[Congressional Bills 113th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2177 Introduced in House (IH)]

113th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 2177

To eliminate the application of sequestration to unemployment benefits, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 23, 2013

  Ms. Kaptur (for herself, Mr. Grijalva, Mr. Gene Green of Texas, Ms. 
   McCollum, and Mr. Pocan) introduced the following bill; which was 
                referred to the Committee on the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
To eliminate the application of sequestration to unemployment benefits, 
                        and for other purposes.

    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 Restoration Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIMINATING APPLICATION OF 251A SEQUESTRATION TO CERTAIN 
              UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.

    (a) Fiscal Year 2013.--Notwithstanding the presidential order 
issued on March 1, 2013, under section 251A of the Balanced Budget and 
Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, the budgetary resources 
sequestered under that order for any Federal payments to a State under 
section 204 of the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act 
of 1970 and for any Federal payments to a State under section 4003(a) 
of title IV of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008, pursuant to a 
Federal-State agreement under section 4001 of such title, shall be 
available for obligation in the same amount and manner as if such order 
had not been issued.
    (b) Fiscal Years 2014 Through 2021.--Section 255(i)(2) of the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act is amended to read as 
follows:
            ``(2) The reduction ordered under section 254 shall not 
        apply to--
                    ``(A) any Federal payments to a State under section 
                204 of the Federal-State Extended Unemployment 
                Compensation Act of 1970; or
                    ``(B) any Federal payments to a State under section 
                4003(a) of title IV of the Supplemental Appropriations 
                Act, 2008, pursuant to a Federal-State agreement under 
                section 4001 of such title.''.
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