S.Amdt. 2581

SA 2581. Ms. ERNST submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2499 proposed by Mr. McConnell to the bill S. 178, to
condemn gross human rights violations of ethnic Turkic Muslims in
Xinjiang, and calling for an end to arbitrary detention, torture, and
harassment of these communities inside and outside China; which was
ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end, add the following:

SEC. 3. PROHIBITING PAYMENT OF PANDEMIC UNEMPLOYMENT
ASSISTANCE AND FEDERAL PANDEMIC UNEMPLOYMENT
COMPENSATION TO MILLIONAIRES.

(a) Pandemic Unemployment Assistance.--Section 2102 of the
Relief for Workers Affected by Coronavirus Act (contained in
subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES Act (Public
Law 116-136)) is amended--
(1) in subsection (a)(3)(B)--
(A) in clause (i), by striking ``or'' at the end;
(B) in clause (ii), by striking the period at the end and
inserting ``; or''; and
(C) by adding at the end the following new clause:
``(iii) an individual whose adjusted gross income is equal
to or greater than $1,000,000.''; and
(2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
``(i) Prohibition on Assistance to Millionaires.--
``(1) Compliance.--Any application for assistance
authorized under subsection (b) shall include a form or
procedure for an individual applicant to certify that such
individual is not prohibited from receiving such assistance
pursuant to subsection (a)(3)(B)(iii).
``(2) Audits.--The certifications required by paragraph (1)
shall be auditable by the Department of Labor or the
Government Accountability Office.''.
(b) Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation.--Section
2104(b) of the Relief for Workers Affected by Coronavirus Act
(contained in subtitle A of title II of division A of the
CARES Act (Public Law 116-136)), as amended by section
2(b)(1)(B), is amended by adding at the end the following new
paragraph:
``(4) Prohibition on compensation to millionaires.--
``(A) In general.--Federal Pandemic Unemployment
Compensation shall not be payable to any individual whose
adjusted gross income is equal to or greater than $1,000,000.
``(B) Compliance.--Any application for regular compensation
shall include a form or procedure for an individual applicant
to certify that such individual is not prohibited from
receiving Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation pursuant
to subparagraph (A).
``(C) Audits.--The certifications required by subparagraph
(B) shall be auditable by the Department of Labor or the
Government Accountability Office.''.
(c) Rule of Construction.--Nothing in this section, or any
amendment made by this section, may be construed to apply to
regular compensation or extended compensation (as such terms
are defined by section 205 of the Federal-State Extended
Unemployment Compensation Act (26 U.S.C. 3304 note)) to which
an individual may be otherwise entitled.
(d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section
shall apply to weeks of unemployment beginning on or after
the date of the enactment of this Act.
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