Building on Reemployment Improvements to Deliver Good Employment (BRIDGE) for Workers Act

Bill: 117-hr-3154
Sponsor: full_name: Rep. LaHood, Darin [R-IL-18]
Introduced: 2021-05-12
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Subjects: Cardiovascular and respiratory health

Emergency medical services and trauma care

Employee hiring

Infectious and parasitic diseases

Unemployment
Latest action: action_date: 2021-05-12
text: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

Summaries:
action_date: 2021-05-12
action_desc: Introduced in House
text: <p><b>Building on Reemployment Improvements to Deliver Good Employment (BRIDGE) for Workers Ac</b>t</p> <p>This bill allows states to use funding for reemployment services and eligibility assessments to serve all workers receiving unemployment benefits&#8212;not just those most likely to exhaust their benefits. The bill also allows states to provide reemployment services to individuals receiving pandemic unemployment assistance and pandemic emergency unemployment compensation.</p><tbody> <tr>

tv_txt: I 117th CONGRESS 1st Session H. R. 3154 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May 12, 2021 Mr. LaHood (for himself and Mrs. Walorski ) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means A BILL To extend reemployment services and eligibility assessments to all claimants for unemployment benefits, and for other purposes.

1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Building on Reemployment Improvements to Deliver Good Employment (BRIDGE) for Workers Act . 2. Eligibility for reemployment services (a) CARES Act (1) Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Section 2102 of the Cares Act ( Public Law 116–136 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (i) Eligibility for reemployment services Pandemic unemployment assistance under this section shall be treated as unemployment compensation for the purposes of section 306 of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 506 ). . (2) Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation Section 2107 of the Cares Act ( Public Law 116–136 ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (h) Eligibility for reemployment services Pandemic emergency unemployment compensation under this section shall be treated as unemployment compensation for the purposes of section 306 of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 506 ). . (b) Social Security Act Section 306(a) of the Social Security Act ( 42 U.S.C. 506(a) ) is amended— (1) by striking individuals referred to reemployment services as described in section 303(j) and inserting claimants for unemployment compensation, including claimants referred to reemployment services as described in section 303(j), ; and (2) by striking such individuals and inserting such claimants .