I 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3404 
To amend the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families 
Act and the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to provide for the 
temporary extension of certain unemployment benefits and the temporary 
availability of further additional emergency unemployment compensation, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JULY 30, 2009 
Mr. MCDERMOTT (for himself, Mr. RANGEL, Mr. STARK, Mr. LEVIN, Mr. 
LEWIS of Georgia, Ms. BERKLEY, Mr. CROWLEY, Mr. VAN HOLLEN, Mr. 
MEEK of Florida, Mr. DAVIS of Illinois, Ms. LINDA T. SA´NCHEZ of Cali-
fornia, Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia, Ms. FUDGE, Ms. HIRONO, Mr. NADLER 
of New York, Ms. BORDALLO, Mr. FARR, Mr. LATOURETTE, Mrs. MIL-
LER of Michigan, Mr. PETERS, Mr. DINGELL, and Mrs. CAPPS) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways 
and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and In-
frastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and 
Struggling Families Act and the Supplemental Appro-
priations Act, 2008 to provide for the temporary exten-
sion of certain unemployment benefits and the temporary 
availability of further additional emergency unemploy-
ment compensation, and for other purposes. 
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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 ‘‘Emergency Unemploy-
ment Compensation Extension Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. TEMPORARY EXTENSION OF CERTAIN UNEMPLOY-
MENT BENEFITS. 
(a) 
EMERGENCY
UNEMPLOYMENT
COMPENSA-
TION.—Section 4007 of the Supplemental Appropriations 
Act, 2008 (Public Law 110–252; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) 
is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘December 31, 2009’’ each 
place it appears and inserting ‘‘December 31, 
2010’’; 
(2) in the heading for subsection (b)(2), by 
striking ‘‘DECEMBER 31, 2009’’ and inserting ‘‘DE-
CEMBER 31, 2010’’; and 
(3) in subsection (b)(3), by striking ‘‘May 31, 
2010’’ and inserting ‘‘May 31, 2011’’. 
(b) ADDITIONAL REGULAR COMPENSATION.—Section 
2002(e) of the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and 
Struggling Families Act, as contained in Public Law 111– 
5 (26 U.S.C. 3304 note; 123 Stat. 438), is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)(B), by striking ‘‘January 
1, 2010’’ and inserting ‘‘January 1, 2011’’; 
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(2) in the heading for paragraph (2), by strik-
ing ‘‘JANUARY 1, 2010’’ and inserting ‘‘JANUARY 1, 
2011’’; and 
(3) in paragraph (3), by striking ‘‘June 30, 
2010’’ and inserting ‘‘June 30, 2011’’. 
(c) FULL FUNDING OF EXTENDED BENEFITS.—Sec-
tion 2005 of the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and 
Struggling Families Act, as contained in Public Law 111– 
5 (26 U.S.C. 3304 note; 123 Stat. 444), is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘January 1, 2010’’ each place 
it appears and inserting ‘‘January 1, 2011’’; 
(2) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘June 1, 
2010’’ and inserting ‘‘June 1, 2011’’; and 
(3) in subsection (d), by striking ‘‘May 30, 
2010’’ and inserting ‘‘May 30, 2011’’. 
SEC. 3. ADDITIONAL EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT COM-
PENSATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 4002 of the Supplemental 
Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110–252; 26 
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-
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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— 
‘‘(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— 
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‘‘(i) were applied by substituting ‘6’ 
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 
‘9.0’ 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-
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 
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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), as amended by section 2(a), is further amend-
ed— 
(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) 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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