H.R. 3266, Jump-Start the Economy with Jobs Act
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H.R. 3266, the Jump-Start the Economy with Jobs Act, was introduced in the House of Representatives May 17, 2021, by Mr. Bishop of North Carolina and other members, and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. It would amend subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES Act to require confirmation of employment status for long-term unemployed individuals. A State would notify each such individual that the State unemployment agency will seek confirmation from the most recent employer, and the employer would report whether the position is unavailable or available but the individual has refused to return to work. A long-term unemployed individual is one who has received Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation or Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensation for more than 30 weeks.
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117TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 3266
To amend subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES Act to require
confirmation of employment status for long-term unemployed individuals,
and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 17, 2021
Mr. BISHOP of North Carolina (for himself, Mr. ARRINGTON, Ms. HERRELL,
Mr. PERRY, Mr. ROUZER, Mr. WILLIAMS of Texas, Mr. CAWTHORN, Mr.
HICE of Georgia, Mr. STEUBE, Mr. GOODEN of Texas, Mr. ROY, Mr.
GOOD of Virginia, and Mr. MANN) introduced the following bill; which
was referred to the Committee on Ways and Means
A BILL
To amend subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES
Act to require confirmation of employment status for
long-term unemployed individuals, and for other pur-
poses.
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 ‘‘Jump-Start the Econ-
5 omy with Jobs Act’’.
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1 SEC. 2. CONFIRMATION REQUIREMENT.
2 Subtitle A of title II of division A of the CARES Act
3 is amended by adding at the end the following:
4 ‘‘SEC. 2119. CONFIRMATION OF EMPLOYMENT STATUS FOR
5 LONG-TERM UNEMPLOYED INDIVIDUALS.
6 ‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—As a condition of each of the
7 agreements described in sections 2104 and 2107, a State
8 shall—
9 ‘‘(1) notify each long-term unemployed indi-
10 vidual in the State that the State unemployment
11 agency will seek confirmation of the individual’s cur-
12 rent employment status from the individual’s most
13 recent employer (except in cases in which such em-
14 ployer no longer exists);
15 ‘‘(2) request each employer described in para-
16 graph (1) to submit information to the State unem-
17 ployment agency with respect to each such individual
18 describing whether—
19 ‘‘(A) the individual’s position is not avail-
20 able at the time of the request; or
21 ‘‘(B) the individual’s position is available
22 but the individual has refused to return to
23 work;
24 ‘‘(3) in any case in which an employer submits
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25 information to the State unemployment agency with
26 respect to an individual that describes a position
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1 that remains unavailable as described in paragraph
2 (1), notify such individual, not later than the stand-
3 ard processing time for applications for regular un-
4 employment compensation in the State after receipt
5 of such information, that the individual’s unem-
6 ployed status has been confirmed; and
7 ‘‘(4) in any case in which an employer submits
8 information to the State unemployment agency with
9 respect to an individual that describes a refusal to
10 return to work as described in paragraph (2)(B), or
11 in any case in which an employer fails to submit in-
12 formation described in paragraph (2) not later than
13 the standard processing time for applications for
14 regular unemployment compensation in the State
15 after the date of the request, terminate the individ-
16 ual’s Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensa-
17 tion under section 2104 or Pandemic Emergency
18 Unemployment Compensation under section 2107,
19 as applicable.
20 ‘‘(b) DEFINITION.—The term ‘long-term unemployed
21 individual’ means an individual who has received Federal
22 Pandemic Unemployment Compensation under section
23 2104 or Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Compensa-
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1 tion under section 2107 for more than 30 weeks of unem-
2 ployment.’’.
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