A bill to permanently exempt payments made from the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Account from sequestration under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985.
Railroad Employee Equity and Fairness Act or the REEF Act
This bill permanently exempts payments made from the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Account from sequestration. Sequestration is a process of automatic, usually across-the-board spending reductions under which budgetary resources are permanently cancelled to enforce specific budget policy goals.
Currently, this exemption ends 30 days after the termination of the COVID-19 national emergency period.
Referred to the House Committee on the Budget.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Budget.
Committee on the Budget. Ordered to be reported without amendment favorably.
Committee on the Budget. Reported by Senator Whitehouse without amendment. Without written report.
Committee on the Budget. Reported by Senator Whitehouse without amendment. Without written report.
Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 339.
Senate committee report filed after reporting
By Senator Whitehouse from Committee on the Budget filed written report. Report No. 118-168.
Star Print ordered on report 118-168.
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