Emergency Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 2004

Emergency Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 2004 - Amends the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (TEUCA) to extend the TEUC program through weeks of unemployment ending before June 30, 2004. Terminates individual payments for weeks beginning after September 30, 2004.

Revises trigger requirements for determining high-unemployment States (TEUC-X), where individuals are eligible to receive additional weeks of program payments.

Provides for temporary State authority to waive application of certain look-back provisions under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970.

[Congressional Bills 108th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 2250 Placed on Calendar Senate (PCS)]






                                                       Calendar No. 470
108th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 2250

To extend the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002, 
                        and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             March 29, 2004

 Ms. Cantwell (for herself, Mr. Voinovich, and Mr. Kennedy) introduced 
           the following bill; which was read the first time

                             March 30, 2004

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar

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                                 A BILL


 
To extend the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002, 
                        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 ``Emergency Unemployment Compensation 
Amendments of 2004''.

SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF THE TEMPORARY EXTENDED UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION 
              ACT OF 2002.

    (a) In General.--Section 208 of the Temporary Extended Unemployment 
Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-147; 116 Stat. 30), as amended 
by Public Law 108-1 (117 Stat. 3) and the Unemployment Compensation 
Amendments of 2003 (Public Law 108-26; 117 Stat. 751), is amended--
            (1) in subsection (a)(2), by striking ``December 31, 2003'' 
        and inserting ``June 30, 2004'';
            (2) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``December 31, 2003'' 
        and inserting ``June 30, 2004'';
            (3) in subsection (b)(2)--
                    (A) in the heading, by striking ``december 31, 
                2003'' and inserting ``june 30, 2004''; and
                    (B) by striking ``December 31, 2003'' and inserting 
                ``June 30, 2004''; and
            (4) in subsection (b)(3), by striking ``March 31, 2004'' 
        and inserting ``September 30, 2004''.
    (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section shall take 
effect as if included in the enactment of the Temporary Extended 
Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-147; 116 Stat. 
21) and shall apply with respect to payments for weeks of unemployment 
beginning on or after the date of enactment this Act.

SEC. 3. ADDITIONAL REVISION TO CURRENT TEUC-X TRIGGER.

    (a) In General.--Section 203(c)(2)(B) of the Temporary Extended 
Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-147; 116 Stat. 
30) is amended to read as follows:
                    ``(B) such a period would then be in effect for 
                such State under such Act if--
                            ``(i) section 203(d) of such Act were 
                        applied as if it had been amended by striking 
                        `5' each place it appears and inserting `4'; 
                        and
                            ``(ii) with respect to weeks of 
                        unemployment beginning after December 27, 
                        2003--
                                    ``(I) paragraph (1)(A) of such 
                                section 203(d) did not apply; and
                                    ``(II) clause (ii) of section 
                                203(f)(1)(A) of such Act did not 
                                apply.''.
    (b) Application.--Section 203(c)(2)(B)(ii) of the Temporary 
Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107-147; 116 
Stat. 30), as added by subsection (a), shall apply with respect to 
payments for weeks of unemployment beginning on or after the date of 
enactment this Act.

SEC. 4. TEMPORARY STATE AUTHORITY TO WAIVE APPLICATION OF LOOKBACKS 
              UNDER THE FEDERAL-STATE EXTENDED UNEMPLOYMENT 
              COMPENSATION ACT OF 1970.

    For purposes of conforming with the provisions of the Federal-State 
Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (26 U.S.C. 3304 note), a 
State may, during the period beginning on the date of enactment of this 
Act and ending on June 30, 2004, waive the application of either 
subsection (d)(1)(A) of section 203 of such Act or subsection 
(f)(1)(A)(ii) of such section, or both.




                                                       Calendar No. 470

108th CONGRESS

  2d Session

                                S. 2250

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL

To extend the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002, 
                        and for other purposes.

_______________________________________________________________________

                             March 30, 2004

            Read the second time and placed on the calendar