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specified in section 120(a)(5) of the Transportation, Housing and 
Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2021 
and shall be apportioned not later than 30 days after the date 
of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That funds apportioned 
to a State under this heading in this Act shall be suballocated 
within the State to each area described in subsection 133(d)(1)(A)(i) 
of title 23, United States Code, in the same ratio that funds suballo-
cated to that area for fiscal year 2021 bears to the combined 
amount of funds apportioned to the State under section 104(b)(2) 
of such title for fiscal years 2020 and 2021: Provided further, That 
of funds made available under this heading in this Act for activities 
eligible under section 133(b) of title 23, United States Code, any 
such activity shall be subject to the requirements of section 133(i) 
of title 23, United States Code: Provided further, That, except 
as provided in the following proviso, the funds made available 
under this heading in this Act for activities eligible under the 
Puerto Rico Highway Program and activities eligible under the 
Territorial Highway Program shall be administered as if allocated 
under sections 165(b) and 165(c), respectively, of title 23, United 
States Code: Provided further, That the funds made available under 
this heading in this Act for activities eligible under the Puerto 
Rico Highway Program shall not be subject to the requirements 
of sections 165(b)(2)(A) or 165(b)(2)(B) of title 23, United States 
Code: Provided further, That for amounts made available under 
this heading in this Act, the Federal share of the costs shall be, 
at the option of the State, territory, Puerto Rico, or Indian Tribe, 
up to 100 percent: Provided further, That funds made available 
for preventive maintenance, routine maintenance, operations, per-
sonnel, including salaries of employees (including those employees 
who have been placed on administrative leave) or contractors, debt 
service payments, availability payments, and coverage for other 
revenue losses under this heading in this Act are not required 
to be included in a metropolitan transportation plan, a long-range 
statewide transportation plan, a transportation improvement pro-
gram or a statewide transportation improvement program under 
sections 134 or 135 of title 23, United States Code, or chapter 
53 of title 49, United States Code, as applicable: Provided further, 
That unless otherwise specified, applicable requirements under title 
23, United States Code, shall apply to funds made available under 
this heading in this Act: Provided further, That, subject to the 
following proviso, the funds made available under this heading 
in this Act for activities eligible under the Tribal Transportation 
Program, as described in section 202 of title 23, United States 
Code, may not be set-aside for administrative expenses as described 
in section 202(a)(6) of such title: Provided further, That the Adminis-
trator of the Federal Highway Administration may retain up to 
$10,000,000 of the total funds made available under this heading 
in this Act, to fund the oversight by the Administrator of activities 
carried out with funds made available under this heading in this 
Act: Provided further, That the set-asides described in subparagraph 
(C) of section 202(b)(3) of title 23, United States Code, and sub-
sections (a)(6), (c), (d), and (e) of section 202 of such title shall 
not apply to funds made available under this heading in this Act 
for activities eligible under the Tribal Transportation Program: 
Provided further, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section
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251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Con-
trol Act of 1985. 
FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION 
NORTHEAST CORRIDOR GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL RAILROAD 
PASSENGER CORPORATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Northeast Corridor Grants to 
the National Railroad Passenger Corporation’’, $655,431,000, to 
remain available until expended, to prevent, prepare for, and 
respond to coronavirus, including to enable the Secretary of 
Transportation to make or amend existing grants to the National 
Railroad Passenger Corporation for activities associated with the 
Northeast Corridor, as authorized by section 11101(a) of the Fixing 
America’s Surface Transportation Act (division A of Public Law 
114–94): Provided, That not less than $109,805,000 of the amounts 
made available under this heading in this Act and the ‘‘National 
Network Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation’’ 
heading in this Act shall be made available for use by the National 
Railroad Passenger Corporation in lieu of capital payments from 
States and commuter rail passenger transportation providers sub-
ject to the cost allocation policy developed pursuant to section 
24905(c) of title 49, United States Code: Provided further, That, 
notwithstanding sections 24319(g) and 24905(c)(1)(A)(i) of title 49, 
United States Code, such use of funds does not constitute cross- 
subsidization of commuter rail passenger transportation: Provided 
further, That the Secretary may retain up to $2,030,000 of the 
amounts made available under both this heading in this Act and 
the ‘‘National Network Grants to the National Railroad Passenger 
Corporation’’ heading in this Act to fund the costs of project manage-
ment and oversight of activities authorized by section 11101(c) 
of the Fixing America’s Surface Transportation Act (division A 
of Public Law 114–94): Provided further, That amounts made avail-
able under this heading in this Act may be transferred to and 
merged with amounts made available under the heading ‘‘National 
Network Grants to the National Railroad Passenger Corporation’’ 
in this Act to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus: 
Provided further, That such amount is designated by the Congress 
as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to section 
251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Con-
trol Act of 1985. 
