<enum>I</enum><header>Emergency unemployment compensation</header> <section id="HDA15AFAA973F48F8AA30AAFEEC3258E"><enum>101.</enum><header>Federal-State agreements for emergency unemployment compensation</header> <subsection id="HAE32A8A8AD9F47C786823EE220D7FAAB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authority To enter into or terminate an agreement</header> <paragraph id="HEEA16DE08763440F001976169F6D493E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subject to paragraph (2), any State which desires to do so may enter into and participate in an agreement under this title with the Secretary of Labor (in this title referred to as the <quote>Secretary</quote>). Any State which is a party to an agreement under this title may, upon providing 30 days’ written notice to the Secretary, terminate such agreement.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H0359110AC25F400B9837B14CF0BA6CE2"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Condition</header> <subparagraph id="H70F36A39F278431FAB132034F373DB71"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>An agreement under this title shall not be effective unless it is entered into during a period of rising unemployment.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H8E7F493122734CC3B24F98B6C32CF39"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Period of rising unemployment</header><text>For purposes of this title, a period of rising unemployment shall be considered to exist as of the first day of the first month following any month—</text> <clause commented="no" id="HFC5ED38C518A4859B98D8B006CA1586B"><enum>(i)</enum><text>which begins after December 31, 2007, and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" id="H92A89B1EDC8D48C384A71C109E157139"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in which the total number of unemployed persons in all States exceeds by at least 1,000,000 the total number of unemployed persons in all States in the same month of the preceding year, as determined by the Secretary using the seasonally-adjusted monthly estimates of civilian, noninstitutionalized unemployed persons 16 years of age or older (as indicated by the Current Population Survey of the Bureau of the Census).</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H4A92DA4225B3400B8894458BD6190055"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Notice</header><text>The Secretary shall cause to be published in the Federal Register notice of any determination of a period of rising unemployment, including the commencement date of such period.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H4341659FAB8E42CCA63CD42B8EAC599B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Provisions of agreement</header><text>Any agreement under subsection (a) shall provide that the State agency of the State will make payments of emergency unemployment compensation to individuals who—</text> <paragraph id="H1A2DA9C523FE410C9DE43ECE9732FE7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>have exhausted all rights to regular compensation under the State law or under Federal law with respect to a benefit year (excluding any benefit year that ended before March 1, 2007);</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HE31EFC76A6554C99ABBDC39C5E16B6B1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>have no rights to regular compensation or extended compensation with respect to a week under such law or any other State unemployment compensation law or to compensation under any other Federal law; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H5D029C264D8B462689050016D3B46C36"><enum>(3)</enum><text>are not receiving compensation with respect to such week under the unemployment compensation law of Canada.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H7AA5BD87DA5940049548351CA7E13FCB"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Exhaustion of benefits</header><text>For purposes of subsection (b)(1), an individual shall be deemed to have exhausted such individual’s rights to regular compensation under a State law when—</text> <paragraph id="HD08C144C9FD941C19E18C1B438156961"><enum>(1)</enum><text>no payments of regular compensation can be made under such law because such individual has received all regular compensation available to such individual based on employment or wages during such individual’s base period; or</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H172229D06F074F40A8CA0704D1F119A1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>such individual’s rights to such compensation have been terminated by reason of the expiration of the benefit year with respect to which such rights existed.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H39A7CB1F915E4105B7003DC9151C8BB4"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Weekly benefit amount, etc</header><text>For purposes of any agreement under this title—</text> <paragraph id="H1B27D3F6CFC141908750000342ABBA80"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the amount of emergency unemployment compensation which shall be payable to any individual for any week of total unemployment shall be equal to the amount of the regular compensation (including dependents’ allowances) payable to such individual during such individual’s benefit year under the State law for a week of total unemployment;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H5956EE1BB91843E99C34188C0836DA6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the terms and conditions of the State law which apply to claims for regular compensation and to the payment thereof shall apply to claims for emergency unemployment compensation and the payment thereof, except where otherwise inconsistent with the provisions of this title or with the regulations or operating instructions of the Secretary promulgated to carry out this title; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H41BA6CB842FA46FEA21861414953B82E"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the maximum amount of emergency unemployment compensation payable to any individual for whom an emergency unemployment compensation account is established under section 102 shall not exceed the amount established in such account for such individual.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H4C6B39BFD9A1480592736101E6F95874"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Election by states</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal law (and if State law permits), the Governor of a State that is in an extended benefit period may provide for the payment of emergency unemployment compensation in lieu of extended compensation to individuals who otherwise meet the requirements of this section. Such an election shall not require a State to trigger off an extended benefit period.</text> </subsection></section><section id="HE6DA74BC251F4772972B6202C28411B7"><enum>102.</enum><header>Emergency unemployment compensation account</header> <subsection id="HDBAC82366867438595DC617221D444E4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any agreement under this title shall provide that the State will establish, for each eligible individual who files an application for emergency unemployment compensation, an emergency unemployment compensation account with respect to such individual’s benefit year.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H7751DA2536DA4895ABFC3F63AD33504C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Amount in account</header> <paragraph id="HF5050967D9B541C192DF4403304DC78E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The amount established in an account under subsection (a) shall be equal to the lesser of—</text> <subparagraph id="HAB7F848546B74904BB13C954B69D1B8F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>100 percent of the total amount of regular compensation (including dependents’ allowances) payable to the individual during the individual’s benefit year under such law, or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA019B7926C884F53A49B5F6FA0B2CA86"><enum>(B)</enum><text>26 times the individual’s average weekly benefit amount for the benefit year.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H271063F920B44C2AA702EEDEBBCB2655"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Weekly benefit amount</header><text>For purposes of this subsection, an individual’s weekly benefit amount for any week is the amount of regular compensation (including dependents’ allowances) under the State law payable to such individual for such week for total unemployment.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HF344C7F022834303891047DA1DBC4DC8"><enum>103.</enum><header>Payments to states having agreements for the payment of emergency unemployment compensation</header> <subsection id="HEB5B0978490B4BABB80162B300F6B9D4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>General rule</header><text>There shall be paid to each State which has entered into an agreement under this title an amount equal to 100 percent of the emergency unemployment compensation paid to individuals by the State pursuant to such agreement.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H6BC6EB343E6A4B6F99781843E5B514B3"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Treatment of reimbursable compensation</header><text>No payment shall be made to any State under this section in respect of any compensation to the extent the State is entitled to reimbursement in respect of such compensation under the provisions of any Federal law other than this title or <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/5/85">chapter 85</external-xref> of title 5, United States Code. A State shall not be entitled to any reimbursement under such chapter 85 in respect of any compensation to the extent the State is entitled to reimbursement under this title in respect of such compensation.