A bill to amend subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES Act to require confirmation of employment status for long-term unemployed individuals, and for other purposes.

Bill: 117-s-1712
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Braun, Mike [R-IN]
Introduced: 2021-05-19
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Business records

Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Government information and archives

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Personnel records

State and local government operations

Unemployment
Latest action: action_date: 2021-05-19
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-05-19
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This bill requires each state that offers pandemic unemployment assistance (PUA) or pandemic emergency unemployment compensation (PEUC) to condition benefit eligibility for a long-term unemployed individual on an employer's confirmation that work is unavailable for the unemployed individual.</p> <p>Specifically, each state unemployment agency must request confirmation from the unemployed individual's most recent employer that the individual's position is not available at the time of the request. Unless the employer provides this confirmation, the state must terminate the individual's PUA or PEUC.</p> <p>The bill's provisions apply only to long-term unemployed individuals who have received PUA or PEUC for more than 30 weeks of unemployment.</p>

tv_txt: II 117th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 1712 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES May 19, 2021 Mr. Braun (for himself, Mr. Tillis , Mr. Scott of Florida , and Mrs. Blackburn ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance A BILL To amend subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES Act to require confirmation of employment status for long-term unemployed individuals, and for other purposes.

1. Confirmation requirement Subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES Act is amended by adding at the end the following: 2119. Confirmation of employment status for long-term unemployed individuals (a) In general As a condition of each of the agreements described in sections 2104 and 2107, a State shall— (1) notify each long-term unemployed individual in the State that the State unemployment agency will seek confirmation of the individual’s current employment status from the individual’s most recent employer (except in cases in which such employer no longer exists); (2) request each employer described in paragraph (1) to submit information to the State unemployment agency with respect to each such individual describing whether— (A) the individual’s position is not available at the time of the request; or (B) the individual’s position is available but the individual has refused to return to work; (3) in any case in which an employer submits information to the State unemployment agency with respect to an individual that describes a position that remains unavailable as described in paragraph (1), notify such individual, not later than the standard processing time for applications for regular unemployment compensation in the State after receipt of such information, that the individual’s unemployed status has been confirmed; and (4) in any case in which an employer submits information to the State unemployment agency with respect to an individual that describes a refusal to return to work as described in paragraph (2)(B), or in any case in which an employer fails to submit information described in paragraph (2) not later than the standard processing time for applications for regular unemployment compensation in the State after the date of the request, terminate the individual’s Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation under section 2104 or Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation under section 2107, as applicable. (b) Definition In this section, the term long-term unemployed individual means an individual who has received Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation under section 2104 or Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation under section 2107 for more than 30 weeks of unemployment. .