NATIONAL NETWORK GRANTS TO THE NATIONAL RAILROAD PASSENGER 
CORPORATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For an additional amount for ‘‘National Network Grants to 
the National Railroad Passenger Corporation’’, $344,569,000, to 
remain available until expended, to prevent, prepare for, and 
respond to coronavirus, including to enable the Secretary of 
Transportation to make or amend existing grants to the National 
Railroad Passenger Corporation for activities associated with the 
National Network as authorized by section 11101(b) of the Fixing 
America’s Surface Transportation Act (division A of Public Law
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114–94): Provided, That $174,850,000 of the amounts made avail-
able under this heading in this Act shall be made available for 
use by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation to be appor-
tioned toward State payments required by the cost methodology 
policy adopted pursuant to section 209 of the Passenger Rail Invest-
ment and Improvement Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–432): Provided 
further, That a State-supported route’s share of such funding under 
the preceding proviso shall consist of (1) 7 percent of the costs 
allocated to the route in fiscal year 2019 under the cost methodology 
policy adopted pursuant to section 209 of the Passenger Rail Invest-
ment and Improvement Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–432), and 
(2) any remaining amounts under the preceding proviso shall be 
apportioned to a route in proportion to its passenger revenue and 
other revenue allocated to a State-supported route in fiscal year 
2019 divided by the total passenger revenue and other revenue 
allocated to all State-supported routes in fiscal year 2019: Provided 
further, That State-supported routes which terminated service on 
or before February 1, 2020, shall not be included in the cost and 
revenue calculations made pursuant to the preceding proviso: Pro-
vided further, That amounts made available under this heading 
in this Act may be transferred to and merged with amounts made 
available under the heading ‘‘Northeast Corridor Grants to the 
National Railroad Passenger Corporation’’ in this Act to prevent, 
prepare for, and respond to coronavirus: Provided further, That 
such amount is designated by the Congress as being for an emer-
gency requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION 
TRANSIT INFRASTRUCTURE GRANTS 
For an additional amount for ‘‘Transit Infrastructure Grants’’, 
$14,000,000,000, to remain available until expended, to prevent, 
prepare for, and respond to coronavirus: Provided, That of the 
amounts appropriated under this heading in this Act— 
(1) $13,271,310,572 shall be for grants to recipients eligible 
under chapter 53 of title 49, United States Code, and adminis-
tered as if such funds were provided under section 5307 of 
title 49, United States Code (apportioned in accordance with 
section 5336 of such title (other than subsections (h)(1) and 
(h)(4))), and section 5337 of title 49, United States Code (appor-
tioned in accordance with such section), except that funds 
apportioned under section 5337 shall be added to funds appor-
tioned under 5307 for administration under 5307: Provided, 
That the Secretary of Transportation (referred to under this 
heading in this Act as the ‘‘Secretary’’) shall allocate the 
amounts provided in the preceding proviso under sections 5307 
and 5337 of title 49, United States Code, in the same ratio 
as funds were provided under the Further Consolidated Appro-
priations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94; 133 Stat. 2534) and 
shall allocate such amounts not later than 30 days after the 
date of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That the 
amounts allocated to any urbanized area from amounts made 
available under this paragraph in this Act when combined 
with the amounts allocated to that urbanized area from funds 
appropriated under this heading in title XII of division B of
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the CARES Act (Public Law 116–136; 134 Stat. 599)) may 
not exceed 75 percent of that urbanized area’s 2018 operating 
costs based on data contained in the National Transit Database: 
Provided further, That for any urbanized area for which the 
calculation in the preceding proviso exceeds 75 percent of the 
urbanized area’s 2018 operating costs, the Secretary shall dis-
tribute funds in excess of such percent to urbanized areas 
for which the calculation in the preceding proviso does not 
exceed 75 percent, in the same proportion as amounts allocated 
