Title: Mixed Earner Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Act of 2020
Policy area: Labor and Employment

Summary:
Mixed Earner Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Act of 2020  This bill allows states to provide pandemic unemployment assistance to individuals who earn a combination of regular wages and a minimum of $7,250 of self-employed annual income (1) instead of regular unemployment compensation if they are otherwise eligible, or (2) if they are still employed at their regular-wage job, but unable to earn self-employed income due to circumstances related to COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019).  Under current law, individuals earning such mixed income are only eligible for pandemic unemployment assistance if they are not eligible for regular unemployment and unable to work due to COVID-19.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 4442 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                S. 4442

   To amend subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES Act to 
  provide Pandemic Unemployment Assistance to individuals with mixed 
                income sources, and for other purposes.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                             August 5, 2020

  Mr. Warner (for himself, Ms. Smith, Mr. Blumenthal, Ms. Harris, Mr. 
 Markey, Ms. Klobuchar, Mrs. Feinstein, Ms. Warren, Mr. Heinrich, and 
  Mr. Coons) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
                  referred to the Committee on Finance

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                                 A BILL


 
   To amend subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES Act to 
  provide Pandemic Unemployment Assistance to individuals with mixed 
                income sources, 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 ``Mixed Earner Pandemic Unemployment 
Assistance Act of 2020''.

SEC. 2. COVERAGE OF MIXED-INCOME INDIVIDUALS.

    (a) In General.--Section 2102(c) of the CARES Act (Public Law 116-
136) is amended by adding at the end the following:
            ``(4) Coverage of mixed-income individuals.--In the case of 
        an individual who--
                    ``(A)(i) would be a covered individual but for 
                subsection (a)(3)(A)(i); or
                    ``(ii) is employed but is unable or unavailable to 
                earn self-employment income because of factors 
                described in subsection (a)(3)(A)(ii) and otherwise 
                satisfies the requirements of subsection (a)(3);
                    ``(B) during the individual's most recent taxable 
                year ending prior to the individual's application for 
                assistance under this section, received at least $7,250 
                from self-employment; and
                    ``(C) makes an irrevocable election to be treated 
                as a covered individual under this section for each 
                week, with respect to which assistance under this 
                section is available, that begins--
                            ``(i) after the date of such election; or
                            ``(ii) before such date, but only if the 
                        individual did not otherwise receive 
                        unemployment benefits for such week under this 
                        section, section 2104, section 2107, or as 
                        determined under State law,
        such individual shall be treated as a covered individual 
        described in subsection (d)(2) for such weeks. An individual 
        with respect to which this paragraph applies for a week shall 
        be deemed ineligible for regular compensation or extended 
        benefits under State or Federal law or pandemic emergency 
        unemployment compensation under section 2107 for such week.''.
    (b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a) shall not 
apply with respect to a State participating in an agreement under 
section 2102 of the CARES Act (Public Law 116-136) unless the State so 
elects, and shall become effective as determined by such State in 
agreement with the Secretary of Labor.
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