[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1239 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1239

          To provide for emergency unemployment compensation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             March 12, 2003

  Mr. Levin introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 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--
                    (A) in paragraph (1)--
                            (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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