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107TH CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 5491
To provide economic security for America’s workers.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEPTEMBER 26, 2002
Mr. RANGEL (for himself, Mr. GEPHARDT, Mr. CARDIN, Mr. STARK, Mr.
MATSUI, Mr. COYNE, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. KLECZKA, Mr.
NEAL of Massachusetts, Mr. MCNULTY, Mrs. THURMAN, Mr. GEORGE
MILLER of California, and Ms. SLAUGHTER) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
A BILL
To provide economic security for America’s workers.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the
‘‘Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of
this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Extension of the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation
Act of 2002.
Sec. 3. Entitlement to additional weeks of temporary extended unemployment
compensation.
Sec. 4. Application of revised rate of insured unemployment.
Sec. 5. Additional TEUC extended benefit period trigger.
Sec. 6. Additional weeks of benefits for workers in high unemployment States.
Sec. 7. Effective date.
SEC. 2. EXTENSION OF THE TEMPORARY EXTENDED UNEM-
PLOYMENT COMPENSATION ACT OF 2002.
(a) SIX-MONTH EXTENSION OF PROGRAM.—Section
208 of the Temporary Extended Unemployment Com-
pensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–147; 116 Stat.
30) is amended to read as follows:
‘‘SEC. 208. APPLICABILITY.
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subsection (b), an
agreement entered into under this title shall apply to
weeks of unemployment—
‘‘(1) beginning after the date on which such
agreement is entered into; and
‘‘(2) ending before July 1, 2003.
‘‘(b) TRANSITION.—In the case of an individual who
is receiving temporary emergency unemployment com-
pensation for the week which immediately precedes July
1, 2003, temporary emergency unemployment compensa-
tion shall continue to be payable to such individual for
any week thereafter from the account from which such in-
dividual received compensation for the week which in-
cludes such termination date. No compensation shall be
payable by reason of the preceding sentence for any week
beginning after October 14, 2003.’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by
this section shall take effect as if included in the enact-
ment of the Temporary Extended Unemployment Com-
pensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–147; 116 Stat.
21).
SEC. 3. ENTITLEMENT TO ADDITIONAL WEEKS OF TEM-
PORARY EXTENDED UNEMPLOYMENT COM-
PENSATION.
Paragraph (1) of section 203(b) of the Temporary
Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002
(Public Law 107–147; 116 Stat. 21) is amended to read
as follows:
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The amount established in
an account under subsection (a) shall be equal to 26
times the individual’s weekly benefit amount for the
benefit year.’’.
SEC. 4. APPLICATION OF REVISED RATE OF INSURED UN-
EMPLOYMENT.
Section 207 of the Temporary Extended Unemploy-
ment Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–147;
116 Stat. 21) is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘In this title, the terms’’ and in-
serting the following: ‘‘In this title:
‘‘(1) GENERAL DEFINITIONS.—The terms’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
‘‘(2) 
ADJUSTED
INSURED
UNEMPLOYMENT
RATE.—For weeks of unemployment beginning on or
after the date of enactment of the Emergency Un-
employment Compensation Act of 2002, the term
‘rate of insured unemployment’ has the meaning
given that term in section 203(e)(1) of the Federal-
State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of
1970 (26 U.S.C. 3304 note), except that individuals
exhausting their right to regular compensation dur-
ing the most recent 3 calendar months for which
data are available before the close of the period for
which such rate is being determined shall be taken
into account as if they were individuals filing claims
for regular compensation for each week during the
period for which such rate is being determined.’’.
SEC. 5. ADDITIONAL TEUC EXTENDED BENEFIT PERIOD
TRIGGER.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 203(c) of the Temporary
Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002
(Public Law 107–147; 116 Stat. 21) is amended by add-
ing at the end the following new paragraph:
‘‘(3) ADDITIONAL EXTENDED BENEFIT PERIOD
TRIGGER.—
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Effective with respect
to compensation for weeks of unemployment be-
ginning on or after the date of enactment of the
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act
of 2002, an agreement under this title shall
provide that, in addition to any other extended
benefit period trigger, for purposes of beginning
or ending any extended benefit period under
this section—
‘‘(i) there is a State ‘on’ indicator for
a week if—
‘‘(I) the average rate of total un-
employment in such State (seasonally
adjusted) for the period consisting of
the most recent 3 months for which
data for all States are published be-
fore the close of such week equals or
exceeds 6 percent; and
‘‘(II) the average rate of total
unemployment in such State (season-
ally adjusted) for the 3-month period
referred to in clause (i) equals or ex-
ceeds 110 percent of such average
rate for either (or both) of the cor-
responding 3-month periods ending in
the 2 preceding calendar years; and
‘‘(ii) there is a State ‘off’ indicator for
a week if either the requirements of sub-
clause (I) or (II) of clause (i) are not satis-
fied.
‘‘(B) NO EFFECT ON OTHER DETERMINA-
TIONS.—Notwithstanding the provisions of any
agreement described in subparagraph (A), any
week for which there would otherwise be a
State ‘on’ indicator shall continue to be such a
week and shall not be determined to be a week
for which there is a State ‘off’ indicator.
‘‘(C) DETERMINATIONS
MADE
BY
THE
SECRETARY.—For purposes of this subsection,
determinations of the rate of total unemploy-
ment in any State for any period (and of any
seasonal adjustment) shall be made by the Sec-
retary.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 203(c)(1)
of the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation
Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–147; 116 Stat. 21) is
amended by inserting ‘‘or (3)’’ after ‘‘paragraph (2)’’.
SEC. 6. ADDITIONAL WEEKS OF BENEFITS FOR WORKERS
IN HIGH UNEMPLOYMENT STATES.
Section 203(c)(1) of the Temporary Extended Unem-
ployment Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–
147; 116 Stat. 30) is amended by striking ‘‘an amount
equal to the amount originally established in such account
(as determined under subsection (b)(1))’’ and inserting ‘‘7
times the individual’s weekly benefit amount for the ben-
efit year’’.
SEC. 7. EFFECTIVE DATE.
Except as otherwise provided in this Act, the amend-
ments made by this Act shall apply with respect to weeks
of unemployment beginning on or after the date of enact-
ment this Act.
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