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Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2008

Introduced: January 15, 2008 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Became law
Jan 17, 2008
Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.
Jan 15, 2008
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Jan 15, 2008
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2008 - Provides for federal-state agreements during a period of rising unemployment under which a state will pay emergency unemployment compensation to individuals who: (1) have exhausted all rights to regular compensation under state or federal law for a benefit year (excluding any benefit year that ended before March 1, 2007); (2) have no rights to regular compensation or extended compensation with respect to a week under such law or any other state unemployment compensation law or to compensation under any other federal law; and (3) are not receiving compensation for such week under the unemployment compensation law of Canada.

Requires federal payments to states to cover 100% of such temporary extended unemployment compensation payments.

Provides for federal-state agreements for increased regular unemployment compensation payments to certain individuals.

Amends the Social Security Act to provide for special transfers to state accounts in the Unemployment Trust Fund for unemployment compensation modernization incentive payments and for administration.

What's happening now January 17, 2008

Referred to the Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support.

 Related & companion bills 3
  • HR 5688 Related bill TARGET Act
  • HR 5749 Related bill Emergency Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 2008
  • S 2544 Related bill Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008
 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 10
All 10 Democratic 10
D
Carson, André
Indiana · Jun 10, 2008
 D
Baldwin, Tammy
Wisconsin · Apr 3, 2008
 D
Lofgren, Zoe
California · Mar 4, 2008
 D
McCollum, Betty
Minnesota · Feb 14, 2008
 D
Nadler, Jerrold
New York · Feb 14, 2008
 D
Courtney, Joe
Connecticut · Feb 6, 2008
 D
DeLauro, Rosa L.
Connecticut · Feb 6, 2008
 D
Johnson, Henry C. "Hank"
Georgia · Feb 6, 2008
 D
Cohen, Steve
Tennessee · Jan 23, 2008
 D
Schakowsky, Janice D.
Illinois · Jan 23, 2008
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4934: Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2008. 110th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-4934/
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"H.R. 4934: Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 2008." 110th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-4934/.
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H.R. 4934, 110th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/110-HR-4934/.
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