Title: Jump-Start the American Economy Act
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
Jump-Start the American Economy Act  This bill permits states to provide a maximum of six weeks of reemployment benefits to individuals who were eligible for pandemic unemployment compensation prior to the enactment of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act but who are no longer eligible as a result of becoming reemployed.  An individual is not eligible for reemployment benefits if the individual's weekly wages exceed the total amount of unemployment assistance received for the week prior to becoming reemployed and as determined under state law.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 7013 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 7013

      To amend title II of division A of the CARES Act to provide 
 reemployment support benefits to recently unemployed individuals, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 26, 2020

 Mr. Crenshaw introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
      To amend title II of division A of the CARES Act to provide 
 reemployment support benefits to recently unemployed individuals, 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 ``Jump-Start the American Economy 
Act''.

SEC. 2. REEMPLOYMENT SUPPORT BENEFITS.

    (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) Reemployment support benefits.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Any agreement under this section 
                may also provide that the State agency of the State 
                may, except as provided in subparagraph (B), make 
                weekly payments of reemployment support benefits in the 
                amount of $600 to each individual who--
                            ``(i) was eligible for Federal Pandemic 
                        Unemployment Compensation under paragraph (1) 
                        for any week prior to the date of enactment of 
                        this Act; and
                            ``(ii) is no longer so eligible as a result 
                        of obtaining reemployment.
                    ``(B) Disqualification.--An individual described in 
                subparagraph (A) shall be ineligible for reemployment 
                support benefits under this paragraph if, upon 
                obtaining reemployment, the individual has weekly wages 
                that exceed the total amount of unemployment assistance 
                the individual received for the previous week under 
                this subtitle and as determined under State law.
                    ``(C) Duration.--Payments to an individual under 
                this paragraph shall begin with the 1st week for which 
                the individual is not eligible for Federal Pandemic 
                Unemployment Compensation and shall end with the 
                earlier of--
                            ``(i) the 6th week following such week; or
                            ``(ii) the last week with respect to which 
                        the agreement applies.''.
    (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 2104 of such Act is amended--
            (1) by inserting ``or 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''.
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