under the first proviso of this paragraph in this Act: Provided 
further, That no recipient in an urbanized area may receive 
more than $4,000,000,000 from the amounts allocated under 
this paragraph in this Act in combination with the amounts 
provided under this heading in title XII of division B of the 
CARES Act (Public Law 116–136; 134 Stat. 599) until 75 per-
cent of the funds provided to the recipient under this heading 
in such title XII are obligated and only after the recipient 
certifies to the Secretary that the use of such funds in excess 
of such amount is necessary to prevent layoffs or furloughs 
directly related to demonstrated revenue losses directly attrib-
utable to COVID–19; 
(2) $50,034,973 shall be for grants to recipients or subrecipi-
ents eligible under section 5310 of title 49, United States Code, 
and the Secretary shall apportion such funds in accordance 
with such section: Provided, That the Secretary shall allocate 
such funds in the same ratio as funds were provided under 
the Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 
116–94; 133 Stat. 2534) and shall allocate such funds not 
later than 30 days after the date of enactment of this Act; 
and 
(3) $678,654,455 shall be for grants to recipients or sub-
recipients eligible under section 5311 of title 49, United States 
Code (other than subsections (b)(3), (c)(1)(A), and (f)), and the 
Secretary shall apportion such funds in accordance with such 
section: Provided, That the Secretary shall allocate such funds 
in the same ratio as funds were provided under the Further 
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020 (Public Law 116–94; 
133 Stat. 2534) and shall allocate funds within 30 days of 
enactment of this Act: Provided further, That the amounts 
allocated to any State (as defined in section 5302 of title 49, 
United States Code) for rural operating costs from amounts 
made available under this heading in this Act when combined 
with the amounts allocated to each such State for rural oper-
ating costs from funds appropriated under this heading in 
title XII of division B of the CARES Act (Public Law 116– 
136; 134 Stat. 599) may not exceed 125 percent of that State’s 
combined 2018 rural operating costs of the recipients and sub-
recipients in the State based on data contained in the National 
Transit Database: Provided further, That for any State for 
which the calculation in the preceding proviso exceeds 125 
percent of the State’s combined 2018 rural operating costs 
of the recipients and subrecipients in the State, the Secretary 
shall distribute funds in excess of such percent to States for 
which the calculation in the preceding proviso does not exceed 
125 percent in the same proportion as amounts allocated under 
the first proviso of this paragraph in this Act:
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Provided further, That the Secretary shall not waive the require-
ments of section 5333 of title 49, United States Code, for funds 
appropriated under this heading in this Act or for funds previously 
made available under section 5307 of title 49, United States Code, 
or section 5311, 5337, or 5340 of such title as a result of COVID– 
19: Provided further, That the provision of funds under this heading 
in this Act shall not affect the ability of any other agency of 
the Government, including the Federal Emergency Management 
Agency, a State agency, or a local governmental entity, organization, 
or person, to provide any other funds otherwise authorized by 
law: Provided further, That notwithstanding subsection (a)(1) or 
(b) of section 5307 of title 49, United States Code, section 
5310(b)(2)(A) of that title, or any provision of chapter 53 of that 
title, funds provided under this heading in this Act are available 
for the operating expenses of transit agencies related to the response 
to a COVID–19 public health emergency, including, beginning on 
January 20, 2020, reimbursement for operating costs to maintain 
service and lost revenue due to the COVID–19 public health emer-
gency, including the purchase of personal protective equipment, 
and paying the administrative leave of operations or contractor 
personnel due to reductions in service: Provided further, That to 
the maximum extent possible, funds made available under this 
heading in this Act and in title XII of division B of the CARES 
Act (Public Law 116–136; 134 Stat. 599) shall be directed to payroll 
and operations of public transit (including payroll and expenses 
of private providers of public transportation), unless the recipient 
certifies to the Secretary that the recipient has not furloughed 
