Bill — H.R. 3154, BRIDGE for Workers Act (House of Representatives, May 12, 2021)
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H.R. 3154, the Building on Reemployment Improvements to Deliver Good Employment (BRIDGE) for Workers Act, is a bill to extend reemployment services and eligibility assessments to all claimants for unemployment benefits. LaHood and Walorski introduced it in the House of Representatives on May 12, 2021, and it was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. Pandemic unemployment assistance and pandemic emergency unemployment compensation under the CARES Act would be treated as unemployment compensation for purposes of section 306 of the Social Security Act. Section 306(a) would also be amended to refer to claimants for unemployment compensation.
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117TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3154
To extend reemployment services and eligibility assessments to all claimants
for unemployment benefits, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 12, 2021
Mr. LAHOOD (for himself and Mrs. WALORSKI) introduced the following bill;
which was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
A BILL
To extend reemployment services and eligibility assessments
to all claimants for unemployment benefits, and for other
purposes.
1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Building on Reemploy-
5 ment Improvements to Deliver Good Employment
6 (BRIDGE) for Workers Act’’.
7 SEC. 2. ELIGIBILITY FOR REEMPLOYMENT SERVICES.
8 (a) CARES ACT.—
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1 (1) PANDEMIC UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.—
2 Section 2102 of the Cares Act (Public Law 116–
3 136) is amended by adding at the end the following:
4 ‘‘(i) ELIGIBILITY FOR REEMPLOYMENT SERVICES.—
5 Pandemic unemployment assistance under this section
6 shall be treated as unemployment compensation for the
7 purposes of section 306 of the Social Security Act (42
8 U.S.C. 506).’’.
9 (2) PANDEMIC EMERGENCY UNEMPLOYMENT
10 COMPENSATION.—Section 2107 of the Cares Act
11 (Public Law 116–136) is amended by adding at the
12 end the following:
13 ‘‘(h) ELIGIBILITY FOR REEMPLOYMENT SERVICES.—
14 Pandemic emergency unemployment compensation under
15 this section shall be treated as unemployment compensa-
16 tion for the purposes of section 306 of the Social Security
17 Act (42 U.S.C. 506).’’.
18 (b) SOCIAL SECURITY ACT.—Section 306(a) of the
19 Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 506(a)) is amended—
20 (1) by striking ‘‘individuals referred to reem-
21 ployment services as described in section 303(j)’’
22 and inserting ‘‘claimants for unemployment com-
23 pensation, including claimants referred to reemploy-
24 ment services as described in section 303(j),’’; and
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1 (2) by striking ‘‘such individuals’’ and inserting
2 ‘‘such claimants’’.
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