I 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 7066 
To provide relief to workers impacted by COVID–19 and support for 
reopening businesses, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JUNE 1, 2020 
Mr. BRADY (for himself, Mr. SMITH of Nebraska, Mr. FERGUSON, Mr. 
SCHWEIKERT, Mr. LAHOOD, Mr. SMITH of Missouri, Mr. RICE of South 
Carolina, Mr. ROGERS of Kentucky, Mr. WENSTRUP, Mr. ARRINGTON, 
and Mr. REED) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To provide relief to workers impacted by COVID–19 and 
support for reopening businesses, and for other purposes. 
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 ‘‘Reopening America 
by Supporting Workers and Businesses Act of 2020’’. 
SEC. 2. TIME-LIMITED BACK-TO-WORK BONUSES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2104(b) of the Cares Act 
(Public Law 116–136) is amended— 
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(1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as para-
graph (3); and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(2) BACK-TO-WORK BONUSES.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Any agreement under 
this section may also provide that the State 
agency of the State may make not more than 
2 weekly payments each in the amount of $600 
to each individual who— 
‘‘(i) was eligible for Federal Pandemic 
Unemployment Compensation under para-
graph (1) for any week beginning after the 
date of enactment of the Reopening Amer-
ica by Supporting Workers and Businesses 
Act of 2020; and 
‘‘(ii) is no longer so eligible (as deter-
mined by the State), as a result of earn-
ings due to commencing employment, for 
the week immediately following such week. 
‘‘(B) DURATION.—Payments to an indi-
vidual under this paragraph shall begin with 
the week described in subparagraph (A)(ii) and 
shall end with the earlier of— 
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‘‘(i) the week following the week de-
scribed in subparagraph (A)(ii); or 
‘‘(ii) the last week with respect to 
which such agreement applies. 
‘‘(C) OPTION TO PROVIDE PAYMENTS AS A 
LUMP SUM.—At the option of the State, pay-
ments to an individual under this paragraph for 
weeks described in subparagraph (B) may be 
paid as a lump sum of $1,200. 
‘‘(D) SPECIAL
RULE.—Payments made 
pursuant to an agreement under this paragraph 
shall not be considered to violate the withdrawal 
requirements of section 303(a)(5) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 503(a)(5)) or section 
3304(a)(4) of the Internal Revenue Code of 
1986.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—Section 2104 of 
such Act is amended— 
(1) by inserting ‘‘and payments under sub-
section (b)(2)’’ after ‘‘Federal Pandemic Unemploy-
ment Compensation’’ each place it appears in sub-
section (d) or (f) of such section; and 
(2) in subsection (g), by inserting ‘‘, as such 
provisions apply with respect to Federal Pandemic 
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Unemployment Compensation,’’ after ‘‘the preceding 
provisions of this section’’. 
SEC. 3. RETURN TO WORK REPORTING. 
Subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES Act 
(Public Law 116–136) is amended by adding at the end 
the following: 
‘‘SEC. 2117. RETURN TO WORK REPORTING. 
‘‘Each State participating in an agreement under any 
of the preceding sections of this subtitle shall have in ef-
fect a procedure to address any circumstances in which, 
during any period during which such agreement is in ef-
fect, claimants of unemployment compensation refuse to 
return to work or to accept an offer of suitable work with-
out good cause. Such procedures shall include the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(1) A reporting mechanism for employers, 
such as through a phone line, email, or online portal, 
to notify the State agency when an individual re-
fuses an offer of employment. 
‘‘(2) A plain-language notice provided to such 
claimants about State return to work laws, rights to 
refuse to return to work or to refuse suitable work, 
and information on contesting the denial of a claim 
that has been denied due to a report by an employer 
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that the claimant refused to return to work or re-
fused suitable work.’’. 
SEC. 4. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS FOR GOVERNMENTAL 
ENTITIES AND NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS. 
Section 903(i)(1) of the Social Security Act, as added 
by section 2103 of the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136), 
is amended— 
(1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ‘‘during 
the applicable period’’ and inserting ‘‘with respect to 
the applicable period’’; 
(2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ‘‘section 
3309(a)(1)’’ and inserting ‘‘section 3309(a)’’; and 
(3) in subparagraph (C), by striking ‘‘shall be 
used exclusively’’ and all that follows through the 
end and inserting ‘‘shall be used exclusively to re-
duce the amounts required to be paid in lieu of con-
tributions into the State unemployment fund pursu-
ant to such section by governmental entities and 
other organizations described in section 3309(a) of 
such Code’’. 
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