any employees: Provided further, That such operating expenses 
are not required to be included in a transportation improvement 
program, long-range transportation plan, statewide transportation 
plan, or a statewide transportation improvement program: Provided 
further, That private providers of public transportation shall be 
considered eligible subrecipients of funding provided under this 
heading in this Act and in title XII of division B of the CARES 
Act (Public Law 116–136; 134 Stat. 599): Provided further, That 
unless otherwise specified, applicable requirements under chapter 
53 of title 49, United States Code, shall apply to funding made 
available under this heading in this Act, except that the Federal 
share of the costs for which any grant is made under this heading 
in this Act shall be, at the option of the recipient, up to 100 
percent: Provided further, That the amount made available under 
this heading in this Act shall be derived from the general fund 
of the Treasury and shall not be subject to any limitation on 
obligations for transit programs set forth in any Act: Provided 
further, That the Federal share of costs for any unobligated grant 
funds under section 5310 of title 49, United States Code, as of 
the date of enactment of this Act shall be, at the option of the 
recipient, up to 100 percent: Provided further, That of the amounts 
made available under this heading in this Act, up to $10,000,000 
may be retained by the Administrator of the Federal Transit 
Administration to fund ongoing program management and oversight 
activities described in sections 5334 and 5338(f)(2) of title 49, United 
States Code, and shall be in addition to any other appropriations 
for such purpose: Provided further, That the amounts repurposed 
under this heading in this Act that were previously designated 
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to the 
Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 are
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designated by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant 
to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency 
Deficit Control Act of 1985: Provided further, That such amount 
is designated by the Congress as being for an emergency require-
ment pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget 
and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. 
GENERAL PROVISION—THIS TITLE 
SEC. 401. Amounts made available in this Act under the 
headings ‘‘Northeast Corridor Grants to the National Railroad Pas-
senger Corporation’’ and ‘‘National Network Grants to the National 
Railroad Passenger Corporation’’ shall be used under the same 
conditions as section 22002 of title XII of division B of the 
Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (Public Law 
116–136), except as otherwise noted in this Act: Provided, That 
the amounts made available in this Act under such headings shall 
be used by the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, to: (1) 
prevent further employee furloughs that are a result of efforts 
to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus; and (2) prevent 
further reductions to the frequency of rail service on any long- 
distance route (as defined in section 24102 of title 49, United 
States Code) except in an emergency or during maintenance or 
construction outages impacting such routes: Provided further, That 
the coronavirus shall not qualify as an emergency in the preceding 
proviso: Provided further, That in the event of any National Railroad 
Passenger Corporation employee furloughs as a result of efforts 
to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, the National 
Railroad Passenger Corporation shall provide such employees the 
opportunity to be recalled to work in accordance with their seniority 
and classification of work, regardless of their time in the National 
Railroad Passenger Corporation’s service, as intercity passenger 
rail service is restored: Provided further, That the National Railroad 
Passenger Corporation shall be prohibited from contracting out 
any scope-covered work conducted by an employee who was fur-
loughed through reductions in the workforce as a result of efforts 
to prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus, unless such 
contracting was in place prior to March 1, 2020 or is done by 
agreement with the Labor Organization representing such 
employee. 
TITLE V 
GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS ACT 
SEC. 501. Each amount appropriated or made available by 
this Act is in addition to amounts otherwise appropriated for the 
fiscal year involved. 
