HR 3346 · 112th Congress 2011–2013, ended

Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2011

Latest action · Nov 10, 2011 Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedNov 3, 2011
  2. Passed HouseNot reached
  3. Passed SenateNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2011 - Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 with respect to the state-established individual emergency unemployment compensation account (EUCA). Extends the final date for entering a federal-state agreement under the Emergency Unemployment Compensation (EUC) program through January 3, 2013. Postpones the termination of the program until June 8, 2013.

Amends the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act to extend until January 4, 2013, requirements that federal payments to states cover 100% of EUC.

Amends the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 to exempt weeks of unemployment between enactment of this Act and June 10, 2013, from the prohibition in the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act 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.)

Amends the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 to authorize a state by law to apply certain requirements of the Act, with specified substitutions, for determining an extended unemployment compensation period. Requires the state's "on" and "off" indicators to be based on its rate of insured unemployment and rate of total unemployment for the period between enactment of this Act (or, if later, the date established pursuant to state law), and ending on or before December 31, 2012.

Amends the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act to extend through December 31, 2012, the temporary increase in extended unemployment benefits for employees with 10 or more years of service and for those with less than 10.

Amends title XII (Advances to State Unemployment Funds) of the Social Security Act (SSA) to extend through FY2012 the waiver on payment of interest by a state in repayment to the federal Unemployment Trust Fund (UTF) of advances from it. Denies this extension, however, to any state that has not entered a voluntary agreement with the Secretary of Labor to refrain from modifying state unemployment compensation law to lower its unemployment compensation benefits.

Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to reductions in credits against the federal unemployment tax for an employer's contributions to a state unemployment fund in a state which has received advances from the UTF. Postpones the commencement of such reductions until January 1, 2013, for any state entering such an agreement with the Secretary.

Amends SSA title IX (Employment Security Administrative Financing) to require the payment of a solvency bonus for any quarter to the book account in the UTF of the state unemployment compensation agency of a solvent state (whose outstanding balance of advances from the UTF is zero). Makes the bonus equal to two percentage points above the average rate of interest of special obligations of the United States in which the UTF is invested.

Cosponsors 89

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Nov 3, 2011 to Dec 20, 2011; 52 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-TXAl GreenOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-FLAlcee L. HastingsOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-CABarbara LeeOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-MABarney FrankOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-NJBill Pascrell, Jr.OriginalNov 3, 2011
D-NYCarolyn B. MaloneyOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-TXCharles A. GonzalezOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-NYCharles B. RangelOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-FLCorrine BrownOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-MIDale E. KildeeOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-RIDavid N. CicillineOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-NJDonald M. PayneOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-MDDonna F. EdwardsOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-OREarl BlumenauerOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-TXEddie Bernice JohnsonOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-NYEdolphus TownsOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-DCEleanor Holmes NortonOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-MDElijah E. CummingsOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-CAFortney Pete StarkOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-MIGary C. PetersOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-TXGene GreenOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-CAGeorge MillerOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-NYGregory W. MeeksOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-WIGwen MooreOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-GAHenry C. "Hank" Johnson, Jr.OriginalNov 3, 2011
D-CAHoward L. BermanOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-ILJanice D. SchakowskyOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-NYJerrold NadlerOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-ILJesse L. Jackson, Jr.OriginalNov 3, 2011
D-WAJim McDermottOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-MIJohn D. DingellOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-MAJohn F. TierneyOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-GAJohn LewisOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-NYJose E. SerranoOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-NYJoseph CrowleyOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-NYLouise McIntosh SlaughterOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-CALynn C. WoolseyOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-NCMelvin L. WattOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-WANorman D. DicksOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-NYNydia M. VelázquezOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-MARichard E. NealOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-NJRobert E. AndrewsOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-CTRosa L. DeLauroOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-TXRuben HinojosaOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-MORuss CarnahanOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-MISander M. LevinOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-TXSheila Jackson LeeOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-NVShelley BerkleyOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-TXSilvestre ReyesOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-TNSteve CohenOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-FLTheodore E. DeutchOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-CAXavier BecerraOriginalNov 3, 2011
D-CABob FilnerNov 15, 2011
D-IABruce L. BraleyNov 15, 2011
D-NCDavid E. PriceNov 15, 2011
D-MAEdward J. MarkeyNov 15, 2011
D-NYGary L. AckermanNov 15, 2011
D-MIHansen ClarkeNov 15, 2011
D-MAJames P. McGovernNov 15, 2011
D-RIJames R. LangevinNov 15, 2011
D-CAJanice HahnNov 15, 2011
D-CALaura RichardsonNov 15, 2011
D-ILLuis V. GutierrezNov 15, 2011
D-CASam FarrNov 15, 2011
D-CAJudy ChuNov 18, 2011
D-FLKathy CastorNov 18, 2011
D-CALois CappsNov 18, 2011
D-MANiki TsongasNov 18, 2011
D-NJSteven R. RothmanNov 18, 2011
D-NYTimothy H. BishopNov 18, 2011
D-NJAlbio SiresNov 29, 2011
D-MNBetty McCollumNov 29, 2011
D-PAChaka FattahNov 29, 2011
D-ILDanny K. DavisNov 29, 2011
D-FLDebbie Wasserman SchultzNov 29, 2011
D-CAHenry A. WaxmanNov 29, 2011
D-CTJohn B. LarsonNov 29, 2011
D-MNKeith EllisonNov 29, 2011
D-OHMarcia L. FudgeNov 29, 2011
D-MAMichael E. CapuanoNov 29, 2011
D-PRPedro R. PierluisiNov 29, 2011
D-MOEmanuel CleaverDec 2, 2011
D-NYMaurice D. HincheyDec 2, 2011
D-NYNita M. LoweyDec 2, 2011
D-MAStephen F. LynchDec 2, 2011
D-MEMichael H. MichaudDec 8, 2011
D-CAMike ThompsonDec 8, 2011
D-ILBobby L. RushDec 20, 2011
D-AZEd PastorDec 20, 2011

