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108TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3156

To amend the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 

2002 to provide for additional weeks of benefits thereunder. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

SEPTEMBER 23, 2003

Mr. WU (for himself and Mr. DEFAZIO) introduced the following bill; which 

was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 

A BILL

To amend the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 to provide for additional weeks 

of benefits thereunder.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

3 SECTION 1. ADDITIONAL WEEKS OF BENEFITS. 

4 Section 203 of the Temporary Extended Unemploy5 ment Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–147; 

6 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended—

7 (1) in subsection (b)(1)—

8 (A) by striking ‘‘50’’ in subparagraph (A) 

9 and inserting ‘‘100’’; and 
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1 (B) by striking ‘‘13’’ in subparagraph (B) 

2 and inserting ‘‘26’’ ; and 

3 (2) in subsection (c)(1), by inserting ‘‘50 per4 cent of’’ after ‘‘equal to’’. 

5 SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. 

6 (a) IN GENERAL.—The amendments made by this 

7 Act— 

8 (1) shall take effect as if included in the enact9 ment of the Temporary Extended Unemployment 

10 Compensation Act of 2002; but 

11 (2) shall apply only with respect to weeks of un12 employment beginning on or after the date of enact13 ment of this Act, subject to subsection (b). 

14 (b) SPECIAL RULES.—In the case of an individual for 

15 whom a temporary extended unemployment compensation 

16 account was established before the date of enactment of 

17 this Act, the Temporary Extended Unemployment Com18 pensation Act of 2002 (as amended by this Act) shall be 

19 applied subject to the following: 

20 (1) Any amounts deposited in the individual’s 

21 temporary extended unemployment compensation ac22 count by reason of section 203(c) of TEUCA (com23 monly known as ‘‘TEUC–X amounts’’) before the 

24 date of enactment of this Act shall be treated as 

25 amounts deposited by reason of section 203(b) of 
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1 TEUCA (commonly known as ‘‘TEUC amounts’’), 

2 as amended by this Act. 

3 (2) For purposes of determining whether the in4 dividual is eligible for any TEUC–X amounts under 

5 TEUCA (as amended by this Act)—

6 (A) any determination made under section 

7 203(c) of TEUCA before the application of the 

8 amendments made by this Act shall be dis9 regarded; and 

10 (B) any such determination shall instead 

11 be made by applying section 203(c) of TEUCA 

12 (as amended by this Act)—

13 (i) as of the time that all amounts es14 tablished in such account in accordance 

15 with section 203(b) of TEUCA (as amend16 ed by this Act, and including any amounts 

17 described in paragraph (1)) are in fact ex18 hausted, except that 

19 (ii) if such individual’s account was 

20 both augmented by and exhausted of all 

21 TEUC–X amounts before the date of en22 actment of this Act, such determination 

23 shall be made as if exhaustion (as de24 scribed in section 203(c)(1) of TEUCA) 
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1 had not occurred until such date of enact2 ment. 

3 (3) For purposes of any determination de4 scribed in paragraph (2)(B)(ii), an extended benefit 

5 period shall be considered to exist on the date of en6 actment of this Act in the State of the individual in7 volved if either criterion under section 203(c)(2) of 

8 TEUCA is satisfied as of—

9 (A) the date of enactment of this Act; or 

10 (B) the date (before the date of enactment 

11 of this Act) as of which such individual’s ac12 count was last exhausted. 

13 (4) For purposes of this Act, the term 

14 ‘‘TEUCA’’ means the Temporary Extended Unem15 ployment Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 

16 107–147; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note). 

17 (c) COORDINATION PROVISION.—Nothing in this Act 

18 shall be considered to affect the operation of section 4002 

19 of the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations 

20 Act, 2003 (Public Law 108–11; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note).

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