I 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1553
To provide for additional temporary extended unemployment compensation 
for certain displaced workers. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 2, 2003
Mr. ENGLISH (for himself, Mr. OBERSTAR, Mr. NEY, Mr. HOYER, Ms. DUNN, 
Ms. HART, Mr. LIPINSKI, Mr. DEFAZIO, Mr. MENENDEZ, and Mr. 
WEINER) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To provide for additional temporary extended unemployment 
compensation for certain displaced 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. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Air Transportation 
Employees Assistance Act’’. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this Act—
(1) the term ‘‘eligible individual’’ means an in-
dividual whose eligibility for temporary extended un-
employment compensation is or would be based on 
the exhaustion of regular compensation, entitlement 
to which was based in whole or in part on qualifying 
employment performed during such individual’s base 
period; 
(2) the term ‘‘qualifying employment’’, with re-
spect to an eligible individual, means employment—
(A) with an air carrier, at a facility at an 
airport that involves the provision of transpor-
tation to or from an airport, or with an up-
stream producer or supplier for an air carrier; 
and 
(B) as determined by the Secretary, sepa-
ration from which was due, in whole or in part, 
to—
(i) reductions in service by an air car-
rier as a result of a terrorist action or se-
curity measure; 
(ii) a closure of an airport in the 
United States as a result of a terrorist ac-
tion or security measure; or 
(iii) a military conflict with Iraq that 
has been authorized by Congress;
(3) the term ‘‘air carrier’’ means an air carrier 
that holds a certificate issued under chapter 411 of 
title 49, United States Code; 
(4) the term ‘‘upstream producer’’ means a 
firm that performs additional, value-added, produc-
tion processes, including firms that perform final as-
sembly, finishing, or packaging of articles, for an-
other firm; 
(5) the term ‘‘supplier’’ means a firm that pro-
duces component parts for, or articles and contract 
services considered to be a part of the production 
process or services for, another firm; 
(6) the term ‘‘Secretary’’ means the Secretary 
of Labor; and 
(7) the term ‘‘terrorist action or security meas-
ure’’ means a terrorist attack on the United States 
on September 11, 2001, or a security measure taken 
in response to such attack. 
SEC. 3. ADDITIONAL TEMPORARY EXTENDED UNEMPLOY-
MENT BENEFITS FOR ELIGIBLE EMPLOYEES. 
In the case of an eligible employee, the Temporary 
Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 
(Public Law 107–147; 116 Stat. 21), as amended by Pub-
lic Law 108–1 (117 Stat. 3), shall be applied as if it had 
been amended in accordance with section 4.
vidual meets the eligibility requirements of this Act, 
including such compensation payable by reason of 
amounts deposited in such account after such date 
pursuant to the application of subsection (c) of such 
section. 
‘‘(2) LIMITATION.—No compensation shall be 
payable by reason of paragraph (1) for any week be-
ginning after December 26, 2004.’’. 
(c) ADDITIONAL WEEKS OF BENEFITS.—Deem sec-
tion 203 of the Temporary Extended Unemployment Com-
pensation Act of 2002, as amended by Public Law 108–
1 (117 Stat. 3), to be amended—
(1) in subsection (b)(1)—
(A) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘50’’ 
and inserting ‘‘150’’; and 
(B) by striking ‘‘13’’ and inserting ‘‘39’’; 
and 
(2) in subsection (c)(1), by inserting ‘‘1⁄3 of’’ 
after ‘‘equal to’’. 
(d) EFFECTIVE
DATE
OF
MODIFICATIONS
DE-
SCRIBED IN SUBSECTION (c).—
(1) IN GENERAL.—The amendments described 
in subsection (c)—
(A) shall be deemed to have taken effect as 
if included in the enactment of the Temporary
Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 
2002; but 
(B) shall be treated as applying only with 
respect to weeks of unemployment beginning on 
or after the date of enactment this Act, subject 
to paragraph (2). 
(2) SPECIAL RULES.—In the case of an eligible 
individual for whom a temporary extended unem-
ployment account was established before the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Temporary Extended Un-
employment Compensation Act of 2002 (as amended 
by this Act) 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 deemed to 
have been amended by subsection (c)(1). 
(B) For purposes of determining whether 
the individual is eligible for any TEUC–X 
amounts under such Act, as deemed to be 
amended by this section—
(i) any determination made under sec-
tion 203(c) of such Act before the applica-
tion of the amendment described in sub-
section (c)(2) shall be disregarded; and 
(ii) any such determination shall in-
stead be made by applying section 203(c) 
of such Act, as deemed to be amended by 
subsection (c)(2)—
(I) as of the time that all 
amounts established in such account 
in accordance with section 203(b) of 
such Act (as deemed to be amended 
under this section, and including any 
amounts described in subparagraph 
(A)) are in fact exhausted, 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.
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