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H85ADEBDEE9254A5E8B6E737ED9711857"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Determination of amount</header><text>Sums payable to any State by reason of such State having an agreement under this title shall be payable, either in advance or by way of reimbursement (as may be determined by the Secretary), in such amounts as the Secretary estimates the State will be entitled to receive under this title for each calendar month, reduced or increased, as the case may be, by any amount by which the Secretary finds that the Secretary’s estimates for any prior calendar month were greater or less than the amounts which should have been paid to the State. Such estimates may be made on the basis of such statistical, sampling, or other method as may be agreed upon by the Secretary and the State agency of the State involved.</text> </subsection></section><section id="HD484CBA6C20B4954A0C3368A18FC65"><enum>104.</enum><header>Financing provisions</header> <subsection id="H49057B509D34420BA62E14C3E051B8E2"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Funds in the extended unemployment compensation account (as established by section 905(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1105(a)) of the Unemployment Trust Fund (as established by section 904(a) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/1104">42 U.S.C. 1104(a)</external-xref>) shall be used for the making of payments to States having agreements entered into under this title.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H62BBE0383A8349C6BB167CDD1C170126"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Certification</header><text>The Secretary shall from time to time certify to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment to each State the sums payable to such State under this title. The Secretary of the Treasury, prior to audit or settlement by the Government Accountability Office, shall make payments to the State in accordance with such certification, by transfers from the extended unemployment compensation account (as so established) to the account of such State in the Unemployment Trust Fund (as so established).</text> </subsection><subsection id="H733AE94598DD4A6EBC591703CC30ACAC"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Assistance to states</header><text>There are appropriated out of the employment security administration account (as established by section 901(a) of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/1101">42 U.S.C. 1101(a)</external-xref>) of the Unemployment Trust Fund, without fiscal year limitation, such funds as may be necessary for purposes of assisting States (as provided in title III of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/501">42 U.S.C. 501 et seq.</external-xref>)) in meeting the costs of administration of agreements under this title.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H3CF8554A1A004668AE159DD17B6900BC"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Appropriations for certain payments</header><text>There are appropriated from the general fund of the Treasury, without fiscal year limitation, to the extended unemployment compensation account (as so established) of the Unemployment Trust Fund (as so established) such sums as the Secretary estimates to be necessary to make the payments under this section in respect of—</text> <paragraph id="HA3C565BBCC3C4DF39400A3BBADE56E2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>compensation payable under <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/5/85">chapter 85</external-xref> of title 5, United States Code; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H951C43F049ED4A11B3B2B357166DBB2D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>compensation payable on the basis of services to which section 3309(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 applies.</text> </paragraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subsection">Amounts appropriated pursuant to the preceding sentence shall not be required to be repaid.</continuation-text></subsection></section><section id="HCC1FC9D45A2840E0957C5195164378FE"><enum>105.</enum><header>Fraud and overpayments</header> <subsection id="H38120BB0A9734618928CB78D9EA4AA99"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>If an individual knowingly has made, or caused to be made by another, a false statement or representation of a material fact, or knowingly has failed, or caused another to fail, to disclose a material fact, and as a result of such false statement or representation or of such nondisclosure such individual has received an amount of emergency unemployment compensation under this title to which he was not entitled, such individual—</text> <paragraph id="H9B1C7F14697F4672AC6425A4FB87FC5C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>shall be ineligible for further emergency unemployment compensation under this title in accordance with the provisions of the applicable State unemployment compensation law relating to fraud in connection with a claim for unemployment compensation; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HA4E919CEB9F54D47B1CAA262EEE51E03"><enum>(2)</enum><text>shall be subject to prosecution under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/1001">section 1001</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HDC1C3E8E8E8E4683BC94D21EDEB2B600"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Repayment</header><text>In the case of individuals who have received amounts of emergency unemployment compensation under this title to which they were not entitled, the State shall require such individuals to repay the amounts of such emergency unemployment compensation to the State agency, except that the State agency may waive such repayment if it determines that—</text> <paragraph id="HED453D5C31FC445D00DED489E748CF23"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the payment of such emergency unemployment compensation was without fault on the part of any such individual; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HB8D636FBAFBD448B8BB0DDDDA9901468"><enum>(2)</enum><text>such repayment would be contrary to equity and good conscience.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H930340D491594AB1A746D3D204036846"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Recovery by state agency</header> <paragraph id="H47E4D1425A644F80B6C64400122C41EA"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The State agency may recover the amount to be repaid, or any part thereof, by deductions from any emergency unemployment compensation payable to such individual under this title or from any unemployment compensation payable to such individual under any Federal unemployment compensation law administered by the State agency or under any other Federal law administered by the State agency which provides for the payment of any assistance or allowance with respect to any week of unemployment, during the 3-year period after the date such individuals received the payment of the emergency unemployment compensation to which they were not entitled, except that no single deduction may exceed 50 percent of the weekly benefit amount from which such deduction is made.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HC1F7B69C906840148BBCFD1E991DD697"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Opportunity for hearing</header><text>No repayment shall be required, and no deduction shall be made, until a determination has been made, notice thereof and an opportunity for a fair hearing has been given to the individual, and the determination has become final.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H4A00B8A880534B91BA0610B4C03E64E6"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Review</header><text>Any determination by a State agency under this section shall be subject to review in the same manner and to the same extent as determinations under the State unemployment compensation law, and only in that manner and to that extent.</text> </subsection></section><section id="H132ACD47E16C430EA782E4788190E9E5"><enum>106.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title, the terms <term>compensation</term>, <term>regular compensation</term>, <term>extended compensation</term>, <term>benefit year</term>, <term>base period</term>, <term>State</term>, <term>State agency</term>, <term>State law</term>, and <term>week</term> have the respective meanings given such terms under section 205 of the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (26 U.S.C. 3304 note).</text> </section><section id="H1C439FC1658041AEA1D1B32D4BFEF69C"><enum>107.</enum><header>Applicability</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">An agreement entered into under this title shall apply to weeks of unemployment—</text> <paragraph id="H5C3786AD50384162BD644FA4102F918"><enum>(1)</enum><text>beginning after the date on which such agreement is entered into; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HE0EFA60AE853404BA1D3FEE3661E1BF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>ending before January 1, 2009.</text> </paragraph></section>

