[Congressional Bills 117th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6224 Introduced in House (IH)]

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117th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 6224

  To prohibit payment of administrative funding to States with a high 
  backlog of unprocessed unemployment claims, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            December 9, 2021

   Mr. Harder of California introduced the following bill; which was 
              referred to the Committee on Ways and Means

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                                 A BILL


 
  To prohibit payment of administrative funding to States with a high 
  backlog of unprocessed unemployment claims, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Fix the Unemployment Backlogs Act''.

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON PAYMENT OF ADMINISTRATIVE FUNDING TO STATES WITH 
              HIGH BACKLOG OF UNPROCESSED UNEMPLOYMENT CLAIMS.

    (a) In General.--In the case of any State in which the Secretary of 
Labor determines, as of the date of enactment of this Act, that the 
number of unprocessed unemployment claims in the State is in excess of 
45,000, the Secretary of Labor shall make no certification for payment 
of amounts for unemployment compensation administration under section 
302 of the Social Security Act to such State at any time following the 
date that is 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act unless 
the Secretary determines at such time that the number of unprocessed 
unemployment claims in the State has been reduced to zero.
    (b) Definition of Unprocessed Unemployment Claim.--For purposes of 
subsection (a), the term ``unprocessed unemployment claim'' means, with 
respect to a State, a claim for unemployment compensation filed in the 
State for which a determination of initial eligibility has not been 
made within 21 days of the date of filing.
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