[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5089 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5089

 To extend and expand the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation 
                              Act of 2002.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             July 10, 2002

  Mr. Rangel (for himself, Mr. Gephardt, Ms. Pelosi, Mr. Cardin, Mr. 
McNulty, Mrs. Thurman, Mr. Stark, Mr. McDermott, Mr. Matsui, Mr. Lewis 
   of Georgia, Mr. Becerra, Ms. Slaughter, Mr. Towns, Mr. Engel, Mr. 
  Serrano, Mrs. Maloney of New York, Mr. Hinchey, Ms. Velazquez, Mr. 
 Israel, Mr. Nadler, Mr. Owens, Mr. Ackerman, Mrs. Lowey, Mr. Crowley, 
  and Mr. George Miller of California) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To extend and expand the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation 
                              Act of 2002.

    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 Extension Act of 
2002''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION AND EXPANSION OF THE TEMPORARY EXTENDED UNEMPLOYMENT 
              COMPENSATION ACT OF 2002.

    (a) Six-Month Extension of Program.--Section 208 of the Temporary 
Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-147; 116 
Stat. 30) is amended by striking ``January 1, 2003'' and inserting 
``June 30, 2003''.
    (b) Expansion of Program.--Section 203 of the Temporary Extended 
Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-147; 116 Stat. 
28) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(1)--
                    (A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``50 percent 
                of''; and
                    (B) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``13'' and 
                inserting ``26''; and
            (2) in subsection (c)(1), by inserting ``50 percent of'' 
        after ``equal to''.
    (c) Effective Date.--
            (1) In general.--Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
        amendments made by this section shall take effect as if 
        included in the enactment of the Temporary Extended 
        Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-147; 116 
        Stat. 21).
            (2) Application to individuals whose accounts have been 
        exhausted prior to the date of enactment.--In the case of an 
        individual whose temporary unemployment compensation account 
        under section 203(a) of the Temporary Extended Unemployment 
        Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-147; 116 Stat. 28) was 
        exhausted prior to the date of enactment of this Act, the 
        following rules shall apply:
                    (A) No retroactive payments.--The amendments made 
                by subsection (b) shall apply to weeks of unemployment 
                beginning on or after the date of enactment of this 
                Act.
                    (B) Redetermination of extended benefit period.--
                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 
                after such account (after application of such 
                amendments) is exhausted.
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