S 1797 · 113th Congress 2013–2015, ended

Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2013

Fact sheet

Latest action · Dec 11, 2013 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 259.

Progress

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  1. IntroducedDec 10, 2013
  2. Passed SenateNot reached
  3. Passed HouseNot reached
  4. To the PresidentNot reached
  5. Became lawNot reached

Summary

Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2013 - Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to extend emergency unemployment compensation (EUC) payments for eligible individuals to weeks of employment ending on or before January 1, 2015.

Amends the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act to extend until December 31, 2014, 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 30, 2015, from the prohibition in the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (FSEUCA 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 FSEUCA of 1970 to postpone similarly from December 31, 2013, to December 31, 2014, termination of the period during which a state may determine its "on" and "off" indicators according to specified temporary substitutions in its formula.

Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (SAA, 2008) to appropriate funds out of the employment security administration account through FY2015 to assist states in providing reemployment and eligibility assessment activities.

Amends the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act to extend through December 31, 2014, the temporary increase in extended unemployment benefits.

Makes a change in application of a certain requirement (nonreduction rule) to a state whose federal-state EUC agreement was terminated in 2013, under which the federal government would reimburse a state unemployment compensation agency making EUC payments to individuals who have exhausted all rights to regular unemployment compensation under state or federal law and meet specified other criteria.

(Under the nonreduction rule such an agreement does not apply with respect to a state whose method for computing regular unemployment compensation under state law has been modified to make the average weekly unemployment compensation benefit paid on or after June 2, 2010, less than what would have been paid before June 2, 2010.)

Declares that the nonreduction rule shall not apply to a state whose EUC agreement was terminated in 2013. Allows such a state, however, to enter into a subsequent federal-state EUC agreement on or after enactment of this Act if, taking into account this inapplicability of the nonreduction rule, it would otherwise meet the requirements for an EUC agreement. (Thus allows such a subsequent EUC agreement to permit payment of less than the average weekly unemployment compensation benefit paid on or after June 2, 2010.)

Cosponsors 7

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Dec 11, 2013 to Dec 17, 2013.

SeatCosponsorSigned on
D-DEChristopher A. CoonsDec 11, 2013
D-RISheldon WhitehouseDec 11, 2013
D-OHSherrod BrownDec 11, 2013
D-CTChristopher MurphyDec 12, 2013
D-IATom HarkinDec 16, 2013
D-MNAmy KlobucharDec 17, 2013
D-HIBrian SchatzDec 17, 2013

Actions 3

Everything that happened, newest first.

  1. Dec 11, 2013Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 259.
  2. Dec 10, 2013Introduced in Senate
  3. Dec 10, 2013Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.

Related bills 17

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

Subjects

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

Text 1

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  1. Dec 11, 2013Placed on Calendar Senate

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