[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3154 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3154

  To extend reemployment services and eligibility assessments to all 
      claimants for unemployment benefits, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 12, 2021

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

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                                 A BILL


 
  To extend reemployment services and eligibility assessments to all 
      claimants for 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 ``Building on Reemployment 
Improvements to Deliver Good Employment (BRIDGE) for Workers Act''.

SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY FOR REEMPLOYMENT SERVICES.

    (a) CARES Act.--
            (1) Pandemic unemployment assistance.--Section 2102 of the 
        Cares Act (Public Law 116-136) is amended by adding at the end 
        the following:
    ``(i) Eligibility for Reemployment Services.--Pandemic unemployment 
assistance under this section shall be treated as unemployment 
compensation for the purposes of section 306 of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 506).''.
            (2) Pandemic emergency unemployment compensation.--Section 
        2107 of the Cares Act (Public Law 116-136) is amended by adding 
        at the end the following:
    ``(h) Eligibility for Reemployment Services.--Pandemic emergency 
unemployment compensation under this section shall be treated as 
unemployment compensation for the purposes of section 306 of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 506).''.
    (b) Social Security Act.--Section 306(a) of the Social Security Act 
(42 U.S.C. 506(a)) is amended--
            (1) by striking ``individuals referred to reemployment 
        services as described in section 303(j)'' and inserting 
        ``claimants for unemployment compensation, including claimants 
        referred to reemployment services as described in section 
        303(j),''; and
            (2) by striking ``such individuals'' and inserting ``such 
        claimants''.
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