Congress 108 - HR 1802 - Keep America Working Act of 2003

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Administrative procedure Adoption Appropriations Armed Forces and National Security Auditing Automation Business cycles Childbirth Commerce Congress Congressional reporting requirements Contractors Cost effectiveness Day care Department of Labor Department of the Treasury Domestic partners Economics and Public Finance Electronic government information Employee leasing Employers' liability Evidence (Law) Executive reorganization Families Family leave Family violence Federal-state relations Finance and Financial Sector Government Operations and Politics Government paperwork Government publicity Government statistics Government trust funds Indexing (Economic policy) Interest Intergovernmental fiscal relations Job hunting Labor and Employment Labor statistics Law Married people Parents Part-time employment Payroll deductions Planning-programming-budgeting Relocation Resignation of employees Science, Technology, Communications Seasonal labor Sexual harassment Social security taxes Social Welfare State laws Tax administration Tax auditing Tax penalties Tax rates Tax-deferred compensation plans Taxation Temporary employment Trusts and trustees Unemployment insurance Veterans' employment Wages Wife abuse Withholding tax Women

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Keep America Working Act of 2003 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to expand the circumstances under which employment compensation is available to provide coverage due to the following, among other, circumstances, part-time employment, seasonal work, loss of employment due to sexual harassment, loss of child care, leaving work due to domestic violence, and base period employment of less than 20 hours per week.

Redefines the term "wages" for purposes of the Federal Unemployment Tax Act.

Repeals provisions: (1) allowing past Internal Revenue Service audits to act as the basis for current employment status determinations; (2) prohibiting regulations and rulings on employment status; and (3) outlining the determination of an employer's liability for certain employment taxes.

Permits unemployment compensation where separation from work is due to a spouse or domestic partner's change in residence. Specifies manner for computation of wage replacement ratios.

Amends the Social Security Act to require increases and decreases in the earnings allocated to State accounts when States meet or fail to meet funding goals.

Lowers the threshold for triggering an extended benefit period. Eliminates special Federal eligibility requirements for individuals seeking compensation in an extended benefit period.

Appropriates permanent funding from the employment security administration account for administration of State unemployment compensation, public employment offices, and veterans employment services programs.

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Apr 23, 2003

Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
Apr 11, 2003

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Apr 11, 2003

Introduced in House

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