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117TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 3266 

To amend subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES Act to require 

confirmation of employment status for long-term unemployed individuals, 

and for other purposes. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 17, 2021 

Mr. BISHOP of North Carolina (for himself, Mr. ARRINGTON, Ms. HERRELL, 

Mr. PERRY, Mr. ROUZER, Mr. WILLIAMS of Texas, Mr. CAWTHORN, Mr. 

HICE of Georgia, Mr. STEUBE, Mr. GOODEN of Texas, Mr. ROY, Mr. 

GOOD of Virginia, and Mr. MANN) introduced the following bill; which 

was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 

A BILL 

To amend subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES 

Act to require confirmation of employment status for 

long-term unemployed individuals, 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 ‘‘Jump-Start the Econ5 omy with Jobs Act’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. CONFIRMATION REQUIREMENT. 

2 Subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES Act 

3 is amended by adding at the end the following: 

4 ‘‘SEC. 2119. CONFIRMATION OF EMPLOYMENT STATUS FOR 

5 LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYED INDIVIDUALS. 

6 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—As a condition of each of the 

7 agreements described in sections 2104 and 2107, a State 

8 shall— 

9 ‘‘(1) notify each long-term unemployed indi10 vidual in the State that the State unemployment 

11 agency will seek confirmation of the individual’s cur12 rent employment status from the individual’s most 

13 recent employer (except in cases in which such em14 ployer no longer exists); 

15 ‘‘(2) request each employer described in para16 graph (1) to submit information to the State unem17 ployment agency with respect to each such individual 

18 describing whether— 

19 ‘‘(A) the individual’s position is not avail20 able at the time of the request; or 

21 ‘‘(B) the individual’s position is available 

22 but the individual has refused to return to 

23 work; 

24 ‘‘(3) in any case in which an employer submits 

25 information to the State unemployment agency with 

26 respect to an individual that describes a position 


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1 that remains unavailable as described in paragraph 

2 (1), notify such individual, not later than the stand3 ard processing time for applications for regular un4 employment compensation in the State after receipt 

5 of such information, that the individual’s unem6 ployed status has been confirmed; and 

7 ‘‘(4) in any case in which an employer submits 

8 information to the State unemployment agency with 

9 respect to an individual that describes a refusal to 

10 return to work as described in paragraph (2)(B), or 

11 in any case in which an employer fails to submit in12 formation described in paragraph (2) not later than 

13 the standard processing time for applications for 

14 regular unemployment compensation in the State 

15 after the date of the request, terminate the individ16 ual’s Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensa17 tion under section 2104 or Pandemic Emergency 

18 Unemployment Compensation under section 2107, 

19 as applicable. 

20 ‘‘(b) DEFINITION.—The term ‘long-term unemployed 

21 individual’ means an individual who has received Federal 

22 Pandemic Unemployment Compensation under section 

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1 tion under section 2107 for more than 30 weeks of unem2 ployment.’’. 

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