SEC. 502. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year 
unless expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 503. Unless otherwise provided for by this Act, the addi-
tional amounts appropriated by this Act to appropriations accounts 
shall be available under the authorities and conditions applicable 
to such appropriations accounts for fiscal year 2021. 
SEC. 504. Any amount appropriated by this Act, designated 
by the Congress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
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251(b)(2)(A)(i) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Con-
trol Act of 1985 and subsequently so designated by the President, 
and transferred pursuant to transfer authorities provided by this 
Act shall retain such designation. 
SEC. 505. Solely for the purpose of calculating a breach within 
a category for fiscal year 2021 pursuant to section 251(a) or section 
254 of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 
of 1985, and notwithstanding any other provision of this division, 
the budgetary effects from this division shall be counted as amounts 
designated as being for an emergency requirement pursuant to 
section 251(b)(2)(A) of such Act. 
This division may be cited as the ‘‘Coronavirus Response and 
Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2021’’. 
DIVISION N—ADDITIONAL 
CORONAVIRUS RESPONSE AND RELIEF 
TITLE I—HEALTHCARE 
SEC. 101. SUPPORTING PHYSICIANS AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS IN 
ADJUSTING TO MEDICARE PAYMENT CHANGES DURING 
2021. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1848 of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 1395w–4) is amended by adding at the end the following 
new subsection: 
‘‘(t) SUPPORTING PHYSICIANS
AND OTHER PROFESSIONALS
IN 
ADJUSTING TO MEDICARE PAYMENT CHANGES DURING 2021.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In order to support physicians and other 
professionals in adjusting to changes in payment for physicians’ 
services during 2021, the Secretary shall increase fee schedules 
under subsection (b) that establish payment amounts for such 
services furnished on or after January 1, 2021, and before 
January 1, 2022, by 3.75 percent. 
‘‘(2) IMPLEMENTATION.— 
‘‘(A) ADMINISTRATION.—Notwithstanding any other 
provision of law, the Secretary may implement this sub-
section by program instruction or otherwise. 
‘‘(B) LIMITATION.—There shall be no administrative or 
judicial review under section 1869, 1878 or otherwise of 
the fee schedules that establish payment amounts cal-
culated pursuant to this subsection. 
‘‘(C) APPLICATION ONLY FOR 2021.—The increase in fee 
schedules that establish payment amounts under this sub-
section shall not be taken into account in determining 
such fee schedules that establish payment amounts for 
services furnished in years after 2021. 
‘‘(3) FUNDING.—For purposes of increasing the fee schedules 
that establish payment amounts pursuant to this subsection— 
‘‘(A) there shall be transferred from the General Fund 
of the Treasury to the Federal Supplementary Medical 
Insurance Trust Fund under section 1841, $3,000,000,000, 
to remain available until expended; and 
‘‘(B) in the event the Secretary determines additional 
amounts are necessary, such amounts shall be available
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from the Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust 
Fund.’’. 
(b) EXEMPTION OF ADDITIONAL EXPENDITURES FROM PHYSICIAN 
FEE
SCHEDULE
BUDGET-NEUTRALITY.—Such 
section 
1848 
is 
amended, in subsection (c)(2)(B)(iv)— 
(1) in subclause (III), by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end; 
(2) in subclause (IV), by striking the period at the end 
and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 
(3) by adding at the end the following new subclause: 
‘‘(V) subsection (t) shall not be taken into 
account in applying clause (ii)(II) for 2021.’’. 
(c) REPORT.—Not later than April 1, 2022, the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services shall submit a report to the Committee 
on Finance of the Senate and the Committee on Ways and Means 
and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of 
Representatives on the increase in fee schedules that establish 
payment amounts for physicians’ services under section 1848(t) 
of the Social Security Act, as added by subsection (a). Such report 
shall include the aggregate amount of the increase in payment 
amounts under such section, including information regarding any 
payments made in excess of the amount of funding provided under 
paragraph (3)(A) of such section. 
