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PUBLIC LAW 88-133-OCT. 5, 1963

[77 STAT.

TITLE III — AMENDMENTS T OTHER A I L R O A D UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE ACT AND THE TEMPORARY EXTENDED RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE B E N E F I T S ACT O F 1961 54 Stat. 1097.

SEC. 301. (a) Section 3 of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act is amended to read as follows:

45 USC 353.

"Qualifying Condition

53 Stat. 846; ^°4rusJ35*4.

52 Stat. 1103. 45 USC 359. Effective date, 52 Stat. 1102. 45 USC 358.

52 Stat. 1104. 45 USC 360.

75 Stat. 17. 45 USC 403.

"SEC. 3. An employee shall be a 'qualified employee' if the Board finds that his compensation will have been not less than $750 with respect to the base year, and, if such employee has had no compensation prior to such year, that he will have had compensation with respect to each of not less than seven months in such year." (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall be fully effective with respect to base years after 1963. With respect to the base year 1963, they shall be applicable only to an employee concerning whom the Railroad Retirement Board finds that his compensation in that portion of the calendar year 1963 preceding the first day of the calendar month next following the month of enactment of this Act will have been less than $500. SEC. 302. (a) Section 4 ( a - 2)(i) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act is amended to read as follows: " (i) ( - ^) subject to the provisions of subdivision (B) hereof, any of the days in the period beginning with the day with respect, to which the Board finds that he left work voluntarily, and continuing until he has been paid compensation of not less than $750 with respect to time after the beginning of such period; " (B) if the Board finds that he left work voluntarily with good cause, the provisions of subdivision (A) shall not apply, with respect to him, to any day in a registration period if such period does not include any day which is in a period for which he could receive benefits under an unemployment compensation law other than this Act, and he so certifies. Such certification shall, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, be accepted subject to the penalty provisions of section 9(a) of this x^ct;". ^-^^ fpj^^ amendment made by subsection (a) shall be effective only with respect to an employee who leaves work voluntarily after the date of euactment of this Act. SEC. 303. (a) Effective with respect to compensation paid afteaDecember 31, 1963, section 8(a)of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act is amended by striking out " 3 % " in the table and inserting in lieu thereof "4". (b) Effective with respect to contributions collected by the Railroad Retirement Board pursuant to section 8(f) of the Railroad Unemployment Insurance Act on compensation paid after December 31, 1963, that part of such contributions equal to one-fourth of 1 per centum of the compensation on which such contributions are based shall, notwithstanding the provisions of section 10(b) of such Act, \yQ applied by the Board exclusively for transfers from the railroad unemployment insurance account to the general fund of the Treasury until the full amount advanced from the general fund of the Treasury to the railroad unemployment insurance account pursuant to section 4 of the Temporary Extended Railroad Unemployment Insurance Benefits Act of 1961 has been repaid. (c) The last sentence of section 4 of the Temporary Extended Railroad Unemployment Insurance Benefits Act of 1961 is hereby

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