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Short title; table of contents

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Short title

This Act may be cited as the

Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2008

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Table of contents

The table of contents is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

Title I—Emergency unemployment compensation

Sec. 101. Federal-State agreements for emergency unemployment compensation.

Sec. 102. Emergency unemployment compensation account.

Sec. 103. Payments to states having agreements for the payment of emergency unemployment compensation.

Sec. 104. Financing provisions.

Sec. 105. Fraud and overpayments.

Sec. 106. Definitions.

Sec. 107. Applicability.

Title II—Increased unemployment benefits

Sec. 201. Federal-State agreements for increased unemployment benefits.

Sec. 202. Payments to States having agreements under this title.

Sec. 203. Financing provisions.

Sec. 204. Definitions.

Sec. 205. Applicability.

Title III—Improved unemployment coverage

Sec. 301. Special transfers to State accounts in the Unemployment Trust Fund.

<enum>I</enum><header>Emergency unemployment compensation</header> <section id="HDA15AFAA973F48F8AA30AAFEEC3258E"><enum>101.</enum><header>Federal-State agreements for emergency unemployment compensation</header> <subsection id="HAE32A8A8AD9F47C786823EE220D7FAAB"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authority To enter into or terminate an agreement</header> <paragraph id="HEEA16DE08763440F001976169F6D493E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Subject to paragraph (2), any State which desires to do so may enter into and participate in an agreement under this title with the Secretary of Labor (in this title referred to as the <quote>Secretary</quote>). Any State which is a party to an agreement under this title may, upon providing 30 days’ written notice to the Secretary, terminate such agreement.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H0359110AC25F400B9837B14CF0BA6CE2"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Condition</header> <subparagraph id="H70F36A39F278431FAB132034F373DB71"><enum>(A)</enum><header>In general</header><text>An agreement under this title shall not be effective unless it is entered into during a period of rising unemployment.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H8E7F493122734CC3B24F98B6C32CF39"><enum>(B)</enum><header>Period of rising unemployment</header><text>For purposes of this title, a period of rising unemployment shall be considered to exist as of the first day of the first month following any month—</text> <clause commented="no" id="HFC5ED38C518A4859B98D8B006CA1586B"><enum>(i)</enum><text>which begins after December 31, 2007, and</text> </clause><clause commented="no" id="H92A89B1EDC8D48C384A71C109E157139"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>in which the total number of unemployed persons in all States exceeds by at least 1,000,000 the total number of unemployed persons in all States in the same month of the preceding year, as determined by the Secretary using the seasonally-adjusted monthly estimates of civilian, noninstitutionalized unemployed persons 16 years of age or older (as indicated by the Current Population Survey of the Bureau of the Census).</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H4A92DA4225B3400B8894458BD6190055"><enum>(C)</enum><header>Notice</header><text>The Secretary shall cause to be published in the Federal Register notice of any determination of a period of rising unemployment, including the commencement date of such period.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H4341659FAB8E42CCA63CD42B8EAC599B"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Provisions of agreement</header><text>Any agreement under subsection (a) shall provide that the State agency of the State will make payments of emergency unemployment compensation to individuals who—</text> <paragraph id="H1A2DA9C523FE410C9DE43ECE9732FE7"><enum>(1)</enum><text>have exhausted all rights to regular compensation under the State law or under Federal law with respect to a benefit year (excluding any benefit year that ended before March 1, 2007);</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HE31EFC76A6554C99ABBDC39C5E16B6B1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>have no rights to regular compensation or extended compensation with respect to a week under such law or any other State unemployment compensation law or to compensation under any other Federal law; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H5D029C264D8B462689050016D3B46C36"><enum>(3)</enum><text>are not receiving compensation with respect to such week under the unemployment compensation law of Canada.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H7AA5BD87DA5940049548351CA7E13FCB"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Exhaustion of benefits</header><text>For purposes of subsection (b)(1), an individual shall be deemed to have exhausted such individual’s rights to regular compensation under a State law when—</text> <paragraph id="HD08C144C9FD941C19E18C1B438156961"><enum>(1)</enum><text>no payments of regular compensation can be made under such law because such individual has received all regular compensation available to such individual based on employment or wages during such individual’s base period; or</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H172229D06F074F40A8CA0704D1F119A1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>such individual’s rights to such compensation have been terminated by reason of the expiration of the benefit year with respect to which such rights existed.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H39A7CB1F915E4105B7003DC9151C8BB4"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Weekly benefit amount, etc</header><text>For purposes of any agreement under this title—</text> <paragraph id="H1B27D3F6CFC141908750000342ABBA80"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the amount of emergency unemployment compensation which shall be payable to any individual for any week of total unemployment shall be equal to the amount of the regular compensation (including dependents’ allowances) payable to such individual during such individual’s benefit year under the State law for a week of total unemployment;</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H5956EE1BB91843E99C34188C0836DA6"><enum>(2)</enum><text>the terms and conditions of the State law which apply to claims for regular compensation and to the payment thereof shall apply to claims for emergency unemployment compensation and the payment thereof, except where otherwise inconsistent with the provisions of this title or with the regulations or operating instructions of the Secretary promulgated to carry out this title; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H41BA6CB842FA46FEA21861414953B82E"><enum>(3)</enum><text>the maximum amount of emergency unemployment compensation payable to any individual for whom an emergency unemployment compensation account is established under section 102 shall not exceed the amount established in such account for such individual.