[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 139 (Wednesday, August 5, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S4952]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2581. Ms. ERNST submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 2499 proposed by Mr. McConnell to the bill S. 178, to 
condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic Turkic Muslims in 
Xinjiang, and calling for an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and 
harassment of these communities inside and outside China; which was 
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

        At the end, add the following:

     SEC. 3. PROHIBITING PAYMENT OF PANDEMIC UNEMPLOYMENT 
                   ASSISTANCE AND FEDERAL PANDEMIC UNEMPLOYMENT 
                   COMPENSATION TO MILLIONAIRES.

       (a) Pandemic Unemployment Assistance.--Section 2102 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 subsection (a)(3)(B)--
       (A) in clause (i), by striking ``or'' at the end;
       (B) in clause (ii), by striking the period at the end and 
     inserting ``; or''; and
       (C) by adding at the end the following new clause:
       ``(iii) an individual whose adjusted gross income is equal 
     to or greater than $1,000,000.''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(i) Prohibition on Assistance to Millionaires.--
       ``(1) Compliance.--Any application for assistance 
     authorized under subsection (b) shall include a form or 
     procedure for an individual applicant to certify that such 
     individual is not prohibited from receiving such assistance 
     pursuant to subsection (a)(3)(B)(iii).
       ``(2) Audits.--The certifications required by paragraph (1) 
     shall be auditable by the Department of Labor or the 
     Government Accountability Office.''.
       (b) Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation.--Section 
     2104(b) 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)), as amended by section 
     2(b)(1)(B), is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(4) Prohibition on compensation to millionaires.--
       ``(A) In general.--Federal Pandemic Unemployment 
     Compensation shall not be payable to any individual whose 
     adjusted gross income is equal to or greater than $1,000,000.
       ``(B) Compliance.--Any application for regular compensation 
     shall include a form or procedure for an individual applicant 
     to certify that such individual is not prohibited from 
     receiving Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation pursuant 
     to subparagraph (A).
       ``(C) Audits.--The certifications required by subparagraph 
     (B) shall be auditable by the Department of Labor or the 
     Government Accountability Office.''.
       (c) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section, or any 
     amendment made by this section, may be construed to apply to 
     regular compensation or extended compensation (as such terms 
     are defined by section 205 of the Federal-State Extended 
     Unemployment Compensation Act (26 U.S.C. 3304 note)) to which 
     an individual may be otherwise entitled.
       (d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall apply to weeks of unemployment beginning on or after 
     the date of the enactment of this Act.
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