[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3554 Introduced in House (IH)]







108th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3554

 To amend the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act and the 
  Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act to temporarily 
 allow States to disregard the look-back requirement of these Acts for 
      purposes of determining unemployment insurance eligibility.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 20, 2003

   Mr. McDermott (for himself, Mr. Wu, Mr. DeFazio, Mr. Inslee, Ms. 
  Kilpatrick, and Mr. Larsen of Washington) introduced the following 
      bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act and the 
  Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act to temporarily 
 allow States to disregard the look-back requirement of these Acts for 
      purposes of determining unemployment insurance eligibility.

    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 ``TEUC and EB Amendments Act of 
2003''.

SEC. 2. ALTERNATIVE TRIGGERS RELATING TO TEUC SECOND TIER BENEFITS AND 
              EXTENDED UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.

    (a) Provisions Relating to TEUC.--Section 203(c)(2)(B) of the 
Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 
107-147; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended to read as follows:
                    ``(B) such a period would then be in effect for 
                such State under such Act if--
                            ``(i) section 203(d) of such Act were 
                        applied as if it had been amended by striking 
                        `5' each place it appears and inserting `4'; 
                        and
                            ``(ii) with respect to weeks of 
                        unemployment beginning on or after the date of 
                        enactment of this clause--
                                    ``(I) paragraph (1)(A) of such 
                                section 203(d) did not apply; and
                                    ``(II) clause (ii) of section 
                                203(f)(1)(A) of such Act did not 
                                apply.''.
    (b) Provisions Relating to Extended Benefits.--For purposes of 
conforming with the provisions of the Federal-State Extended 
Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (26 U.S.C. 3304 note), a State 
may, for weeks of unemployment beginning on after the date of the 
enactment of this Act and on or before December 31, 2004, waive the 
application of subparagraph (A) of section 203(d)(1) of such Act, 
clause (ii) of section 203(f)(1)(A) of such Act, or both.
                                 <all>