H.R. 5363, Back To Work Act
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House bill 5363, the Back To Work Act, was introduced in the House of Representatives on September 24, 2021 by Mrs. HINSON and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means. It directs the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Government Accountability Office and the Small Business Administration to conduct a joint study on pandemic unemployment programs. The study is to analyze the impact of the programs on individuals, on businesses with a focus on small businesses, and on the economy, along with the demographics of benefit recipients. Subsection (b) calls for comparing States that terminated agreements to participate in pandemic unemployment programs prior to September 6, 2021 with States that maintained them until that date, and subsection (c) calls for a report to Congress.
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117TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 5363
To direct the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Government Accountability Office,
and Small Business Administration to conduct a joint study on pandemic
unemployment programs, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEPTEMBER 24, 2021
Mrs. HINSON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on Ways and Means
A BILL
To direct the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Government Ac-
countability Office, and Small Business Administration
to conduct a joint study on pandemic unemployment
programs, 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 ‘‘Back To Work Act’’.
5 SEC. 2. STUDY OF PANDEMIC UNEMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS.
6 (a) IN GENERAL.—The covered agency heads shall
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7 conduct a joint study on pandemic unemployment pro-
8 grams, including an analysis of the following:
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1 (1) The impact of such programs on—
2 (A) individuals, including recipients’ en-
3 gagement in work, participation in work search,
4 receipt of and amount of earnings, receipt of
5 and amount of other government benefits, dura-
6 tion of unemployment, and whether the recipi-
7 ent’s total income counting all benefits exceeds
8 his or her prior earnings from work;
9 (B) businesses, with a focus on small busi-
10 nesses, including effects on sales, profits, tax
11 payments, hours of operation, employment, and
12 closures attributable to staffing shortages re-
13 lated to the availability of benefits; and
14 (C) the economy, including key labor mar-
15 ket metrics such as the number of employed
16 and unemployed individuals, job openings, total
17 earnings from work, the labor force participa-
18 tion rate, State and national unemployment
19 rates, engagement of individuals in full or part
20 time employment, average durations of unem-
21 ployment, and the number of long-term unem-
22 ployed.
23 (2) The demographics of the recipients of bene-
24 fits under such programs, including with respect to
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1 der, race and ethnicity, prior work experience, edu-
2 cational attainment, whether the individual resides
3 in an urban or rural community, whether that com-
4 munity is considered disadvantaged, whether the in-
5 dividual was engaged in employment immediately
6 prior to first receiving benefits, the nature of such
7 prior employment (such as whether employed, self
8 employed, or independent contractor), whether the
9 individual engaged in partial work while collecting
10 benefits, whether such partial work was while a par-
11 ticipant in a short-time compensation or another
12 program, and the reason for leaving benefits such as
13 due to benefit exhaustion, return to work, or another
14 reason.
15 (3) With respect to Pandemic Unemployment
16 Assistance—
17 (A) the number of individuals who applied
18 for such Assistance after applying for regular
19 unemployment compensation;
20 (B) the number of individuals applying for
21 and ultimately receiving benefits, as compared
22 with similar data under the State Unemploy-
23 ment Compensation program, and whether the
24 program’s allowance of self-certification of eligi-
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1 bility was a significant factor contributing to
2 any such differences; and
3 (C) the degree to which the backdating of
4 claims resulted in the overstatement of the ap-
5 parent number of Pandemic Unemployment As-
6 sistance recipients, especially during the pro-
7 gram’s early months.
8 (b) EARLY TERMINATION OF PANDEMIC UNEMPLOY-
9 MENT PROGRAM PARTICIPATION.—In carrying out the
10 study required under subsection (a), the covered agency
11 heads shall compare States that terminated agreements to
12 participate in pandemic unemployment programs prior to
13 September 6, 2021, with States that maintained such
14 agreements until September 6, 2021.
15 (c) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—Not later than 1 year
16 after the date of the enactment of this Act, the covered
17 agency heads shall provide to Congress a report on the
18 results of the study required under subsection (a).
19 (d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
20 (1) COVERED AGENCY HEADS.—The term ‘‘cov-
21 ered agency heads’’ means the Commissioner of the
22 Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Comptroller General
23 of the United States, and the Administrator of the
24 Small Business Administration.
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1 (2) PANDEMIC UNEMPLOYMENT ASSISTANCE.—
2 The term ‘‘Pandemic Unemployment Assistance’’
3 means assistance under section 2102 of the
4 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act
5 (15 U.S.C. 9021).
6 (3) PANDEMIC UNEMPLOYMENT PROGRAMS.—
7 The term ‘‘pandemic unemployment programs’’
8 means—
9 (A) Federal Pandemic Unemployment
10 Compensation under section 2104 of the
11 Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security
12 Act (15 U.S.C. 9023);
13 (B) Pandemic Emergency Unemployment
14 Compensation under section 2107 of such Act
15 (15 U.S.C. 9025); and
16 (C) Pandemic Unemployment Assistance.
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