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H4C6B39BFD9A1480592736101E6F95874"><enum>(e)</enum><header>Election by states</header><text>Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal law (and if State law permits), the Governor of a State that is in an extended benefit period may provide for the payment of emergency unemployment compensation in lieu of extended compensation to individuals who otherwise meet the requirements of this section. Such an election shall not require a State to trigger off an extended benefit period.</text> </subsection></section><section id="HE6DA74BC251F4772972B6202C28411B7"><enum>102.</enum><header>Emergency unemployment compensation account</header> <subsection id="HDBAC82366867438595DC617221D444E4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Any agreement under this title shall provide that the State will establish, for each eligible individual who files an application for emergency unemployment compensation, an emergency unemployment compensation account with respect to such individual’s benefit year.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H7751DA2536DA4895ABFC3F63AD33504C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Amount in account</header> <paragraph id="HF5050967D9B541C192DF4403304DC78E"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The amount established in an account under subsection (a) shall be equal to the lesser of—</text> <subparagraph id="HAB7F848546B74904BB13C954B69D1B8F"><enum>(A)</enum><text>100 percent of the total amount of regular compensation (including dependents’ allowances) payable to the individual during the individual’s benefit year under such law, or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA019B7926C884F53A49B5F6FA0B2CA86"><enum>(B)</enum><text>26 times the individual’s average weekly benefit amount for the benefit year.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H271063F920B44C2AA702EEDEBBCB2655"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Weekly benefit amount</header><text>For purposes of this subsection, an individual’s weekly benefit amount for any week is the amount of regular compensation (including dependents’ allowances) under the State law payable to such individual for such week for total unemployment.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section id="HF344C7F022834303891047DA1DBC4DC8"><enum>103.</enum><header>Payments to states having agreements for the payment of emergency unemployment compensation</header> <subsection id="HEB5B0978490B4BABB80162B300F6B9D4"><enum>(a)</enum><header>General rule</header><text>There shall be paid to each State which has entered into an agreement under this title an amount equal to 100 percent of the emergency unemployment compensation paid to individuals by the State pursuant to such agreement.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H6BC6EB343E6A4B6F99781843E5B514B3"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Treatment of reimbursable compensation</header><text>No payment shall be made to any State under this section in respect of any compensation to the extent the State is entitled to reimbursement in respect of such compensation under the provisions of any Federal law other than this title or <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/5/85">chapter 85</external-xref> of title 5, United States Code. A State shall not be entitled to any reimbursement under such chapter 85 in respect of any compensation to the extent the State is entitled to reimbursement under this title in respect of such compensation.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H85ADEBDEE9254A5E8B6E737ED9711857"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Determination of amount</header><text>Sums payable to any State by reason of such State having an agreement under this title shall be payable, either in advance or by way of reimbursement (as may be determined by the Secretary), in such amounts as the Secretary estimates the State will be entitled to receive under this title for each calendar month, reduced or increased, as the case may be, by any amount by which the Secretary finds that the Secretary’s estimates for any prior calendar month were greater or less than the amounts which should have been paid to the State. Such estimates may be made on the basis of such statistical, sampling, or other method as may be agreed upon by the Secretary and the State agency of the State involved.</text> </subsection></section><section id="HD484CBA6C20B4954A0C3368A18FC65"><enum>104.</enum><header>Financing provisions</header> <subsection id="H49057B509D34420BA62E14C3E051B8E2"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Funds in the extended unemployment compensation account (as established by section 905(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1105(a)) of the Unemployment Trust Fund (as established by section 904(a) of such Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/1104">42 U.S.C. 1104(a)</external-xref>) shall be used for the making of payments to States having agreements entered into under this title.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H62BBE0383A8349C6BB167CDD1C170126"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Certification</header><text>The Secretary shall from time to time certify to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment to each State the sums payable to such State under this title. The Secretary of the Treasury, prior to audit or settlement by the Government Accountability Office, shall make payments to the State in accordance with such certification, by transfers from the extended unemployment compensation account (as so established) to the account of such State in the Unemployment Trust Fund (as so established).</text> </subsection><subsection id="H733AE94598DD4A6EBC591703CC30ACAC"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Assistance to states</header><text>There are appropriated out of the employment security administration account (as established by section 901(a) of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/1101">42 U.S.C. 1101(a)</external-xref>) of the Unemployment Trust Fund, without fiscal year limitation, such funds as may be necessary for purposes of assisting States (as provided in title III of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/501">42 U.S.C. 501 et seq.</external-xref>)) in meeting the costs of administration of agreements under this title.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H3CF8554A1A004668AE159DD17B6900BC"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Appropriations for certain payments</header><text>There are appropriated from the general fund of the Treasury, without fiscal year limitation, to the extended unemployment compensation account (as so established) of the Unemployment Trust Fund (as so established) such sums as the Secretary estimates to be necessary to make the payments under this section in respect of—</text> <paragraph id="HA3C565BBCC3C4DF39400A3BBADE56E2"><enum>(1)</enum><text>compensation payable under <external-xref legal-doc="usc-chapter" parsable-cite="usc-chapter/5/85">chapter 85</external-xref> of title 5, United States Code; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H951C43F049ED4A11B3B2B357166DBB2D"><enum>(2)</enum><text>compensation payable on the basis of services to which section 3309(a)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 applies.