SEC. 4. REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO EMERGENCY EX-
TENDED UNEMPLOYMENT COMPENSATION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Any agreement under this Act 
shall provide that the State agency of the State will, for 
any weeks of unemployment to which such agreement ap-
plies, make payments of emergency extended unemploy-
ment compensation under this Act to individuals who— 
(1) have exhausted all rights to regular com-
pensation under the State law or under Federal law, 
but only if exhaustion occurs upon or after the close 
of the week that includes August 28, 2005; 
(2) have no rights to regular compensation or 
extended compensation with respect to a week under 
such law or any other State unemployment com-
pensation law or to compensation under any other 
Federal law; 
(3) are not receiving compensation with respect 
to such week under the unemployment compensation 
law of any other country; and 
(4) at any time during the week before the 
week that includes August 28, 2005, either held em-
ployment in or resided in an area— 
(A) that is within a qualified State; and 
(B) for which the President has declared a 
major disaster under the Robert T. Stafford 
Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act
(42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.) as a result of Hurri-
cane Katrina. 
(b) EXHAUSTION OF BENEFITS.—For purposes of 
subsection (a)(1), an individual shall be deemed to have 
exhausted such individual’s rights to regular compensation 
under a State law when— 
(1) no payments of regular compensation can 
be made under such law because such individual has 
received all regular compensation available to such 
individual based on employment or wages during 
such individual’s base period; or 
(2) such individual’s rights to such compensa-
tion have been terminated by reason of the expira-
tion of the benefit year with respect to which such 
rights existed. 
(c) WEEKLY BENEFIT AMOUNT, ETC.—For purposes 
of any agreement under this Act— 
(1) the amount of emergency extended unem-
ployment compensation which shall be payable to 
any individual for any week of total unemployment 
shall be equal to the amount of the regular com-
pensation (including dependents’ allowances) payable 
to such individual during such individual’s benefit 
year under the State law for a week of total unem-
ployment;
(2) the terms and conditions of the State law 
which apply to claims for regular compensation and 
to the payment thereof shall apply to claims for 
emergency extended unemployment compensation 
and to the payment thereof, except where otherwise 
inconsistent with the provisions of this Act or with 
the regulations or operating instructions of the Sec-
retary promulgated to carry out this Act; and 
(3) the maximum amount of emergency ex-
tended unemployment compensation payable to any 
individual for whom an emergency extended unem-
ployment compensation account is established under 
subsection (d) shall not exceed the amount estab-
lished in such account for such individual. 
(d) EMERGENCY EXTENDED UNEMPLOYMENT COM-
PENSATION ACCOUNTS.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Any agreement under this 
Act shall provide that the State will establish, for 
each eligible individual who files an application for 
emergency extended unemployment compensation an 
emergency extended unemployment compensation ac-
count with respect to such individual’s benefit year. 
(2) AMOUNT IN ACCOUNT.— 
(A) IN GENERAL.—The amount established 
in an account under paragraph (1) shall be the
amount equal to 13 times the individual’s aver-
age weekly benefit amount for the benefit year. 
(B) WEEKLY
BENEFIT
AMOUNT.—For 
purposes of this paragraph, an individual’s av-
erage weekly benefit amount for any week is the 
amount of regular compensation (including de-
pendents’ allowances) under the State law pay-
able to such individual for such week for total 
unemployment. 
SEC. 5. PAYMENTS TO STATES. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—There shall be paid to each State 
which has entered into an agreement under this Act the 
following: 
(1) An amount equal to 100 percent of any ad-
ditional regular compensation made payable to indi-
viduals by such State by virtue of the modification 
which described in section 3(b) and deemed to be in 
effect with respect to such State pursuant to section 
3(a). 
(2) An amount equal to 100 percent of any 
emergency extended unemployment compensation 
paid to individuals by such State pursuant to such 
agreement. 
(3) An amount equal to 100 percent of any reg-
ular compensation, not otherwise reimbursable under