[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6805 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 6805

  To ensure that additional unemployment benefits do not result in an 
 individual receiving unemployment compensation that is more than the 
     amount of wages the individual was earning prior to becoming 
                              unemployed.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 12, 2020

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To ensure that additional unemployment benefits do not result in an 
 individual receiving unemployment compensation that is more than the 
     amount of wages the individual was earning prior to becoming 
                              unemployed.

    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 ``Getting Americans Back to Work 
Act''.

SEC. 2. LIMITATION ON TOTAL UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.

    (a) In General.--Subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES 
Act (Public Law 116-136) is amended by inserting after section 2107 the 
following:

``SEC. 2107A. LIMITATION ON TOTAL UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.

    ``(a) In General.--Notwithstanding sections 2102, 2104, and 2107, 
in no case may the sum of unemployment benefits paid to an individual 
under such sections and as determined under State law for any week 
exceed the amount of the individual's average weekly wages for an 
appropriate period prior to the receipt of assistance under such 
sections, as determined by the Secretary of Labor.
    ``(b) Reporting; Recovery.--The Secretary of Labor shall, in 
accordance with applicable laws and regulations, have the authority to 
require such wage reporting as needed to implement this section and to 
recover any amounts paid in excess of any limit established by law.''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall 
apply with respect to weeks of unemployment beginning on or after June 
1, 2020.
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