[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 75 (Wednesday, May 1, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S3286]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 1933. Mrs. FISCHER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by her to the bill H.R. 3935, to amend title 49, United States Code, to 
reauthorize and improve the Federal Aviation Administration and other 
civil aviation programs, and for other purposes; which was ordered to 
lie on the table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. RAILROAD EMPLOYEE EQUITY AND FAIRNESS.

       (a) Short Title.--This section may be cited as the 
     ``Railroad Employee Equity and Fairness Act'' or the ``REEF 
     Act''.
       (b) Treatment of Payments From the Railroad Unemployment 
     Insurance Account.--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).
       (c) Applicability.--The amendments made by subsection (b) 
     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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