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PUBLIC LAW 93-572-DEC. 31, 1974

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Public Law 93-572 AN ACT

December 31, 1974

To provide a program of emergency unemployment compensation.

Be it enacted by the Senate- and House of Representatives United States of America in Congress assembled. •'

[H.R. 17597]

of the

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Emergency un-

SHORT TITLE

employment Comp e n s a t i o n Act of 1974.

SEC. 101. This Act may be cited as the "Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1974".

26 USC 3304 note.

FEDERAL-STATE

AGREEMENTS

SEC. 102. (a) Any State, the State unemployment compensation law n o26. u s e 3304 te of which is approved by the Secretary of Labor (hereinafter in this Act referred to as the "Secretary") under section 3304 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 which desires to do so, may enter into and ^^ ^^'^ ^^^^ participate in an agreement with the Secretary under this Act, if such State law contains (as of the date such agreement is entered into) a requirement that extended compensation be payable thereunder as provided by the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970. Any State which is a party to an agreement under n o26. u s e 3304 te this Act may, upon providing thirty days' written notice to the Secretary, terminate such agreement. (b) Any such agreement shall provide that the State agency of the State will make payments of emergency compensation— (1) to individuals who— (A)(i) have exhausted all rights to regular compensation under the State law; (ii) have exhausted all rights to extended compensation, or are not entitled thereto, because of the ending of their eligibility period for extended compensation, in such State; (B) have no rights to compensation (including both regular compensation and extended compensation) with respect to a week under such law or any other State unemployment compensation law or to compensation under any other Federal law; and (C) are not receiving compensation with respect to such week under the unemployment compensation law of the Virgin Islands or Canada, (2) for any week of unemployment which begins in— (A) an emergency benefit period (as defined in subsection (c)(3)); and (B) the individual's period of eligibility (as defined in section 105(b)). (c)(1) For purposes of subsection (b)(1)(A), an individual shall be deemed to have exhausted his rights to regular compensation under a State law when— (A) no payments of regular compensation can be made under such law because such individual has received all regular compensation available to him based on employment or wages during his base period; or (B) his rights to such compensation have been terminated by reason of the expiration of the benefit year with respect to which such rights existed.

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