I 
111TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6091 
To provide for further additional emergency unemployment compensation. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
AUGUST 10, 2010 
Ms. BERKLEY (for herself, Mr. MCDERMOTT, Ms. RICHARDSON, Mr. HARE, 
Ms. WATSON, Mr. LEWIS of Georgia, Ms. KILPATRICK of Michigan, Mr. 
KILDEE, Mr. DOYLE, Ms. LINDA T. SA´NCHEZ of California, Ms. 
SCHAKOWSKY, Mr. FILNER, and Mr. FRANK of Massachusetts) intro-
duced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways 
and Means 
A BILL 
To provide for further additional emergency 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 ‘‘Emergency Unemploy-
ment Compensation Extension Act of 2010’’. 
SEC. 2. FIFTH-TIER BENEFITS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 4002 of the Supplemental 
Appropriations Act, 2008 (26 U.S.C. 3304 note) is 
amended— 
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(1) by redesignating subsections (f) and (g) as 
subsections (g) and (h), respectively; and 
(2) by inserting after subsection (e) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(f) FIFTH-TIER
EMERGENCY
UNEMPLOYMENT 
COMPENSATION.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—If, at the time that the 
amount added to an individual’s account under sub-
section (e)(1) (fourth-tier emergency unemployment 
compensation) is exhausted or at any time there-
after, such individual’s State is in an extended ben-
efit period (as determined under paragraph (2)), 
such account shall be further augmented by an 
amount (hereinafter ‘fifth-tier emergency unemploy-
ment compensation’) equal to the lesser of— 
‘‘(A) 80 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) 20 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 
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to be in an extended benefit period, as of any given 
time, if— 
‘‘(A) 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 ‘7’ 
for ‘5’ each place it appears; and 
‘‘(ii) did not include the requirement 
under paragraph (1)(A) thereof; or 
‘‘(B) 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 
‘10’ for ‘6.5’ in paragraph (1)(A)(i) 
thereof; and 
‘‘(II) did not include the require-
ment 
under 
paragraph 
(1)(A)(ii) 
thereof. 
‘‘(3) LIMITATION.—The account of an indi-
vidual may be augmented not more than once under 
this subsection.’’. 
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(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.— 
(1) COORDINATION
WITH
EXTENDED
COM-
PENSATION.—Section 4002(g) of such Act (as so 
designated by subsection (a)(1)) is amended by 
striking ‘‘subsection (c), (d), or (e) (by reason of the 
amendments made by sections 2, 3, and 4 of the 
Worker, Homeownership, and Business Assistance 
Act of 2009),’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (c), (d), 
(e), or (f),’’. 
(2) TRANSFER OF FUNDS.—Section 4004(e)(1) 
of such Act is amended— 
(A) in subparagraph (E), by striking 
‘‘and’’ after the semicolon; and 
(B) by adding after subparagraph (F) the 
following: 
‘‘(G) the amendments made by section 2(a) of 
the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Exten-
sion Act of 2010; and’’. 
(3) 
NON-AUGMENTATION
RULE.—Section 
4007(b)(2) of such Act is amended— 
(A) by striking ‘‘subsections (c), (d), and 
(e) of section 4002’’ and inserting ‘‘subsections 
(c), (d), (e), and (f)’’; and 
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(B) by striking ‘‘such subsection (c), (d), 
or (e) (as the case may be)’’ and inserting 
‘‘such subsection (c), (d), (e), or (f)’’. 
SEC. 3. EFFECTIVE DATE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—The amendments made by section 
2 shall apply as if included in the enactment of the Supple-
mental Appropriations Act, 2008, subject to subsection 
(b). 
(b) ADDITIONAL BENEFITS.—In applying the amend-
ments made by section 2, any additional emergency unem-
ployment compensation made payable by such amend-
ments (which would not otherwise have been payable if 
such amendments had not been enacted) shall be payable 
only with respect to any week of unemployment beginning 
on or after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
Æ 
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