Union Calendar No. 379
103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4868
[Report No. 103–693]
A BILL
To amend the Railroad Unemployment Insurance
Act to reduce the waiting period for benefits pay-
able under that Act, and for other purposes.
AUGUST 10, 1994
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Commit-
tee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, and
ordered to be printed
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Union Calendar No. 379
103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 4868
[Report No. 103–693]
To amend the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act to reduce the waiting
period for benefits payable under that Act, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
AUGUST 1, 1994
Mr. SWIFT (for himself and Mr. OXLEY) introduced the following bill; which
was referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce
AUGUST 10, 1994
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on August 1, 1994]
A BILL
To amend the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act to
reduce the waiting period for benefits payable under that
Act, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Railroad Unemployment
Insurance Amendments Act of 1994’’.
SEC. 2. WAITING PERIOD FOR UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.
Section 2(a)(1)(A) of the Railroad Unemployment In-
surance Act is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(A) PAYMENT OF UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS.—
‘‘(i) GENERALLY.—Except as otherwise provided
in this subparagraph, benefits shall be payable to any
qualified employee for each day of unemployment in
excess of 4 during any registration period within a
period of continuing unemployment.
‘‘(ii) WAITING PERIOD FOR FIRST REGISTRATION
PERIOD.—Benefits shall be payable to any qualified
employee for each day of unemployment in excess of
7 during that employee’s first registration period in
a period of continuing unemployment if—
‘‘(I) such registration period includes more
than 4 days of unemployment; and
‘‘(II) such period of continuing unemploy-
ment is the employee’s initial period of continu-
ing unemployment in the benefit year.
‘‘(iii) STRIKES.—
‘‘(I) INITIAL 14-DAY WAITING PERIOD.—If
the Board finds that a qualified employee has a
period of continuing unemployment that in-
cludes days of unemployment due to a stoppage
of work because of a strike in the establishment,
premises, or enterprise at which such employee
was last employed, no benefits shall be payable
for such employee’s first 14 days of unemploy-
ment due to such stoppage of work.
‘‘(II) SUBSEQUENT
DAYS
OF
UNEMPLOY-
MENT.—For subsequent days of unemployment
due to the same stoppage of work, benefits shall
be payable as provided in clause (i) of this sub-
paragraph.
‘‘(III) SUBSEQUENT PERIODS OF CONTINU-
ING UNEMPLOYMENT.—If such period of continu-
ing unemployment ends by reason of clause (v)
but the stoppage of work continues, the waiting
period established in clause (ii) shall apply to
the employee’s first registration period in a new
period of continuing unemployment based upon
the same stoppage of work.
‘‘(iv) DEFINITION
OF
PERIOD
OF
CONTINUING
UNEMPLOYMENT.—Except as limited by clause (v), for
the purposes of this subparagraph, the term ‘period of
continuing unemployment’ means—
‘‘(I) a single registration period that in-
cludes more than 4 days of unemployment;
‘‘(II) a series of consecutive registration pe-
riods, each of which includes more than 4 days
of unemployment; or
‘‘(III) a series of successive registration pe-
riods, each of which includes more than 4 days
of unemployment, if each succeeding registration
period begins within 15 days after the last day
of the immediately preceding registration period.
‘‘(v) SPECIAL
RULE
REGARDING
END
OF
PE-
RIOD.—For purposes of applying clause (ii), a period
of continuing unemployment ends when an employee
exhausts rights to unemployment benefits under sub-
section (c) of this section.
‘‘(vi) LIMIT ON AMOUNT OF BENEFITS.—No bene-
fits shall be payable to an otherwise eligible employee
for any day of unemployment in a registration period
where the total amount of the remuneration (as de-
fined in section 1(j) of this Act) payable or accruing
to him for days within such registration period ex-
ceeds the amount of the base year monthly compensa-
tion base. For this purpose, an employee’s remunera-
tion shall be deemed to include the gross amount of
any remuneration that would have become payable to
that employee but did not become payable because
that employee was not ready or willing to perform