suitable work available to that employee on any day
within such registration period.’’.
SEC. 3. WAITING PERIOD FOR SICKNESS BENEFITS.
Section 2(a)(1)(B) of the Railroad Unemployment In-
surance Act is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(B) PAYMENT OF SICKNESS BENEFITS.—
‘‘(i) GENERALLY.—Except as otherwise provided
in this subparagraph, benefits shall be payable to any
qualified employee for each day of sickness after the
fourth consecutive day of sickness in a period of con-
tinuing sickness but excluding 4 days of sickness in
any registration period in such period of continuing
sickness.
‘‘(ii) WAITING PERIOD FOR FIRST REGISTRATION
PERIOD.—Benefits shall be payable to any qualified
employee for each day of sickness in excess of 7 dur-
ing that employee’s first registration period in a pe-
riod of continuing sickness if such registration period
begins with 4 consecutive days of sickness and in-
cludes more than 4 days of sickness, except that the
waiting period established in this clause shall not
apply to the first registration period in any subse-
quent period of continuing sickness that begins in the
same benefit year.
‘‘(iii) DEFINITION OF PERIOD OF CONTINUING
SICKNESS.—For the purposes of this subparagraph, a
period of continuing sickness means—
‘‘(I) a period of consecutive days of sickness,
whether from 1 or more causes; or
‘‘(II) a period of successive days of sickness
due to a single cause without interruption of
more than 90 consecutive days which are not
days of sickness.
‘‘(iv) SPECIAL
RULE
REGARDING
END
OF
PE-
RIOD.—For purposes of applying clause (ii), a period
of continuing sickness ends when an employee ex-
hausts rights to sickness benefits under subsection (c)
of this section.’’.
SEC. 4. MAXIMUM DAILY BENEFIT RATE.
Section 2(a)(3) of the Railroad Unemployment Insur-
ance Act is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(3) The maximum daily benefit rate computed by the
Board under section 12(r)(2) shall be the product of the
monthly compensation base, as computed under section
1(i)(2) for the base year immediately preceding the begin-
ning of the benefit year, multiplied by 5 percent. If the max-
imum daily benefit rate so computed is not a multiple of
$1.00, it shall be rounded down to the nearest multiple of
$1.00.’’.
SEC. 5. MAXIMUM NUMBER OF DAYS FOR BENEFITS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2(c) of the Railroad Unem-
ployment Insurance Act is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(c) MAXIMUM NUMBER OF DAYS FOR BENEFITS.—
‘‘(1) NORMAL BENEFITS.—
‘‘(A) GENERALLY.—The maximum number
of days of unemployment within a benefit year
for which benefits may be paid to an employee
shall be 130, and the maximum number of days
of sickness within a benefit year for which bene-
fits may be paid to an employee shall be 130.
‘‘(B) LIMITATION.—The total amount of
benefits that may be paid to an employee for
days of unemployment within a benefit year
shall in no case exceed the employee’s compensa-
tion in the base year; and the total amount of
benefits that may be paid to an employee for
days of sickness within a benefit year shall in no
case exceed the employee’s compensation in the
base year, except that notwithstanding section
1(i), in determining the employee’s compensation
in the base year for the purpose of this sentence,
any money remuneration paid to the employee
for services rendered as an employee shall be
taken into account that—
‘‘(i) is not in excess of $775 in any
month before 1989; and
‘‘(ii) in any month in a base year
after 1988, is not in excess of an amount
that bears the same ratio to $775 as the
monthly compensation base for that year as
computed under section 1(i) bears to $600.
‘‘(2) EXTENDED BENEFITS.—
‘‘(A) GENERALLY.—With respect to an em-
ployee who has 10 or more years of service as de-
fined in section 1(f) of the Railroad Retirement
Act of 1974, who did not voluntarily retire and
(in a case involving exhaustion of rights to nor-
mal benefits for days of unemployment) did not
voluntarily leave work without good cause, and
who had current rights to normal benefits for
days of unemployment or days of sickness in a
benefit year but has exhausted such rights, the
benefit year in which such rights are exhausted
shall be deemed not to be ended until the last day
of the extended benefit period determined under
this paragraph, and extended unemployment
benefits or extended sickness benefits (depending
on the type of normal benefit rights exhausted)
may be paid for not more than 65 days of unem-
ployment or 65 days of sickness within such ex-
tended benefit period.
‘‘(B) BEGINNING DATE.—An employee’s ex-
tended benefit period shall begin on the employ-
ee’s first day of unemployment or first day of
sickness, as the case may be, following the day
on which the employee exhausts the employee’s
then current rights to normal benefits for days of
unemployment or days of sickness and shall con-
tinue for 7 consecutive 14-day periods, each of
which shall constitute a registration period, but
no such extended benefit period shall extend be-
yond the beginning of the first registration pe-
riod in a benefit year in which the employee is
again qualified for benefits in accordance with
section 3 on the basis of compensation earned
after the first of such consecutive 14-day periods
has begun.
‘‘(C) 
TERMINATION
WHEN
EMPLOYEE
REACHES
AGE
OF
65.—Notwithstanding any
other provision of this paragraph, an extended
benefit period for sickness benefits shall termi-
nate on the day next preceding the date on which
the employee attains age 65, except that it may
continue for the purpose of paying benefits for
days of unemployment.
‘‘(3) ACCELERATED BENEFITS.—
‘‘(A) GENERAL RULE.—With respect to an
employee who has 10 or more years of service as
defined in section 1(f) of the Railroad Retire-
ment Act of 1974, who did not voluntarily retire,
and (in a case involving unemployment benefits)
did not voluntarily leave work without good
cause, who has 14 or more consecutive days of
unemployment, or 14 or more consecutive days of
sickness, and who is not a qualified employee
with respect to the general benefit year current
when such unemployment or sickness commences
but is or becomes a qualified employee for the
next succeeding general benefit year, such suc-
ceeding general benefit year shall, in that em-
ployee’s case, begin on the first day of the month
in which such unemployment or sickness com-
mences.
‘‘(B) EXCEPTION.—In the case of a succeed-
ing benefit year beginning in accordance with
subparagraph (A) by reason of sickness, such
sentence shall not operate to permit the payment
of benefits in the period provided for in such sen-
tence for any day of sickness beginning with the
date on which the employee attains age 65, and
continuing through the day preceding the first
day of the next succeeding general benefit year.
‘‘(C) DETERMINATION
OF
AGE.—For the
purposes of this subsection, the Board may rely
on evidence of age available in its records and
files at the time determinations of age are
made.’’.
(b) REPEAL OF DEADWOOD PROVISION.—Section 2(h)
of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act is repealed.
(c) REPEAL OF EXPIRED PROVISION.—Section 17 of
the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act (45 U.S.C.
368), relating to payment of supplemental unemployment
benefits, is repealed.
SEC. 6. EFFECTIVE DATE.
The amendments made by this Act shall take effect on
the date of the enactment of this Act.