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111TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3404 

To amend the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families 

Act and the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to provide for the 

temporary extension of certain unemployment benefits and the temporary 

availability of further additional emergency unemployment compensation, 

and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

JULY 30, 2009 

Mr. MCDERMOTT (for himself, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. STARK, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. 

LEWIS of Georgia, Ms. BERKLEY, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. 

MEEK of Florida, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. LINDA T. SA ́NCHEZ of California, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. FUDGE, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. NADLER

of New York, Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. FARR, Mr. LATOURETTE, Mrs. MILLER of Michigan, Mr. PETERS, Mr. DINGELL, and Mrs. CAPPS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways 

and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 

in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 

A BILL 

To amend the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and 

Struggling Families Act and the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to provide for the temporary extension of certain unemployment benefits and the temporary 

availability of further additional emergency unemployment compensation, and for other purposes. 


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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 Extension Act of 2009’’. 

6 SEC. 2. TEMPORARY EXTENSION OF CERTAIN UNEMPLOY7 MENT BENEFITS. 

8 (a) EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSA9 TION.—Section 4007 of the Supplemental Appropriations 

10 Act, 2008 (Public Law 110–252; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) 

11 is amended— 

12 (1) by striking ‘‘December 31, 2009’’ each 

13 place it appears and inserting ‘‘December 31, 

14 2010’’; 

15 (2) in the heading for subsection (b)(2), by 

16 striking ‘‘DECEMBER 31, 2009’’ and inserting ‘‘DE17 CEMBER 31, 2010’’; and 

18 (3) in subsection (b)(3), by striking ‘‘May 31, 

19 2010’’ and inserting ‘‘May 31, 2011’’. 

20 (b) ADDITIONAL REGULAR COMPENSATION.—Section 

21 2002(e) of the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and 

22 Struggling Families Act, as contained in Public Law 111– 

23 5 (26 U.S.C. 3304 note; 123 Stat. 438), is amended— 

24 (1) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ‘‘January 

25 1, 2010’’ and inserting ‘‘January 1, 2011’’; 


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1 (2) in the heading for paragraph (2), by strik2 ing ‘‘JANUARY 1, 2010’’ and inserting ‘‘JANUARY 1, 

3 2011’’; and 

4 (3) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘June 30, 

5 2010’’ and inserting ‘‘June 30, 2011’’. 

6 (c) FULL FUNDING OF EXTENDED BENEFITS.—Sec7 tion 2005 of the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and 

8 Struggling Families Act, as contained in Public Law 111– 

9 5 (26 U.S.C. 3304 note; 123 Stat. 444), is amended— 

10 (1) by striking ‘‘January 1, 2010’’ each place 

11 it appears and inserting ‘‘January 1, 2011’’; 

12 (2) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘June 1, 

13 2010’’ and inserting ‘‘June 1, 2011’’; and 

14 (3) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘May 30, 

15 2010’’ and inserting ‘‘May 30, 2011’’. 

16 SEC. 3. ADDITIONAL EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT COM17 PENSATION. 

18 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 4002 of the Supplemental 

19 Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110–252; 26 

20 U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended by adding at the end the 

21 following: 

22 ‘‘(d) FURTHER ADDITIONAL EMERGENCY UNEM23 PLOYMENT COMPENSATION.— 

24 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—If, at the time that the 

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1 section (c)(1) (hereinafter ‘additional emergency un2 employment compensation’) is exhausted or at any 

3 time thereafter, such individual’s State is in an ex4 tended benefit period (as determined under para5 graph (2)), such account shall be further augmented 

6 by an amount (hereinafter ‘further additional emer7 gency unemployment compensation’) equal to the 

8 lesser of— 

9 ‘‘(A) 50 percent of the total amount of 

10 regular compensation (including dependents’ al11 lowances) payable to the individual during the 

12 individual’s benefit year under the State law; or 

13 ‘‘(B) 13 times the individual’s average 

14 weekly benefit amount (as determined under 

15 subsection (b)(2)) for the benefit year. 

16 ‘‘(2) EXTENDED BENEFIT PERIOD.—For pur17 poses of paragraph (1), a State shall be considered 

18 to be in an extended benefit period, as of any given 

19 time, if— 

20 ‘‘(A) such a period is then in effect for 

21 such State under the Federal-State Extended 

22 Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970; 

23 ‘‘(B) such a period would then be in effect 

24 for such State under such Act if section 203(d) 

25 of such Act— 


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1 ‘‘(i) were applied by substituting ‘6’ 

2 for ‘5’ each place it appears; and 

3 ‘‘(ii) did not include the requirement 

4 under paragraph (1)(A) thereof; or 

5 ‘‘(C) such a period would then be in effect 

6 for such State under such Act if— 

7 ‘‘(i) section 203(f) of such Act were 

8 applied to such State (regardless of wheth9 er the State by law had provided for such 

10 application); and 

11 ‘‘(ii) such section 203(f)— 

12 ‘‘(I) were applied by substituting 

13 ‘9.0’ for ‘6.5’ in paragraph (1)(A)(i) 

14 thereof; and 

15 ‘‘(II) did not include the require16 ment under paragraph (1)(A)(ii) 

17 thereof. 

