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HR 2137 112th Congress House Taxation Employment and training programs Employment taxes Unemployment Wages and earnings

Empowering More Productive and Lasting Opportunity Act of 2011

Introduced: June 3, 2011 See on congress.gov
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 Everywhere this bill has been 3 steps
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Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Jun 14, 2011
Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
Jun 3, 2011
Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.
Jun 3, 2011
Introduced in House
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Empowering More Productive and Lasting Opportunity Act of 2011 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow states, for a five-year period, to implement an employment assistance voucher program, in lieu of paying unemployment compensation directly to employees, under which an individual who is eligible for unemployment compensation and is likely to exhaust such compensation is issued an employment assistance voucher and is hired by a participating employer who receives a subsidy from the state for the wages paid to the employee.

What's happening now June 14, 2011

Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.

 Bill text 1 version

Source documents hosted by congress.gov.

 Committees of jurisdiction 2
 Cosponsors 5
All 5 Democratic 1 Republican 1
Dent, Charles
· Nov 30, 2011
 R
Capito, Shelley Moore
West Virginia · Nov 17, 2011
Meehan, Patrick
· Nov 2, 2011
 D
Quigley, Mike
Illinois · Nov 2, 2011
LATOURETTE, STEVEN
· Jul 20, 2011
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 2137: Empowering More Productive and Lasting Opportunity Act of 2011. 112th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-2137/
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"H.R. 2137: Empowering More Productive and Lasting Opportunity Act of 2011." 112th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/112-HR-2137/.
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