Committees 2

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

ChamberCommitteeWhat it did
HouseWays and Means Committee
Referred Nov 3, 2011
Work and Welfare Subcommittee
Referred Nov 10, 2011
HouseTransportation and Infrastructure Committee
Referred Nov 3, 2011
Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee
Referred Nov 3, 2011

Actions 4

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Nov 10, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
  2. Nov 3, 2011Introduced in House
  3. Nov 3, 2011Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  4. Nov 3, 2011Referred to the Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials.

In the Congressional Record 5

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

WhereIn the RecordMembersDate
HouseDebate and remarks H8753Sander M. Levin D-MIDec 13, 2011
HouseDebate and remarks H8245–H8252Barbara Lee D-CA, Danny K. Davis D-IL, Gwen Moore D-WI, Henry A. Waxman D-CA, Lloyd Doggett D-TX, Sander M. Levin D-MI, Sheila Jackson Lee D-TX, Silvestre Reyes D-TXDec 7, 2011
HouseDebate and remarks H7731Steve Cohen D-TNNov 17, 2011
HouseDebate and remarks H7636, H7638, H7642Charles B. Rangel D-NY, Fortney Pete Stark D-CA, Gary C. Peters D-MI, Jim McDermott D-WA, John Lewis D-GA, Lloyd Doggett D-TX, Shelley Berkley D-NVNov 16, 2011
HouseDebate and remarks H7264Charles B. Rangel D-NYNov 3, 2011

Research

What has been written about this bill: committee reports, cost estimates, the sponsor’s authority statement, printed hearings and the Congressional Research Service’s work.

Constitutional authority

Congress has the power to enact this legislation pursuant to the following: Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution that grants Congress the authority, ``To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the forgoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.''

The sponsor’s statement, as printed in the page H7331.

CRS reports 1

Congressional Research Service work that CRS links to this bill or the law it became, newest first.

Cite it 1

Products on other subjects that cite it, usually among other measures.

ProductTitleKindPublished
R41662Unemployment Insurance: Legislative Issues in the 112th Congress ArchivedReportJan 3, 2013

Related bills 2

Companion bills and other measures the record links to this one.

BillTitleRelationshipLatest action
S 1804Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2011Identical billNov 3, 2011
S 1885Responsible Unemployment Extension ActRelated billNov 17, 2011

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced
To amend title IV of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to provide for the continuation of certain unemployment benefits, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2011

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Labor and Employment.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

  1. Nov 3, 2011Introduced in House

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