18 ‘‘(3) COORDINATION RULE.—Notwithstanding 

19 an election under section 4001(e) by a State to pro20 vide for the payment of emergency unemployment 

21 compensation prior to extended compensation, such 

22 State may pay extended compensation to an other23 wise eligible individual prior to any further addi24 tional emergency unemployment compensation, if 

25 such individual claimed extended compensation for 


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1 at least 1 week of unemployment after the exhaus2 tion of additional emergency unemployment com3 pensation. 

4 ‘‘(4) LIMITATION.—The account of an indi5 vidual may be augmented not more than once under 

6 this subsection.’’. 

7 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT TO NON-AUGMENTA8 TION RULE.—Section 4007(b)(2) of the Supplemental Ap9 propriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110–252; 26 U.S.C. 

10 3304 note), as amended by section 2(a), is further amend11 ed— 

12 (1) by striking ‘‘then section 4002(c)’’ and in13 serting ‘‘then subsections (c) and (d) of section 

14 4002’’; and 

15 (2) by striking ‘‘paragraph (2) of such section)’’ 

16 and inserting ‘‘paragraph (2) of such subsection (c) 

17 or (d) (as the case may be))’’. 

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

19 this section shall apply as if included in the enactment 

20 of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008, except that 

21 no amount shall be payable by virtue of such amendments 

22 with respect to any week of unemployment commencing 

23 before the date of the enactment of this Act. 


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1 SEC. 4. TRANSFER OF FUNDS. 

2 Section 4004(e)(1) of the Supplemental Appropria3 tions Act, 2008 (Public Law 110–252; 26 U.S.C. 3304 

4 note) is amended by striking ‘‘Act;’’ and inserting ‘‘Act 

5 and the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Exten6 sion Act of 2009;’’. 

7 SEC. 5. ADDITIONAL EXTENDED UNEMPLOYMENT BENE8 FITS UNDER THE RAILROAD UNEMPLOY9 MENT INSURANCE ACT. 

10 (a) BENEFITS.—Section 2(c)(2)(D) of the Railroad 

11 Unemployment Insurance Act, as added by section 2006 

12 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 

13 (Public Law 111–5), is amended— 

14 (1) in clause (iii)— 

15 (A) by striking ‘‘June 30, 2009’’ and in16 serting ‘‘June 30, 2010’’; 

17 (B) by striking ‘‘December 31, 2009’’ and 

18 inserting ‘‘December 31, 2010’’; and 

19 (2) by adding at the end of clause (iv) the fol20 lowing: ‘‘In addition to the amount appropriated by 

21 the preceding sentence, out of any funds in the 

22 Treasury not otherwise appropriated, there are ap23 propriated $175,000,000 to cover the cost of addi24 tional extended unemployment benefits provided 

25 under this subparagraph, to remain available until 

26 expended.’’. 


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1 (b) ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—Section 2006 of 

2 the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 is 

3 amended by adding at the end of subsection (b) the fol4 lowing: ‘‘In addition to funds appropriated by the pre5 ceding sentence, out of any funds in the Treasury not oth6 erwise appropriated, there are appropriated to the Rail7 road Retirement Board $807,000 to cover the administra8 tive expenses associated with the payment of additional 

9 extended unemployment benefits under section 2(c)(2)(D) 

10 of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act, to remain 

11 available until expended.’’. 

12 SEC. 6. EFFICIENT USE OF THE NATIONAL DIRECTORY OF 

13 NEW HIRES DATABASE FOR FEDERALLY14 SPONSORED RESEARCH ASSESSING THE EF15 FECTIVENESS OF FEDERAL PROGRAMS IN 

16 ACHIEVING POSITIVE LABOR MARKET OUT17 COMES. 

18 Section 453 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 

19 653) is amended— 

20 (1) in subsection (i)(2)(A), by striking ‘‘24’’ 

21 and inserting ‘‘48’’; 

22 (2) in subsection (j)(5), by striking ‘‘but with23 out personal identifiers’’ and inserting ‘‘or pursuant 

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1 ket outcomes that are conducted under contract to 

2 or grant from the Department of Health and 

3 Human Services, the Social Security Administration, 

4 the Department of Labor, the Department of Edu5 cation, the Department of Housing and Urban De6 velopment, or other Federal departments or agencies 

7 supporting the evaluations. For purposes of con8 ducting the evaluations, personal identifiers may be 

9 provided to any Federal department or agency and 

10 to any agent of any such department or agency, sub11 ject to the privacy provisions contained in sub12 sections (l) and (m)’’; and 

13 (3) in subsection (l)(2), by inserting ‘‘, agent 

14 conducting research described in subsection (j)(5),’’ 

15 before ‘‘or employee’’. 

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