graph), until exhaustion of all coal mining 
emergency unemployment compensation payable 
with respect to the benefit year referred to in 
paragraph (1)(A). 
(C) The State shall pay, if permitted by 
State law— 
(i) regular compensation equal to the 
weekly benefit amount established under 
the new benefit year, and 
(ii) coal mining emergency unemploy-
ment compensation equal to the difference 
between that weekly benefit amount and 
the weekly benefit amount for the expired 
benefit year. 
(D) The State shall determine rights to 
coal mining emergency unemployment com-
pensation without regard to any rights to reg-
ular compensation if the individual elects to not 
file a claim for regular compensation under the 
new benefit year. 
SEC. 4. PAYMENTS TO STATES HAVING AGREEMENTS FOR 
THE PAYMENT OF COAL MINING EMERGENCY 
UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION. 
(a) GENERAL RULE.—There shall be paid to each 
State that has entered into an agreement under this Act 
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an amount equal to 100 percent of the coal mining emer-
gency unemployment compensation paid to individuals by 
the State pursuant to such agreement. 
(b) TREATMENT
OF REIMBURSABLE COMPENSA-
TION.—No payment shall be made to any State under this 
section in respect of any compensation to the extent the 
State is entitled to reimbursement in respect of such com-
pensation under the provisions of any Federal law other 
than this Act or chapter 85 of title 5, United States Code. 
A State shall not be entitled to any reimbursement under 
such chapter 85 in respect of any compensation to the ex-
tent the State is entitled to reimbursement under this Act 
in respect of such compensation. 
(c) DETERMINATION OF AMOUNT.—Sums payable to 
any State by reason of such State having an agreement 
under this Act shall be payable, either in advance or by 
way of reimbursement (as may be determined by the Sec-
retary), in such amounts as the Secretary estimates the 
State will be entitled to receive under this Act for each 
calendar month, reduced or increased, as the case may be, 
by any amount by which the Secretary finds that the Sec-
retary’s estimates for any prior calendar month were 
greater or less than the amounts which should have been 
paid to the State. Such estimates may be made on the 
basis of such statistical, sampling, or other method as may 
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be agreed upon by the Secretary and the State agency of 
the State involved. 
SEC. 5. FINANCING PROVISIONS. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Funds in the extended unemploy-
ment compensation account (as established by section 
905(a) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1105(a))) 
of the Unemployment Trust Fund (as established by sec-
tion 904(a) of such Act (42 U.S.C. 1104(a))) shall be used 
for the making of payments to States having agreements 
entered into under this Act. 
(b) CERTIFICATION.—The Secretary shall from time 
to time certify to the Secretary of the Treasury for pay-
ment to each participating State the sums payable to such 
State under this Act. The Secretary of the Treasury, prior 
to audit or settlement by the Government Accountability 
Office, shall make payments to the State in accordance 
with such certification, by transfers from the extended un-
employment compensation account (as so established) to 
the account of such State in the Unemployment Trust 
Fund (as so established). 
(c) ASSISTANCE TO STATES.— 
(1) ADMINISTRATION.—There are appropriated 
out of the employment security administration ac-
count (as established by section 901(a) of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1101(a))) of the Unemploy-
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ment Trust Fund, without fiscal year limitation, 
such funds as may be necessary for purposes of as-
sisting States (as provided in title III of the Social 
Security Act (42 U.S.C. 501 et seq.)) in meeting the 
costs of administration of agreements under this 
Act. 
(2) REEMPLOYMENT SERVICES AND REEMPLOY-
MENT AND ELIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT ACTIVITIES.— 
(A) APPROPRIATION.—There are appro-
priated from the general fund of the Treasury, 
out of the employment security administration 
account (as established by section 901(a) of the 
Social Security Act), without fiscal year limita-
tion, such sums as determined by the Secretary 
of Labor in accordance with subparagraph (B) 
to assist participating States in providing reem-
ployment services and reemployment and eligi-
bility assessment activities described in section 
2(i). 
(B) 
DETERMINATION
OF
TOTAL 
AMOUNT.—The amount referred to in subpara-
graph (A) is the amount the Secretary of Labor 
estimates is equal to— 
(i) the number of individuals who will 
receive reemployment services and reem-
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ployment eligibility and assessment activi-
ties described in section 2(i) in all partici-
pating States through the date specified in 
section 8(a)(2); multiplied by 
(ii) $85. 
(C) DISTRIBUTION
AMONG
STATES.—Of 
the amounts appropriated under subparagraph 
(A), the Secretary of Labor shall distribute 
amounts to each participating State, in accord-
ance with section 4(c), that the Secretary esti-
mates is equal to— 
(i) the number of individuals who will 
receive reemployment services and reem-
ployment and eligibility assessment activi-
ties described in section (2)(i) in such 
State through the date specified in section 
8(a)(2); multiplied by 
(ii) $85. 
(d) APPROPRIATIONS
FOR CERTAIN PAYMENTS.— 
There are appropriated from the general fund of the 
Treasury, without fiscal year limitation, to the extended 
unemployment compensation account (as so established) 
of the Unemployment Trust Fund (as so established) such 
sums as the Secretary estimates to be necessary to make 
the payments under this section in respect of— 
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(1) compensation payable under chapter 85 of 
title 5, United States Code; and 
(2) compensation payable on the basis of serv-
ices to which section 3309(a)(1) of the Internal Rev-
enue Code of 1986 applies. 
Amounts appropriated pursuant to the preceding sentence 
shall not be required to be repaid. 
(e) TRANSFER
OF FUNDS.—Notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, the Secretary of the Treasury shall 
transfer from the general fund of the Treasury (from 
funds not otherwise appropriated)— 
(1) to the extended unemployment compensa-
tion account (as established by section 905 of the 
Social Security Act) such sums as the Secretary of 
Labor estimates to be necessary to make payments 
to participating States under this Act; and 
(2) to the employment security administration 
account (as established by section 901 of the Social 
Security Act) such sums as the Secretary of Labor 
estimates to be necessary— 
(A) in accordance with subsection (c)(1), 
to assist such States in meeting the costs of ad-
ministration of agreements under this Act; and 
(B) in accordance with subsection (c)(2), 
to assist such States in providing reemployment 
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