[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7957 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7957

To clarify the eligibility of high school students to receive Pandemic 
           Unemployment Compensation, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 7, 2020

   Ms. Craig (for herself, Ms. Omar, Mr. Phillips, and Ms. McCollum) 
 introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
                             Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
To clarify the eligibility of high school students to receive Pandemic 
           Unemployment Compensation, 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 ``High School Student Unemployment 
Eligibility Clarification Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. INCLUSION OF HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS.

    (a) In General.--Section 2102(a) of the Relief for Workers Affected 
by Coronavirus Act (contained in subtitle A of title II of division A 
of the CARES Act (Public Law 116-136)) is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A)(ii)(II), by striking ``and'' at the 
        end;
            (2) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C); 
        and
            (3) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following:
                    ``(B) includes an individual who meets the criteria 
                described in subparagraph (A) and is a student 
                attending, doing distance learning through, or on 
                vacation from, a secondary school (as defined in 
                section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education 
                Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801)), regardless of whether 
                the individual is able to accept employment during 
                school hours; and''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall be 
effective as if enacted on the date of enactment of the CARES Act 
(Public Law 116-136).
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