
        security administration account pursuant to section 901 (b)(3) 
        and (d).
If for any such month the payments referred to in subparagraph (B) 
exceed the transfers referred to in subparagraph (A), proper 
adjustments shall be made in the amounts subsequently transferred.''

SEC. 6. EXTENSION OF REPORTING DATE FOR ADVISORY COUNCIL.

    Section 908(f) of the Social Security Act is amended--
            (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``2d year'' and inserting 
        ``third year''; and
            (2) in paragraph (2), by striking ``February 1, 1994'' and 
        inserting ``February 1, 1995''.

SEC. 7. TEMPORARY INCREASE IN SPONSORSHIP PERIOD FOR ALIENS UNDER THE 
              SUPPLEMENTAL SECURITY INCOME PROGRAM.

    (a) Increase in Sponsorship Period.--
            (1) In general.--Section 1621 of the Social Security Act 
        (42 U.S.C. 1382j) is amended by striking ``three years'' each 
        place such term appears and inserting ``5 years''.
            (2) Effective date.--The amendments made by paragraph (1) 
        shall take effect on January 1, 1994.
    (b) Reinstatement of Prior Law.--
            (1) In general.--Section 1621 of the Social Security Act 
        (42 U.S.C. 1382j), as amended by subsection (a)(1) of this 
        section, is amended by striking ``5 years'' each place such 
        term appears and inserting ``3 years''.
            (2) Effective date.--The amendments made by paragraph (1) 
        shall take effect on October 1, 1996.

SEC. 8. TREATMENT OF RAILROAD WORKERS.

    (a) Extension of Program.--
            (1) In general.--Paragraphs (1) and (2) of section 501(b) 
        of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991 (Public 
        Law 102-164, as amended) are each amended by striking ``October 
        2, 1993'' and inserting ``January 1, 1994''.
            (2) Conforming amendment.--Section 501(a) of such Act is 
        amended by striking ``October 1993'' and inserting ``January 
        1994''.
    (b) Length of Benefits During Period of Extension.--Section 
501(d)(2)(B)(ii) of such Act is amended by striking ``on and after the 
date on which a reduction in benefits is imposed under section 
102(b)(2)(A)(iv)'' and inserting ``after October 2, 1993''.
    (c) Termination of Benefits.--Section 501(e) of such Act is 
amended--
            (1) by striking ``October 2, 1993'' and inserting ``January 
        1, 1994'', and
            (2) by striking ``January 15, 1994'' and inserting ``March 
        26, 1994''.

            Passed the House of Representatives October 15, 1993.

            Attest:






                                                                 Clerk.