[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3896 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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118th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 3896

To provide enhanced disaster unemployement assistance to victims of the 
           Hawaii wildfires of 2023, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 8, 2024

Mr. Schatz (for himself and Ms. Hirono) introduced the following bill; 
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security 
                        and Governmental Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide enhanced disaster unemployement assistance to victims of the 
           Hawaii wildfires of 2023, 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 ``Hawaii Wildfire Disaster 
Unemployment Assistance Continuity Act''.

SEC. 2. DISASTER UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the case of an 
individual eligible to receive unemployment assistance under section 
410(a) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 
Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5177(a)) as a result of a disaster 
declaration made for the wildfires in Hawaii on August 8, 2023, the 
President shall make such assistance available for 39 weeks after the 
date of the disaster declaration.
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