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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3266 
To amend subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES Act to require 
confirmation of employment status for long-term unemployed individuals, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 17, 2021 
Mr. BISHOP of North Carolina (for himself, Mr. ARRINGTON, Ms. HERRELL, 
Mr. PERRY, Mr. ROUZER, Mr. WILLIAMS of Texas, Mr. CAWTHORN, Mr. 
HICE of Georgia, Mr. STEUBE, Mr. GOODEN of Texas, Mr. ROY, Mr. 
GOOD of Virginia, and Mr. MANN) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To amend subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES 
Act to require confirmation of employment status for 
long-term unemployed individuals, and for other pur-
poses. 
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 ‘‘Jump-Start the Econ-
omy with Jobs Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. CONFIRMATION REQUIREMENT. 
Subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES Act 
is amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘SEC. 2119. CONFIRMATION OF EMPLOYMENT STATUS FOR 
LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYED INDIVIDUALS. 
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—As a condition of each of the 
agreements described in sections 2104 and 2107, a State 
shall— 
‘‘(1) notify each long-term unemployed indi-
vidual in the State that the State unemployment 
agency will seek confirmation of the individual’s cur-
rent employment status from the individual’s most 
recent employer (except in cases in which such em-
ployer no longer exists); 
‘‘(2) request each employer described in para-
graph (1) to submit information to the State unem-
ployment agency with respect to each such individual 
describing whether— 
‘‘(A) the individual’s position is not avail-
able at the time of the request; or 
‘‘(B) the individual’s position is available 
but the individual has refused to return to 
work; 
‘‘(3) in any case in which an employer submits 
information to the State unemployment agency with 
respect to an individual that describes a position 
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that remains unavailable as described in paragraph 
(1), notify such individual, not later than the stand-
ard processing time for applications for regular un-
employment compensation in the State after receipt 
of such information, that the individual’s unem-
ployed status has been confirmed; and 
‘‘(4) in any case in which an employer submits 
information to the State unemployment agency with 
respect to an individual that describes a refusal to 
return to work as described in paragraph (2)(B), or 
in any case in which an employer fails to submit in-
formation described in paragraph (2) not later than 
the standard processing time for applications for 
regular unemployment compensation in the State 
after the date of the request, terminate the individ-
ual’s Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensa-
tion under section 2104 or Pandemic Emergency 
Unemployment Compensation under section 2107, 
as applicable. 
‘‘(b) DEFINITION.—The term ‘long-term unemployed 
individual’ means an individual who has received Federal 
Pandemic Unemployment Compensation under section 
2104 or Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensa-
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