Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act

Bill: 113-s-1845
Sponsor: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2013-12-17 in the Senate
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Appropriations
Department of Labor
Employee hiring
Employment and training programs
Employment taxes
Executive agency funding and structure
Intergovernmental relations
Railroads
State and local finance
Transportation employees
Unemployment

Summary:
action_date: 2013-12-17
text: 
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act - Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to extend emergency unemployment compensation (EUC) payments for eligible individuals to weeks of employment ending on or before April 1, 2014.
 
 Amends the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act to extend until March 31, 2014, requirements that federal payments to states cover 100% of EUC.
 
 Amends the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 to exempt weeks of unemployment between enactment of this Act and September 30, 2014, from the prohibition in the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (FSEUCA of 1970) against federal matching payments to a state for the first week in an individual's eligibility period for which extended compensation or sharable regular compensation is paid if the state law provides for payment of regular compensation to an individual for his or her first week of otherwise compensable unemployment. (Thus allows temporary federal matching for the first week of extended benefits for states with no waiting period.)
 
 Amends the FSEUCA of 1970 to postpone similarly from December 31, 2013, to March 31, 2014, termination of the period during which a state may determine its "on" and "off" indicators according to specified temporary substitutions in its formula.
 
 Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to appropriate funds out of the employment security administration account through the first quarter of FY2015 to assist states in providing reemployment and eligibility assessment activities.
 
 Amends the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act to extend through March 31, 2014, the temporary increase in extended unemployment benefits.
 
Makes a change in application of a certain requirement (nonreduction rule) to a state that has entered a federal-state EUC agreement, under which the federal government would reimburse the state's unemployment compensation agency making EUC payments to individuals who have exhausted all rights to regular unemployment compensation under state or federal law and meet specified other criteria.
 
 (Under the nonreduction rule such an agreement does not apply with respect to a state whose method for computing regular unemployment compensation under state law has been modified to make the average weekly unemployment compensation benefit paid on or after June 2, 2010, less than what would have been paid before June 2, 2010.)
 
 Declares that the nonreduction rule shall not apply to a state which has enacted a law before December 1, 2013, that, upon taking effect, would violate the nonreduction rule. Allows a state whose agreement was terminated, however, to enter into a subsequent federal-state EUC agreement on or after enactment of this Act if, taking into account this inapplicability of the nonreduction rule, it would otherwise meet the requirements for an EUC agreement. (Thus allows such a subsequent EUC agreement to permit payment of less than the average weekly unemployment compensation benefit paid on or after June 2, 2010.)


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2014-02-06
text: Motion by Senator Reid to reconsider the vote by which second cloture was not invoked on the bill (Record Vote No. 24) made in Senate. (consideration: CR S794)
action_date: 2014-02-06
text: Second cloture on the bill not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 55 - 43. Record Vote Number: 24. (consideration: CR S794; text: CR S794)
action_date: 2014-02-06
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S777-780, S781-786, S788-789, S790-791, S793-794)
action_date: 2014-02-04
text: Second cloture motion on the bill presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S738; text: CR S738)
action_date: 2014-02-04
text: Motion by Senator Reid to commit to Senate Committee on Finance with instructions to report back forthwith with amendment SA 2716 made in Senate. (consideration: CR S737-738)
action_date: 2014-02-04
text: Motion by Senator Reid to commit to Senate Committee on Finance with instructions to report back forthwith with amendment SA 2633 withdrawn in Senate. (consideration: CR S737)
action_date: 2014-02-04
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S737-738)
action_date: 2014-01-15
text: Senator Toomey moved to appeal the ruling of the chair that Amdt. No. 2606 is not in order to be proposed. (consideration: CR S338)
action_date: 2014-01-14
text: Motion by Senator Reid to reconsider the vote by which cloture on the bill was not invoked  (Record Vote No. 10) entered in Senate. (consideration: CR S312)
action_date: 2014-01-14
text: Cloture on the bill not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 55 - 45. Record Vote Number: 10. (consideration: CR S312; text: CR S312)
action_date: 2014-01-14
text: Motion to table the motion by Senator Reid to commit the bill (S. 1845) to Senate Committee on Finance with instructions to report back forthwith with amendment SA 2633 rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 45 - 55. Record Vote Number: 8. (consideration: CR S300, S311)
action_date: 2014-01-14
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S300-323)
action_date: 2014-01-13
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S268-281)
action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Motion to table the motion by Senator Reid to commit the bill (S. 1845) to Senate Committee on Finance with instructions to report back forthwith with amendment SA 2633 rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 42 - 54. Record Vote Number: 3. (consideration: CR S209)
action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Cloture motion on the bill presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S204; text: CR S204)
action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Motion by Senator Reid to commit to Senate Committee on Finance with instructions to report back forthwith with amendment SA 2633 made in Senate.
action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Measure laid before Senate by motion. (consideration: CR S203-209)
action_date: 2014-01-09
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S203)
action_date: 2014-01-08
text: Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S88-124)
action_date: 2014-01-07
text: Cloture on the motion to proceed to measure invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 60 - 37. Record Vote Number: 2. (consideration: CR S39; text: CR S39)
action_date: 2014-01-07
text: Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S37-65)
action_date: 2014-01-06
text: Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S5-7, S15-18)
action_date: 2013-12-20
text: Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the bill presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S9083; text: CR S9083)
action_date: 2013-12-20
text: Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S9083)
action_date: 2013-12-18
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 265.
action_date: 2013-12-17
text: Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
action_date: 2013-12-17
text: Introduced in Senate