SEC. 102. EXTENSION OF TEMPORARY SUSPENSION OF MEDICARE 
SEQUESTRATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 3709(a) of division A of the CARES 
Act (2 U.S.C. 901a note) is amended by striking ‘‘December 31, 
2020’’ and inserting ‘‘March 31, 2021’’. 
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendment made by subsection (a) 
shall take effect as if enacted as part of the CARES Act (Public 
Law 116–136). 
TITLE II—ASSISTANCE TO INDIVIDUALS, 
FAMILIES, AND BUSINESSES 
Subtitle A—Unemployment Insurance 
CHAPTER 1—CONTINUED ASSISTANCE TO 
UNEMPLOYED WORKERS 
SEC. 200. SHORT TITLE. 
This chapter may be cited as the ‘‘Continued Assistance for 
Unemployed Workers Act of 2020’’. 
Subchapter I—Extension of CARES Act Unemployment 
Provisions 
SEC. 201. EXTENSION AND BENEFIT PHASEOUT RULE FOR PANDEMIC 
UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 2102(c) of the CARES Act (15 U.S.C. 
9021(c)) is amended— 
(1) in paragraph (1)— 
(A) by striking ‘‘paragraph (2)’’ and inserting ‘‘para-
graphs (2) and (3)’’; and 
(B) in subparagraph (A)(ii), by striking ‘‘December 31, 
2020’’ and inserting ‘‘March 14, 2021’’; and
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(2) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (4); and 
(3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following: 
‘‘(3) TRANSITION RULE FOR INDIVIDUALS REMAINING ENTI-
TLED TO PANDEMIC UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE AS OF MARCH 
14, 2021.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Subject to subparagraph (B), in the 
case of any individual who, as of the date specified in 
paragraph (1)(A)(ii), is receiving pandemic unemployment 
assistance but has not yet exhausted all rights to such 
assistance under this section, pandemic unemployment 
assistance shall continue to be payable to such individual 
for any week beginning on or after such date for which 
the individual is otherwise eligible for pandemic unemploy-
ment assistance. 
‘‘(B) TERMINATION.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of this subsection, no pandemic unemployment assist-
ance shall be payable for any week beginning after April 
5, 2021.’’. 
(b) INCREASE IN NUMBER OF WEEKS.—Section 2102(c)(2) of the 
CARES Act (15 U.S.C. 9021(c)(2)) is amended— 
(1) by striking ‘‘39 weeks’’ and inserting ‘‘50 weeks’’; and 
(2) by striking ‘‘39-week period’’ and inserting ‘‘50-week 
period’’. 
(c) APPEALS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Section 2102(c) of the CARES Act (15 
U.S.C. 9021(c)), as amended by subsections (a) and (b), is 
amended by adding at the end the following: 
‘‘(5) APPEALS BY AN INDIVIDUAL.— 
‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—An individual may appeal any deter-
mination or redetermination regarding the rights to pan-
demic unemployment assistance under this section made 
by the State agency of any of the States. 
‘‘(B) PROCEDURE.—All levels of appeal filed under this 
paragraph in the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands— 
‘‘(i) shall be carried out by the applicable State 
that made the determination or redetermination; and 
‘‘(ii) shall be conducted in the same manner and 
to the same extent as the applicable State would con-
duct appeals of determinations or redeterminations 
regarding rights to regular compensation under State 
law. 
‘‘(C) PROCEDURE
FOR
CERTAIN
TERRITORIES.—With 
respect to any appeal filed in Guam, American Samoa, 
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, the 
Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall 
Islands, and the Republic of Palau— 
‘‘(i) lower level appeals shall be carried out by 
the applicable entity within the State; 
‘‘(ii) if a higher level appeal is allowed by the 
State, the higher level appeal shall be carried out 
by the applicability entity within the State; and 
‘‘(iii) appeals described in clauses (i) and (ii) shall 
be conducted in the same manner and to the same 
extent as appeals of regular unemployment compensa-
tion are conducted under the unemployment compensa-
tion law of Hawaii.’’.