[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3156 Introduced in House (IH)]






108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3156

 To amend the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 
        to provide for additional weeks of benefits thereunder.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 23, 2003

  Mr. Wu (for himself and Mr. DeFazio) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 
        to provide for additional weeks of benefits thereunder.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. ADDITIONAL WEEKS OF BENEFITS.

    Section 203 of the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act 
of 2002 (Public Law 107-147; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(1)--
                    (A) by striking ``50'' in subparagraph (A) and 
                inserting ``100''; and
                    (B) by striking ``13'' in subparagraph (B) and 
                inserting ``26'' ; and
            (2) in subsection (c)(1), by inserting ``50 percent of'' 
        after ``equal to''.

SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    (a) In General.--The amendments made by this Act--
            (1) shall take effect as if included in the enactment of 
        the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002; 
        but
            (2) shall apply only with respect to weeks of unemployment 
        beginning on or after the date of enactment of this Act, 
        subject to subsection (b).
    (b) Special Rules.--In the case of an individual for whom a 
temporary extended unemployment compensation account was established 
before the date of enactment of this Act, the Temporary Extended 
Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (as amended by this Act) shall be 
applied subject to the following:
            (1) Any amounts deposited in the individual's temporary 
        extended unemployment compensation account by reason of section 
        203(c) of TEUCA (commonly known as ``TEUC-X amounts'') before 
        the date of enactment of this Act shall be treated as amounts 
        deposited by reason of section 203(b) of TEUCA (commonly known 
        as ``TEUC amounts''), as amended by this Act.
            (2) For purposes of determining whether the individual is 
        eligible for any TEUC-X amounts under TEUCA (as amended by this 
        Act)--
                    (A) any determination made under section 203(c) of 
                TEUCA before the application of the amendments made by 
                this Act shall be disregarded; and
                    (B) any such determination shall instead be made by 
                applying section 203(c) of TEUCA (as amended by this 
                Act)--
                            (i) as of the time that all amounts 
                        established in such account in accordance with 
                        section 203(b) of TEUCA (as amended by this 
                        Act, and including any amounts described in 
                        paragraph (1)) are in fact exhausted, except 
                        that
                            (ii) if such individual's account was both 
                        augmented by and exhausted of all TEUC-X 
                        amounts before the date of enactment of this 
                        Act, such determination shall be made as if 
                        exhaustion (as described in section 203(c)(1) 
                        of TEUCA) had not occurred until such date of 
                        enactment.
            (3) For purposes of any determination described in 
        paragraph (2)(B)(ii), an extended benefit period shall be 
        considered to exist on the date of enactment of this Act in the 
        State of the individual involved if either criterion under 
        section 203(c)(2) of TEUCA is satisfied as of--
                    (A) the date of enactment of this Act; or
                    (B) the date (before the date of enactment of this 
                Act) as of which such individual's account was last 
                exhausted.
            (4) For purposes of this Act, the term ``TEUCA'' means the 
        Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 
        (Public Law 107-147; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note).
    (c) Coordination Provision.--Nothing in this Act shall be 
considered to affect the operation of section 4002 of the Emergency 
Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003 (Public Law 108-11; 26 
U.S.C. 3304 note).
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