</text> </paragraph><continuation-text continuation-text-level="subsection">Amounts appropriated pursuant to the preceding sentence shall not be required to be repaid.</continuation-text></subsection></section><section id="HCC1FC9D45A2840E0957C5195164378FE"><enum>105.</enum><header>Fraud and overpayments</header> <subsection id="H38120BB0A9734618928CB78D9EA4AA99"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>If an individual knowingly has made, or caused to be made by another, a false statement or representation of a material fact, or knowingly has failed, or caused another to fail, to disclose a material fact, and as a result of such false statement or representation or of such nondisclosure such individual has received an amount of emergency unemployment compensation under this title to which he was not entitled, such individual—</text> <paragraph id="H9B1C7F14697F4672AC6425A4FB87FC5C"><enum>(1)</enum><text>shall be ineligible for further emergency unemployment compensation under this title in accordance with the provisions of the applicable State unemployment compensation law relating to fraud in connection with a claim for unemployment compensation; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HA4E919CEB9F54D47B1CAA262EEE51E03"><enum>(2)</enum><text>shall be subject to prosecution under <external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/18/1001">section 1001</external-xref> of title 18, United States Code.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HDC1C3E8E8E8E4683BC94D21EDEB2B600"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Repayment</header><text>In the case of individuals who have received amounts of emergency unemployment compensation under this title to which they were not entitled, the State shall require such individuals to repay the amounts of such emergency unemployment compensation to the State agency, except that the State agency may waive such repayment if it determines that—</text> <paragraph id="HED453D5C31FC445D00DED489E748CF23"><enum>(1)</enum><text>the payment of such emergency unemployment compensation was without fault on the part of any such individual; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HB8D636FBAFBD448B8BB0DDDDA9901468"><enum>(2)</enum><text>such repayment would be contrary to equity and good conscience.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H930340D491594AB1A746D3D204036846"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Recovery by state agency</header> <paragraph id="H47E4D1425A644F80B6C64400122C41EA"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text>The State agency may recover the amount to be repaid, or any part thereof, by deductions from any emergency unemployment compensation payable to such individual under this title or from any unemployment compensation payable to such individual under any Federal unemployment compensation law administered by the State agency or under any other Federal law administered by the State agency which provides for the payment of any assistance or allowance with respect to any week of unemployment, during the 3-year period after the date such individuals received the payment of the emergency unemployment compensation to which they were not entitled, except that no single deduction may exceed 50 percent of the weekly benefit amount from which such deduction is made.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HC1F7B69C906840148BBCFD1E991DD697"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Opportunity for hearing</header><text>No repayment shall be required, and no deduction shall be made, until a determination has been made, notice thereof and an opportunity for a fair hearing has been given to the individual, and the determination has become final.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H4A00B8A880534B91BA0610B4C03E64E6"><enum>(d)</enum><header>Review</header><text>Any determination by a State agency under this section shall be subject to review in the same manner and to the same extent as determinations under the State unemployment compensation law, and only in that manner and to that extent.</text> </subsection></section><section id="H132ACD47E16C430EA782E4788190E9E5"><enum>106.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title, the terms <term>compensation</term>, <term>regular compensation</term>, <term>extended compensation</term>, <term>benefit year</term>, <term>base period</term>, <term>State</term>, <term>State agency</term>, <term>State law</term>, and <term>week</term> have the respective meanings given such terms under section 205 of the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (26 U.S.C. 3304 note).</text> </section><section id="H1C439FC1658041AEA1D1B32D4BFEF69C"><enum>107.</enum><header>Applicability</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">An agreement entered into under this title shall apply to weeks of unemployment—</text> <paragraph id="H5C3786AD50384162BD644FA4102F918"><enum>(1)</enum><text>beginning after the date on which such agreement is entered into; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HE0EFA60AE853404BA1D3FEE3661E1BF"><enum>(2)</enum><text>ending before January 1, 2009.</text> </paragraph></section><enum>II</enum><header>Increased unemployment benefits</header> <section id="H05E422CE02594E3B00396738AEF5BCC0"><enum>201.</enum><header>Federal-State agreements for increased unemployment benefits</header> <subsection id="H5B6C31DF231048E99EAF46426750A513"><enum>(a)</enum><header>Authority To enter into or terminate an agreement</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Subject to the same condition as set forth in section 101(a)(2), any State which desires to do so may enter into and participate in an agreement under this title with the Secretary of Labor (in this title referred to as the <quote>Secretary</quote>). Any State which is a party to an agreement under this title may, upon providing 30 days’ written notice to the Secretary, terminate such agreement.</text> </subsection><subsection id="HA907BCF336434FD1A725D6F01490A349"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Provisions of agreement</header> <paragraph id="HC19EDFA71C72495E8B2CEA014C10C940"><enum>(1)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Any agreement under subsection (a) shall provide that the State agency of the State will make payments of regular compensation to individuals in amounts that would be determined if the State law were applied with the modification described in paragraph (2).</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HBD4C1A2F5A114ABCB86E3E249F4D5CEA"><enum>(2)</enum><header>Additional regular compensation</header><text>Under this paragraph, the amount of regular compensation (including dependents’ allowances) payable for any week shall be equal to the amount determined under the State law (before the application of this paragraph) plus an additional $50.