To extend reemployment services and eligibility assessments to all claimants for unemployment benefits, and for other purposes.
Building on Reemployment Improvements to Deliver Good Employment for Workers Act or the BRIDGE for Workers Act
This act permanently expands the allowable purposes for certain Department of Labor grants to states for reemployment services and eligibility assessments. Specifically, the act permanently allows these grants to be used to fund reemployment services and eligibility assessments for all claimants for unemployment compensation.
(Under the current statute, the grants may only be used to provide such services to a subset of claimants who have been identified by the state as likely to exhaust unemployment benefits and need job search assistance to become employed. However, in recent years, annual appropriations acts have allowed the grants to be used for all claimants for unemployment compensation. This act makes this authority permanent.)
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Reported (Amended) by the Committee on Ways and Means. H. Rept. 118-277.
Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 222.
Mr. Smith (MO) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended.
Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H5253-5254)
DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 5861.
Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5253)
On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill, as amended Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H5253)
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Senate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Senate Committee on Finance discharged by Unanimous Consent.
Enacted as Public Law 118-120
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Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
Passed Senate without amendment by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S6567)
Message on Senate action sent to the House.
Presented to President.
Presented to President.
Signed by President.
Signed by President.
Became Public Law No: 118-120.
Became Public Law No: 118-120.