BRIDGE for Workers Act

Bill: 118-s-3745
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Coons, Christopher A. [D-DE]
Introduced: 2024-02-07
Policy area: Labor and Employment
Latest action: action_date: 2024-02-07
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Summaries:
action_date: 2024-02-07
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p><strong>Building on Reemployment Improvements to Deliver Good Employment for Workers Act or the BRIDGE for Workers Act</strong></p><p>This bill permanently expands the allowable purposes for certain Department of Labor grants to states for reemployment services and eligibility assessments. Specifically, the bill permanently allows these grants to be used to fund reemployment services and eligibility assessments for all claimants for unemployment compensation.</p><p>(Under the current statute, the grants may only be used to provide such services to a subset of claimants who have been identified by the state as likely to exhaust unemployment benefits and need job search assistance to become employed. However, in recent years, annual appropriations acts have allowed the grants to be used for all claimants for unemployment compensation. This bill makes this authority permanent.) &nbsp;&nbsp;</p>

tv_txt: II 118th CONGRESS 2d Session S. 3745 IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES February 7, 2024 Mr. Coons (for himself, Mr. Cassidy , Mr. Kaine , and Mr. Tillis ) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance 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 for Workers Act or the BRIDGE for Workers Act . 2. Eligibility for reemployment services (a) In general 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 regular compensation, including claimants referred to reemployment services as described in section 303(j), ; and (2) by striking such individuals and inserting such claimants . (b) Effective date The amendments made by subsection (a) shall take effect on the date of enactment of this Act.