Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2014

Bill: 113-s-2077
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Reed, Jack [D-RI]
Introduced: 2014-03-04
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Agricultural prices, subsidies, credit

Appropriations

Budget process

Department of Labor

Employee hiring

Employment taxes

Executive agency funding and structure

Intergovernmental relations

Railroads

State and local finance

Transportation employees

Unemployment
Latest action: action_date: 2014-03-05
text: Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 315.

Summaries:
action_date: 2014-03-04
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2014 - Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008, (SSA, 2008) to extend emergency unemployment compensation (EUC) payments for eligible individuals to weeks of employment ending on or before July 1, 2014.</p> <p> Amends the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act to extend until June 30, 2014, requirements that federal payments to states cover 100% of EUC.</p> <p> Amends the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 to exempt weeks of unemployment between enactment of this Act and December 31, 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.)</p> <p> Amends the FSEUCA of 1970 to postpone similarly from December 31, 2013, to June 30, 2014, termination of the period during which a state may determine its "on" and "off" indicators according to specified temporary substitutions in its formula.</p> <p> Amends the SSA, 2008 to appropriate funds out of the employment security administration account through the first half of FY2015 to assist states in providing reemployment and eligibility assessment activities.</p> <p> Amends the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act to extend through June 30, 2014, the temporary increase in extended unemployment benefits.</p> <p>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.</p> <p> (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.)</p> <p> 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.)</p> <p>Requires in order to offset costs of the EUC extension:</p> <ul> <li>the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to remove the amount of the farm bill savings from the PAYGO scorecards maintained pursuant to the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010, and</li> <li> the Senate Committee on the Budget to remove that amount also from the PAYGO scorecards maintained for purposes of S.Con.Res. 21 (110th Congress).</li> </ul> <p>Declares that the amount thus removed from any PAYGO scorecard shall not be available to offset the cost of other legislation under such Act or Resolution.</p>

tv_txt: II Calendar No. 315 113th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 2077 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES March 4, 2014 Mr. Reed introduced the following bill; which was read the first time March 5, 2014 Read the second time and placed on the calendar A BILL To provide for the extension of certain unemployment benefits, and for other purposes.

1. Short title; table of contents (a) Short title This Act may be cited as the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2014 . (b) Table of contents The table of contents of this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Extension of emergency unemployment compensation program. Sec. 3. Temporary extension of extended benefit provisions. Sec. 4. Extension of funding for reemployment services and reemployment and eligibility assessment activities. Sec. 5. Additional extended unemployment benefits under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act. Sec. 6. Flexibility for unemployment program agreements. Sec. 7. Offset from farm bill savings. 2. Extension of emergency unemployment compensation program (a) Extension Section 4007(a)(2) of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 ( Public Law 110–252 ; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended by striking January 1, 2014 and inserting July 1, 2014 . (b) Funding Section 4004(e)(1) of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 ( Public Law 110–252 ; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended— (1) in subparagraph (I), by striking and at the end; (2) in subparagraph (J), by inserting and at the end; and (3) by inserting after subparagraph (J) the following: (K) the amendment made by section 2(a) of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2014 ; . (c) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 ( Public Law 112–240 ). 3. Temporary extension of extended benefit provisions (a) In general Section 2005 of the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act, as contained in Public Law 111–5 ( 26 U.S.C. 3304 note), is amended— (1) by striking December 31, 2013 each place it appears and inserting June 30, 2014 ; and (2) in subsection (c), by striking June 30, 2014 and inserting December 31, 2014 . (b) Extension of matching for states with no waiting week Section 5 of the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 ( Public Law 110–449 ; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended by striking June 30, 2014 and inserting December 31, 2014 . (c) Extension of modification of indicators under the extended benefit program Section 203 of the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (26 U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended— (1) in subsection (d), by striking December 31, 2013 and inserting June 30, 2014 ; and (2) in subsection (f)(2), by striking December 31, 2013 and inserting June 30, 2014 . (d) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 ( Public Law 112–240 ). 4. Extension of funding for reemployment services and reemployment and eligibility assessment activities (a) In general Section 4004(c)(2)(A) of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 ( Public Law 110–252 ; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended by striking through fiscal year 2014 and inserting through the first half of fiscal year 2015 . (b) Effective date The amendments made by this section shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 ( Public Law 112–240 ). 5. Additional extended unemployment benefits under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act (a) Extension Section 2(c)(2)(D)(iii) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act ( 45 U.S.C. 352(c)(2)(D)(iii) ) is amended— (1) by striking June 30, 2013 and inserting December 31, 2013 ; and (2) by striking December 31, 2013 and inserting June 30, 2014 . (b) Clarification on authority To use funds Funds appropriated under either the first or second sentence of clause (iv) of section 2(c)(2)(D) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act shall be available to cover the cost of additional extended unemployment benefits provided under such section 2(c)(2)(D) by reason of the amendments made by subsection (a) as well as to cover the cost of such benefits provided under such section 2(c)(2)(D), as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this Act. (c) Funding for administration Out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, there are appropriated to the Railroad Retirement Board $125,000 for administrative expenses associated with the payment of additional extended unemployment benefits provided under section 2(c)(2)(D) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act by reason of the amendments made by subsection (a), to remain available until expended. 6. Flexibility for unemployment program agreements (a) Flexibility (1) In general Subsection (g) of section 4001 of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 ( Public Law 110–252 ; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) shall not apply with respect to a State that has enacted a law before December 1, 2013, that, upon taking effect, would violate such subsection. (2) Effective date Paragraph (1) is effective with respect to weeks of unemployment beginning on or after December 29, 2013. (b) Permitting a subsequent agreement Nothing in title IV of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 ( Public Law 110–252 ; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) shall preclude a State whose agreement under such title was terminated from entering into a subsequent agreement under such title on or after the date of the enactment of this Act if the State, taking into account the application of subsection (a), would otherwise meet the requirements for an agreement under such title. 7. Offset from farm bill savings (a) Definition In this section, the term farm bill savings means the budgetary effects (as defined in section 2 of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 931) and as determined in accordance with that Act) attributable to the enactment of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–79). (b) Offsetting of costs Notwithstanding any other provision of law— (1) the Office of Management and Budget shall remove from the PAYGO scorecards maintained pursuant to section 4(d) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 ( 2 U.S.C. 933(d) ) the amount of the farm bill savings; (2) the Committee on the Budget of the Senate shall remove from the PAYGO scorecards maintained for purposes of section 201 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress) the amount of the farm bill savings; and (3) the amount removed from any PAYGO scorecard under paragraph (1) or (2) shall not be available to offset the cost of other legislation under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 ( 2 U.S.C. 931 et seq. ) or section 201 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress), respectively. (c) Treatment for PAYGO purposes (1) PAYGO scorecard The budgetary effects of this Act and the amendments made by this Act shall not be entered on either PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant to section 4(d) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 ( 2 U.S.C. 933(d) ). (2) Senate paygo scorecard The budgetary effects of this Act and the amendments made by this Act shall not be entered on any PAYGO scorecard maintained for purposes of section 201 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress).

March 5, 2014 Read the second time and placed on the calendar