</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="HB0F32031FB74439EA5B5A2C07FF7CE3F"><enum>(c)</enum><header>Nonreduction rule</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The agreement shall not apply (or shall cease to apply) with respect to a State upon a determination by the Secretary that the method governing the computation of regular compensation under the State law of that State has been modified in a way such that—</text> <paragraph id="HA6129CC4097640AF920500B41FF8EB20"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the average weekly amount of regular compensation which will be payable during the period of the agreement (determined disregarding the modification described in subsection (b)(2)) will be less than</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H0A6DDCC0BAD742BAB463F00005E54271"><enum>(2)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">the average weekly amount of regular compensation which would otherwise have been payable during such period under the State law, as in effect on December 31, 2007.</text> </paragraph></subsection></section><section commented="no" id="H51D8808FBD8649B9BAEF5F7F8DEDFEF"><enum>202.</enum><header>Payments to States having agreements under this title</header> <subsection commented="no" id="HA8072FEC45944E66BDDE59F5D7DEFA13"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">There shall be paid to each State which has entered into an agreement under this title an amount equal to 100 percent of any additional regular compensation made payable to individuals by such State by virtue of the modification described in section 201(b)(2) and deemed to be in effect with respect to such State pursuant to section 201(b)(1).</text> </subsection><subsection commented="no" id="H14B2FD1D053D47A8917627FFFAFDA98"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Determination of amount</header><text>Sums payable to any State by reason of such State having an agreement under this title shall be payable, either in advance or by way of reimbursement (as may be determined by the Secretary), in such amounts as the Secretary estimates the State will be entitled to receive under this title for each calendar month, reduced or increased, as the case may be, by any amount by which the Secretary finds that the Secretary’s estimates for any prior calendar month were greater or less than the amounts which should have been paid to the State. Such estimates may be made on the basis of such statistical, sampling, or other method as may be agreed upon by the Secretary and the State agency of the State involved.</text> </subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HCEE504CC25CD48C782FB1DB6B49CD0CF" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>203.</enum><header>Financing provisions</header> <subsection id="HDFF20224F2A64F53B4DA792F3D85142C"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text>Funds in the Federal unemployment account (as established by section 904(g) of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/1104">42 U.S.C. 1104(g)</external-xref>) of the Unemployment Trust Fund (as established by section 904(a) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1104(a)) shall be used for the making of payments to States having agreements entered into under this title.</text> </subsection><subsection id="H8535D2CB21514AB492AD79126E8E692E"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Certification</header><text>The Secretary shall from time to time certify to the Secretary of the Treasury for payment to each State the sums payable to such State under this title. The Secretary of the Treasury, prior to audit or settlement by the Government Accountability Office, shall make payments to the State in accordance with such certification, by transfers from the Federal unemployment account (as so established) to the account of such State in the Unemployment Trust Fund (as so established).</text> </subsection></section><section display-inline="no-display-inline" id="H5A7C1B78D1474C4C93F8E9A3E043DC6E" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>204.</enum><header>Definitions</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">In this title, the terms <term>compensation</term>, <term>regular compensation</term>, <term>State</term>, <term>State agency</term>, <term>State law</term>, and <term>week</term> have the respective meanings given such terms under section 205 of the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (26 U.S.C. 3304 note).</text> </section><section id="H0A3290C375654818A2C923384DF8B2E2"><enum>205.</enum><header>Applicability</header><text display-inline="no-display-inline">An agreement entered into under this title shall apply to weeks of unemployment—</text> <paragraph id="H89C58FB439DC4D9F8000C7E274BFC189"><enum>(1)</enum><text>beginning after the date on which such agreement is entered into; and</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HBBF66521D8C74F8B91A300006D1F6F21"><enum>(2)</enum><text>ending before January 1, 2009.</text> </paragraph></section><enum>III</enum><header>Improved unemployment coverage</header> <section id="H13F6C8FA62E1498A8587F842B64E9929" section-type="subsequent-section"><enum>301.</enum><header>Special transfers to State accounts in the Unemployment Trust Fund</header> <subsection id="H9D319C60CB42450A89A626B936004BF7"><enum>(a)</enum><header>In general</header><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Section 903 of the Social Security Act (<external-xref legal-doc="usc" parsable-cite="usc/42/1103">42 U.S.C. 1103</external-xref>) is amended by adding at the end the following:</text> <quoted-block display-inline="no-display-inline" id="HA629D7F1EB86423AA2652090E48FA739" other-style="archaic" style="other"> <subsection id="HBA435A13262247ECB5E9889BDE7BE4E"><enum>(f)</enum><header>Special transfers in fiscal years 2008 through 2012 for modernization</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HDF82641C16684D4E8F91F901ED934E7"><enum>(1)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="HAACCC647E8C54CF0871F2329812CFB5C"><enum>(A)</enum><text>In addition to any other amounts, the Secretary of Labor shall provide for the making of unemployment compensation modernization incentive payments (hereinafter <quote>incentive payments</quote>) to the accounts of the States in the Unemployment Trust Fund, by transfer from amounts reserved for that purpose in the Federal unemployment account, in accordance with succeeding provisions of this subsection.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H1D7D7A022FDF4E22950230F8FF210052" indent="up2"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">The maximum incentive payment allowable under this subsection with respect to any State shall, as determined by the Secretary of Labor, be equal to the amount obtained by multiplying $7,000,000,000 times the same ratio as is applicable under subsection (a)(2)(B) for purposes of determining such State’s share of any funds to be transferred under subsection (a) as of October 1, 2007.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H7CF50765FE1A451FB7F769A4199A71E" indent="up2"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Of the maximum incentive payment determined under subparagraph (B) with respect to a State—</text> <clause id="H077B629939734711BB610973547CCACE"><enum>(i)</enum><text>one-third shall be transferred to the account of such State upon a certification under paragraph (4)(B) that the State law of such State meets the requirements of paragraph (2); and</text> </clause><clause id="HB40B3C784E394732AE145FB5B26C85FF"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>the remainder shall be transferred to the account of such State upon a certification under paragraph (4)(B) that the State law of such State meets the requirements of paragraph (3).