I 
110TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5749 
To provide for a program of emergency unemployment compensation. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 9, 2008 
Mr. MCDERMOTT (for himself and Mr. ENGLISH of Pennsylvania) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To provide for a program of emergency unemployment 
compensation. 
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 Extended Unemployment Compensation Act 
of 2008’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of 
this Act is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Federal-State agreements. 
Sec. 3. Emergency unemployment compensation account. 
Sec. 4. Payments to States having agreements for the payment of emergency 
unemployment compensation. 
Sec. 5. Financing provisions. 
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Sec. 6. Fraud and overpayments. 
Sec. 7. Definitions. 
Sec. 8. Applicability. 
SEC. 2. FEDERAL-STATE AGREEMENTS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Any State which desires to do so 
may enter into and participate in an agreement under this 
Act with the Secretary of Labor (in this Act referred to 
as the ‘‘Secretary’’). Any State which is a party to an 
agreement under this Act may, upon providing 30 days’ 
written notice to the Secretary, terminate such agreement. 
(b) PROVISIONS OF AGREEMENT.—Any agreement 
under subsection (a) shall provide that the State agency 
of the State will make payments of emergency unemploy-
ment compensation to individuals who— 
(1) have exhausted all rights to regular com-
pensation under the State law or under Federal law 
with respect to a benefit year (excluding any benefit 
year that ended before May 1, 2007); 
(2) have no rights to regular compensation or 
extended compensation with respect to a week under 
such law or any other State unemployment com-
pensation law or to compensation under any other 
Federal law; and 
(3) are not receiving compensation with respect 
to such week under the unemployment compensation 
law of Canada. 
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(c) EXHAUSTION OF BENEFITS.—For purposes of 
subsection (b)(1), an individual shall be deemed to have 
exhausted such individual’s rights to regular compensation 
under a State law when— 
(1) no payments of regular compensation can 
be made under such law because such individual has 
received all regular compensation available to such 
individual based on employment or wages during 
such individual’s base period; or 
(2) such individual’s rights to such compensa-
tion have been terminated by reason of the expira-
tion of the benefit year with respect to which such 
rights existed. 
(d) WEEKLY BENEFIT AMOUNT, ETC.—For purposes 
of any agreement under this Act— 
(1) the amount of emergency unemployment 
compensation which shall be payable to any indi-
vidual for any week of total unemployment shall be 
equal to the amount of the regular compensation 
(including dependents’ allowances) payable to such 
individual during such individual’s benefit year 
under the State law for a week of total unemploy-
ment; 
(2) the terms and conditions of the State law 
which apply to claims for regular compensation and 
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