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103D CONGRESS

1ST SESSION H. R. 920

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

MARCH 2 (legislative day, JANUARY 5), 1993

Received; read twice and placed on the calendar

AN ACT

To extend the emergency unemployment compensation

program, and for other purposes.

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

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Emergency Unemploy5 ment Compensation Amendments of 1993’’.
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1 SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT COM2 PENSATION PROGRAM.

3 (a) GENERAL RULE.—Sections 102(f)(1) and

4 106(a)(2) of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation

5 Act of 1991 (Public Law 102–164, as amended) are each

6 amended by striking ‘‘March 6, 1993’’ and inserting

7 ‘‘October 2, 1993’’.

8 (b) MODIFICATION TO FINAL PHASE-OUT.—Para9 graph (2) of section 102(f) of such Act is amended—

10 (1) by striking ‘‘March 6, 1993’’ and inserting

11 ‘‘October 2, 1993’’, and

12 (2) by striking ‘‘June 19, 1993’’ and inserting

13 ‘‘January 15, 1994’’.

14 (c) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Paragraph (1) of

15 section 101(e) of such Act is amended by striking ‘‘March

16 6, 1993’’ each place it appears and inserting ‘‘October 2,

17 1993’’.

18 (d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by

19 this section shall apply to weeks beginning after March

20 6, 1993.

21 SEC. 3. TREATMENT OF RAILROAD WORKERS.

22 (a) EXTENSION OF PROGRAM.—

23 (1) IN GENERAL.—Paragraphs (1) and (2) of

24 section 501(b) of the Emergency Unemployment

25 Compensation Act of 1991 (Public Law 102–164, as
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1 amended) are each amended by striking ‘‘March 6,

2 1993’’ and inserting ‘‘October 2, 1993’’.

3 (2) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section

4 501(a) of such Act is amended by striking ‘‘March

5 1993’’ and inserting ‘‘October 1993’’.

6 (b) TERMINATION OF BENEFITS.—Section 501(e) of

7 such Act is amended—

8 (1) by striking ‘‘March 6, 1993’’ and inserting

9 ‘‘October 2, 1993’’, and

10 (2) by striking ‘‘June 19, 1993’’ and inserting

11 ‘‘January 15, 1994’’.

12 (c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by

13 this section shall apply to weeks beginning after March

14 6, 1993.

15 SEC. 4. PROFILING OF NEW CLAIMANTS.

16 (a) GENERAL RULE.—The Secretary of Labor shall

17 establish a program for encouraging the adoption and im18 plementation by all States of a system of profiling all new

19 claimants for regular unemployment compensation (in20 cluding new claimants under each State unemployment

21 compensation law which is approved under the Federal

22 Unemployment Tax Act (26 U.S.C. 3301–3311) and new

23 claimants under Federal unemployment benefit and allow24 ance programs administered by the State under agree25 ments with the Secretary of Labor), to determine which
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1 claimants may be likely to exhaust regular unemployment

2 compensation and may need reemployment assistance

3 services to make a successful transition to new employ4 ment.

5 (b) TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE TO STATES.—The Sec6 retary of Labor shall provide technical assistance and ad7 vice to the States in the development of model profiling

8 systems and the procedures for such systems. Such tech9 nical assistance and advice shall be provided by the utiliza10 tion of such resources as the secretary deems appropriate,

11 and the procedures for such profiling systems shall include

12 the effective utilization of automated data processing.

13 (c) FUNDING OF ACTIVITIES.—For purposes of en14 couraging the development and establishment of model

15 profiling systems in the States, the Secretary of Labor

16 shall provide to each State, from funds available for this

17 purpose, such funds as may be determined by the Sec18 retary to be necessary.

19 (d) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Within 30 months after

20 the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of

21 Labor shall report to the Congress on the operation and

22 effectiveness of the profiling systems adopted by the

23 States, and the Secretary’s recommendation for continu24 ation of the systems and any appropriate legislation.
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1 (e) STATE.—For purposes of this section, the term

2 ‘‘State’’ has the meaning given such term by section

3 3306(j)(1) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.

4 (f) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The provisions of this section

5 shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.

6 SEC. 5. FINANCING PROVISIONS.

7 (a) AUTHORIZATION.—There are authorized to be ap8 propriated for nonrepayable advances to the account for

9 ‘‘Advances to the Unemployment Trust Fund and Other

10 Funds’’ in the Department of Labor appropriations Acts

11 (for transfer to the ‘‘extended unemployment compensa12 tion account’’ established by section 905 of the Social Se13 curity Act) such sums as may be necessary to carry out

14 the purposes of the amendments made by section 2 of this

15 Act.

16 (b) USE OF ADVANCE ACCOUNT FUNDS.—The funds

17 appropriated to the account for ‘‘Advances to the Unem18 ployment Trust Fund and Other Funds’’ in the Depart19 ment of Labor Appropriation Act for Fiscal Year 1993

20 (Public Law 102–394) are authorized to be used to make

21 payments to the States to carry out the purposes of the

22 amendments made by section 2 of this Act.

23 SEC. 6. EMERGENCY DESIGNATION.

24 Pursuant to sections 251(b)(2)(D)(i) and 252(e) of

25 the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act
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1 of 1985, the Congress hereby designates all direct spend2 ing amounts provided by this Act (for all fiscal years) and

3 all appropriations authorized by this Act (for all fiscal

4 years) as emergency requirements within the meaning of

5 part C of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit

6 Control Act of 1985.

Passed the House of Representatives February 24,

1993.

Attest:

Clerk.