I 
108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3244
To provide extended unemployment benefits to displaced workers, and to 
make other improvements in the unemployment insurance system. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 2, 2003
Mr. RANGEL (for himself, Mr. CARDIN, Ms. PELOSI, Mr. HOYER, Mr. GEORGE 
MILLER of California, Mr. STARK, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Mr. 
KLECZKA, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, and Mr. NEAL of Massachusetts) intro-
duced 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 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. 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, 2004. 
‘‘(b) TRANSITION.—In the case of an individual who 
is receiving temporary extended unemployment compensa-
tion for the week which immediately precedes the first day 
of the week that includes July 1, 2004, temporary ex-
tended unemployment compensation shall continue to be 
payable to such individual for any week thereafter from 
the account from which such individual received com-
pensation for the week immediately preceding that termi-
nation date. No compensation shall be payable by reason 
of the preceding sentence for any week beginning after De-
cember 31, 2004.’’. 
(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; 26 U.S.C. 
3304 note).
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 ‘‘7 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—
‘‘(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 subclause (I) equals or 
exceeds 110 percent of such average 
rate for the corresponding 3-month 
period ending in either (or both) of 
the preceding 2 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.’’. 
(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 
would be determined if the State law were applied 
with the modifications described in paragraph (2). 
(2) MODIFICATIONS
DESCRIBED.—The modi-
fications described in this paragraph are as follows: 
(A) In the case of an individual who is not 
eligible for regular compensation under the 
State law because of the use of a definition of
base period that does not count wages earned 
in the most recently completed calendar quar-
ter, eligibility for compensation under this title 
shall be determined by applying a base period 
ending at the close of the most recently com-
pleted calendar quarter. 
(B) In the case of an individual who is not 
eligible for regular compensation under the 
State law because such individual does not meet 
requirements relating to availability for work, 
active search for work, or refusal to accept 
work, because such individual is seeking, or is 
available for, less than full-time work, com-
pensation under this title shall not be denied by 
such State to an otherwise eligible individual 
who seeks less than full-time work or fails to 
accept full-time work. 
(c) COORDINATION RULE.—The modifications de-
scribed in subsection (b)(2) shall also apply in determining 
the amount of benefits payable under any Federal law to 
the extent that those benefits are determined by reference 
to regular compensation payable under the State law of 
the State involved.
SEC. 202. PAYMENTS TO STATES HAVING AGREEMENTS 
UNDER THIS TITLE. 
(a) GENERAL RULE.—There shall be paid to each 
State which has entered into an agreement under this title 
an amount equal to—
(1) 100 percent of any regular compensation 
made payable to individuals by such State by virtue 
of the modifications which are described in section 
201(b)(2) and deemed to be in effect with respect to 
such State pursuant to section 201(b)(1), and 
(2) 100 percent of any regular compensation—
(A) which is paid to individuals by such 
State by reason of the fact that its State law 
contains provisions comparable to the modifica-
tions described in section 201(b)(2), but only 
(B) to the extent that those amounts 
would, if such amounts were instead payable by 
virtue of the State law’s being deemed to be so 
modified pursuant to section 201(b)(1), have 
been reimbursable under paragraph (1). 
(b) DETERMINATION OF AMOUNT.—Sums under sub-
section (a) payable to any State by reason of such State 
having an agreement under this title shall be payable, ei-
ther in advance or by way of reimbursement (as may be 
determined by the Secretary), in such amounts as the Sec-
retary estimates the State will be entitled to receive under
this title for each calendar month, reduced or increased, 
as the case may be, by any amount by which the Secretary 
finds that the Secretary’s estimates for any prior calendar 
month were greater or less than the amounts which should 
have been paid to the State. Such estimates may be made 
on the basis of such statistical, sampling, or other method 
as may be agreed upon by the Secretary and the State 
agency of the State involved. 
(c) ADMINISTRATIVE
AND
OTHER
EXPENSES.—
There is hereby appropriated out of the employment secu-
rity administration account of the Unemployment Trust 
Fund (as established by section 901(a) of the Social Secu-
rity Act) $500,000,000 to reimburse States for the costs 
of the administration of agreements under this title (in-
cluding any improvements in technology in connection 
therewith) and to provide reemployment services to unem-
ployment compensation claimants in States having agree-
ments under this title. Each State’s share of the amount 
appropriated by the preceding sentence shall be deter-
mined by the Secretary according to the factors described 
in section 302(a) of the Social Security Act and certified 
by the Secretary to the Secretary of the Treasury. 
SEC. 203. FINANCING PROVISIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Funds in the extended unemploy-
ment compensation account (as established by section
905(a) of the Social Security Act), and the Federal unem-
ployment account (as established by section 904(g) of the 
Social Security Act), of the Unemployment Trust Fund 
shall be used, in accordance with subsection (b), for the 
making of payments (described in section 202(a)) to 
States having agreements entered into under this title. 
(b) CERTIFICATION.—The Secretary shall from time 
to time certify to the Secretary of the Treasury for pay-
ment to each State the sums described in section 202(a) 
which are payable to such State under this title. The Sec-
retary of the Treasury, prior to audit or settlement by the 
General Accounting Office, shall make payments to the 
State in accordance with such certification by transfers 
from the extended unemployment compensation account 
(or, to the extent that there are insufficient funds in that 
account, from the Federal unemployment account) to the 
account of such State in the Unemployment Trust Fund. 
SEC. 204. DEFINITIONS. 
For purposes of this title: 
(1) IN GENERAL.—The terms ‘‘compensation’’, 
‘‘regular compensation’’, ‘‘base period’’, ‘‘State’’, 
‘‘State agency’’, ‘‘State law’’, and ‘‘week’’ have the 
respective meanings given such terms under section 
205 of the Federal-State Extended Unemployment
Compensation Act of 1970, subject to paragraph 
(2). 
(2) STATE
LAW
AND
REGULAR
COMPENSA-
TION.—In the case of a State entering into an 
agreement under this title—
(A) ‘‘State law’’ shall be considered to 
refer to the State law of such State, applied in 
conformance with the modifications described in 
section 201(b)(2), and 
(B) ‘‘regular compensation’’ shall be con-
sidered to refer to such compensation, deter-
mined under its State law (applied in the man-
ner described in subparagraph (A)), 
except as otherwise provided or where the context 
clearly indicates otherwise. 
SEC. 205. APPLICABILITY. 
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 January 1, 2005.
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