To end unemployment payments to jobless millionaires.

SA 2372. Ms. ERNST submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to
amendment SA 2360 proposed by Mr. Thune (for Mr. Graham) to the bill
H.R. 1, to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con.
Res. 14; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place, insert the following:

SEC. __. ENDING UNEMPLOYMENT PAYMENTS TO JOBLESS
MILLIONAIRES.

(a) Prohibition on Use of Federal Funds.--
(1) In general.--No Federal funds may be used--
(A) to make payments of unemployment compensation benefits
under an unemployment compensation program of the United
States in a year to an individual whose wages during the
individual's base period are equal to or exceed $1,000,000;
or
(B) for any administrative costs associated with making
payments described in subparagraph (A).
(2) Compliance.--
(A) Self-certification.--Any application for unemployment
compensation under an unemployment compensation program of
the United States shall include a form or procedure for an
individual applicant to certify that such individual's wages
during the individual's base period do not equal or exceed
$1,000,000.
(B) Verification.--Each State agency that is responsible
for administering any unemployment compensation program of
the United States shall utilize available systems to verify
wage eligibility by assessing claimant income to the degree
possible.
(3) Recovery of overpayments.--Each State agency that is
responsible for administering any unemployment compensation
program of the United States shall require individuals who
have received amounts of unemployment compensation under such
a program to which they were not entitled to repay such
amounts.
(4) Effective date.--The prohibition under paragraph (1)
shall apply to weeks of unemployment beginning on or after
the date of the enactment of this Act.
(b) Unemployment Compensation Program of the United States
Defined.--In this section, the term ``unemployment
compensation program of the United States'' means--
(1) unemployment compensation for Federal civilian
employees under subchapter I of chapter 85 of title 5, United
States Code;
(2) unemployment compensation for ex-servicemembers under
subchapter II of chapter 85 of title 5, United States Code;
(3) extended benefits under the Federal-State Extended
Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (26 U.S.C. 3304 note);
(4) any Federal temporary extension of unemployment
compensation;
(5) any Federal program that increases the weekly amount of
unemployment compensation payable to individuals; and
(6) any other Federal program providing for the payment of
unemployment compensation, as determined by the Secretary of
Labor.
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