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[H.R. 6867 Enrolled Bill (ENR)]

        H.R.6867

                       One Hundred Tenth Congress

                                 of the

                        United States of America


                          AT THE SECOND SESSION

          Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday,
            the third day of January, two thousand and eight


                                 An Act


 
     To provide for additional 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 ``Unemployment Compensation Extension 
Act of 2008''.
SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL FIRST-TIER BENEFITS.
    Section 4002(b)(1) of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (26 
U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended--
        (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``50'' and inserting 
    ``80''; and
        (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``13'' and inserting 
    ``20''.
SEC. 3. SECOND-TIER BENEFITS.
    Section 4002 of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (26 
U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended by adding at the end the following:
    ``(c) Special Rule.--
        ``(1) In general.--If, at the time that the amount established 
    in an individual's account under subsection (b)(1) is exhausted or 
    at any time thereafter, such individual's State is in an extended 
    benefit period (as determined under paragraph (2)), such account 
    shall be augmented by an amount equal to the lesser of--
            ``(A) 50 percent of the total amount of regular 
        compensation (including dependents' allowances) payable to the 
        individual during the individual's benefit year under the State 
        law, or
            ``(B) 13 times the individual's average weekly benefit 
        amount (as determined under subsection (b)(2)) for the benefit 
        year.
        ``(2) Extended benefit period.--For purposes of paragraph (1), 
    a State shall be considered to be in an extended benefit period, as 
    of any given time, if--
            ``(A) such a period is then in effect for such State under 
        the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 
        1970;
            ``(B) such a period would then be in effect for such State 
        under such Act if section 203(d) of such Act--
                ``(i) were applied by substituting `4' for `5' each 
            place it appears; and
                ``(ii) did not include the requirement under paragraph 
            (1)(A) thereof; or
            ``(C) such a period would then be in effect for such State 
        under such Act if--
                ``(i) section 203(f) of such Act were applied to such 
            State (regardless of whether the State by law had provided 
            for such application); and
                ``(ii) such section 203(f)--

                    ``(I) were applied by substituting `6.0' for `6.5' 
                in paragraph (1)(A)(i) thereof; and
                    ``(II) did not include the requirement under 
                paragraph (1)(A)(ii) thereof.

        ``(3) Limitation.--The account of an individual may be 
    augmented not more than once under this subsection.''.
SEC. 4. PHASEOUT PROVISIONS.
    Section 4007(b) of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (26 
U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended--
        (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``paragraph (2),'' and 
    inserting ``paragraphs (2) and (3),''; and
        (2) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following:
        ``(2) No augmentation after march 31, 2009.--If the amount 
    established in an individual's account under subsection (b)(1) is 
    exhausted after March 31, 2009, then section 4002(c) shall not 
    apply and such account shall not be augmented under such section, 
    regardless of whether such individual's State is in an extended 
    benefit period (as determined under paragraph (2) of such section).
        ``(3) Termination.--No compensation under this title shall be 
    payable for any week beginning after August 27, 2009.''.
SEC. 5. TEMPORARY FEDERAL MATCHING FOR THE FIRST WEEK OF EXTENDED 
BENEFITS FOR STATES WITH NO WAITING WEEK.
    With respect to weeks of unemployment beginning after the date of 
the enactment of this Act and ending on or before December 8, 2009, 
subparagraph (B) of section 204(a)(2) of the Federal-State Extended 
Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (26 U.S.C. 3304 note) shall not 
apply.
SEC. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE.
    (a) In General.--The amendments made by sections 2, 3, and 4 shall 
apply as if included in the enactment of the Supplemental 
Appropriations Act, 2008, subject to subsection (b).
    (b) Additional Benefits.--In applying the amendments made by 
sections 2 and 3, any additional emergency unemployment compensation 
made payable by such amendments (which would not otherwise have been 
payable if such amendments had not been enacted) shall be payable only 
with respect to any week of unemployment beginning on or after the date 
of the enactment of this Act.

                               Speaker of the House of Representatives.

                            Vice President of the United States and    
                                               President of the Senate.