</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H3A692E5A51A24D808827FC26A2C5FFF5" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>The State law of a State meets the requirements of this paragraph if such State law—</text> <subparagraph id="H22EE5678015D431D987C00208DCA8FE6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>uses a base period that includes the most recently completed calendar quarter before the start of the benefit year for purposes of determining eligibility for unemployment compensation; or</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HC0AFCC5AFA7F4CE5923225376796B0CA"><enum>(B)</enum><text>provides that, in the case of an individual who would not otherwise be eligible for unemployment compensation under the State law because of the use of a base period that does not include the most recently completed calendar quarter before the start of the benefit year, eligibility shall be determined using a base period that includes such calendar quarter.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph commented="no" id="H2302810B7D4F4BCC8F9F867EC6E7C500" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>The State law of a State meets the requirements of this paragraph if such State law includes provisions to carry out at least 2 of the following subparagraphs:</text> <subparagraph commented="no" id="H352A10C410574688A1CDF7004F886800"><enum>(A)</enum><text>An individual shall not be denied regular unemployment compensation under any State law provisions relating to availability for work, active search for work, or refusal to accept work, solely because such individual is seeking only part-time (and not full-time) work, except that the State law provisions carrying out this subparagraph may exclude an individual if a majority of the weeks of work in such individual’s base period do not include part-time work.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph commented="no" id="H861A8385EE8F4A61BD4F83602C18E60"><enum>(B)</enum><text>An individual shall not be disqualified from regular unemployment compensation for separating from employment if that separation is for compelling family reasons. For purposes of this subparagraph, the term <term>compelling family reasons</term> includes at least the following:</text> <clause commented="no" id="H15EE2FB6605843F89CDC7B44CCCE3BE"><enum>(i)</enum><text>Domestic violence (verified by such reasonable and confidential documentation as the State law may require) which causes the individual reasonably to believe that such individual’s continued employment would jeopardize the safety of the individual or of any member of the individual’s immediate family.</text> </clause><clause commented="no" id="H3B6D2F45E0854485834C700158BF9C0"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>The illness or disability of a member of the individual’s immediate family.</text> </clause><clause id="H6F25DF5D00FF4D0C90CC743B7DB7593D"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>The need for the individual to accompany such individual’s spouse—</text> <subclause id="HBCFF06A1B4BC44398D5BAEC06874003C"><enum>(I)</enum><text>to a place from which it is impractical for such individual to commute; and</text> </subclause><subclause id="H8EE61C9628D547A5AA9F13A4D7F44EBE"><enum>(II)</enum><text>due to a change in location of the spouse’s employment.</text> </subclause></clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="HA8B5ABD2B3A14FEBA166A1B4C1FB1105"><enum>(C)</enum><text>Weekly unemployment compensation is payable under this subparagraph to any individual who is unemployed (as determined under the State unemployment compensation law), has exhausted all rights to regular compensation and, if applicable, extended unemployment compensation under the State law and benefits under title I of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2008, and is enrolled and making satisfactory progress in a State-approved training program or in a job training program authorized under the Workforce Investment Act of 1998. Such program shall prepare individuals who have been separated from a declining occupation, or who have been involuntarily and indefinitely separated from employment as a result of a permanent reduction of operations at the individual’s place of employment, for entry into a high-demand occupation. The amount of unemployment compensation payable under this subparagraph to an individual for a week of unemployment shall be equal to the individual’s average weekly benefit amount (including dependents’ allowances) for the most recent benefit year, and the total amount of unemployment compensation payable under this subparagraph to any individual shall be equal to at least 26 times the individual’s average weekly benefit amount (including dependents’ allowances) for the most recent benefit year.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HA20DB92A47B14FA8957FBFFEA37FCBA4" indent="up1"><enum>(4)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H82A3181822B249AF8DA658FEBC311B6"><enum>(A)</enum><text>Any State seeking an incentive payment under this subsection shall submit an application therefor at such time, in such manner, and complete with such information as the Secretary of Labor may by regulation prescribe, including information relating to compliance with the requirements of paragraph (2) or (3), as well as how the State intends to use the incentive payment to improve or strengthen the State’s unemployment compensation program. The Secretary of Labor shall, within 90 days after receiving a complete application, notify the State agency of the State of the Secretary’s findings with respect to the requirements of paragraph (2) or (3) (or both).</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HD8541D34C6A84AF1954FF9589031EBA0" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">If the Secretary of Labor finds that the State law provisions (disregarding any State law provisions which are not then currently in effect as permanent law or which are subject to discontinuation under certain conditions) meet the requirements of paragraph (2) or (3), as the case may be, the Secretary of Labor shall thereupon make a certification to that effect to the Secretary of the Treasury, together with a certification as to the amount of the incentive payment to be transferred to the State account pursuant to that finding. The Secretary of the Treasury shall make the appropriate transfer within 30 days after receiving such certification.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H9AA4DAACD59E4B398252FF3DBC758BE5" indent="up1"><enum>(C)</enum><clause commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H30C04BBB305445019EA71B63A189F241"><enum>(i)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No certification of compliance with the requirements of paragraph (2) or (3) may be made with respect to any State whose State law is not otherwise eligible for certification under section 303 or approvable under section 3304 of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act.