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S 1845 113th Congress Senate Labor and Employment Appropriations Department of Labor Employee hiring Employment and training programs Employment taxes Executive agency funding and structure Intergovernmental relations Railroads State and local finance Transportation employees Unemployment

Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act

Introduced: December 17, 2013 Introduced by: Reed, Jack Democratic · Rhode Island See on congress.gov
 Everywhere this bill has been 27 steps
Introduced
In committee
Reported out
Passed House
Passed Senate
To President
Became law
Feb 6, 2014
Motion by Senator Reid to reconsider the vote by which second cloture was not invoked on the bill (Record Vote No. 24) made in Senate. (consideration: CR S794)
Feb 6, 2014
Second cloture on the bill not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 55 - 43. Record Vote Number: 24. (consideration: CR S794; text: CR S794)
Feb 6, 2014
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S777-780, S781-786, S788-789, S790-791, S793-794)
Feb 4, 2014
Second cloture motion on the bill presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S738; text: CR S738)
Feb 4, 2014
Motion by Senator Reid to commit to Senate Committee on Finance with instructions to report back forthwith with amendment SA 2716 made in Senate. (consideration: CR S737-738)
Feb 4, 2014
Motion by Senator Reid to commit to Senate Committee on Finance with instructions to report back forthwith with amendment SA 2633 withdrawn in Senate. (consideration: CR S737)
Feb 4, 2014
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S737-738)
Jan 15, 2014
Senator Toomey moved to appeal the ruling of the chair that Amdt. No. 2606 is not in order to be proposed. (consideration: CR S338)
Jan 14, 2014
Motion by Senator Reid to reconsider the vote by which cloture on the bill was not invoked (Record Vote No. 10) entered in Senate. (consideration: CR S312)
Jan 14, 2014
Cloture on the bill not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 55 - 45. Record Vote Number: 10. (consideration: CR S312; text: CR S312)
Jan 14, 2014
Motion to table the motion by Senator Reid to commit the bill (S. 1845) to Senate Committee on Finance with instructions to report back forthwith with amendment SA 2633 rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 45 - 55. Record Vote Number: 8. (consideration: CR S300, S311)
Jan 14, 2014
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S300-323)
Jan 13, 2014
Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S268-281)
Jan 9, 2014
Motion to table the motion by Senator Reid to commit the bill (S. 1845) to Senate Committee on Finance with instructions to report back forthwith with amendment SA 2633 rejected in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 42 - 54. Record Vote Number: 3. (consideration: CR S209)
Jan 9, 2014
Cloture motion on the bill presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S204; text: CR S204)
Jan 9, 2014
Motion by Senator Reid to commit to Senate Committee on Finance with instructions to report back forthwith with amendment SA 2633 made in Senate.
Jan 9, 2014
Measure laid before Senate by motion. (consideration: CR S203-209)
Jan 9, 2014
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure agreed to in Senate by Unanimous Consent. (consideration: CR S203)
Jan 8, 2014
Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S88-124)
Jan 7, 2014
Cloture on the motion to proceed to measure invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 60 - 37. Record Vote Number: 2. (consideration: CR S39; text: CR S39)
Jan 7, 2014
Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S37-65)
Jan 6, 2014
Motion to proceed to measure considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S5-7, S15-18)
Dec 20, 2013
Cloture motion on the motion to proceed to the bill presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S9083; text: CR S9083)
Dec 20, 2013
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S9083)
Dec 18, 2013
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 265.
Dec 17, 2013
Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
Dec 17, 2013
Introduced in Senate
 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Emergency Unemployment Compensation Extension Act - Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to extend emergency unemployment compensation (EUC) payments for eligible individuals to weeks of employment ending on or before April 1, 2014.

Amends the Assistance for Unemployed Workers and Struggling Families Act to extend until March 31, 2014, requirements that federal payments to states cover 100% of EUC.

Amends the Unemployment Compensation Extension Act of 2008 to exempt weeks of unemployment between enactment of this Act and September 30, 2014, from the prohibition in the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970 (FSEUCA of 1970) against federal matching payments to a state for the first week in an individual's eligibility period for which extended compensation or sharable regular compensation is paid if the state law provides for payment of regular compensation to an individual for his or her first week of otherwise compensable unemployment. (Thus allows temporary federal matching for the first week of extended benefits for states with no waiting period.)

Amends the FSEUCA of 1970 to postpone similarly from December 31, 2013, to March 31, 2014, termination of the period during which a state may determine its "on" and "off" indicators according to specified temporary substitutions in its formula.

Amends the Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2008 to appropriate funds out of the employment security administration account through the first quarter of FY2015 to assist states in providing reemployment and eligibility assessment activities.

Amends the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act to extend through March 31, 2014, the temporary increase in extended unemployment benefits.

Makes a change in application of a certain requirement (nonreduction rule) to a state that has entered a federal-state EUC agreement, under which the federal government would reimburse the state's unemployment compensation agency making EUC payments to individuals who have exhausted all rights to regular unemployment compensation under state or federal law and meet specified other criteria.

(Under the nonreduction rule such an agreement does not apply with respect to a state whose method for computing regular unemployment compensation under state law has been modified to make the average weekly unemployment compensation benefit paid on or after June 2, 2010, less than what would have been paid before June 2, 2010.)

Declares that the nonreduction rule shall not apply to a state which has enacted a law before December 1, 2013, that, upon taking effect, would violate the nonreduction rule. Allows a state whose agreement was terminated, however, to enter into a subsequent federal-state EUC agreement on or after enactment of this Act if, taking into account this inapplicability of the nonreduction rule, it would otherwise meet the requirements for an EUC agreement. (Thus allows such a subsequent EUC agreement to permit payment of less than the average weekly unemployment compensation benefit paid on or after June 2, 2010.)

What's happening now February 6, 2014

Motion by Senator Reid to reconsider the vote by which second cloture was not invoked on the bill (Record Vote No. 24) made in Senate. (consideration: CR S794)