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108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3156
To amend the Temporary Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 
2002 to provide for additional weeks of benefits thereunder. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 23, 2003
Mr. WU (for himself and Mr. DEFAZIO) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To amend the Temporary Extended Unemployment Com-
pensation Act of 2002 to provide for additional weeks 
of benefits thereunder.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. ADDITIONAL WEEKS OF BENEFITS. 
Section 203 of the Temporary Extended Unemploy-
ment Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 107–147; 
26 U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended—
(1) in subsection (b)(1)—
(A) by striking ‘‘50’’ in subparagraph (A) 
and inserting ‘‘100’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘13’’ in subparagraph (B) 
and inserting ‘‘26’’ ; and 
(2) in subsection (c)(1), by inserting ‘‘50 per-
cent of’’ after ‘‘equal to’’. 
SEC. 2. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The amendments made by this 
Act— 
(1) shall take effect as if included in the enact-
ment of the Temporary Extended Unemployment 
Compensation Act of 2002; but 
(2) shall apply only with respect to weeks of un-
employment beginning on or after the date of enact-
ment of this Act, subject to subsection (b). 
(b) SPECIAL RULES.—In the case of an individual for 
whom a temporary extended unemployment compensation 
account was established before the date of enactment of 
this Act, the Temporary Extended Unemployment Com-
pensation Act of 2002 (as amended by this Act) shall be 
applied subject to the following: 
(1) Any amounts deposited in the individual’s 
temporary extended unemployment compensation ac-
count by reason of section 203(c) of TEUCA (com-
monly 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
TEUCA (commonly known as ‘‘TEUC amounts’’), 
as amended by this Act. 
(2) For purposes of determining whether the in-
dividual is eligible for any TEUC–X amounts under 
TEUCA (as amended by this Act)—
(A) any determination made under section 
203(c) of TEUCA before the application of the 
amendments made by this Act shall be dis-
regarded; and 
(B) any such determination shall instead 
be made by applying section 203(c) of TEUCA 
(as amended by this Act)—
(i) as of the time that all amounts es-
tablished in such account in accordance 
with section 203(b) of TEUCA (as amend-
ed by this Act, and including any amounts 
described in paragraph (1)) 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 en-
actment of this Act, such determination 
shall be made as if exhaustion (as de-
scribed in section 203(c)(1) of TEUCA)
had not occurred until such date of enact-
ment. 
(3) For purposes of any determination de-
scribed in paragraph (2)(B)(ii), an extended benefit 
period shall be considered to exist on the date of en-
actment of this Act in the State of the individual in-
volved if either criterion under section 203(c)(2) of 
TEUCA is satisfied as of—
(A) the date of enactment of this Act; or 
(B) the date (before the date of enactment 
of this Act) as of which such individual’s ac-
count was last exhausted. 
(4) For purposes of this Act, the term 
‘‘TEUCA’’ means the Temporary Extended Unem-
ployment Compensation Act of 2002 (Public Law 
107–147; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note). 
(c) COORDINATION PROVISION.—Nothing in this Act 
shall be considered to affect the operation of section 4002 
of the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations 
Act, 2003 (Public Law 108–11; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note).
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