</text> </clause><clause id="H76CD9481E0CA4BFF8ED8A65D0516009C" indent="up1"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>No certification of compliance with the requirements of paragraph (3) may be made with respect to any State whose State law is not in compliance with the requirements of paragraph (2).</text> </clause><clause id="HD7DABD378AE247B99E4071139079A9AB" indent="up1"><enum>(iii)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">No application under subparagraph (A) may be considered if submitted before October 1, 2007, or after the latest date necessary (as specified by the Secretary of Labor in regulations) to ensure that all incentive payments under this subsection are made before October 1, 2012.</text> </clause></subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H6AC63393ADD5472B0066C8142E64C6A5" indent="up1"><enum>(5)</enum><subparagraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H612AFA9FEBF149F5B3AE7B8E62AE004E"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Except as provided in subparagraph (B), any amount transferred to the account of a State under this subsection may be used by such State only in the payment of cash benefits to individuals with respect to their unemployment (including for dependents’ allowances and for unemployment compensation under paragraph (3)(C)), exclusive of expenses of administration.</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="HF9DA334848F64501902FBD55BB538512" indent="up1"><enum>(B)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">A State may, subject to the same conditions as set forth in subsection (c)(2) (excluding subparagraph (B) thereof, and deeming the reference to <quote>subsections (a) and (b)</quote> in subparagraph (D) thereof to include this subsection), use any amount transferred to the account of such State under this subsection for the administration of its unemployment compensation law and public employment offices.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H705698904C1C462687F9906D541FA3A9" indent="up1"><enum>(6)</enum><text>Out of any money in the Federal unemployment account not otherwise appropriated, the Secretary of the Treasury shall reserve $7,000,000,000 for incentive payments under this subsection. Any amount so reserved shall not be taken into account for purposes of any determination under section 902, 910, or 1203 of the amount in the Federal unemployment account as of any given time. Any amount so reserved for which the Secretary of the Treasury has not received a certification under paragraph (4)(B) by the deadline described in paragraph (4)(C)(iii) shall, upon the close of fiscal year 2012, become unrestricted as to use as part of the Federal unemployment account.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="HFDB30C042A094F449DDF00C9BA983EAD" indent="up1"><enum>(7)</enum><text>For purposes of this subsection, the terms <term>benefit year</term>, <term>base period</term>, and <term>week</term> have the respective meanings given such terms under section 205 of the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (26 U.S.C. 3304 note).</text> </paragraph></subsection><subsection id="H540D359035824E3BB4B6D59500D06E3B"><enum>(g)</enum><header>Special transfers in fiscal years 2008 through 2012 for administration</header><paragraph commented="no" display-inline="yes-display-inline" id="H408F92A032B8493300B9AD1F95B1B321"><enum>(1)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">Notwithstanding any other provision of this section, the total amount available for transfer to the accounts of the States pursuant to subsection (a) as of the beginning of each of fiscal years 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 shall be equal to the total amount which (disregarding this subsection) would otherwise be so available, increased by $100,000,000.</text> </paragraph><paragraph id="H5AD4F9801EA743508DE56056C9A3318E" indent="up1"><enum>(2)</enum><text>Each State’s share of any additional amount made available by this subsection shall be determined, certified, and computed in the same manner as described in subsection (a)(2) and shall be subject to the same limitations on transfers as described in subsection (b). For purposes of applying subsection (b)(2), the balance of any advances made to a State under section 1201 shall be credited against, and operate to reduce (but not below zero)—</text> <subparagraph id="HE790DC2DA0FB49B185B7005D859BF6AE"><enum>(A)</enum><text>first, any additional amount which, as a result of the enactment of this subsection, is to be transferred to the account of such State in a fiscal year; and</text> </subparagraph><subparagraph id="H550FC9D7D1614765954328F7E61B8BDC"><enum>(B)</enum><text>second, any amount which (disregarding this subsection) is otherwise to be transferred to the account of such State pursuant to subsections (a) and (b) in such fiscal year.</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="H493D32BD81D1497DA1AD26C93FBF1E3" indent="up1"><enum>(3)</enum><text>Any additional amount transferred to the account of a State as a result of the enactment of this subsection—</text> <subparagraph id="H9587BEEAE67A4F7ABC1B428501A459C4"><enum>(A)</enum><text display-inline="yes-display-inline">may be used by the State agency of such State only in the payment of expenses incurred by it for—</text> <clause id="H6E4ACB3726B84E69BB62D305AC06C4E7"><enum>(i)</enum><text>the administration of the provisions of its State law carrying out the purposes of subsection (f)(2) or any subparagraph of subsection (f)(3);</text> </clause><clause id="H91CA6845CFCB4FB2A700596C14AE1FF6"><enum>(ii)</enum><text>improved outreach to individuals who might be eligible for regular unemployment compensation by virtue of any provisions of the State law which are described in clause (i);</text> </clause><clause id="HA6DC1CFA5CAC446B892BCC446BCB4000"><enum>(iii)</enum><text>the improvement of unemployment benefit and unemployment tax operations; and</text> </clause><clause id="H95A3CDBCE052456FA6341C7BEA877F3F"><enum>(iv)</enum><text>staff-assisted reemployment services for unemployment compensation claimants; and</text> </clause></subparagraph><subparagraph id="H99EA26EDC2C945008D6B45EF62E4AC37"><enum>(B)</enum><text>shall be excluded from the application of subsection (c).</text> </subparagraph></paragraph><paragraph id="HDE7B8AEBBB994511A4236505BA06A0E3" indent="up1"><enum>(4)</enum><text>The total additional amount made available by this subsection in a fiscal year shall be taken out of the amounts remaining in the employment security administration account after subtracting the total amount which (disregarding this subsection) is otherwise required to be transferred from such account in such fiscal year pursuant to subsections (a) and (b).</text> </paragraph></subsection><after-quoted-block>.</after-quoted-block></quoted-block> </subsection><subsection id="HDB6973EA86A845EB876D4B603F8BAE6C"><enum>(b)</enum><header>Regulations</header><text>The Secretary of Labor may prescribe any regulations necessary to carry out the amendment made by subsection (a).</text> </subsection></section>