I 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3499
To provide extended unemployment benefits to displaced workers, and to 
make other improvements in the unemployment insurance system. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 17, 2003
Ms. HOOLEY of Oregon introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
the Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To provide extended unemployment benefits to displaced 
workers, and to make other improvements in the unem-
ployment insurance system.
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 Extension 
Act’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for 
this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
TITLE I—TEMPORARY EXTENDED UNEMPLOYMENT 
COMPENSATION 
Sec. 101. References. 
Sec. 102. Extension of the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation 
Act of 2002. 
Sec. 103. Entitlement to additional weeks of temporary extended unemployment 
compensation. 
Sec. 104. Extended benefit periods. 
TITLE II—UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS FOR INDIVIDUALS QUALI-
FYING BASED ON PART-TIME WORK OR AN ALTERNATIVE 
BASE PERIOD 
Sec. 201. Federal-State agreements. 
Sec. 202. Payments to States having agreements under this title. 
Sec. 203. Financing provisions. 
Sec. 204. Definitions. 
Sec. 205. Applicability.
TITLE 
I—TEMPORARY 
EX-
TENDED 
UNEMPLOYMENT 
COMPENSATION 
SEC. 101. REFERENCES. 
Except as otherwise expressly provided, whenever in 
this title an amendment is expressed in terms of an 
amendment to a section or other provision, the reference 
shall be considered to be made to a section or other provi-
sion of the Temporary Extended Unemployment Com-
pensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–147; 26 U.S.C. 
3304 note). 
SEC. 102. EXTENSION OF THE TEMPORARY EXTENDED UN-
EMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION ACT OF 2002. 
(a) SIX-MONTH EXTENSION OF PROGRAM.—Section 
208 is amended to read as follows:
SEC. 103. ENTITLEMENT TO ADDITIONAL WEEKS OF TEM-
PORARY EXTENDED UNEMPLOYMENT COM-
PENSATION. 
(a) WEEKS OF TEUC AMOUNTS.—Paragraph (1) of 
section 203(b) 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.’’. 
(b) 
WEEKS
OF
TEUC–X 
AMOUNTS.—Section 
203(c)(1) is amended by striking ‘‘an amount equal to the 
amount originally established in such account (as deter-
mined under subsection (b)(1))’’ and inserting ‘‘13 times 
the individual’s weekly benefit amount for the benefit 
year’’. 
(c) EFFECTIVE DATE.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The amendments made by 
this section—
(A) shall take effect as if included in the 
enactment of the Temporary Extended Unem-
ployment Compensation Act of 2002 (Public 
Law 107–147; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note); but 
(B) shall apply only with respect to weeks 
of unemployment beginning on or after the date 
of enactment of this Act, subject to paragraph 
(2).
(2) SPECIAL RULES.—In the case of an indi-
vidual for whom a temporary extended unemploy-
ment compensation account was established before 
the date of enactment of this Act, the Temporary 
Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 
(as amended by this title) shall be applied subject to 
the following: 
(A) Any amounts deposited in the individ-
ual’s temporary extended unemployment com-
pensation account by reason of section 203(c) 
of such Act (commonly known as ‘‘TEUC–X 
amounts’’) before the date of enactment of this 
Act shall be treated as amounts deposited by 
reason of section 203(b) of such Act (commonly 
known as ‘‘TEUC amounts’’), as amended by 
subsection (a). 
(B) For purposes of determining whether 
the individual is eligible for any TEUC–X 
amounts under such Act, as amended by this 
title—
(i) any determination made under sec-
tion 203(c) of such Act before the applica-
tion of the amendments made by this title 
shall be disregarded; and
(ii) any such determination shall in-
stead be made by applying section 203(c) 
of such Act, as amended by this title—
(I) as of the time that all 
amounts established in such account 
in accordance with section 203(b) of 
such Act (as amended by this title, 
and including any amounts described 
in subparagraph (A)) are in fact ex-
hausted, except that 
(II) if such individual’s account 
was both augmented by and exhausted 
of all TEUC–X amounts before the 
date of enactment of this Act, such 
determination shall be made as if ex-
haustion (as described in section 
203(c)(1) of such Act) had not oc-
curred until such date of enactment. 
SEC. 104. EXTENDED BENEFIT PERIODS. 
(a) APPLICATION OF REVISED RATE OF INSURED 
UNEMPLOYMENT.—Section 207 is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘In’’ and inserting ‘‘(a) IN GEN-
ERAL.—In’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(b) INSURED UNEMPLOYMENT RATE.—For pur-
poses of carrying out section 203(c) with respect to weeks 
of unemployment beginning on or after the date of enact-
ment of this subsection, the term ‘rate of insured unem-
ployment’, as used in section 203(d) of the Federal-State 
Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (26 
U.S.C. 3304 note), has the meaning given such term 
under section 203(e)(1) of such Act, except that individ-
uals exhausting their right to regular compensation during 
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, and section 203(d)(1)(A) of such Act shall be 
applied by substituting ‘either (or both)’ for ‘each’.’’. 
(b) ADDITIONAL EXTENDED BENEFIT PERIOD TRIG-
GER.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 203(c) is amended 
by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(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
this paragraph, an agreement under this title 
shall provide that, in addition to any other ex-
tended 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 the average rate of total unem-
ployment in such State (seasonally ad-
justed) for the period consisting of the 
most recent 3 months for which data for 
all States are published before the close of 
such week equals or exceeds 6 percent; and 
‘‘(ii) there is a State ‘off’ indicator for 
a week if the requirement under clause (i) 
is not satisfied. 
‘‘(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.’’. 
(2) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section 
203(c)(1) is amended by inserting ‘‘or (3)’’ after 
‘‘paragraph (2)’’. 
TITLE II—UNEMPLOYMENT BEN-
EFITS 
FOR 
INDIVIDUALS 
QUALIFYING BASED ON PART-
TIME WORK OR AN ALTER-
NATIVE BASE PERIOD 
SEC. 201. FEDERAL-STATE AGREEMENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Any State which desires to do so 
may enter into and participate in an agreement under this 
title with the Secretary of Labor (hereinafter in this title 
referred to as the ‘‘Secretary’’). Any State which is a party 
to an agreement under this title may, upon providing 30 
days’ written notice to the Secretary, terminate such 
agreement. 
(b) PROVISIONS OF AGREEMENT.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Any agreement under sub-
section (a) shall provide that the State agency of the 
State will make payments of regular compensation 
to individuals in amounts and to the extent that they