Title: Reopening America by Supporting Workers and Businesses Act of 2020
Policy area: Commerce

Summary:
Reopening America by Supporting Workers and Businesses Act of 2020  This bill permits states to provide not more than two weekly payments of $600 to individuals who were eligible for pandemic unemployment compensation during any week after the enactment of this bill but who are no longer eligible as a result of becoming thereafter reemployed. A state may make such payments as a lump sum.
Additionally, states participating in pandemic unemployment programs must (1) establish a process for employers to report when an individual refuses an offer of employment; and (2) provide individuals claiming unemployment benefits with notice of the state’s laws with respect to returning, or refusing to return, to work.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7066 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7066

   To provide relief to workers impacted by COVID-19 and support for 
             reopening businesses, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              June 1, 2020

   Mr. Brady (for himself, Mr. Smith of Nebraska, Mr. Ferguson, Mr. 
   Schweikert, Mr. LaHood, Mr. Smith of Missouri, Mr. Rice of South 
Carolina, Mr. Rogers of Kentucky, Mr. Wenstrup, Mr. Arrington, and Mr. 
    Reed) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
   To provide relief to workers impacted by COVID-19 and support for 
             reopening businesses, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Reopening America by Supporting 
Workers and Businesses Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. TIME-LIMITED BACK-TO-WORK BONUSES.

    (a) In General.--Section 2104(b) of the Cares Act (Public Law 116-
136) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and
            (2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following:
            ``(2) Back-to-work bonuses.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Any agreement under this section 
                may also provide that the State agency of the State may 
                make not more than 2 weekly payments each in the amount 
                of $600 to each individual who--
                            ``(i) was eligible for Federal Pandemic 
                        Unemployment Compensation under paragraph (1) 
                        for any week beginning after the date of 
                        enactment of the Reopening America by 
                        Supporting Workers and Businesses Act of 2020; 
                        and
                            ``(ii) is no longer so eligible (as 
                        determined by the State), as a result of 
                        earnings due to commencing employment, for the 
                        week immediately following such week.
                    ``(B) Duration.--Payments to an individual under 
                this paragraph shall begin with the week described in 
                subparagraph (A)(ii) and shall end with the earlier 
                of--
                            ``(i) the week following the week described 
                        in subparagraph (A)(ii); or
                            ``(ii) the last week with respect to which 
                        such agreement applies.
                    ``(C) Option to provide payments as a lump sum.--At 
                the option of the State, payments to an individual 
                under this paragraph for weeks described in 
                subparagraph (B) may be paid as a lump sum of $1,200.
                    ``(D) Special rule.--Payments made pursuant to an 
                agreement under this paragraph shall not be considered 
                to violate the withdrawal requirements of section 
                303(a)(5) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 
                503(a)(5)) or section 3304(a)(4) of the Internal 
                Revenue Code of 1986.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 2104 of such Act is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``and payments under subsection (b)(2)'' 
        after ``Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation'' each place 
        it appears in subsection (d) or (f) of such section; and
            (2) in subsection (g), by inserting ``, as such provisions 
        apply with respect to Federal Pandemic Unemployment 
        Compensation,'' after ``the preceding provisions of this 
        section''.

SEC. 3. RETURN TO WORK REPORTING.

    Subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES Act (Public Law 
116-136) is amended by adding at the end the following:

``SEC. 2117. RETURN TO WORK REPORTING.

    ``Each State participating in an agreement under any of the 
preceding sections of this subtitle shall have in effect a procedure to 
address any circumstances in which, during any period during which such 
agreement is in effect, claimants of unemployment compensation refuse 
to return to work or to accept an offer of suitable work without good 
cause. Such procedures shall include the following:
            ``(1) A reporting mechanism for employers, such as through 
        a phone line, email, or online portal, to notify the State 
        agency when an individual refuses an offer of employment.
            ``(2) A plain-language notice provided to such claimants 
        about State return to work laws, rights to refuse to return to 
        work or to refuse suitable work, and information on contesting 
        the denial of a claim that has been denied due to a report by 
        an employer that the claimant refused to return to work or 
        refused suitable work.''.

SEC. 4. TECHNICAL CORRECTIONS FOR GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES AND NONPROFIT 
              ORGANIZATIONS.

    Section 903(i)(1) of the Social Security Act, as added by section 
2103 of the CARES Act (Public Law 116-136), is amended--
            (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``during the 
        applicable period'' and inserting ``with respect to the 
        applicable period'';
            (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``section 3309(a)(1)'' 
        and inserting ``section 3309(a)''; and
            (3) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``shall be used 
        exclusively'' and all that follows through the end and 
        inserting ``shall be used exclusively to reduce the amounts 
        required to be paid in lieu of contributions into the State 
        unemployment fund pursuant to such section by governmental 
        entities and other organizations described in section 3309(a) 
        of such Code''.
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