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108TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1239
To provide for emergency unemployment compensation. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 12, 2003
Mr. LEVIN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Ways and Means 
A BILL 
To provide for 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 Act of 2003’’. 
SEC. 2. ENTITLEMENT TO ADDITIONAL WEEKS OF TEM-
PORARY EXTENDED UNEMPLOYMENT COM-
PENSATION. 
(a) ENTITLEMENT TO ADDITIONAL WEEKS.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Paragraph (1) of section 
203(b) of the Temporary Extended Unemployment
Law 107–147; 116 Stat. 26), the Secretary of Labor 
shall deem any amounts deposited into an individ-
ual’s temporary extended unemployment compensa-
tion account by reason of section 203(c) of such Act 
(commonly known as ‘‘TEUC–X amounts’’) prior to 
the date of enactment of this Act to be amounts de-
posited in such account by reason of section 203(b) 
of such Act, as amended by subsection (a) (com-
monly known as ‘‘TEUC amounts’’). 
(3) APPLICATION TO EXHAUSTEES AND CUR-
RENT BENEFICIARIES.—
(A) EXHAUSTEES.—In the case of any in-
dividual—
(i) to whom any temporary extended 
unemployment compensation was payable 
for any week beginning before the date of 
enactment of this Act; and 
(ii) who exhausted such individual’s 
rights to such compensation (by reason of 
the payment of all amounts in such indi-
vidual’s temporary extended unemployment 
compensation account) before such date, 
such individual’s eligibility for any additional 
weeks of temporary extended unemployment 
compensation by reason of the amendments
made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect 
to weeks of unemployment beginning on or 
after the date of enactment of this Act. 
(B) CURRENT
BENEFICIARIES.—In the 
case of any individual—
(i) to whom any temporary extended 
unemployment compensation was payable 
for any week beginning before the date of 
enactment of this Act; and 
(ii) as to whom the condition de-
scribed in subparagraph (A)(ii) does not 
apply, 
such individual shall be eligible for temporary 
extended unemployment compensation (in ac-
cordance with the provisions of the Temporary 
Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 
2002, as amended by subsection (a)) with re-
spect to weeks of unemployment beginning on 
or after the date of enactment of this Act. 
(4) REDETERMINATION
OF
ELIGIBILITY
FOR 
AUGMENTED AMOUNTS FOR INDIVIDUALS FOR WHOM 
SUCH A DETERMINATION WAS MADE PRIOR TO THE 
DATE
OF
ENACTMENT.—Any 
determination 
of 
whether the individual’s State is in an extended ben-
efit period under section 203(c) of the Temporary
Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2002 
(Public Law 107–147; 116 Stat. 28) made prior to 
the date of enactment of this Act shall be dis-
regarded and the determination under such section 
shall be made as follows: 
(A) INDIVIDUALS
WHO
EXHAUSTED
ALL 
TEUC AND TEUX–X AMOUNTS PRIOR TO THE 
DATE OF ENACTMENT.—In the case of an indi-
vidual whose temporary extended unemploy-
ment account has, prior to the date of enact-
ment of this Act, been both augmented under 
section 203(c) of the Temporary Extended Un-
employment Compensation Act of 2002 and ex-
hausted of all amounts by which it was so aug-
mented, the determination shall be made as of 
such date of enactment. 
(B) ALL
OTHER
INDIVIDUALS.—In the 
case of an individual who is not described in 
subparagraph (A), the determination shall be 
made at the time that the individual’s account 
established under such section 203, as amended 
by subsection (a), is exhausted.
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