[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 1274 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                S. 1274

  To permanently exempt payments made from the Railroad Unemployment 
  Insurance Account from sequestration under the Balanced Budget and 
                 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             April 25, 2023

Mrs. Fischer (for herself, Ms. Klobuchar, and Mr. Brown) introduced the 
 following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on 
                               the Budget

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                                 A BILL


 
  To permanently exempt payments made from the Railroad Unemployment 
  Insurance Account from sequestration under the Balanced Budget and 
                 Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLES.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Railroad Employee Equity and 
Fairness Act'' or the ``REEF Act''.

SEC. 2. TREATMENT OF PAYMENTS FROM THE RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE 
              ACCOUNT.

    (a) Amendments.--Section 235 of the Continued Assistance to Rail 
Workers Act of 2020 (subchapter III of title II of division N of Public 
Law 116-260; 2 U.S.C. 906 note) is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)--
                    (A) by striking paragraphs (1) and (2); and
                    (B) by striking ``subsection (a)--'' and inserting 
                ``subsection (a) shall take effect 7 days after the 
                date of enactment of the Continued Assistance to Rail 
                Workers Act of 2020.''; and
            (2) by striking subsection (c).
    (b) Applicability.--The amendments made by subsection (a) shall 
apply as if enacted on the day before the date on which the national 
emergency concerning the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak 
declared by the President on March 13, 2020, under the National 
Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) terminates.
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