I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3756 
To amend the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to provide for 
additional weeks of emergency unemployment benefits. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
OCTOBER 7, 2009 
Mr. WELCH (for himself, Mr. PERRIELLO, Mr. LOEBSACK, and Mr. HODES) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To amend the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to 
provide for additional weeks of emergency unemployment 
benefits. 
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 ‘‘Unemployment Com-
pensation Extension Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. ADDITIONAL BENEFITS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 4002 of the Supplemental 
Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110–252; 26 
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U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended by adding at the end the 
following: 
‘‘(d) FURTHER ADDITIONAL EMERGENCY UNEM-
PLOYMENT COMPENSATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—If, at the time that the 
amount added to an individual’s account under sub-
section (c)(1) (hereinafter ‘additional emergency un-
employment compensation’) is exhausted or at any 
time thereafter, such individual’s State is in an ex-
tended benefit period (as determined under para-
graph (2)), such account shall be further augmented 
by an amount (hereinafter ‘further additional emer-
gency unemployment compensation’) equal to the 
lesser of— 
‘‘(A) 50 percent of the total amount of 
regular compensation (including dependents’ al-
lowances) payable to the individual during the 
individual’s benefit year under the State law; or 
‘‘(B) 13 times the individual’s average 
weekly benefit amount (as determined under 
subsection (b)(2)) for the benefit year. 
‘‘(2) EXTENDED BENEFIT PERIOD.—For pur-
poses of paragraph (1), a State shall be considered 
to be in an extended benefit period, as of any given 
time, if— 
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‘‘(A) such a period is then in effect for 
such State under the Federal-State Extended 
Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970; 
‘‘(B) such a period would then be in effect 
for such State under such Act if section 203(d) 
of such Act— 
‘‘(i) were applied by substituting ‘4’ 
for ‘5’ each place it appears; and 
‘‘(ii) did not include the requirement 
under paragraph (1)(A) thereof; or 
‘‘(C) such a period would then be in effect 
for such State under such Act if— 
‘‘(i) section 203(f) of such Act were 
applied to such State (regardless of wheth-
er the State by law had provided for such 
application); and 
‘‘(ii) such section 203(f)— 
‘‘(I) were applied by substituting 
‘6.0’ for ‘6.5’ in paragraph (1)(A)(i) 
thereof; and 
‘‘(II) did not include the require-
ment 
under 
paragraph 
(1)(A)(ii) 
thereof. 
‘‘(3) COORDINATION
RULE.—Notwithstanding 
an election under section 4001(e) by a State to pro-
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vide for the payment of emergency unemployment 
compensation prior to extended compensation, such 
State may pay extended compensation to an other-
wise eligible individual prior to any further addi-
tional emergency unemployment compensation, if 
such individual claimed extended compensation for 
at least 1 week of unemployment after the exhaus-
tion of additional emergency unemployment com-
pensation. 
‘‘(4) LIMITATION.—The account of an indi-
vidual may be augmented not more than once under 
this subsection.’’. 
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT TO NON-AUGMENTA-
TION RULE.—Section 4007(b)(2) of the Supplemental Ap-
propriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110–252; 26 U.S.C. 
3304 note) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘then section 4002(c)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘then subsections (c) and (d) of section 
4002’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘paragraph (2) of such section)’’ 
and inserting ‘‘paragraph (2) of such subsection (c) 
or (d) (as the case may be))’’. 
(c) TRANSFER OF FUNDS.—Section 4004(e)(1) of 
the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 
110–252; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended by striking 
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‘‘Act;’’ and inserting ‘‘Act and the Unemployment Com-
pensation Extension Act of 2009’’. 
(d) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by 
this section shall apply as if included in the enactment 
of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008, except that 
no amount shall be payable by virtue of such amendments 
with respect to any week of unemployment commencing 
before the date of the enactment of this Act. 
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