I 
112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3427 
To provide for the availability of self-employment assistance to individuals 
receiving extended compensation or emergency unemployment compensation. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
NOVEMBER 15, 2011 
Mr. DOGGETT (for himself, Mr. PETERS, Mr. STARK, Mr. BLUMENAUER, and 
Mr. RANGEL) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committees on 
Financial Services, Small Business, and Appropriations, for a period to 
be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To provide for the availability of self-employment assistance 
to individuals receiving extended compensation or emer-
gency 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. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Startup Technical As-
sistance for Reemployment Training and Unemployment 
Prevention Act’’ or the ‘‘STARTUP Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. STATE ADMINISTRATION OF SELF-EMPLOYMENT 
ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS. 
(a) AVAILABILITY FOR INDIVIDUALS RECEIVING EX-
TENDED COMPENSATION.—Title II of the Federal-State 
Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (26 
U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended by inserting at the end the 
following new section: 
‘‘AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT SELF-EMPLOYMENT 
ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS 
‘‘SEC. 208. (a)(1) At the option of a State, for any 
weeks of unemployment beginning after the date of enact-
ment of this section, the State agency of the State may 
establish a self-employment assistance program, as de-
scribed in subsection (b), to provide for the payment of 
extended compensation as self-employment assistance al-
lowances to individuals who would otherwise satisfy the 
eligibility criteria under this title. 
‘‘(2) Subject to paragraph (3), the self-employment 
assistance allowance described in paragraph (1) shall be 
paid to an eligible individual from such individual’s ex-
tended compensation account, as described in section 
202(b), and the amount in such account shall be reduced 
accordingly. 
‘‘(3)(A) Subject to subparagraph (B), for purposes 
of self-employment assistance programs established under 
this section and section 4001(h) of the Supplemental Ap-
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propriations Act, 2008, an individual shall be provided 
with self-employment assistance allowances under such 
programs for a total of not greater than 26 weeks (re-
ferred to in this section as the ‘combined eligibility limit’). 
‘‘(B) For purposes of an individual who is partici-
pating in a self-employment assistance program estab-
lished under this section and has not reached the com-
bined eligibility limit as of the date on which such indi-
vidual exhausts all rights to extended compensation under 
this title, the individual shall be eligible to receive self- 
employment assistance allowances under a self-employ-
ment assistance program established under section 
4001(h) of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008, 
until such individual has reached the combined eligibility 
limit, provided that the individual otherwise satisfies the 
eligibility criteria described under title IV of such Act. 
‘‘(b) For the purposes of this section, the term ‘self- 
employment assistance program’ means a program as de-
fined under section 3306(t) of the Internal Revenue Code 
of 1986, except as follows: 
‘‘(1) all references to ‘regular unemployment 
compensation under the State law’ shall be deemed 
to refer instead to ‘extended compensation under 
title II of the Federal-State Extended Unemploy-
ment Compensation Act of 1970’; 
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‘‘(2) paragraph (3)(B) shall not apply; 
‘‘(3) clause (i) of paragraph (3)(C) shall be 
deemed to state as follows: 
‘‘ ‘(i) 
include 
any 
entrepreneurial 
training that the State or non-profit orga-
nizations may provide in coordination with 
programs of training offered by the Small 
Business Administration, which may in-
clude business counseling, mentorship for 
participants, access to small business de-
velopment resources, and technical assist-
ance; and’; 
‘‘(4) the reference to ‘5 percent’ in paragraph 
(4) shall be deemed to refer instead to ‘1 percent’; 
and 
‘‘(5) paragraph (5) shall not apply. 
‘‘(c) In the case of an individual who is eligible to 
receive extended compensation under this title, such indi-
vidual shall not receive self-employment assistance allow-
ances under this section unless the State agency has a 
reasonable expectation that such individual will be entitled 
to at least 13 times the individual’s average weekly benefit 
amount of extended compensation and emergency unem-
ployment compensation. 
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‘‘(d)(1) An individual who is participating in a self- 
employment assistance program established under this 
section may elect to discontinue participation in such pro-
gram at any time. 
‘‘(2) For purposes of an individual whose participa-
tion in a self-employment assistance program established 
under this section is terminated pursuant to subsection 
(a)(3) or who has discontinued participation in such pro-
gram, if the individual continues to satisfy the eligibility 
requirements for extended compensation under this title, 
the individual shall receive extended compensation pay-
ments with respect to subsequent weeks of unemployment, 
to the extent that amounts remain in the account estab-
lished for such individual under section 202(b).’’. 
(b) AVAILABILITY
FOR
INDIVIDUALS
RECEIVING 
EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION.—Section 
4001 of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (Pub-
lic Law 110–252; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended by 
inserting at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(h) AUTHORITY TO CONDUCT SELF-EMPLOYMENT 
ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.— 
‘‘(A) ESTABLISHMENT.—Any agreement 
under subsection (a) may provide that the State 
agency of the State shall establish a self-em-
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