I 
116TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 6680 
To amend title II of division A of the CARES Act to modify certain provisions 
related to unemployment compensation, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 1, 2020 
Mr. KILDEE (for himself, Mr. RYAN, Mr. SOTO, Mr. ROUDA, Mr. LARSON of 
Connecticut, Mr. GARCI´A of Illinois, Ms. NORTON, Mr. LOWENTHAL, Ms. 
FUDGE, Mr. THOMPSON of Mississippi, Mr. HUFFMAN, Mr. BLU-
MENAUER, Ms. SPEIER, Mr. SEAN PATRICK MALONEY of New York, Ms. 
JACKSON LEE, Ms. MOORE, Mr. CASTRO of Texas, Mr. COHEN, Ms. 
PRESSLEY, Ms. SA´NCHEZ, Mr. HORSFORD, Ms. SCHAKOWSKY, Ms. 
BROWNLEY of California, Ms. JUDY CHU of California, Mrs. LAWRENCE, 
Mr. BRENDAN F. BOYLE of Pennsylvania, Ms. TLAIB, Ms. SEWELL of 
Alabama, Ms. MCCOLLUM, Mr. KENNEDY, Mr. FOSTER, Mr. CARSON of 
Indiana, Mr. MCGOVERN, Mr. CARTWRIGHT, Mrs. BEATTY, Mrs. WAT-
SON COLEMAN, Ms. BASS, Ms. JAYAPAL, Ms. BONAMICI, Mr. PANETTA, 
Mrs. DINGELL, Mr. SIRES, Mr. LEVIN of Michigan, Mr. VARGAS, Ms. 
KAPTUR, Mrs. HAYES, Mr. POCAN, Ms. KUSTER of New Hampshire, Ms. 
WILSON
of Florida, Mr. CLEAVER, Mr. LYNCH, Ms. DEAN, Ms. 
HAALAND, and Ms. VELA´ZQUEZ) introduced the following bill; which was 
referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the 
Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be sub-
sequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of 
such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend title II of division A of the CARES Act to modify 
certain provisions related to unemployment compensa-
tion, 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 ‘‘Strengthening Unem-
ployment Insurance for Coronavirus Impacted Workers 
and Students Act’’. 
SEC. 2. EXPANSION OF PANDEMIC UNEMPLOYMENT AS-
SISTANCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2102(b) of the CARES 
Act (Public Law 116–136) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(b) ASSISTANCE FOR UNEMPLOYMENT AS A RE-
SULT OF COVID–19.—Subject to subsection (c), the Sec-
retary shall provide pandemic unemployment assistance— 
‘‘(1) to any covered individual while such indi-
vidual is unemployed, partially unemployed, or un-
able to work for the weeks of such unemployment 
with respect to which the individual is not entitled 
to any other unemployment compensation (as that 
term is defined in section 85(b) of title 26, United 
States Code) or waiting period credit; and 
‘‘(2) to any other individual for weeks with re-
spect to which the individual would be a covered in-
dividual but for the individual’s lack of a recent at-
tachment to the labor force.’’. 
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(b) AMOUNT OF ASSISTANCE FOR NEW JOB EN-
TRANTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 2102(d) of such Act 
is amended— 
(A) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘The as-
sistance authorized under subsection (b)’’ and 
inserting ‘‘Except as provided in paragraph (2), 
the assistance authorized under subsection 
(b)(1)’’; 
(B) by redesignating paragraph (3) as 
paragraph (4); and 
(C) by inserting after paragraph (2) the 
following: 
‘‘(3) AMOUNT OF ASSISTANCE FOR NEW JOB 
ENTRANTS.—The assistance authorized under sub-
section (b)(2) for an individual described in such 
subsection for a week shall be an amount equal to 
$300.’’. 
(2) 
CONFORMING
AMENDMENT.—Section 
2102(d)(2) of such Act is amended by striking ‘‘sub-
section (b)’’ and inserting ‘‘subsection (b)(1)’’. 
(c) RELATIONSHIP WITH FEDERAL PANDEMIC UN-
EMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION.—Section 2104(i)(2)(C) of 
such Act is amended by striking ‘‘section 2102’’ and in-
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serting ‘‘section 2102 (other than assistance provided 
under subsection (b)(2) of such section)’’. 
SEC. 3. FEDERAL PANDEMIC SHORT-TIME COMPENSATION. 
Section 2104(b) of the CARES Act (Public Law 116– 
136) is amended— 
(1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as para-
graph (3); and 
(2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the fol-
lowing: 
‘‘(2) FEDERAL
PANDEMIC
SHORT-TIME
COM-
PENSATION.—Any agreement under this section 
shall provide that, in the case of a State that pro-
vides under the State law for the payment of short- 
time compensation under a short-time compensation 
program (as defined in section 3306(v) of the Inter-
nal Revenue Code of 1986), the State agency of the 
State will make payments of compensation (as de-
fined in subsection (h) of such section) to employees 
participating in such program in amounts and to the 
extent that they would be determined under such 
program if the State law of the State were applied, 
with respect to any week for which the individual is 
(disregarding this section) otherwise eligible under 
the program under the State law to receive such 
compensation, as if such State law had been modi-
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