S. 2077 – Reading Mode

Calendar No. 315

113th CONGRESS

2d Session

S. 2077

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

March 4, 2014

Mr. Reed introduced the following bill; which was read the first time

March 5, 2014

Read the second time and placed on the calendar

A BILL

To provide for the extension of certain unemployment benefits, and for other purposes.

Short title; table of contents

(a)

Short title

This Act may be cited as the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2014.

(b)

Table of contents

The table of contents of this Act is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.

Sec. 2. Extension of emergency unemployment compensation program.

Sec. 3. Temporary extension of extended benefit provisions.

Sec. 4. Extension of funding for reemployment services and reemployment and eligibility assessment activities.

Sec. 5. Additional extended unemployment benefits under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act.

Sec. 6. Flexibility for unemployment program agreements.

Sec. 7. Offset from farm bill savings.

Extension of emergency unemployment compensation program

(a)

Extension

Section 4007(a)(2) of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110–252; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended by striking January 1, 2014 and inserting July 1, 2014.

(b)

Funding

Section 4004(e)(1) of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110–252; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended—

(1)

in subparagraph (I), by striking and at the end;

(2)

in subparagraph (J), by inserting and at the end; and

(3)

by inserting after subparagraph (J) the following:

(K)

the amendment made by section 2(a) of the Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2014;

(c)

Effective date

The amendments made by this section shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (Public Law 112–240).

Temporary extension of extended benefit provisions

(a)

In general

Section 2005 of the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act, as contained in Public Law 111–5 (26 U.S.C. 3304 note), is amended—

(1)

by striking December 31, 2013 each place it appears and inserting June 30, 2014; and

(2)

in subsection (c), by striking June 30, 2014 and inserting December 31, 2014.

(b)

Extension of matching for states with no waiting week

Section 5 of the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–449; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended by striking June 30, 2014 and inserting December 31, 2014.

(c)

Extension of modification of indicators under the extended benefit program

Section 203 of the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (26 U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended—

(1)

in subsection (d), by striking December 31, 2013 and inserting June 30, 2014; and

(2)

in subsection (f)(2), by striking December 31, 2013 and inserting June 30, 2014.

(d)

Effective date

The amendments made by this section shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (Public Law 112–240).

Extension of funding for reemployment services and reemployment and eligibility assessment activities

(a)

In general

Section 4004(c)(2)(A) of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110–252; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) is amended by striking through fiscal year 2014 and inserting through the first half of fiscal year 2015.

(b)

Effective date

The amendments made by this section shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (Public Law 112–240).

Additional extended unemployment benefits under the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act

(a)

Extension

Section 2(c)(2)(D)(iii) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act (45 U.S.C. 352(c)(2)(D)(iii)) is amended—

(1)

by striking June 30, 2013 and inserting December 31, 2013; and

(2)

by striking December 31, 2013 and inserting June 30, 2014.

(b)

Clarification on authority To use funds

Funds appropriated under either the first or second sentence of clause (iv) of section 2(c)(2)(D) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act shall be available to cover the cost of additional extended unemployment benefits provided under such section 2(c)(2)(D) by reason of the amendments made by subsection (a) as well as to cover the cost of such benefits provided under such section 2(c)(2)(D), as in effect on the day before the date of enactment of this Act.

(c)

Funding for administration

Out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, there are appropriated to the Railroad Retirement Board $125,000 for administrative expenses associated with the payment of additional extended unemployment benefits provided under section 2(c)(2)(D) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act by reason of the amendments made by subsection (a), to remain available until expended.

Flexibility for unemployment program agreements

(a)

Flexibility

(1)

In general

Subsection (g) of section 4001 of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110–252; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) shall not apply with respect to a State that has enacted a law before December 1, 2013, that, upon taking effect, would violate such subsection.

(2)

Effective date

Paragraph (1) is effective with respect to weeks of unemployment beginning on or after December 29, 2013.

(b)

Permitting a subsequent agreement

Nothing in title IV of the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 (Public Law 110–252; 26 U.S.C. 3304 note) shall preclude a State whose agreement under such title was terminated from entering into a subsequent agreement under such title on or after the date of the enactment of this Act if the State, taking into account the application of subsection (a), would otherwise meet the requirements for an agreement under such title.

Offset from farm bill savings

(a)

Definition

In this section, the term farm bill savings means the budgetary effects (as defined in section 2 of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 931) and as determined in accordance with that Act) attributable to the enactment of the Agricultural Act of 2014 (Public Law 113–79).

(b)

Offsetting of costs

Notwithstanding any other provision of law—

(1)

the Office of Management and Budget shall remove from the PAYGO scorecards maintained pursuant to section 4(d) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(d)) the amount of the farm bill savings;

(2)

the Committee on the Budget of the Senate shall remove from the PAYGO scorecards maintained for purposes of section 201 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress) the amount of the farm bill savings; and

(3)

the amount removed from any PAYGO scorecard under paragraph (1) or (2) shall not be available to offset the cost of other legislation under the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 931 et seq.) or section 201 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress), respectively.

(c)

Treatment for PAYGO purposes

(1)

PAYGO scorecard

The budgetary effects of this Act and the amendments made by this Act shall not be entered on either PAYGO scorecard maintained pursuant to section 4(d) of the Statutory Pay-As-You-Go Act of 2010 (2 U.S.C. 933(d)).

(2)

Senate paygo scorecard

The budgetary effects of this Act and the amendments made by this Act shall not be entered on any PAYGO scorecard maintained for purposes of section 201 of S. Con. Res. 21 (110th Congress).

March 5, 2014

Read the second time and placed on the calendar