Keep America Working Act of 2003

Bill: 108-hr-1802
Sponsor: Rep. McDermott, Jim [D-WA-7]
Introduced: 2003-04-11 in the House
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Administrative procedure
Adoption
Appropriations
Armed Forces and National Security
Auditing
Automation
Business cycles
Childbirth
Commerce
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Contractors
Cost effectiveness
Day care
Department of Labor
Department of the Treasury
Domestic partners
Economics and Public Finance
Electronic government information
Employee leasing
Employers' liability
Evidence (Law)
Executive reorganization
Families
Family leave
Family violence
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Government publicity
Government statistics
Government trust funds
Indexing (Economic policy)
Interest
Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Job hunting
Labor statistics
Law
Married people
Parents
Part-time employment
Payroll deductions
Planning-programming-budgeting
Relocation
Resignation of employees
Science, Technology, Communications
Seasonal labor
Sexual harassment
Social Welfare
Social security taxes
State laws
Tax administration
Tax auditing
Tax penalties
Tax rates
Tax-deferred compensation plans
Taxation
Temporary employment
Trusts and trustees
Unemployment insurance
Veterans' employment
Wages
Wife abuse
Withholding tax
Women

Summary:
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Keep America Working Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the circumstances under which employment compensation is available to provide coverage due to the following, among other, circumstances, part-time employment, seasonal work, loss of employment due to sexual harassment, loss of child care, leaving work due to domestic violence, and base period employment of less than 20 hours per week.
Redefines the term "wages" for purposes of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act.
Repeals provisions: (1) allowing past Internal Revenue Service audits to act as the basis for current employment status determinations; (2) prohibiting regulations and rulings on employment status; and (3) outlining the determination of an employer's liability for certain employment taxes.
Permits unemployment compensation where separation from work is due to a spouse or domestic partner's change in residence. Specifies manner for computation of wage replacement ratios.
Amends the Social Security Act to require increases and decreases in the earnings allocated to State accounts when States meet or fail to meet funding goals.
Lowers the threshold for triggering an extended benefit period. Eliminates special Federal eligibility requirements for individuals seeking compensation in an extended benefit period.
Appropriates permanent funding from the employment security administration account for administration of State unemployment compensation, public employment offices, and veterans employment services programs.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-04-23
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-04-11
text: Introduced in House